Planetasia expands range of Internet solutions

By K.Satyamurty

BANGALORE, FEB. 1. The Bangalore-based global Internet Professional Services (IPS) company Planetasia, has expanded its services. These now cover Web Strategy Consulting, B2B and B2C commerce solutions, Portals, Knowledge Management Solutions, content search, legacy to Web conversions and audience development and personalisation services.

Mr. Anand Sudarshan, co-CEO of Planetasia told this Correspondent that the range of Planetasia's Internet solutions were to help either start-ups or established dot.coms become business successes. In addition, "brick-and-mortar" enterprises were enabled to cope with the online era.

He said Planetasia's latest offering was "CoreDias version 1.7", a content aggregation platform which facilitated extraction of information from disparate data sources on the Web. It was targetted at global online services, portals and content driven e-commerce applications.

The CoreDias platform was useful to portals that required large volume content additions on a regular basis, Mr. Sudarshan said. It automated the content gathering process and could be plugged in with existing content management tools. The platform could form the backbone of all B2C e-tailing and B2B catalogue driven services by automating the tasks of rule-based data extracting and catalogue data aggregation. For example, for an e-tailer offering comparison shopping, the platform could be used to gather product information from various sites, based on defined criteria, which could be processed for comparisons.

Mr. Sudarshan said CoreDias was built using Java and XML, and included a core engine and the extraction agent. It was an application of XML that was specifically designed to facilitate navigation through websites and extract data. This information was collected in a structured XML format document or stored in the local database for easy querying and retrieval of data, facilitating faster processing. CoreDias highlights included support for higher security features.

A venture funded by Chase Capital Partners and ICICI Ventures, Planetasia provided Internet solutions to over 150 clients, Mr. Sudarshan said. The company worked closely with world leaders in technology, a partnership that brought its clients the best of solutions. Planetasia believed that the Web was a lifetime engagement for clients, and it built skills and competencies to partner clients through the entire life cycle of Web solutions.

A new development of Planetasia was architecting the content applications for DotEx Plaza, the IT arm of the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) and a joint venture with i-flex solutions Ltd., a leader in e-enabling global financial services. DotEx created quality platforms for providers of financial services and to their investors.

The scope of Planetasia's work in this connection included integration of content from various financial news and research companies, along with design, development and implementation of other Web applications in DotEx Plaza. Planetsia's solutions had helped DotEx offer varied features such as price stickers, charts and indicator tables, market commentary and news, research information and securities regulations. The solutions also included a customised portfolio manager, stock tickers, SMS alerts and games that familiarised investors with the working of the stock market. A key feature was personalisation, with a user being able to customise the content and services offered.

Planetasia is supported by a 600 member team, and has strategic alliances with the world's leading platform players such as Ariba, Vignette, Sun, Intel, and technology providers such as BEA, Bowstreet, IBM, iPlanet, Microsoft and Oracle.

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