Evident Software Establishes an Engineering Centre of Excellence in Bangalore to Meet Growing Market Needs

Hires Former Head of OracleDirect in India, Chandrasekar Krishnamurthy, to Lead Evident Software India


BANGALORE, India, March 14, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- Evident Software is pleased to announce today the establishment of Engineering Centres of Excellence in Bangalore, India and Bloomfield, NJ. The Bangalore Engineering Centre will focus on the architecture, design and development of the scalable data warehousing, reporting and analytics modules for the Evident Enterprise platform.

To manage the Evident India operation, Evident Software has hired Chandrasekar Krishnamurthy, the former Director of OracleDirect in Bangalore, as the Managing Director of Evident India and as a member of the Evident Software India Board of Directors. With Chandrasekar's extensive experience in database systems, object architectures, and enterprise applications, he will hire a number of Engineers to staff the new Engineering Centre of Excellence in Bangalore.

"We are delighted to have attracted the talent and leadership of Chandra to our Engineering and Senior Management Team," said Gerry Coady, executive vice president and CTO of Evident Software. "I look forward to Chandra building a high quality Engineering Centre of Excellence in Bangalore that collaborates and innovates with our team in Bloomfield, N.J."

As the leader of the OracleDirect team for Oracle India, Chandra and his team supplied software solutions to support the Oracle North American sales team. Prior to this role, Chandra was a senior software development manager for the Oracle eBusiness Platform group. Before joining Oracle, Chandra held numerous technical, consulting and managerial roles with several companies, including Wipro, Fujitsu, Sierra Atlantic and others.

Chandra has a B.E. (Hons.) Mechanical from Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani; and a Post Graduate Diploma in Software Enterprise Management, at Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He is also a PMI certified Project Manager (PMP) from Project Management Institute, Pittsburgh, USA.

About Evident Software

Evident Software provides Fortune 1000 IT organizations and global outsourcers with the facts and information they need to transform IT into a driver of business process efficiency and growth. Evident's solutions integrate with IT operations and IT service management tools to improve asset inventory accuracy, maintain visibility into shared and virtual infrastructures, and enable cost recovery or service pricing practices. Evident's global reach and patented technology is used by some of the world's largest IT organizations, including IBM, Fidelity Investments, and British Telecommunications, to reduce their annual IT operation spend by 3-5%, mitigate risk, and generate a more collaborative business to IT dialog.

For more information on career opportunities at Evident Software, visit us on the web at www.evidentsoftware.com/company/careers.aspx



            

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