Mahindra Comviva

Mahindra Comviva
Industry Telecommunications
Founded New Delhi, India (July 1999 (1999-07))
Headquarters Gurgaon, India
Number of locations
 UAE, UK, South Africa, Singapore, United States
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people
 Manoranjan Mohapatra(CEO)
Rakesh Bharti Mittal(Chairman)
Products cRBT, SMSC, USSD, Roaming, messaging, MMS, mobile Internet, mobile commerce, business support, mobile apps
Services Managed Value-added services, deck management
Number of employees
 1700+
Website Mahindra Comviva

Mahindra Comviva is a value-added services provider for mobile operators [1][2] Comviva has customers in over 90 countries, predominantly in Asia, the Middle East, LATAM and Africa[2] and offers messaging, mobile Internet, content, mobile commerce, prepaid and "business support solutions". Headquartered and with its main R&D and network operation center in Gurgaon, Haryana, Mahindra Comviva also has offices in Bangalore and Mumbai.Mahindra is a growing it company of Mahindra Comviva has international offices in South Africa, Dubai, Singapore, Thailand, the UK and the USA. In 2012 Tech Mahindra bought 51% stake in Comviva.

History and Acquisitions

Mahindra Comviva (formerly Comviva) was founded in 1999 in New Delhi. It was incorporated as Bharti Telesoft Limited, changing its name to Comviva Technologies Limited in April 2009.[3] Comviva merged with CellCloud Technologies Limited, a Bangalore headquartered company, offering "electronic top-up solutions", in December 2002. In December 2007, Comviva acquired Jataayu Software Limited, a Bangalore-based provider of "value added telecom solutions".[4] On Sep 2012 Tech Mahindra acquired 51 per cent stake in Gurgaon-based mobile application firm Comviva from Bharti Group.[5] In February 2014, it partnered with Bharti Airtel for deploying its enterprise communications platform in 16 countries across Africa.[6]

Products and services

Mahindra Comviva sells solution in Consumer Value Management Space like Campaign Management, Loyalty Management and Retailing Solutions. It also sells mobile apps and a variety of voice, SMS and internet services.[7][8] It has business support solutions for provisioning, customer care and loyalty management.[9] It won deals with India's largest mobile operator, Airtel to manage more than 2000 VAS nodes and with Airtel[10] and with Sri Lanka to manage the operator's entire VAS portfolio.

References

  1. ↑ Santosh Kr Sinha, Industry Analyst, ICT Practice, South Asia and Middle East, Frost & Sullivan. Telecom Live. June 2009.
  2. 1 2 "Company Profile". Telecom Era, February 2009.
  3. ↑ "Bharti Telesoft Now Comviva". The Economic Times. April 17, 2009.
  4. ↑ "Bharti Telesoft Acquires Jataayu". CIOL. December 19, 2007
  5. ↑ "Tech Mahindra buys 51% stake in Comviva" TOI. Sep 18,2012
  6. ↑ "Mahindra Comviva and Bharti Airtel partner in 16 African Countries". IANS. news.biharprabha.com. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
  7. ↑ Bharti Telesoft Wins Golden Peacock Award for Innovation for mobiquity in 2007 and 2008.
  8. ↑ "PreTUPS in Africa". ITEdge. December 2007
  9. ↑ "Integrated Solutions – Need of the Hour". Communications Today. December 1, 2008.
  10. ↑ "Bharti Airtel in pact with Comviva for managing VAS biz". The Economic Times.
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