6 April 2011, Mumbai: MAIA Intelligence, a leading provider of Business Intelligence (BI) software products today announced that it has entered into a partnership with Optima Global Solutions, an Information Technology (IT) Consulting firm and database experts to provide consulting, implementation, training and support on MAIA’s award-winning 1KEY suite of BI solutions to Optima customers in United Kingdom markets.

1KEY BI caters to strategic, tactical and operational data analysis and MIS reporting needs of multiple vertical industries. With 1KEY, enterprise customers enjoy the benefits of faster turn-around time for data analytics, higher visibility of enterprise assets, increased accuracy and effectiveness of business decisions, and lower cost. All these insights help enterprises covering a broad spectrum of industry verticals make timely, data-driven decisions to improve corporate performance.

Neil Westerby, Managing Director, Optima Global Solutions, said, ‘With our extensive line of complete data storage solutions, addition of MAIA’s comprehensive BI suite solutions will further strengthen our ability to help enterprise customers overcome their business challenges.’

He further added, ‘With enhanced reporting, visualization and analytics, these solutions will not only empower our customers to make faster and smarter informed decisions but also provide them more control and better predictability over their projects and operations.’

Optima has been providing clients with expert database consulting services ranging from architecture and planning, application design/development, to data warehousing and performance measurement. Optima consultants have been providing services in customized software development projects, outsourcing and staff augmentation.

Sanjay Mehta, Chief Executive Officer, MAIA Intelligence, said, ‘We are delighted to enter this partnership with Optima having varied experience in providing robust, cutting-edge technology solutions specially in database. Through our association, we shall further extend our reach in UK markets and look forward to their plan to introduce the benefits of 1KEY BI’s enhanced reporting and analytics software to their customer base.’

‘In today’s competitive environment, it has become imperative for enterprises to analyze their data more critically. And 1KEY BI solutions’ data-driven insights help enterprise business users to gain operational efficiency and also comply with the statutory, regulatory and top management’s MIS reporting requirements with ease,’ he further added.

About MAIA Intelligence:

Founded in 2006, MAIA Intelligence is a young, innovative company in powerful business intelligence reporting and analysis software product space. The company with its mission to democratize BI and take it from few expert users to the operational managers, frontline executives to back office team is on its way to become the company with the largest BI user base within India. MAIA is Microsoft Gold Certified partner and has been selected as one of the NASSCOM Top 100 IT INNOVATORS in 2007. MAIA’s 1KEY BI software has been tested and certified by Microsoft for ISV/software solutions. MAIA Intelligence is Microsoft’s 1st Indian ISV partner having its product 1KEY BI compatible with Windows 7. MAIA Intelligence and 1KEY products case study is published by Microsoft. MAIA Intelligence won the Microsoft ISV Innovation Award and finalist for UTV Bloomberg’s CXO Awards in 2010.

MAIA recognized among Red Herring Finalist 100 for Asia in 2008 and was also named as India’s Most Trusted IT Vendor by a CIO survey by The CTO Forum. MAIA has been one of the first few companies to be listed in the Microsoft start-up Accelerator program. MAIA’s 1KEY Agile BI Suite has been featured in Microsoft Solution Directory 2008. Readers of IT magazine voted MAIA as the 3rd Most Successful Startup Company in 2008 that will rock 2009. It was also one of the only Indian BI to be recognized by NICSI (National Informatics Centre) and empanelled in BI Tender alongside MNC products. MAIA has been written in Gartner’s Hype Cycle for ICT in India, 2008, BI Market Trends for 2008-09 APAC and 2010 APAC Emerging Technology for Business Leaders Reports. MAIA has been recognized by Red Herring as winners in Asia and Finalist among Global companies in 2009.

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About Optima Global Solutions:

Headquartered in Hamilton, NJ, Optima Global Solutions is an innovative Information Technology Consulting firm that provides superior IT solutions to its clients while offering a rewarding and challenging work experience for its consultants. In a world that is constantly changing, companies are faced with the challenge of continually adapting to a dynamic environment. Optima has the foresight to handle unanticipated needs and challenges, becoming an instrumental part of its customer’s success.

Optima realizes that understanding each client’s needs is essential to providing quality service. The experienced professionals at Optima take the time to understand client’s business, approach, and the dictates of their environment. Whether clients know exactly what they want or would like informative and innovative guidance, Optima’s experienced professionals work with its customers every step of the way and its highly skilled consultants keep the projects safe. Optima is deeply committed and will not stop until all needs have been addressed and dealt with to client’s complete satisfaction.

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3 March 2011, Mumbai: Datamatics, a global provider of Information Technology (IT), Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) and Consulting services, today announced that it has entered into a partnership with MAIA Intelligence, a leading provider of Business Intelligence (BI) software products. Datamatics will provide consulting, implementation, training and support for MAIA’s award-winning 1KEY suite of BI solutions to customers globally.

1KEY BI caters to strategic, tactical and operational data analysis and MIS reporting needs of multiple vertical industries. With 1KEY, enterprise customers enjoy the benefits of faster turn-around time for data analytics, higher visibility of enterprise assets, increased accuracy and effectiveness of business decisions, and lower cost. All these insights help enterprises make timely, data-driven decisions to improve corporate performance.

Rahul Kanodia, Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Datamatics Global Services Ltd., said, ‘Enterprises all over the world are seeking innovative ways to improve their business decisions, gain better customer insights and enhance their bottom line.  The addition of MAIA’s comprehensive suite of BI solutions will further strengthen our ability to help enterprise customers overcome their business challenges.’

Rahul added, ‘These solutions will not only empower our customers to make faster and smarter business decisions but also provide them more control and better predictability over their projects and operations.’

Sanjay Mehta, Chief Executive Officer, MAIA Intelligence, said, ‘We are very proud to establish this partnership, as Datamatics has decades of experience in providing robust, cutting-edge technology solutions for its customers globally. Through our association, we shall further extend our reach and look forward to their plan to introduce the benefits of 1KEY BI’s enhanced reporting and analytics software to their customer base.’

According to Sanjay, ‘With growing competition and stricter compliance norms it has become imperative for enterprises to analyze their data more critically. And 1KEY BI solutions help enterprises in not only achieving operation efficiency, but also attain regulatory and statutory compliance.’

About Datamatics Global Services Ltd.:

Datamatics, a trusted partner to several Fortune 500 Companies is a global provider of Information Technology (IT) and Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) and Consulting services. The company provides business aligned next-generation solutions to a wide range of industry verticals that help enterprises across the world overcome their business challenges and achieve operational efficiencies. These solutions leverage innovations in technology, knowledge of business processes, and domain expertise to provide clients a competitive edge.

Datamatics specializes in Engineering & Embedded Services, Finance & Accounting Services, Information Management, IT Consulting, IT Services, Publishing Services, Research & Analytics, Resource Augmentation, Smart Document Processing, Billing & Payment Solutions, and Online Retail Solutions.

Datamatics has been conferred with many industry awards globally. A few of them include:

In 2010, the company was featured amongst the Global Services 100 List and was the proud recipient of Global HR Strategy Award & HR Leadership Award at Asia\\\’s Best Employer Brand Awards 2010. Received HR Super Achiever Award at Asia Pacific HRM Congress in 2009. Datamatics is the first Indian company to have won the International Asia Pacific Quality Award in the Services Category in 2007. \\\’The Black Book of Outsourcing\\\’ ranked Datamatics third amongst document process outsourcing providers globally in 2007 and Top 50 Managed Outsourced Vendors in 2006.

