MindTree

MindTree Consulting is an international IT-consulting company that delivers affordable business and technology solutions through global software development. Co-headquartered in Somerset, N.J., and Bangalore, India, the company's seasoned management team and employees skilled in technology, business analysis and project management approach technology initiatives in a business context. MindTree Consulting develops applications to help companies enhance their enterprise operations. The company also delivers product-development services and designs reusable building blocks for high-tech companies.
MindTree supports a client base of more than 35 organisations spread across three continents and across varied industries like Finance, Manufacturing, Pharmaceuticals, Wireless and Hi-Tech. MindTree's employees work out of North America, Europe and Asia. MindTree's employee strength exceeds 600 and the company expects to grow to 900 people by the end of the year. MindTree was selected as one of Computerworld magazine's Best Places to Work in IT for 2002.

 

Origin

MindTree was started in 1999 by 10 industry professionals who came from Cambridge Technology Partners, Lucent Technologies and Wipro. The founding team was led by Ashok Soota who was at that time vice chairman and president of Wipro, one of India's largest software companies.

MindTree is co-headquartered in Bangalore, India and Somerset, NJ. Other locations include California, United Kingdom, Singapore, Japan and the Middle East.

 

IT Services

Designs enterprise applications, using a world-class methodology, for business-to-business and business-to-consumer applications. These applications are built to leverage emerging and classic communication channels. Some of the larger clients in this domain include Avis, Franklin Templeton, Volvo and Aventis. MindTree builds customized solutions for each client. From defining business needs to building an e-solution using best-of-breed tools and technologies, specific services include:

E Business

 

  •   Supply chain management
  •   Data warehousing and business intelligence
  •   Mobile services
  •   Enterprise application integration
  •   Web services
  •   Application and mainframe management
    Product Realization Services

    Offers product realization services to a wide range of industries with its extensive experience and knowledge in diverse domains such as hardware engineering, embedded software engineering, systems software engineering and applications development. MindTree adds functionality and helps companies bring products to market faster, through product engineering expertise and re-usable building blocks, known as MindTree Incubated New Technology (MINTs). Organisations like CISCO, Sony, Intel and Fujitsu have been regularly utilising this service from MindTree. Specific areas of focus include:

     

  •   VLSI/IC design
  •   Board design
  •   Embedded software development
  •   Datacom protocol development
  •   Element management and network management solutions
  •   Turnkey electronic product design
  •   Application development
  •   Test-framework and test-suite development
  •   Continuous engineering and support
  •   Reengineering
  •   Building blocks in the areas of BluetoothT, Wireless LAN, SAN, VOIP, Network Management and similar technologies
     
  • MindTree Culture

    MindTree lays strong emphasis on values and long term association. All MindTree employees are part of the organisation's employee stock option programme. MindTree Minds, as we like to call ourselves, believe in delivering great work with Imagination, Action, and Joy. This is the DNA of our company-the lifeline of every MindTree Mind. The "Joy" of delivering excellent work is reflected in the physical environment we operate in. You only need to step into any of our offices and view paintings done by children at the Spastics Society of Karnataka to feel this vibrant pulse. Our corporate values of Caring, Learning, Achieving, Sharing and Social Responsibility (CLASS) is assiduosly fostered and inculcated in every MindTree Mind.

     

  • We take pride in providing challenging roles. We encourage cross-functional shifts by our employees to broaden their work perspectives. All MindTree minds are trained through our Competency and Culture (C2) Development initiative, which focuses on employee-centric learning initiatives aligned to business goals and customer needs. Currently, the C2 initiative offers more than 150 courses globally for people with differing levels of proficiency in a given subject. These courses include training programs for project managers, developers, business analysts, QA analysts, etc.

    Recent Company Highlights

    MindTree's chairman and managing director Ashok Soota named president of the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII), April 2002

    MindTree is selected by IDG's ComputerWorld magazine as one of "The Best Places to Work in IT" in U.S., May 2002

    MindTree is featured in Aberdeen Group's report on "Providing Best Practices in Offshore Software Outsourcing,: September 2002