e-Zest featured in Pune Mirror (TOI) newspaper: 'Innovation kept us afloat'

Pune Mirror, an English daily from Times of India group owner Bennett Coleman & Co. Ltd, has covered e-Zest Solutions in special feature about companies that are booming in the gloom economic period. It also covered the interview of Devendra Deshmukh, Co-founder and Executive Director. The article covers e-Zest's success till date, diffrentiation, roadmap and its fture plans. Devendra Deshmukh, explained a four point success mantra that covered e-Zest's excellence in handling and communication with clients, core competency, marketing, team members.

The details could be found out at Pune Mirror's e-Zest coverage.

IT labor shortage: Companies to outsource

Society of Information Management’s (SIM) 2008 IT Trends Survey shows different picture than prevailing perception about IT outsourcing. The data shows that US companies are not laying off IT staff and shipping jobs overseas to cut IT budgets. “There are more jobs than there are qualified people”, said Jerry Luftman, an IT professor and the SIM director.

The common perception about offshore outsourcing is built by two things (i) media exaggerating IT offshoring and (ii) prominent and large companies outsourcing much of their consumer support to offshore companies.

The recent research conducted showed that offshore outsourced staff budget is just 5.2% of overall IT budget allocation for 2009. This is higher than last two years’ figures: 4% and 3.2%. In the catastrophic period of global slowdown such increase is a pleasant breeze for offshore IT services companies. The scarcity of qualified candidates in the labor market may be the reason for companies thinking to outsourcing their IT work. This outsourcing is still a very small fraction. The bigger threat to US IT sector is labor crunch issue which is going to become more acute with the impending retirement of Baby Boomers and the smaller-than-needed numbers of math and science students that are graduating and looking for IT jobs.

The offshore outsourced staff budget (5.2%) is much lower than 33.7% budget allocated to internal staff. It is still smaller than 6.2% pie allocated for dedicated domestic outsourcing. In 2009 offshore outsource staff budget has got increased as compared to previous years. Along with that budget for dedicated domestic outsourcing has got increased in 2009. In reality, US is creating more jobs for local candidates than previous years in IT sector.

The activities that SIM does to increase awareness of IT as a viable profession and maturing college IT programs may address problem of IT professionals availability but the big thing is that it is changing or will eventually change the perception about offshore outsourcing.

Congratulations to newly elected US President

e-Zest Solutions congratulates Democrat Barack Obama forbecoming President of America. This is a historical event since he is the firstblack president of America.

This victory of Democrats over Republican hints that USpeople wants a balanced economy on priority than war waging government.

There is a heated discussion on aftermath effects of USPresidential elections on Indian IT industry. Some say outsourcing will bedoomed but I strongly feel that need of cutting cost in most of globalterritories will need more and more IT. Barack Obama knows that curbingoutsourcing in one night will increase problems manifold rather than resolving.He will try to create new jobs and opportunities to calm US citizens’ agony.

All the very best to Obama for creating newer jobs for USpeople, seeding peace movement across world and helping nations fight globalslowdown successfully. India will keep supporting world businesses with itshigh quality and low cost IT solutions. 

e-Zest’s 8th anniversary

It is a pleasure for every employee of any company to see his institution growing. Every team member at e-Zest was having proud feeling on 08-08-08 when company set its foot in 9th year of its operation.

Company had decided to celebrate this occasion out station near beautiful beaches of Konkan opening right in the Great Arabian Sea. There could not be a better place to celebrate its 8th anniversary of prosperity, bonding and customer delight.

Team members enjoyed their travel to Dapoli in two full packed luxury buses and rope way experience of Raigad. While Dapoli connects land mass and a great water reservoir, the great Raigad connects present with glorious history hallmark of Chhatrapati Shivaji era.

The two day celebration function was full of fun games, water sports, ad mad shows, individual performances from team members, foundation day function and rides through green valleys.

look forward to celebrate many more such anniversaries here in e-Zest being part of it.

e-Zest Solutions at Pune Times Jobfair

e-Zest is performing well despite of global slowdown in software industry due to its high people and process focused approach. To cater to resource requirement gap for incoming projects e-Zest participated in Times Jobfair that has happened this weekend, 14-15 June 2008, at Alpbachat bhavan, Pune.

e-Zest has got fabulous response at the event. Around 3000 fresh IT graduates and post graduates and 1000 IT professionals working on .NET, Java, PHP and other development technologies visited e-Zest’s stall.

The event was for two days starting from 10AM in the morning till 7PM. Professionals from all the places have come for this event. This event is promoted by the national newspaper of India, Times of India. In all 30+ companies participated in the exhibition that was divided in three sections viz IT, ITes and non-IT. e-Zest’s stall was the crowd puller in IT section since it is looked as preferred employer in local market for best talent.

Jagruti, Debanjan, Roselin and event contributors like Vishant, Sandeep, Pankaj, Satish, Amol and Ashish played important role in collection and sorting of resumes at the exhibition venue under immense pressure of flooding crowd.

e-Zest look forward to close most of its development vacancies through this exhibition.