About MAIA Intelligence Pvt. Ltd.:

Founded in 2006, MAIA Intelligence is a young, innovative company in powerful business intelligence reporting and analysis software product space.  The company with its mission to democratize BI and take it from few expert users to the operational managers, frontline executives to back office team is on its way to become the company with the largest BI user base within India. MAIA is Microsoft Gold Certified partner and has been selected as one of the NASSCOM Top 100 IT INNOVATORS in 2007. MAIA’s 1KEY BI software has been tested and certified by Microsoft for ISV/software solutions. MAIA Intelligence is Microsoft’s 1^st Indian ISV partner having its product 1KEY BI compatible with Windows 7. MAIA Intelligence and 1KEY products case study is published by Microsoft. MAIA Intelligence won the Microsoft ISV Innovation Award and finalist for UTV Bloomberg’s CXO Awards in 2010.

MAIA recognized among Red Herring Finalist 100 for Asia in 2008 and was also named as India’s Most Trusted IT Vendor by a CIO survey by The CTO Forum.  MAIA has been one of the first few companies to be listed in the Microsoft start-up Accelerator program. MAIA’s 1KEY Agile BI Suite has been featured in Microsoft Solution Directory 2008.  Readers of IT magazine voted MAIA as the 3rd Most Successful Startup Company in 2008 that will rock 2009. It was also one of the only Indian BI to be recognized by NICSI (National Informatics Centre) and empanelled in BI Tender alongside MNC products. MAIA has been written in Gartner’s Hype Cycle for ICT in India, 2008, BI Market Trends for 2008-09 APAC and 2010 APAC Emerging Technology for Business Leaders Reports. MAIA has been recognized by Red Herring as winners in Asia and Finalist among Global companies in 2009.

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Mumbai, February 22, 2011: MAIA Intelligence, a software product company in Business Intelligence (BI) reporting analytics space today announced that it had organized an Series II of Online Business Intelligence Quotient, BI Quiz. The very first on-line version of the MAIA BI Quiz in October 2010 received an encouraging response from business users and CIOs / IT Heads. With the launch of BIQ’s online version, MAIA Intelligence had planned a series of Online Business Intelligence Quiz, first of its kind initiative and ever held online BI quiz.

Both the on-site and the on-line version of Business Intelligence Quiz (BIQ) has generated huge response as a high quality BI quiz over the years and has now become an regular feature. The 30 objective type question online version BI Quiz was true testament of the participants.

The online format of the BI Quiz was for wider audience participation who can quiz their BI intellect. It was a sheer test of knowledge and ability. The experience of the series-II which went live on February 17, 2011 was to be a great one, something all the participants would always remember. The registrations for the online BI Quiz was free for corporate across any industry.

This series II of the BI Quiz received tremendous response and support with more than 300+ registrations from across the corporates who participated in this online quizzing contest. The quiz for was open to all the individuals from IT departments as well as business users from the organizations.

Mr. Ranganathan.N.N., Manager IT, Mahindra & Mahindra Financial Services Limited, 1^st prize winner said, ‘this was a great initiative by the MAIA team and the very intention of doing something different & informative is worthy of appreciation. The quiz was very well designed & the questions, a nice concoction of both general awareness & technology that made my dormant brain cells active & alert. I hope you have more of such innovative activities lined up in the future too.’

Mr. S. M. Pillay, General Manager, Excel Crop Care Limited, 2^nd prize winner said, ‘The BI Quiz was amazing with lots of insights to the business intelligence (BI) and data warehousing (DW) technologies along with the questions that tickled my grey cells. I am delighted to be the winner of this quiz, I would only say that a man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.’

Ms. Aparna Kumar, Senior Vice President, HDFC Bank Limited, 3^rd Prize Winner said, ‘Quiz always brings out the inquisitiveness; MAIA was no less in it. An absolute mix of Technology, brain test on IT market know-how and definitely a competitive one. It is the most cost effective branding technique adopted by MAIA.’

As usual, the Series II of the online BI Quiz also had exciting prizes to win which included Seagate external Go Flex 1 TB Hard Drive, Eureka Forbes Water Purifier and Motorola WX180 GSM Mobile Phone. Winners of BI Quiz series I were Miten Parekh, Head-IT, Rediffusion DY&R P.Ltd., Prasad Parab, Chief IT, Pidilite Industries Ltd. and Mohan Rao, Senior Manager Systems, Lok Housing & Constructions Ltd.

Mr. Sanjay Mehta, CEO, MAIA Intelligence Pvt. Ltd. said, ‘The mantra or vision of MAIA Intelligence for \\\”Democratization of BI\\\” has been powerful and is well accepted by CXO community. It has helped bringing BI from experts few to masses. This initiative of BI Quiz almost a regular feature now helps extend our reach in leading the BI evangelism within India and World over. MAIA Intelligence since 2006 has changed the dynamics and broken the myth related to BI on adoption, time to market and affordability. The idea of making BI simple, affordable and most important usable at all levels has been propagated well by MAIA Intelligence.’

About MAIA Intelligence:

Founded in 2006, MAIA Intelligence is a young, innovative company in powerful business intelligence reporting and analysis software product space.  The company with its mission to democratize BI and take it from few expert users to the operational managers, frontline executives to back office team is on its way to become the company with the largest BI user base within India. MAIA is Microsoft Gold Certified partner and has been selected as one of the NASSCOM Top 100 IT INNOVATORS in 2007. MAIA’s 1KEY BI software has been tested and certified by Microsoft for ISV/software solutions. MAIA Intelligence is Microsoft’s 1^st Indian ISV partner having its product 1KEY BI compatible with Windows 7. MAIA Intelligence and 1KEY products case study is published by Microsoft. MAIA Intelligence won the Microsoft ISV Innovation Award and finalist for UTV Bloomberg’s CXO Awards in 2010.

MAIA recognized among Red Herring Finalist 100 for Asia in 2008 and was also named as India’s Most Trusted IT Vendor by a CIO survey by The CTO Forum.  MAIA has been one of the first few companies to be listed in the Microsoft start-up Accelerator program. MAIA’s 1KEY Agile BI Suite has been featured in Microsoft Solution Directory 2008.  Readers of IT magazine voted MAIA as the 3rd Most Successful Startup Company in 2008 that will rock 2009. It was also one of the only Indian BI to be recognized by NICSI (National Informatics Centre) and empanelled in BI Tender alongside MNC products. MAIA has been written in Gartner’s Hype Cycle for ICT in India, 2008, BI Market Trends for 2008-09 APAC and 2010 APAC Emerging Technology for Business Leaders Reports. MAIA has been recognized by Red Herring as winners in Asia and Finalist among Global companies in 2009.

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Mumbai, November, 22 2010: MAIA Intelligence, a leading provider of powerful, intuitive and robust Business Intelligence (BI) software products for ad-hoc reporting, complex analysis that meet the dynamic MIS needs of corporate business users, today announced Prism Informatics Ltd. being signed as its consulting partner for delivery, training and support of 1KEY BI.

Prism Informatics provides software application development and strategic IT business consulting services to leading enterprise organizations, Implementation and support of third Party Enterprise-wide products including SAP, and is rapidly growing company across the globe with large range of products and geographically well spread.

1KEY BI is a comprehensive Business Intelligence application catering to Strategic, Tactical & Operational data analysis & MIS reporting needs of multiple vertical industries. Under the new agreement, Prism plans to train and certify its consultants on the 1KEY BI in the coming months. The agreement will enable Prism Informatics to use 1KEY BI for development and demonstration purposes, and to promote 1KEY-based solutions to its enterprise customers globally.

‘We are excited to partner with MAIA which is the only Indian BI product company, which has been written about in Gartner Research Reports multiple times, is among the Red Herring’s 100 Global companies and its innovative products are being awarded by Microsoft and NASSCOM for innovation,’ said Alok Pathak, Managing Director, Prism Informatics Limited. ‘Our enterprise customers can now take full advantage of the comprehensive BI suite from MAIA Intelligence while spending less time and money to achieve higher performance. This partnership shall play a vital role in expanding our proven collection of solutions in the market.’

