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 the Confederation of Indian Industry.

History

The company was founded in 2008[1] by Sriram Manoharan and 6 of his friends.[2][3]

Operations

Contus is headquartered in Chennai, India with regional headquarters in California, United States. As of February 2014, they have 150 employees in their Chennai division.[4] They have customers in about 40 countries.[5] Their primary service of mobile application development and web products is being used by around 20,000+ users worldwide.

Services

Mobile application development

Contus started as a technology company doing mobile application development.[6] as the primary service. The company’s customers include Mahindra & Mahindra Limited, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories, Cbazaar, Nato Otan, Jabong.com, and Exemplarr. Contus has developed mobile applications such as Spurfy, MobeCommerce, StuffDot, FilmKings, Life Saver, Group Clone, Win Maps.[4][7]

Web application development

Contus has been developing web applications under categories such as eCommerce, content management systems, social networking, open source servicing, enterprise solutions.[8]

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.[9] 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.[10][11]

Growth

After the first product HD FLV Player launch in 2009,[12] Contus moved to a 100 desk office in 2010. In 2011, Contus’ MobeCommerce was given an award for eCommerce startups in India by ESparks.[10] 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.[13] Contus achieved a turnover of 70 million rupees in 2013-14.[3]

References

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