SPAN Infotech

SPAN Infotech (India) Pvt. Ltd.

Type	Private company
Industry	Computer applications and IT services
Founded	Banglore, India 1993
Founder	Pradeep Grama Pramod Grama Prakash Grama Naganand Doraswamy
Headquarters	Banglore, India
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Pradeep Grama (Managing director) Prakash Grama (CEO)
Products	IT products and services
Parent	EVRY ASA (formerly EDB ErgoGroup)
Website	spansystems.com

SPAN Infotech (India) Pvt. Ltd. is a Bangalore, India-based software services company and a provider of IT and product development services. Established in 1993, SPAN Infotech has three offices in Bangalore and one office in Chandigarh, along with business center offices in the US and Europe. In 2008, the company became a subsidiary of Evry ASA, a global Norwegian IT player.

History

In 1993, SPAN was founded by Pradeep Grama, Pramod Grama, Prakash Grama and Naganand Doraswamy, starting with only around 20 employees. At present, the company has about 1,500 permanent employees working from software development and business centers in Basavangudi and Banaskankari areas of Bangalore, and about 450 employees located in Chandigarh SEZ facility. SPAN’s offshore development centers in India are certified for ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 27001:2005. SPAN Infotech is also now certified as PCI-DSS compliant. SPAN is PCMM Level 5 appraised in addition to CMMI Level 5 and is among the first five IT services companies in the world to be appraised at these combined levels.^[1] SPAN’s global footprint includes office locations across the US, India, Singapore and group offices in Europe.

On July 1, 2008, SPAN Infotech was acquired by EDB Business Partner ASA, a Norwegian information technology group, one of the largest IT groups in Europe.^[2] EDB acquired 50.1 per cent stake in SPAN for US$3.8 million (about Rs. 15.2 crore. EDB had over 4,600 employees and a turnover of over $1 billion at the time of acquiring the majority stake in SPAN.^[3]

EDB formally merged with ErgoGroup, another leading Nordic IT firm headquartered in Oslo, on 14 October 2010.^[4] Though the newly merged company was initially christened EDB ErgoGroup ASA, it later changed its name to "Evry" on 17 March 2012. The merged IT giant now has over 10,000 employees across 135 offices in 16 countries, which includes SPAN Infotech.^[5]

Products and Services

SPAN offers IT services (onsite and offshore) to customers in various industries such as Banking & Financial Services, Insurance & Healthcare, Retail, and Travel Transportation & Logistics. The company provides integrated services across the entire life cycle of software development including Application Development and Maintenance, QA, Data Engineering & Analytics, Mobility, Cloud Enablement, Remote Infrastructure Management, and Applications Operations. Our specialized services include Digital Transformation, Internet of Things and Converged Communications.^[6]

Awards and recognitions

• 2015
  • SPAN Infotech was appraised at CMMI L5 ^[7] and PCMM L5 ^[8] in February 2015.
  • Participant and sponsor at the prestigious Norway-Asia Business Summit, held in April 2015.^[9]
  • SPAN participated in the Wall Street Tech Conference, held in June 2015. It was also a Bronze Sponsor of this 3rd annual tech conference, hosted by The Outsourcing Institute.^[10]

• 2014
  • SPAN became a member of the Norwegian Business Association of India (NBAI).^[11] As part of Dialogic’s WebRTC Engagements, SPAN, a new member of the WebRTC ecosystem partner program, offered unified communications solutions to streamline healthcare technology and improve doctor-provider-patient coordination while decreasing costs.^[12]
  • SPAN participated in the WebRTC Conference & Expo,^[13] a major WebRTC event organized between November 18 and 20, 2014, at the San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California. The participation provided SPAN an opportunity to share knowledge about new technology topics at the event through effective panel discussions.
  • SPAN was listed among the '20 Most Promising QA Testing Companies 2014' ^[14] by SiliconIndia magazine, for the second consecutive year. The panel of experts that has computed this list includes top CEOs, VCs, CIOs and analysts from the industry, including the editorial board from SiliconIndia.
  • SPAN participated in Round-1 of the Indian Testing League for Software Testing Professionals, held on June 17, 2014, in which 3402 teams from 796 companies participated. Round-1 involved an online quiz with multiple choice questions related to Manual Testing, Test Automation, Agile Testing, Mobile App Testing, Device Testing, Testing Tools, Test Management, Test Processes and Test Strategy. SPAN's team made it to the semi-final, placing us among the top 50 Testing practitioners in India.^[15]

• 2013

SPAN was identified as one of the most promising providers of a broad spectrum of software testing services in India.^[16] SPAN participates in WebRTC summit at Cloud Expo in October 2013.^[17]

• 2012

SPAN was ranked 7th among the Top 20 Best IT Employers in India for employee size less than 2000 by a leading Indian IT magazine, Dataquest, for 2012.^[18] SPAN was a co-sponsor for ‘Top 10 QA Professionals’ award for QA professionals currently working in Bangalore. Awards were given to top 10 professionals based on their accomplishments.^[19]

• 2011

SPAN was chosen as a "Diamond Category" Excellence award winner at the Bangalore IT.biz 2011, India’s premier ICT event. Silicon India 100, an annual listing of the top 100 technology companies, selected SPAN as one of the Top 20 IT Services Company in India.^[20]

• 2009

In September 2009, SPAN had been ranked #14 amongst Best IT Employers in India by Dataquest.^[21] On September 16, 2009, SPAN was ranked as a Top 20 Global R&D Service provider by Zinnov Management Consulting Pvt. Ltd.^[22]

• 2008

In September 2008, SPAN was amongst the best 10 IT Employers in India as per Dataquest survey.^[23] In July 2008, SPAN had made it into the Top 200 companies in India in a survey conducted by Dataquest.

Corporate Social Responsibility

SPAN has initiated educational and local welfare programs, which aligns its business values and behavior with the expectations and requirements of stakeholders. Foremost of these CSR initiatives is Educait, a nonprofit charitable trust founded by Naveen Bannur (Managing Trustee), closely works with the employees of SPAN to manage a wide-array of CSR programs that have been identified to help underprivileged children gain access to quality education and infrastructure in local primary schools and Government-run schools under a Public–private partnership program.^[24]

See also

• EDB Business Partner
• Evry

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