Tavant Technologies

Tavant Technologies, Inc.

Type	Private Limited Company
Industry	IT Services Computer software
Founded	2000
Headquarters	Santa Clara, California, United States
Key people	Sarvesh Mahesh, CEO Manish Arya, CTO Hassan Rashid, SVP, Global Sales & Marketing Krishnan PP, Chief Delivery Officer
Services	IT Consulting, IT Services and IT Solutions
Number of employees	1500+
Website	www.tavant.com

Tavant Technologies, Inc. is an IT Services and Solutions company. Tavant was founded in 2000 as Haathi.com by four industry professionals and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.

Tavant has been recognized globally for its innovative solutions,^[1] people practices,^[2] growth and for its contribution to the open source forum. Tavant specializes in building solutions and providing end-to-end services in the domain of Service Operations, Consumer Lending, eBusiness, eMedia, Interactive Entertainment and Trading & Securities. Tavant’s core expertise lies in Business Process Automation and Web Technology-based complex application development.

History

Tavant Technologies was founded by Sarvesh Mahesh, Nita Goyal,^[3] Ashish Gupta,Aseem Mital, and Manish Arya on February 7, 2000. All but Aseem Mital came from Amazon.com, which they had joined when Amazon acquired the shopping search engine company - Junglee Corp.^[4][5] Aseem came from Ameriquest Bank.

The company was incorporated in the state of Washington, USA as Haathi.com. Its name was changed to Tavant Technologies on March 23, 2001.

Timeline

• February 2000: Haathi.com incorporated. Located at 542 Lakeview Blvd # 5, Sunnyvale, CA 94086.
• November 2000: Incorporated in India, with headquarters in New Delhi.
• March 2001: Changes name to Tavant Technologies.
• February 2002: Shifts India headquarters to Bangalore.
• May 2003: Moves to a dedicated software development center in Bangalore - #12, CSRIE-II, Guava Garden, 5th Block, Koramangala, Bangalore 560 095.
• September 2003: Shifts global headquarters to 3101 Jay Street, Suite 101, Santa Clara, CA 95054.
• January 2005: Opens a development center in Noida.
• January 2007: Moves to a new software development center in Noida.
• November 2015: Shifts global headquarters to 3965 Freedom Circle, Suite 750, Santa Clara CA 95054.

Offices & Locations

Tavant Technologies has its headquarters in Santa Clara, California, with Asia Pacific regional headquarters in Bangalore. Beside these, Tavant Technologies has offices in Dallas, Cincinnati, New York City, Bengaluru and Noida.

Awards

• IDC (International Data Corporation) and Dataquest recognized Tavant as one of the Best IT Employers. Tavant received this award 4 years in-a-row - 2007 to 2010.
• India's Best Companies to Work For study conducted by Great Place to Work Institute and Economic Times placed Tavant in the top 25. Tavant has been ranked #5 among IT companies and #18 overall. The survey covered around 400 companies across various industry verticals, making it the largest of its kind.
• Business Week's 2009 Innovative Companies survey named Tavant Technologies as one of the 25 companies in the World to watch out for in the coming years.
• SiliconIndia ranked Tavant in its 2009 Top 20 IT Services Companies list
• Mortgage Technology magazine lists Tavant in the Top 50 service providers list
• Entrepreneur magazine listed Tavant in the HOT 500 Fastest Growing Companies in America 2007 rankings. Tavant was placed #8 among the Technology companies.
• Great Places to Work survey ranked Tavant as a Great Place to Work in 2006.

Product and Services

Tavant Technologies is a provider of software solutions and end-to-end services to various sectors like service operations, consumer lending, eBusiness and trading & securities. The company offers custom application development, maintenance & enhancement of custom, package and legacy applications, testing and software performance optimization and business intelligence services.

Industries Served

• Media and Entertainment
  • Broadcasting
  • Multiple System Operators
  • Advertising & Marketing
  • Telecommunications
• Banking, Insurance & Financial Services
• Manufacturing
• Consumer Lending
• Interactive Entertainment

IT Service Offerings

• Custom Application Development
• Maintenance & Enhancement of custom, package and legacy applications
• Independent Software Testing and software performance optimization
• Business Intelligence
  • Audience Research Analytics
  • Service Analytics
  • End-to-End Business Intelligence Solutions
  • Quality Assurance
  • Game Analytics
• Mobile Applications

Open Source Contribution

• InfraRED is a tool for monitoring performance of a J2EE application and diagnosing performance problems. It collects metrics about various aspects of an application's performance and makes it available for quantitative analysis of the application.^[6]

Corporate Social Responsibility

• SMILE: This initiative includes teaching children at government-run schools, donating books, stationery, toys, etc. for children in these schools and organizing painting competitions for underprivileged children.^[7]
• Socialway.com: An eco-friendly website in which you can form virtual communities in your neighbourhood to lend and borrow goods and services, earning ‘carbon points saved’ in return.^[8][9]

References

External links

• Official website