1KEY BI reporting and analytics solutions are well-suited for the enterprise customers of Prism, and shall gain greater business insights from their large volumes of data for hundreds of IT & business users.

‘We are delighted to welcome Prism to our Global Partnership Program and believe this partnership will present us exciting long-term opportunities,’ said Sanjay Mehta, MAIA Intelligence’s CEO. ‘We understand that successful BI project depends on the powerful best-of-breed technology with strategic advice and expertise. Prism has established its expertise in enterprise IT services, and we look forward to work with them to deliver value to its customers with 1KEY BI products and solutions.’

To succeed as an enterprise BI reporting standard, a solution must
• Accommodate thousands of users with ease of affordability without prohibitive software license costs
• Provide flexible reporting that improves decision-making by a wide range of users
• Access any enterprise data source

MAIA Intelligence 1KEY BI has all of the above 3 major points which establishes an enterprise class business intelligence (BI) reporting solutions company and Prism Informatics plans to develop a COE – Center of Excellence around 1KEY BI platform.

The Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing (BI&DW) practice of Prism Informatics is one of the leading global providers of end-to end Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence and Business Analytics solutions. Prism Informatics now offers the entire business intelligence and data warehousing (BI and DW) Solution footprint covering Innovation, Integration, Intelligence, and Insight using MAIA Intelligence 1KEY BI Framework.

About MAIA Intelligence Pvt. Ltd.

Founded in 2006, MAIA Intelligence is a young, innovative company in powerful business intelligence reporting and analysis software product space. The company with its mission to democratize BI and take it from few expert users to the operational managers, frontline executives to back office team is on its way to become the company with the largest BI user base within India. MAIA is Microsoft Gold Certified partner and has been selected as one of the NASSCOM Top 100 IT INNOVATORS in 2007. MAIA’s 1KEY BI software has been tested and certified by Microsoft for ISV/software solutions. MAIA Intelligence is Microsoft’s 1st Indian ISV partner having its product 1KEY BI compatible with Windows 7. Microsoft on its website published case study on MAIA Intelligence and 1KEY products. . MAIA also won the Microsoft’s ISV Innovation Award in 2010. The company was also a finalist at the CXO Awards 2010 for India’s Business IT Innovation of the year.

MAIA recognized among Red Herring Finalist 100 for Asia in 2008 and was also named as India’s Most Trusted IT Vendor by a CIO survey by The CTO Forum. MAIA has been one of the first few companies to be listed in the Microsoft start-up Accelerator program. MAIA’s 1KEY Agile BI Suite has been featured in Microsoft Solution Directory 2008. Readers of IT magazine voted MAIA as the 3rd Most Successful Startup Company in 2008 that will rock 2009. The product was also one of the only Indian BI to be recognized by NICSI (National Informatics Centre) and empanelled in BI Tender alongside MNC products. MAIA has been written in Gartner’s Hype Cycle for ICT in India, 2008, BI Market Trends for 2008-09 APAC and 2010 APAC Emerging Technology for Business Leaders Reports. MAIA has also been recognized among the Red Herring Winners in Asia and Finalist among the Global companies in 2009.

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About Prism Informatics Ltd.

Prism Informatics Ltd. is a Software Development and IT Business consulting services provider headquartered in Mumbai, India. Prism is growing at a phenomenal pace by acquiring leading companies in competing and adjacent spaces and keeping a 360 degree presence. This helps in reducing gestation period to enter the new business as well as helps Prism to scale the business quickly and achieve economies of scale. With a vision to be a global world-class organization that provides best-of-breed localized business and technology solutions, with continuous innovation and quality, backed by best-in-class people, Prism is creating a niche amongst the global IT service providers with a strong culture and management. Prism has developed a strong client centric approach, nurturing customers as partners and meeting and exceeding the customer’s expectations. It continues to deliver the same value to customers and stakeholders and is growing it’s relations organically. Prism Informatics is a Bombay Stock Exchange listed, publicly traded company. Prism is now present in a number of countries including Germany, Switzerland, Thailand, Singapore, Sri Lanka and the USA. It has recently completed acquisition of a majority stake in IMT, the software arm of the Al-Suwaidi group, one of Saudi Arabia’s respected industrial groups. This has enabled Prism to establish a significant base in the Middle East.

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Mumbai, November 15, 2010: MAIA Intelligence, a software product company in Business Intelligence (BI) reporting analytics space today announced that it has launched the first ever Online Business Intelligence Quotient, BI Quiz. The on-site version of the MAIA BI Quiz held in Dubai, Phuket and Hong Kong in last three years received an encouraging response from CIOs / IT Heads. Since then, the community has been expressing lot of enthusiasm and demanding for online version of BIQ. Seeing this, MAIA Intelligence, launched a series of Online Business Intelligence Quiz (BIQ), first of its kind and ever held online BI quiz.

It has been three years since MAIA Intelligence has been doing on site Business Intelligence Quiz (BIQ) within Technology Senate event. It has generated huge response as a high quality BI quiz in the very first year and has now become an annual feature. The 30 objective type question online version BI Quiz was true testament of the participants.

MAIA Intelligence announced an online version of the same BI Quiz, so that wider audiences could participate to quiz their BI intellect. It was going to be a sheer test of knowledge and ability. The experience of the series-I which went live on October 22, 2010 was to be a great one, something all the participants would always remember. The registrations for the online BI Quiz was free for corporate across any industry.

This initiative received tremendous response and support with more than 150 registrations from across the corporates who participated in this online quizzing contest. The quiz for was open to all the individuals from IT departments as well as business users from the organizations.

Mr. Miten Parekh, Group CIO, Rediffusion DY&R Private Limited, 1st prize winner said, ‘MAIA\’s BI Quiz is a very innovative initiative to engage CIOs and create a sense of competitiveness amongst the community. The questionnaire was very well made, with tricky answer options that tickled my grey cells. And I say that on behalf of my fellow CIO friends! I thoroughly enjoyed the experience and look forward to the next round.’

Mr. Prasad Parab, Chief IT, Pidilite Industries Limited, 2nd prize winner said, ‘The format and the way this online BI quiz was conducted was amazing. It plotted lot of insights in the BI & DW technologies, about the people and IT vendors in this space. The quiz made me thing every moment yet sharpened and enhanced my knowledge in this domain\’.

Mr. Mohan Rao, Senior Manager Systems, Lok Housing & Constructions Limited, 3rd Prize Winner said, ‘I really enjoyed the online BI Quiz which gave me an opportunity to go in depth in to the subject with lot of excitement and passion. I am happy to be the winner of this first ever online BI Quiz.’

The Series I of the online BI Quiz had exciting prizes to win which included Digital Photo Frame, 16 GB Pen drive and 8 GB Ultra Micro SDHC Card.

Commenting on the success of the Online version of the BI Quiz, Mr. Sanjay Mehta, CEO, MAIA Intelligence Pvt. Ltd. said, ‘Three years back we started this initiative in progressing towards our ongoing effort to establish our presence in the BI space. Till now we had got a fantastic response from the onsite versions of BI Quiz and have given us a significant recognition. We wanted to repeat the same thing in an approachable and interactive way with the BI Quiz. I think we have succeeded to an extent for this initiative of online BIQ.’

