Products Made in India

PARAM

PARAM ( Parallel Machine ) is a series of supercomputers designed and assembled by the C-DAC in Pune, India. After being denied Cray supercomputers, Indian scientists developed their own, which proved the world that we could beat them at their own game, and at a fraction of the cost. The final result of the effort was the PARAM 8000 which got installed in 1991. When Param supercomputer was launched with a capacity of 100 Gigaflops it placed India as one of the competitive producers of software products in the world. It is only because of the Param supercomputers that we are able to design high-rise bridges, aircrafts in a much faster and efficient way. Even today, PARAM helps in discovering life saving drugs and energy resources and most importantly doing weather forecasting. No history of computing in India can even begin without giving place to the Param. The latest machine in the series is the PARAM Yuva.

SearchPad

This was the Web-search application, developed by Satyam Computers in 1997. It was the first Internet search tool through the databases of more than one search engine (11 at that time) and carry out searches for keywords or e-mail. SearchPad came in the market when a huge user growth was occurring over the Internet. SearchPad reduced the Internet search overload and redundant search results. The most significant benefit SearchPad offered was its role as an enabler of web knowledge sharing. This tool has a unique filtering and classifying mechanism to extract desired information by allowing the user to specify rules for accepting and rejecting documents.With SearchPad, it became possible to personalize your searches, and distribute search results amongst more than one user. The tool was the first one to use neural network engine with Artificial Intelligence component that resulted in dramatic decrease in the search process time. SearchPad was a priced product so it could never really compete with the free offerings from others.

Simputer

The Simputer was a self-contained, open hardware Linux-based handheld computer, first released in 2002 by the Simputer Trust. Developed in, and primarily distributed within India, costing between Rs 11k to 23k, the product was envisioned as a low-cost alternative to personal computers. In fact, it was the first serious effort at that time to develop an affordable computing product for the poor people. Applications, such as telemedicine services, micro-banking, information access geared to farmers and distance education for remote schools, are being installed for rural development needs in India. The device included text-to-speech software, touchscreen, smart-card, serial port, and USB connections, and an Infrared Data Association (IrDA) port which provided healthy connectivity options to the IT professionals. Despite having all these features, at a low cost it failed to survive in the market. One reason could be the fact that it didn't include regular applications like word processors and spreadsheets and it lacked behind in providing good graphics also. But the launch of Simputer has shaped the computer market towards more graphically rich PCs and handheld user-friendly computing devices which resulted in laptops.

Aakash

On 5th October 2011, world's cheapest tablet was launched in India by the union HRD ministry. The tablet named Aakash is an Android tablet computer jointly developed by DataWind and IIT Rajasthan and manufactured by the India-based company Quad. Aakash is developed keeping the Indian education sector in mind. It will help students move forward with the digital world and will remove the load of carrying heavy bag packed with notebooks by a 350gm tablet. Students will find it easier to prepare and keep notes and projects, which will improve learning and take Indian education level to a new height. The first version of tablet is to be distributed among 1,00,000 students in 416 universities and 20,000 colleges at a cost of just Rs 1,300. The tablet recorded 3 lakh pre-launch orders for its commercial version, a substantially revised second generation model, Ubislate which is projected for manufacture beginning in early 2012. The bookings exceed India's estimated 2,50,000 tablet PC market, dominated by Apple, Samsung and Reliance.

Tally

This is perhaps the most popular Indian software packages of all times. Today, Tally is used in more than 95% companies in India. Developed by Peutronics, Bangalore, the current version of Tally is 9 which supports payroll, 13 languages, integrated enterprise system, VAT, TDS & TCS and Service Tax modules and lot more. Tally totally wiped out not only the small accounting software but also the big players in Indian market. Reason for its wide spread success is its seamless user-experience. Tally is easily available today in Indian market at an affordable cost.

E-x

E-x from TCS was the first Indian software package to be sold as a mass-market product. Also, it was the first Indian shrink-wrapped product to make a dent in the market. It was probably the first Indian software product to be nationally advertized. E-x was an accounting package that in the days when computing was still to catch on, was positioned as a non-IT product, particularly for small businesses.

Gist

Gist enabled computing in Indian languages. Gist technology found application in television, when it enabled different regions in the country to recieve subtitles simultaneously in different languages. With the advent of Windows, the Gist card more or less lost its relevance with PCs and C-DAC struck back with its leap range of products for that platform.

NC's OS

The operating system for Oracle's Network computers was one of the many international branded products that were developed in India. It was developed by Oracle India Development Center at Bangalore. Simplicity of installation and operation were its major USPs. However, the concept of network computers failed to pull in the crowds, and the NC operating system missed its slot

in history.