California Software acquires International Innovations

California Software Company Ltd (Calsoft) on November 13, 2007 has announced the signing of a Letter of Intent (LoI) to acquire 100% equity stake in International Innovations Inc., Mountain View, California, USA by Calsoft's wholly owned US subsidiary CSWL Inc. The LOI will culminate into a definitive share purchase agreement, subject to standard closing conditions, necessary approvals and completion of all formalities. The entire process is targeted to be completed by Dec 31, 2007.

International Innovations Inc. (Innovations) is a technology consulting firm specializing in Information Management Solutions. Innovations delivers Business Intelligence tools, Analytics, Business Rules Management, and Enterprise Search capabilities that helps clients improve their decision making processes across all business functions. Innovations serves clients in diverse sectors such as Mortgage Banking and Financial Services, High technology, Manufacturing, Travel and Transportation, and Telecommunications. Select clients include Cisco Systems, Charles Schwab, Washington Mutual Inc., APL, and Wells Fargo.

Innovations complements its capabilities through a powerful alliance network, and partnerships with leading software and hardware vendors including Siebel, iLog. Innovations was voted the best partner by iLog(2006) and Aduna.

Innovations acquisition is expected to add $ 2.3 million (approx Rs 9.2 crores) with $ 300,000 profit (approx Rs 1.2 crore) after tax to the consolidated revenues and profit of Calsoft in the first year after consolidation.

"Innovations brings its expertise and presence in the Information Management market in the USA, to Calsoft's enterprise offerings and capabilities, a key focus area for the Company. This will further enhance our value offering globally", said Mr. S (Sam) Santhosh, Managing Director & CEO, Calsoft.

Innovations valuation will be capped at maximum of $1.32 million (approx Rs 5.3 crore). The deal envisages phased payments over a period of one year from the conclusion of a definitive share purchase agreement and based on certain performance parameters.

Calsoft plans to continue its dual growth strategy — organic growth combined with prudent and focused acquisition that brings synergies to its customer offerings. Calsoft posted consolidated revenues of USD 36 million (Rs 169 crores) in year ended March 31, 2007 and achieved consolidated revenues of USD 28 million (Rs 114 crores) in 1st halt-year ended Sept 2007 of current fiscal year.

California Software partners Marketics Technologies

California Software Company Ltd, on October 25, 2007 has announced their partnership with Marketics Technologies (Marketics), a global leader in offshore marketing analytics and a Company of WNS (Holding) Ltd [NYSE : WNS], a leading provider of offshore business process outsourcing (BPO) Services.

Marketics offers revenue-enhancing analytics solutions to its customers through improved marketing effectiveness and increased return on marketing investment. Marketics' impressive client list includes many Fortune-100 Companies. Calsoft The Company is a global solutions Company that offers product-engineering services and product based solutions to its customers. Over the years, the Company has assisted several Companies- start- ups, leading technology firms and large business - to rapidly evolve innovative and cost-effective solutions.

The partnership between the Company and Marketics will facilitate offering Marketics' solutions to Company's customers globally. Through this partnership, Marketics will provide cutting-edge analytics solutions to its global clients building off existing technology infrastructure. These solutions will cover a wide range of business analytics solutions around marketing, customer segmentation, pricing, risk management, optimization and revenue management.

Dr. J K Nair, Executive Vice President & COO of the Company said, "The partnership would help us to provide more value to our customers by providing them with intelligent information at the right time. We are excited at the benefits this will bring in to our customers.