572572020, HOL, PeopleLink, Zoho among *0 companies in race to develop made-r-Ingia Zoom rval- The Economie Times EcoxowicTimes Benchnarts > Stok Sonar> Sanh Sala natin Tp Sie Se A, Nity —cxoseo Top cromth See ath wacom rac Ba toe 903925 27.00 ioe RiguorPmon ro HCL, PeopleLink, Zoho among 10 companies in race to develop made-in-India Zoom rival New Delhi: HCL Technologies, home-grown cloud services fim Zoho Corp, and Hyberabad-based PeopleLink are among the ten companies selected by the government in the frst round to develop a made-in-India video conferencing solution in India, These companies are expected to develop a prototype for the solution that will aim to be at par with the global products such as Zoom. These companies willbe given a grant of Rs 5 lakh each to buld the prototype, a government official told ET. In the second round, three out ofthese ten will be asked to build the complete solution and will be given Rs 20 lakh each. The winning one will get to deploy the solution for the ‘contral and state government, the official added, RELATED COMPANIES ‘Avia Telecom, CyberHorizon Corp, Darsh, Instrive Soflabs, PeopleLink Unified Communications and Data Ingenious are among the other shortlists as per a istreviewed HEL Teen by ET. Jaipur’s Data Ingenious has been credited with creating the first inguistic emall ‘access and instant messanger solution in 19 languages including Cyrille, Arable, Thai, Big Changs: Mandarin, Korean along with 15 Indian languages. The endef ear Pane: Allyournwad knee Ajay Data, chief of the Data group said that India doesn't have many software products which can compete globally even though there ‘are many service companies which have become vary popular. “There are many advantages of having an Indian VC product, one is thatthe solution can be in all Incian languages, and it can be locally hosted. This is important since when video is recorded say for legal purposes, it should be stored in India and the encryplion key should {also be available in india, This is not possible with foreign VC tools.” Sarv Webs also from Jaipur, Soulpage IT Solutions, Techgentsia Software Technologies and VaC ate also part of the ten company ist. ‘Aer the third round, the best solution will get a contract to deploy i for use by Government of India and state government entities for a period of four years and wil also be given Rs 1 crore inthe fist year and an additional Rs 10 lakh per year for three years afte the first year for operations and maintenance of the solution for the government. (his story has not bean edited by ‘econamictmes,com and is auto-generated from a ‘Smdoated feed we subscribe fo), itps:economictmas indiatimes. comitechvinteretincl-peoplalink-zoho-among-t0.cossn.zoomsivabrace/printartel/7$955328.cms 12572572020, HOL, PeopleLink, Zoho among *0 companies in race to develop made-r-Ingia Zoom rval- The Economie Times ‘Stay ontop of business news with The Economie Times App. Download it Now! itps:economictmas indiatimes. comitechvinteretincl-peoplalink-zoho-among-t0.cossn.z0omsivabrace/printartel/75955328.cms 2