About MAIA Intelligence:

Founded in 2006, MAIA Intelligence is a young, innovative company in powerful business intelligence reporting and analysis software product space.  The company with its mission to democratize BI and take it from few expert users to the operational managers, frontline executives to back office team is on its way to become the company with the largest BI user base within India. MAIA is Microsoft Gold Certified partner and has been selected as one of the NASSCOM Top 100 IT INNOVATORS in 2007. MAIA’s 1KEY BI software has been tested and certified by Microsoft for ISV/software solutions. MAIA Intelligence is Microsoft’s 1^st Indian ISV partner having its product 1KEY BI compatible with Windows 7. Microsoft on its website published case study on MAIA Intelligence and 1KEY products. MAIA Intelligence also won the Microsoft ISV Innovation Award in 2010.

MAIA recognized among Red Herring Finalist 100 for Asia in 2008 and was also named as India’s Most Trusted IT Vendor by a CIO survey by The CTO Forum.  MAIA has been one of the first few companies to be listed in the Microsoft start-up Accelerator program. MAIA’s 1KEY Agile BI Suite has been featured in Microsoft Solution Directory 2008.  Readers of IT magazine voted MAIA as the 3rd Most Successful Startup Company in 2008 that will rock 2009. The product was also one of the only Indian BI to be recognized by NICSI (National Informatics Centre) and empanelled in BI Tender alongside MNC products. MAIA has been written in Gartner’s Hype Cycle for ICT in India, 2008 & BI Market Trends for 2008-09 APAC Reports. MAIA has also been recognized among the Red Herring Winners in Asia and Finalist among the Global companies in 2009.

Visit www.maia-intelligence.com for more information.

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Microsoft acknowledged the innovative 1KEY Agile BI Suite and honored MAIA Intelligence as an early adopter and aggressive promoter of key MS technologies

Mumbai, June 02, 2010: MAIA Intelligence, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner today announced that it has been honored with the Microsoft ISV Innovation Recognition. This recognition was given to MAIA Intelligence for its innovative business intelligence reporting analytics software 1KEY Agile BI Suite, developed on Microsoft technologies.

The ceremony which was held at the Microsoft ISV Day on May 27, 2010 at New Delhi was organized with an objective to bring together Software Industry luminaries to provide insights on business opportunities and industry trends with the intent of making the Indian software companies globally competitive.

MAIA Intelligence, a Microsoft ISV partner, throughout has been an early adopter and aggressive promoter of key Microsoft technologies like VS2008/.net framework, SQL Server 2008, BizTalk Adapter, Azure platform. The relationship has continued to grow and drive success for both companies because it effectively balances business and technology to deliver value to mutual customers.

Mr. Sanjay Mehta, CEO, MAIA Intelligence Pvt. Ltd. said, ‘through the close working relationship, we gain a clear understanding of Microsoft’s technology direction: what technologies and products Microsoft is investing in. At the same time, Microsoft gains a deeper understanding of technology and business requirements of mid-market companies and how leading ISVs are best packaging and delivering solutions that leverage Microsoft’s platform and technology to provide increased value and benefits to their markets.’

Commenting on this occasion, CA Ashwin Dedhia, Director – Solutions, MAIA Intelligence Pvt. Ltd. said, ‘MAIA Intelligence delivers the power of the Microsoft platform and its ability to transform the way people and organizations leverage technology. 1KEY BI, the reporting analysis solution developed by MAIA Intelligence helps customers leverage investments done in Microsoft Technologies, and empowers robust usage / deployments,’ he further added.

The event was targeted towards 100-120 CEOs of software product companies / startups in India. The CXO community audience was present from companies that are building software products/solutions for the Indian Market – the most critical thing that they will seek is deep industry insight from experts on new opportunity areas and trends in different verticals in India, where they can lay their bets on.

The keynote was delivered by Microsoft CEO – Steve Ballmer and the event included several other senior executives from the industry as speakers.

(From L to R) Mayuresh Kulkarni, Partner Alliance Manager – Industry Solutions – BFSI – Microsoft India, Ashwin Dedhia, Director – Solutions, MAIA Intelligence Pvt. Ltd., Som Mittal, President, NASSCOM, Moorthy Uppaluri, GM, Microsoft India and Vanitha Varadarajan, ISV Developer Evangelist, Microsoft India.

About MAIA Intelligence:

Founded in 2006, MAIA Intelligence is a young, innovative company in powerful business intelligence reporting and analysis software product space.  The company with its mission to democratize BI and take it from few expert users to the operational managers, frontline executives to back office team is on its way to become the company with the largest BI user base within India. MAIA is Microsoft Gold Certified partner and has been selected as one of the NASSCOM Top 100 IT INNOVATORS in 2007. MAIA’s 1KEY BI software has been tested and certified by Microsoft for ISV/software solutions. MAIA Intelligence is Microsoft’s 1^st Indian ISV partner having its product 1KEY BI compatible with Windows 7. Microsoft on its website published case study on MAIA Intelligence and 1KEY products.

MAIA recognized among Red Herring Finalist 100 for Asia in 2008 and was also named as India’s Most Trusted IT Vendor by a CIO survey by The CTO Forum.  MAIA has been one of the first few companies to be listed in the Microsoft start-up Accelerator program. MAIA’s 1KEY Agile BI Suite has been featured in Microsoft Solution Directory 2008.  Readers of IT magazine voted MAIA as the 3rd Most Successful Startup Company in 2008 that will rock 2009. The product was also one of the only Indian BI to be recognized by NICSI (National Informatics Centre) and empanelled in BI Tender alongside MNC products. MAIA has been written in Gartner’s Hype Cycle for ICT in India, 2008 & BI Market Trends for 2008-09 APAC Reports. MAIA has also been recognized among the Red Herring Winners in Asia and Finalist among the Global companies in 2009.

MAIA corporate blog on Business Intelligence http://blog.maia-intelligence.com

Visit www.maia-intelligence.com for more information.

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Microsoft acknowledged the innovative 1KEY Agile BI Suite and honored MAIA Intelligence as an early adopter and aggressive promoter of key MS technologies

Mumbai, June 02, 2010: MAIA Intelligence, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner today announced that it has been honored with the Microsoft ISV Innovation Recognition. This recognition was given to MAIA Intelligence for its innovative business intelligence reporting analytics software 1KEY Agile BI Suite, developed on Microsoft technologies.

The ceremony which was held at the Microsoft ISV Day on May 27, 2010 at New Delhi was organized with an objective to bring together Software Industry luminaries to provide insights on business opportunities and industry trends with the intent of making the Indian software companies globally competitive.

MAIA Intelligence, a Microsoft ISV partner, throughout has been an early adopter and aggressive promoter of key Microsoft technologies like VS2008/.net framework, SQL Server 2008, BizTalk Adapter, Azure platform. The relationship has continued to grow and drive success for both companies because it effectively balances business and technology to deliver value to mutual customers.

Mr. Sanjay Mehta, CEO, MAIA Intelligence Pvt. Ltd. said, ‘through the close working relationship, we gain a clear understanding of Microsoft’s technology direction: what technologies and products Microsoft is investing in. At the same time, Microsoft gains a deeper understanding of technology and business requirements of mid-market companies and how leading ISVs are best packaging and delivering solutions that leverage Microsoft’s platform and technology to provide increased value and benefits to their markets.’

Commenting on this occasion, CA Ashwin Dedhia, Director – Solutions, MAIA Intelligence Pvt. Ltd. said, ‘MAIA Intelligence delivers the power of the Microsoft platform and its ability to transform the way people and organizations leverage technology. 1KEY BI, the reporting analysis solution developed by MAIA Intelligence helps customers leverage investments done in Microsoft Technologies, and empowers robust usage / deployments,’ he further added.

