Bhopal hosted “Awards for Excellence in e-governance” in Madhya Pradesh. This Award ceremony was attended by prominent names in Business, Politics, and academia. Impetus, the company that has pioneered Software Product Development in India was awarded the “Best Software Exporter” of the year. The award was presented by Hon. Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, Mr Shivraj Singh Chouhan and I.T. Minister, Mr. Kailash Vijayvargiya and was received by Pankaj Mittal, Sr. VP Engineering and CTO, Impetus and Mr. Sanjeev Agrawal, VP Operations, Impetus.

Impetus is a leader in Outsourced Product Engineering Services. It is a privately held company headquartered in the USA with its fully-owned subsidiary in India, Impetus InfoTech. The company renders Product Engineering Services to US-based clients, both enterprise level organizations as well as new age start ups. The company is currently working for clients in diverse domains like Mobile & Wireless, Digital Media, Performance Marketing, Internet Advertising, Network Security, Telecom, etc.

Impetus was founded by Mr. Praveen Kankariya in the year 1991 in India, and the company has seen tremendous growth under his direction and management. The company has multiple development centers across the country (including Indore, Noida, and Hyderabad) and has a headcount of over 900 employees in India.

On receiving the award, Mr. Kankariya expressed his gratitude and appreciation to the Madhya Pradesh government. He says, “Impetus is a success story with its roots in Indore. The company was born in this city and is home to our biggest offshore development centre. The continued support and co-operation of authorities and city public at large has helped us in our endeavor to make Indore a permanent name in the Global I.T. Map. I would also take this opportunity to thank all the Impetus employees, past and current, for the hard work and dedication they have put in to make Impetus reach the position it is in today.”

Impetus works in all leading-edge technologies and has vast experience in building component-based, service-oriented architectures (SOA), Software as a Service (SAAS), and Web Services. Its work spans across all cutting-edge development platforms, such as J2EE and .Net, on a variety of operating systems, databases (relational and object), and application (J2EE-based) servers. The company announced growth of over 70 % in revenues vis-à-vis last year