Contus (company)

Contus
Private
Industry IT Services
Founded 2008
Headquarters Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people
 Sriram Manoharan
(Managing Director)
Website www.contus.com

Contus is a technology company which primarily provides mobile, web, and Cloud based solutions.[1] The company is headquartered at Chennai, India. Contus is a member of NASSCOM,[2] and the Confederation of Indian Industry.

History

The company was founded in March, 2008[1] by Sriram Manoharan and 6 of his friends.[3][4]

Operations

Contus is headquartered in Chennai, India with regional headquarters in California, USA. As of February 2014, they have 150 employees in their Chennai division.[5] They have customers in about 40 countries.[6] Their primary service of mobile application development and web products is being used by around 20,000+ users worldwide. Contus manages the entire sales process using vtiger CRM,[7] logging all communications in it.

Services

Mobile application development

Contus started as a technology company doing mobile application development.[8] as the primary service. The company’s customers include Mahindra & Mahindra Limited, Cbazaar, Nato Otan, Jabong.com, and Exemplarr. Contus has developed mobile applications such as Spurfy, MobeCommerce, StuffDot, FilmKings, Life Saver, Group Clone, Win Maps.[5][9]

Web application development

Contus has been developing web applications under categories such as eCommerce, content management systems, social networking, open source servicing, enterprise solutions.[10]

Products

Apptha

Contus' product store ‘Apptha’ has been developed by them for extensions and plugins on open-source platforms such as Magento, Joomla, WordPress, Prestashop.[11] Apptha has launched 150 products on these platforms and is still working on to develop more products.

Mobecommerce

Mobecommerce is a mobile based platform for e-commerce for mobile users. In 2011, Contus was awarded by Esparks for its product Mobecommerce.[12][13]

Growth

After the first product HD FLV Player launch in 2009,[14] Contus moved to a 100 desk office in 2010. In 2011, Contus’ MobeCommerce was given an award for eCommerce startups in India by ESparks.[12] following which a full version of MobeCommerce was released. In August 2013 the company was named one of the top 10 small and medium enterprises in India by Google and FICCI.[15] Contus achieved a turnover of 70 million rupees in 2013-14.[4]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Start-ups" Retrieved 10 January 2014
  2. ↑ "Nasscom","Nasscom Lists Contus"
  3. ↑ "Interview with Sriram Manoharan", Retrieved 6 December 2013
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Turn of fate makes an athlete setup an IT firm", Deccan Chronicle Retrieved 9 June 2014
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Economic Times. India Times","How Sriram Manoharan’s Contus became Rs 5 crore web venture" Retrieved 2 December 2013
  6. ↑ "Contus Gunning For The Top Spot" CIO Review, Retrieved 21 February 2014
  7. ↑ "Software Advice","Case-study -vtiger "
  8. ↑ "JontusMedia","Srimano Talks On Mobile App Development "
  9. ↑ "Whatech","Contus - As Per best web development Company " Retrieved 25 February 2014
  10. ↑ "Business World","The Apps Business "
  11. ↑ "Contus' New Marketplace-Apptha","Contus to launch new marketplace-Apptha" Retrieved 12 April 2014
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Killer Startups","A Model to Work through Challenges" Retrieved 14 August 2012
  13. ↑ "Killer Startups","Mobecommerce.net - Have a mobile Store"
  14. ↑ "Contus Support launched HD FLV Player","Contus Support launched HD FLV Player""Retrieved 21 July 2009"
  15. ↑ "Google, FICCI Felicitates Contus","One of the top 10 SME's - Contus, by Google,FICCI. "Retrieved 22 August 2013"

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