The event was targeted towards 100-120 CEOs of software product companies / startups in India. The CXO community audience was present from companies that are building software products/solutions for the Indian Market – the most critical thing that they will seek is deep industry insight from experts on new opportunity areas and trends in different verticals in India, where they can lay their bets on.

The keynote was delivered by Microsoft CEO – Steve Ballmer and the event included several other senior executives from the industry as speakers.

IT Committee of the Western India Regional Council of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India selects MAIA executive as its member for achieving its objectives

Mumbai, India, April 17, 2010: MAIA Intelligence today announced that one of its directors CA Ashwin Dedhia has been selected and co-opted as a member of the IT Committee of The Western India Regional Council (WIRC) of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI).

With a vision that the Indian Chartered Accountancy Profession will be the Valued Trustees of World Class Financial Competencies in Information Technology, Good IT Governance and Best IT Practices and mission to provide World Class IT Governance, IS Audit, ERP Consulting and Assurances Services to Maintain Reliability, Confidentiality, Security and Availability of Information and Systems the IT Committee has been set up by WIRC to map IT developments and convert them into gainful professional opportunities. The Committee is concerned with the training and development of the members in the field of Information Technology.

Objective of the IT Committee is to:

- Promote the usage of IT in community

- Conduct training programs, practical workshops on topics like SAP, computer aided Audit, Tally, MS Excel, Business Intelligence, Financial Consolidation Management, Computer Forensic, etc. through leading OEM vendors

- Plan to have a IT conference with exhibition involving vendors providing software for practicing CA’s

- Enable the CA’s to explore new opportunities using IT for business growth and development

- Identify IT Enabled Services (ITeS), particularly enterprise applications like ERP, BI, etc. as the next area for the development of the profession

CA Shruti Shah, Chairperson, IT Committee, WIRC said on this occasion, ‘CA Ashwin Dedhia’s techno-Functional Industry expertise and his acclamation as a versatile presenter in the fields of Enterprise applications for businesses shall help us leverage our objectives.’

‘CA Ashwin Dedhia’s flair of interaction visible at various presentations and seminars delivered by him for a wide range of topics including Business Intelligence, Enterprise Applications specifically for Finance & Manufacturing, Management Information System, Personality Development, Career Planning, etc. shall help us in achieving our mission.’, said Mr. Sanjeev Lalan, Chairman, WIRC.  ‘He has addressed at various forums of the institute like different branches & Study Circles of ICAI, Professional and Business Associations, Educational Institutes and the likes.’

Mr. Dedhia is a Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA) by education, also holding Diploma in Business Management from IMC, to his credit. His expertise in Information Technology industry is endorsed by certifications like Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) and Information Systems Auditor (ISA). The blend of Technical & Functional expertise garnered by him, has helped him to be recognized in the Business Community to provide better business solutions in and around the enterprise applications.  Mr. Dedhia is a member of IT Committee of WIRC (Western India Regional Council) – ICAI (Institute of Chartered Accountants of India), ISA Study Group for revamp of ISA Course.

‘We at MAIA Intelligence are proud to have Ashwin Dedhia as part of our team and WIRC and CA community will surely get benefited with Ashwin’s IT knowledge and expertise bundled with practical experience,’ said Sanjay Mehta, CEO MAIA Intelligence Pvt. Ltd. ‘He is a BI expert on handling analytics from SAP to Tally; fondly being called Tally Guru in the fraternity and also a prolific speaker on business balance sheet consolidation issues and solving them,’ Sanjay further added.

The Western India Regional Council is the largest Regional Council comprising of more than 1/3rd of the total members in the Country. The Western India Regional Council serves to the members in the region through twenty one branches and more than fifty study circles spread over the States of Gujarat, Maharashtra and Goa and the Union Territories of Daman & Diu and Dadra & Nagar Haveli.

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) is a statutory body established under the Chartered Accountants Act, 1949 (Act No. XXXVIII of 1949) for the regulation of the profession of Chartered Accountants in India. During its nearly six decades of existence, ICAI has achieved recognition as a premier accounting body not only in the country but also globally, for its contribution in the fields of education, professional development, maintenance of high accounting, auditing and ethical standards. ICAI is the second largest accounting body in the whole world.

Editor Notes

About MAIA Intelligence:

Founded in 2006, MAIA Intelligence is a young, innovative company in powerful business intelligence reporting and analysis software product space.  The company with its mission to democratize BI and take it from few expert users to the operational managers, frontline executives to back office team is on its way to become the company with the largest BI user base within India. MAIA is Microsoft Gold Certified partner and has been selected as one of the NASSCOM Top 100 IT INNOVATORS in 2007. MAIA’s 1KEY BI software has been tested and certified by Microsoft for ISV/software solutions. MAIA Intelligence is Microsoft’s 1^st Indian ISV partner having its product 1KEY BI compatible with Windows 7. Microsoft on its website published case study on MAIA Intelligence and 1KEY products.

MAIA recognized among Red Herring Finalist 100 for Asia in 2008 and was also named as India’s Most Trusted IT Vendor by a CIO survey by The CTO Forum.  MAIA has been one of the first few companies to be listed in the Microsoft start-up Accelerator program. MAIA’s 1KEY Agile BI Suite has been featured in Microsoft Solution Directory 2008.  Readers of IT magazine voted MAIA as the 3rd Most Successful Startup Company in 2008 that will rock 2009. The product was also one of the only Indian BI to be recognized by NICSI (National Informatics Centre) and empanelled in BI Tender alongside MNC products. MAIA has been written in Gartner’s Hype Cycle for ICT in India, 2008 & BI Market Trends for 2008-09 APAC Reports.

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1KEY Agile BI Suite now certified to work with Windows Server 2008 R2 – Raising the bar for dynamic MIS, ad-hoc reporting and complex analytics.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, March 8, 2010 – MAIA Intelligence, a leading Business Intelligence (BI) software product company today announced that their flagship product, 1KEY Agile BI Suite is now certified to work with Windows Server 2008 R2.  Businesses that are deploying Microsoft’s new offerings can now use 1KEY Agile BI Suite, a reporting and analytics solutions, well-suited for the enterprise customers who gain greater business insights from their large volumes of data.

1KEY Agile BI Suite, a comprehensive BI application caters to Strategic, Tactical & Operational data analysis & MIS reporting needs of multiple vertical industries. 1KEY Agile BI Suite enables business users to analyze a tremendous amount of information in an easy to use and highly visual manner, which helps them to quickly identify trends and gain greater insights into data to make analytically-based decisions.

Designed to help organizations reduce operating costs and increase productivity, Windows Server 2008 R2 provides enhanced management control over resources across the enterprise. It is designed to provide better energy efficiency and performance by reducing power consumption and lowering overhead costs.

Speaking on this certification, Sanjay Mehta, CEO, MAIA Intelligence said, ‘Using Windows Server 2008 R2, we’ll be able to better support our strategy as a BI software product company and demonstrate that MAIA Intelligence adheres to Microsoft’s technical bar for Windows fundamentals, and platform compatibility’.

‘As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, MAIA Intelligence has focused its efforts on delivering a stable, fully-functional BI suite that offers end-to-end reporting analytics solution on Microsoft’s platform,’ said Sanjay. ‘Businesses using 1KEY Agile BI Suite will benefit greatly from MAIA’s strategic relationship with Microsoft, and the significant improvements we have made to our products and solutions, which include fast deployment and new reporting capabilities, will be equally evident.’

‘By earning the Works with Windows Server 2008 certification, MAIA Intelligence demonstrates its ongoing leadership with Microsoft technology,’ said Sanjay. ‘Customers from small businesses to large enterprises can leverage the powerful combination of 1KEY Agile BI Suite and Windows Server 2008 R2, with peace of mind knowing the solution has met the technical bar for application compatibility on the platform.’

