SaaS is growing rapidly in the Asia Pacific region and April’s 2010 issue of SmartTechie carries a mention of DeskAway and a quote from me when talking about SaaS in India. We are happy to be here at the right time. This is going to be the way forward for all software.

Gartner saw it as the one bright spot during recession. Traditional software is slowly but steadily making way for it. And India is estimated to register a 60 percent Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) in it from 2008 to 2012 according to Springboard Research. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) has taken the IT world by storm and experts say this is just the beginning.

Read SaaS The Way Forward…

We have come a long way since 2005. From moving back to India to start a product company to being obsessed about leading the SaaS revolution here, today, we take pride in getting featured on Nasscom Emerge (an organization that represents the IT Industry here) as a ‘Made in India’ global product company. The interview was conducted very professionally over the phone. Here is an exerpt of my Interview with Nasscom…

Success quotient
“Success for us has come from a bunch of things,” details Parikh. “Right timing – we got a head start and now a lot of companies are jumping onto the SaaS bandwagon; a dedicated and talented team of 4-5 people that has been with us from the beginning; and the importance that we as a company give to design and user interface. In fact, a lot of our clients do not believe that we are an Indian company, given the clean and sleek look of our product.”

Read the entire Interview here…

We noticed that Techettes was reviewing project management tools and so we got in touch with them to see if they would be willing to do a review of DeskAway for their blog readers. Today, Meaghan from Techettes emailed me to let me know that the review was up…

You can’t wait to get on the road again, hopping from client meeting to seminar to conference to board meeting with ease. Business trips to Berlin, meetings in Madrid, client calls in California… it’s fun to be a jetsetter but every so often it’s hard to be away from your desk, collaborating with your coworkers and chatting around the water cooler.

Fortunately, in our digital age, even when you’re away from your desk you can take part in the important projects, day to day work and office chatter that you’re missing while you’re out of your normal workspace or working with someone outside the office.

Read more…

Thanks Meaghan and the Techettes team!

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   mjw1964 @DeskAway made presentation to my sr. mgmt. team this week…intro’ed DA as our PM tool of choice 08 Apr 2010 from TweetDeck in reply to DeskAway
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   stickerboy @ProjectLockerHQ @DeskAway - Just a quick thanks to you both. Without you guys, I couldn’t have finished this semester in Uni. Cheers 01 May 2010 from web
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   priyankawriting using @deskaway for @digiwhirl, so far so good.. I hope it helps with our startup first months! 08 May 2010 from web
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   adityarao310 @bongubharat I one fine day sent a mail to team - I will no longer reply to any internal stuff on mail. Every1 auto switched to @deskaway 19 May 2010 from web in reply to bongubharat
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   dhanunjayareddy @DeskAway its a good product. Using for my project now. 21 May 2010 from Snaptu in reply to DeskAway
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   amnigos @seoidiot : We moved from BaseCamp to DeskAway, loving it. What else? CC @deskaway 27 May 2010 from web in reply to seoidiot
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   abhishekrungta @sahilparikh just upgraded my @deskaway account to the topmost tier you guys rocked in simplicity and won our business! 29 May 2010 from web

Superchooha is a Social Business Communications firm from Mumbai, India. What that means is that we use social media to engage customers with brands, and teams within the organisation for efficient business operations.

We believe in spreading social everywhere on the web. Things on the social web change every second, in real time, and so do requirements of our projects. It was all fine when we had just started with a two person team but things got real ugly now that we have expanded, handling clients like ICICI Prudential and Idea Cellular with colossal frequencies of user touchpoints.

Information and tasks assigned used to get lost in mails, we had tons of papers on the notice board to remind us of stuff. Things were never seamless. We finalized on DeskAway after a lot of test runs with Basecamp and such, and it was worth it. We are actually saving around 48 minutes per day per member now. Things get done on time. We know who is accountable for certain task, who is working efficiently etc. We can assign tasks seamlessly via mails. In addition, we can easily work from home if need arises.

In short, it’s been a lifesaver

Superchooha Team

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