Collabera
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Collabera is a CMMI Level-5 end-to-end information technology
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...

 services and solutions provider working with organizations from the Financial Services, Technology, Communications & Media, Manufacturing & Retail, Energy and Utilities domains.

History

Collabera was established in 1991 by Hiten Patel in Morristown, New Jersey
Morristown, New Jersey
Morristown is a town in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the town population was 18,411. It is the county seat of Morris County. Morristown became characterized as "the military capital of the American Revolution" because of its strategic role in the...

, in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

, by the name of GCI (Global Consultants Inc). In February 2008 it changed its name to Collabera, citing it as the evolving nature of their developing Client-Vendor relationship, just after acquiring IVL India
IVL India
IVL India is a software company involved mainly in developing and implementing solutions in SAP R/3. Located at the Technopark, Trivandrum, India, IVL concentrates mainly in offshore development, turnkey project solutions, consultancy, training and product development.IVL is well known in India...

 (for SAP Services) and Blue Hammock (for Strategic Sevices).

Operations

Collabera focuses on a number of industries, including financial services,energy, technology, communications and media, as well as manufacturing, retail and logistics. The company provides information technology and business planning services in North America, Europe,and India.Traditionally, Application Development Maintenance (ADM) has been the single largest revenue generator (60 per cent) for the company. It has identified SAP
SAP ERP
The SAP ERP application is an integrated enterprise resource planning software manufactured by SAP AG that targets business software requirements of midsize and large organizations in all industries and sectors...

 practice and Software testing
Software testing
Software testing is an investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of the product or service under test. Software testing can also provide an objective, independent view of the software to allow the business to appreciate and understand the risks of software...

 services as emerging areas.

Funding

Recently Collabera received $30 million as funding from Oak Investment Partners
Oak Investment Partners
Oak Investment Partners is a private equity firm focusing on venture capital investments in companies developing communications systems, information technology, new Internet media, healthcare services and retail....

 which has been termed as unattributed.

Recognitions and awards

  • Collabera ranked 58th in the 2011 FinTech 100
  • Ranked 77th in the InformationWeek
    InformationWeek
    InformationWeek is a weekly print magazine, an online site with corresponding face-to-face and virtual events, and research. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California and was first published in 1979 by CMP Media, later called CMP Technology. On February 29, 2008, CMP Technology was...

     2011 rankings of the Most Innovative Business Technology Organizations
  • On the 8th of August 2011 Collabera announced that it has been appraised as a V1.3 CMMI LEVEL 5 organisation.
  • Collabera made it into the list of FinTech International Rankings of the Top 100 Financial Services Providing companies in the world.
  • In 2010 Collabera made it to the Global Outsourcing 100 list and World's Best Outsourcing Advisors announced by International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP).
  • Ranked 88th in the InformationWeek
    InformationWeek
    InformationWeek is a weekly print magazine, an online site with corresponding face-to-face and virtual events, and research. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California and was first published in 1979 by CMP Media, later called CMP Technology. On February 29, 2008, CMP Technology was...

    2010 rankings of the Most Innovative Business Technology Organizations
  • Collabera's Mobile Banking related application has been recognized by Microsoft as one of the best ASP.Net applications on the Windows Azure platform, at the recently concluded Microsoft Windows Azure based cloud application development contest.
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