‘Microsoft is pleased that MAIA Intelligence has embraced the latest Microsoft technologies – Windows Server 2008 R2, .NET Framework, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008,’ said Eric Jewett, Director – Windows Server Marketing, at Microsoft. ‘By passing the Works with Windows Server 2008 R2, MAIA Intelligence is providing BI solutions that our mutual customers can deploy with confidence on Windows Server 2008 R2.’

Works with Windows Server 2008 R2 software certification consists of approximately 20 test cases that independently confirm an application’s compliance with Microsoft’s application compatibility standards, while also ensuring the software performs in a 64-bit environment. The server application lifecycle is tested and key focus areas include common application compatibility challenges, security issues, and installation blockers. The server solution is comprehensively tested, including validating the associated client components running on Windows Vista and Windows 7. ‘Works with Windows Server 2008 R2’ provides customers with added trust and predictability that helps reduce TCO and future-proofs investment in the Microsoft infrastructure.

About MAIA Intelligence:

Founded in 2006, MAIA Intelligence is a young, innovative company in powerful business intelligence reporting and analysis software product space.  The company with its mission to democratize BI and take it from few expert users to the operational managers, frontline executives to back office team is on its way to become the company with the largest BI user base within India. MAIA is Microsoft Gold Certified partner and has been selected as one of the NASSCOM Top 100 IT INNOVATORS in 2007. MAIA’s 1KEY BI software has been tested and certified by Microsoft for ISV/software solutions. MAIA Intelligence is Microsoft’s 1^st Indian ISV partner having its product 1KEY BI compatible with Windows 7. Microsoft on its website published case study on MAIA Intelligence and 1KEY products.

MAIA recognized among Red Herring Finalist 100 for Asia in 2008 and winner in 2009. MAIA was also named as India’s Most Trusted IT Vendor by a CIO survey by The CTO Forum.  MAIA has been one of the first few companies to be listed in the Microsoft start-up Accelerator program. MAIA’s 1KEY Agile BI Suite has been featured in Microsoft Solution Directory 2008.  Readers of IT magazine voted MAIA as the 3rd Most Successful Startup Company in 2008 that will rock 2009. The product was also one of the only Indian BI to be recognized by NICSI (National Informatics Centre) and empanelled in BI Tender alongside MNC products. MAIA has been written in Gartner’s Hype Cycle for ICT in India, 2008 & BI Market Trends for 2008-09 APAC Reports.

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Religare Technologies partners with MAIA Intelligence for 1KEY Business Intelligence (BI)

Mumbai, February 16, 2010: MAIA Intelligence, a leading provider of powerful, intuitive and robust Business Intelligence (BI) software products for ad-hoc reporting, complex analysis that meet the dynamic MIS needs of corporate business users, today announced Religare Technova IT Services Ltd. (represented by brand Religare Technologies) as its consulting partner. Religare Technologies provides enterprise wide IT services to leading organizations in Financial Services, Insurance, Health Care and Life Sciences domain.

1KEY BI is a comprehensive Business Intelligence application catering to Strategic, Tactical & Operational data analysis & MIS reporting needs of multiple vertical industries. Under the new agreement, Religare Technologies plans to train and certify its consultants on the 1KEY BI in the coming months. The agreement will enable Religare Technologies to use 1KEY BI for development and demonstration purposes, and to promote 1KEY-based solutions to its enterprise customers.

“Religare Technologies is delighted to partner with MAIA Intelligence,” said Ravi Raman, Vice President and Head – BFSI, Religare Technova IT Services Limited “1KEY BI is an excellent choice for our enterprise customers with volumes of data and thousands of employees. 1KEY dashboards, KPI reports, and multi-dimensional analysis coupled with graphical representation of data provide valuable business insights that help enterprises make timely, data-driven decisions to improve corporate performance.”

1KEY BI reporting and analytics solutions are well-suited for the enterprise customers of Religare Technologies, and shall gain greater business insights from their large volumes of data.

“We are pleased to forge this new agreement with Religare Technologies and add them to our portfolio of services partners,” said Sanjay Mehta, MAIA Intelligence’s CEO. “The agreement will broaden MAIA Intelligence’s reach into key vertical markets and enable us to leverage the breadth of Religare Technologies’ enterprise IT experience. We look forward to identifying new business opportunities with Religare.”

1KEY BI enables business users to analyze a tremendous amount of information in an easy to use and highly visual manner, which helps them to quickly identify trends and gain greater insights into data to make analytically-based decisions.

About MAIA Intelligence:

Founded in 2006, MAIA Intelligence is a young, innovative company in powerful business intelligence reporting and analysis software product space.  The company with its mission to democratize BI and take it from few expert users to the operational managers, frontline executives to back office team is on its way to become the company with the largest BI user base within India. MAIA is Microsoft Gold Certified partner and has been selected as one of the NASSCOM Top 100 IT INNOVATORS in 2007. MAIA’s 1KEY BI software has been tested and certified by Microsoft for ISV/software solutions. MAIA Intelligence is Microsoft’s 1^st Indian ISV partner having its product 1KEY BI compatible with Windows 7. Microsoft on its website published case study on MAIA Intelligence and 1KEY products.

MAIA recognized among Red Herring Finalist 100 for Asia in 2008 and was also named as India’s Most Trusted IT Vendor by a CIO survey by The CTO Forum.  MAIA has been one of the first few companies to be listed in the Microsoft start-up Accelerator program. MAIA’s 1KEY Agile BI Suite has been featured in Microsoft Solution Directory 2008.  Readers of IT magazine voted MAIA as the 3rd Most Successful Startup Company in 2008 that will rock 2009. The product was also one of the only Indian BI to be recognized by NICSI (National Informatics Centre) and empanelled in BI Tender alongside MNC products. MAIA has been written in Gartner’s Hype Cycle for ICT in India, 2008 & BI Market Trends for 2008-09 APAC Reports.

MAIA corporate blog on Business Intelligence http://blog.maia-intelligence.com

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About Religare Technologies:

Religare Technologies is the IT services business of a large diversified Indian transnational business group. The group pursues aggressive business interests globally in IT software products (Religare Technova) Financial Services (Religare Enterprises), Health Care (Fortis Health Care), Wellness (Religare Wellness, formerly Fortis HealthWorld), Diagnostics (Super Religare Laboratories, formerly SRL Ranbaxy) and Aviation and Travel (Religare Voyages).

The Religare Technologies umbrella includes offerings in Business Solutions, Infrastructure Solutions, Business Process & Knowledge Services & Information Services.

The Religare Technologies’ edge lies in its expertise to understand business requirements and provide efficient IT solutions and services resulting in best use of customer spend. Currently with over 2000 employees motivated to deliver reliable and high quality services to customers globally and presence in over 10 countries in Middle East, US, Europe, and Asia, Religare Technologies is poised to be a leader in the global IT Services space. Religare Technologies focuses on clients in key verticals such as Financial Services, Insurance, Capital Markets and Health Sciences (Health Care and Pharmaceuticals).

Visit www.religaretech.com for more information.

After winning the Red Herring 100 Asia Award, MAIA intelligence has now been selected as a finalist for the Red Herring 100 Global Award.

Mumbai, India, – December 24, 2009 – MAIA Intelligence Pvt. Ltd., a leading software product company in Business Intelligence (BI) reporting analytics space announced today it has been selected as a finalist for Red Herring’s Global 100 Award, a prestigious list honoring the year’s most promising private technology ventures from around the world.

The Red Herring editorial team selected 200 Finalists, the most innovative companies from a pool of 1,200 for this Global Award. The nominees are evaluated on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy, and integration into their respective industries.

This unique assessment of potential is complemented by a review of the actual track record and standing of a company, which allows Red Herring to see past the ‘buzz’ and make the list an invaluable instrument for discovering and advocating the greatest business opportunities in the industry.

Leveraging the explosion of information across the organization, MAIA Intelligence’s success is further driven by the company’s focus on bringing BI to the masses with ease of use and simplicity for business users across strategic, tactical as well as operational level. With 1KEY, BI is no longer the sole province of few expert analysts and top management only. Back office staff and front desk executives can now access to the required information on the fly with dynamic reporting and ad-hoc analysis.

‘This year was especially difficult,’ said Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring. ‘Despite the global economic situation, there were many great companies producing really innovative and amazing products that we had a difficult time narrowing the pool and selecting the finalists.  Now we’re faced with the arduous task of selecting the final 100 winners of the award. We know that this year’s crop will grow into some amazing companies that are sure to go far.’

‘It is an outstanding honor for MAIA Intelligence to be listed among the top companies in the world and reinforces MAIA Intelligence’s presence in BI space,’ said Sanjay Mehta, CEO of MAIA Intelligence. ‘The growing success and rapid adoption of 1KEY BI among enterprises demonstrates that MAIA Intelligence is among the elite technology companies in the world. The Red Herring selection is further proof that MAIA Intelligence is a forward-thinking company with a clear vision about the future for BI.’

Sanjay said, ‘We are grateful to the selection committee and its efforts to recognize the important technology development that MAIA Intelligence is embarking upon. This is great recognition and further confirmation that MAIA Intelligence is making a real impact in BI space. Our goal has always been to create the scalable, simplest BI software products and solutions for reporting and analyzing critical information. With 1KEY BI, we’ve created a more efficient and affordable solution for taking informed decisions for all the business users across the organization,’ he further added.

Finalists for the 2009 edition of the Red Herring Global 100 award are selected from the regional recipients or finalists of the Red Herring 100 awards in 2007, 2008, or 2009 ranging from Asia, Europe, and North America. For the past three years, the award has been given to the top 100 global technology companies based upon their technological innovation, management strength, market size, investor record, customer acquisition, and financial health. During the several months leading up to the announcement, hundreds of companies in the telecommunications, security, Web 2.0, software, hardware, biotech, and clean tech industries sent in their submissions to qualify for the award.

The CEOs of the 200 finalists are invited to present their winning strategies at the Red Herring Global Conference in Laguna Niguel, California, January 12-14, 2010.  The Top 100 winners will be announced at a special awards ceremony at the event.

About Red Herring

Red Herring is a global media company uniting the world’s best high-technology innovators, venture investors, and business decision-makers in a variety of forums: a leading innovation magazine, an online daily technology news service, technology newsletters, and major events for technology leaders around the globe. Red Herring provides an insider’s view of the global innovation ecosystem, featuring unparalleled insights on the emerging technologies driving the economy.

For more information contact Anam Alpenia at: aalpenia@redherring.com

About MAIA Intelligence

Founded in 2006, MAIA Intelligence is a young, innovative company in powerful business intelligence reporting and analysis software product space.  The company with its mission to democratize BI and take it from few expert users to the operational managers, frontline executives to back office team is on its way to become the company with the largest BI user base within India. MAIA is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and has been selected as one of the NASSCOM Top 100 IT INNOVATORS in 2007. MAIA’s 1KEY BI software has been tested and approved by Microsoft for ISV/software solutions. MAIA Intelligence is one of the first Indian ISVs to earn the ‘Compatible with Windows 7’ logo. Microsoft published a case study on MAIA Intelligence and 1KEY products on its website.

MAIA recognized among Red Herring Finalist 100 for Asia in 2008 and was also named as India’s Most Trusted IT Vendor by a CIO survey by The CTO Forum.  MAIA has been one of the first companies to be listed in the Microsoft start-up Accelerator program. MAIA’s 1KEY Agile BI Suite has been featured in Microsoft Solution Directory 2008.  Readers of IT magazine voted MAIA as the 3rd Most Successful Startup Company in 2008 that will rock 2009. The product was also one of the only Indian BI to be recognized by NICSI (National Informatics Centre) and empanelled in BI Tender alongside MNC products. MAIA has been written in Gartner’s Hype Cycle for ICT in India, 2008 & BI Market Trends for 2008-09 APAC Reports. MAIA is the winner of Red Herring 100 Asia in 2009.

For more information visit www.maia-intelligence.com for more information.

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FTIL, which controls over 80% market share in front end trading technologies in India, deploys a host of support solutions with its unique un-matched IP centric technology platforms. MAIA Intelligence’s 1KEY BI Solution is the latest to join FTIL for providing support solutions.

Paras Ajmera, Director – Operations & HR, FTIL, said, “We, at Financial Technologies, are committed to provide the highest level of quality and service through our solutions that cater to the complex evolving needs of the marketplace. In order to implement a robust framework for faster decision making, we deployed MAIA Intelligence’s 1KEY BI solution for our reporting and data analysis. MAIA worked closely with us to co-create and deploy a highly scalable and usable solution so that our clients can access superior technology and domain leadership for creating and trading on next generation financial markets.”

“It is great to be associated with world leader like Financial Technologies and we are delighted that they selected 1KEY Agile BI Suite to support their reporting and analysis needs,” said Sanjay Mehta, CEO, MAIA Intelligence. “MAIA Intelligence is well-suited to meet FTIL’s growing business intelligence requirements. Our user-friendly reporting capabilities and dashboards empower business people to create their own reports for seamless access to the information they need.”
The Financial Technologies group is among the global leaders in offering technology IP (Intellectual Property) and domain expertise to create and trade on next-generation financial markets that are transparent, efficient and liquid, across all asset classes including equities, commodities, currencies and bonds among others.
FTIL’s front end trading technology, ODINTM, is the No.1 brokerage solution with over 80% market share with 400,000 licenses, 100,000 trading workstations servicing 1000 institutions and brokerage clients, including top 30 banks in India. ODIN supports ten Indian and international exchanges through CTCL (Computer to Computer Link) technology. FTIL’s MATCH is a leading multi-user, multi-exchange, multi-currency integrated back office accounting and settlement system which addresses the needs of back office operations of retail and institutional broking houses. FTIL’s exchange technology, DOME is a multi asset exchange product suite that offers an integrated matching engine, surveillance, risk management, clearing and settlement.

MAIA’s 1KEY BI offers a wide range of reporting and analysis interfaces for FTIL, providing insights into business performance across the company through dashboards, analytical and static reports. 1KEY BI analyzes the employee as well as business process efficiency, which needs to be continuously monitored and controlled for increased profitability with the help of report scheduling.

Through 1KEY BI application, FTIL can do efficient reporting and analysis for the data coming from HR & Payroll, CRM and BPM systems to track employee productivity, improve margins, review market specificity, and identify growth opportunities. The software can also generate reports for various departments like Finance & HR, Administration and IT.

Notes to Editors:

About Financial Technologies
(NSE: FINANTECH, BSE: FlNTECH, Bloomberg: FTECH IN)

Financial Technologies India Ltd (FTIL), the flagship company of the Financial Technologies Group, is among the global leaders in offering technology IP and domain expertise in creating next generation financial markets (exchanges) across all assets class including equities, commodities, currency, and debt. The Financial Technologies Group currently owns and operates 10 national and international exchanges spanning markets from Africa to Middle East, India and South East Asia. It also owns and operates six ecosystem ventures to address upstream and downstream opportunities around exchanges, including clearing, depository, information vending, and payment gateway. For more information, visit www.ftindia.com

About MAIA Intelligence, India

Commenced in 2006, MAIA Intelligence is young, innovative and emerging software Product Company in powerful Business Intelligence (BI) Reporting and Analytics space.  The company with its mission to democratize BI and take it from few expert users to the operational managers, frontline executives to back office team is on its way to become the largest BI user base within India by 2009. MAIA is Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and has been selected as one of the NASSCOM Top 100 IT INNOVATORS in 2007.  MAIA’s 1KEY BI software has been tested and certified by Microsoft for ISV/software solutions. MAIA has been one of the first few companies to be listed in the Microsoft start-up Accelerator program. MAIA’s 1KEY Agile BI Suite has been featured in Microsoft Solution Directory 2008.  The product was also one of the only Indian BI to be recognized by NICSI (National Informatics Centre) and empanelled in BI Tender alongside For more information, visit www.maia-intelligence.com

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Mumbai, India, November 30, 2009 —MAIA Intelligence, a software product company in Business Intelligence (BI) reporting analysis space with more than 10000 users of 1KEY BI, announced that it has been awarded the coveted Red Herring Top 100 Asia, an award given to the top 100 private technology companies based in the Asia region each year. The award recognizes MAIA Intelligence amongst the 100 most innovative private technology companies in the Asia Pacific region that play a leading role in innovation and technology. Former winners such as Facebook, Google, eBay, Skype and YouTube were discovered in their early days by Red Herring editors, who identified these companies as leaders in changing the way we live and work.

MAIA Intelligence 1KEY BI products and solutions enables organizations to convert data to decisions for the strategic, tactical as well as operational MIS reporting analysis needs at a fraction of the cost and overhead of a conventional BI.  1KEY Agile BI Suite stands out as a solution that is in the right place at the right time as all businesses focus on cost containment in the current climate while trying to grow and increase profitability.

Red Herring’s annual list of top private companies is an important part of the company’s tradition of identifying new and innovative technology companies and entrepreneurs.

Over hundreds of privately held technology companies throughout China, India, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea, Australia and Vietnam had submitted their applications for the prestigious award this year. Through a stringent application review process, Red Herring’s editorial team announced the selection of the MAIA Intelligence as the winner.

“It has been a challenging and revealing year for most companies across the globe, yet Red Herring received a very impressive list of nominations from Asia Pacific,” said Alex Vieux, CEO of Red Herring. “Companies that believe in constant innovation and consistent strategy, investing in people and technology, managed to overcome these difficult times and MAIA INTELLIGENCE PVT. LTD. is one of them. They will certainly thrive in the marketplace and become a formidable force in the future.”

Commenting on this occasion Mr. Sanjay Mehta, CEO, MAIA Intelligence said, “We are elated and greatly honored by winning the award at the Red Herring Asia 2009. With the rise of Asian players in the global economy, Red Herring believes that Asian companies will take the spotlight of world business in the next decade. It is an honor for me that MAIA Intelligence has reached this milestone and we are proud to be associated with the best in Asia.”

Sanjay further added, “We would like to thank all our customers, partners and MAIA team members for making this possible. MAIA Intelligence would continuously strive to help organizations take informed decisions at all levels by working on cutting-edge research in the field of BI,” said Sanjay.

Feeling proud of MAIA’s success, Sanjay said, “This prestigious award is a testimony to the hard work and dedication of the team that has created wonderful technology. Most of the work is ahead of us, but we can pause for a minute and enjoy the validation to our vision that this award represents. It strengthens our dream and gives us a boost to be more innovative,” he commented.

To honor the CEOs of Red Herring 100 Asia companies, Red Herring invited each one to present at its Asia 2009 event, November 10-11 in Shanghai, China.

Red Herring’s editorial board diligently evaluated more than 800 private companies through a careful analysis of financial data and subjective criteria, including technology innovation, financial performance, quality of management, execution of strategy, and dedication to research and development. MAIA Intelligence was the one amongst the ones who are leading the next wave of innovation.

About Red Herring:

Red Herring is a global media company uniting the world’s best high technology innovators, venture investors and business decision makers in a variety of forums: a leading innovation magazine; an online daily technology news service; technology newsletters, and major events for technology leaders around the globe. Red Herring provides an insider’s access to the global innovation economy, featuring unparalleled insights on the emerging technologies driving the economy. For more information, visit www.redherring.com.

About MAIA Intelligence:

Founded in 2006, MAIA Intelligence is a young, innovative company in powerful business intelligence reporting and analysis software product space.  The company with its mission to democratize BI and take it from few expert users to the operational managers, frontline executives to back office team is on its way to become the company with the largest BI user base within India. MAIA is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and has been selected as one of the NASSCOM Top 100 IT INNOVATORS in 2007. MAIA’s 1KEY BI software has been tested and approved by Microsoft for ISV/software solutions. MAIA Intelligence is one of the first Indian ISVs to earn the “Compatible with Windows 7” logo. Microsoft published a case study on MAIA Intelligence and 1KEY products on its website.

MAIA recognized among Red Herring Finalist 100 for Asia in 2008 and was also named as India’s Most Trusted IT Vendor by a CIO survey by The CTO Forum.  MAIA has been one of the first companies to be listed in the Microsoft start-up Accelerator program. MAIA’s 1KEY Agile BI Suite has been featured in Microsoft Solution Directory 2008.  Readers of IT magazine voted MAIA as the 3rd Most Successful Startup Company in 2008 that will rock 2009. The product was also one of the only Indian BI to be recognized by NICSI (National Informatics Centre) and empanelled in BI Tender alongside MNC products. MAIA has been written in Gartner’s Hype Cycle for ICT in India, 2008 & BI Market Trends for 2008-09 APAC Reports.

MAIA corporate blog on Business Intelligence http://blog.maia-intelligence.com

Visit www.maia-intelligence.com for more information.

For more information, press only:

Dhiren Gala

MAIA Intelligence Pvt. Ltd.

+91 22 66888961

0 99202 49395

E-mail: dhiren@maia-intelligence.com

“The business users at our customers expect a high-quality business intelligence experience that offers the most up-to-date features,” said Sanjay Mehta, CEO, MAIA Intelligence. “By working with Microsoft, we feel confident 1KEY Agile BI Suite will provide business users with enhanced and faster decision making functionality and significant value across the organization. Through Windows 7 features, we see this would help business users increase their productivity with 1KEY.”

1KEY Agile BI Suite

MAIA Intelligence has worked with Microsoft Corp. to ensure its 1KEY products and solutions are compatible with Windows 7. MAIA Intelligence is committed to working collaboratively with Microsoft to increase productivity and compelling user experience in enterprise business environment. MAIA Intelligence found 1KEY Agile BI Suite deployment on Windows 7 very quick and hassle-free. The company made sure its application works seamless with Windows 7 with the help and support of the local Microsoft team. Due to Windows 7 readiness program from Microsoft, company could get first mover advantage. MAIA Intelligence is now ready with its support policy for Windows 7. Pretty cool features of Windows 7, like Jump List, Windows Peek, and shuffling can be used with 1KEY Agile BI Suite. This gives 1KEY business users, improved usability and discoverability with the Windows 7 platform.

Earlier this year, Microsoft published a case study on MAIA Intelligence and its 1KEY products and solutions on its website as an ISV success story.

Partners are a fundamental component to driving Windows 7 innovation. With Windows 7 Microsoft focused on a systematic and qualitative approach to engaging with partners while using their feedback to inform development efforts. Windows 7 reflects Microsoft’s commitment to focusing on customer’s top priorities and emerging interests. It is a result of years of in-depth listening to customers to build a product that addresses their needs and desires. Windows 7 makes everyday tasks faster and easier – i.e., one click access to files, connect PCs with HomeGroup, better device experience. It works the way customers want it to work – faster boot up, longer battery life, and fewer alerts.