The millennium year 2000 saw dot-com bubble bust. Several companies either shut down their operations or were acquired by their competitors. When the world IT industry was chasing the Y2K deals, around the same time Devendra Deshmukh and four of his friends who just got their degree in engineering launched their own IT Services company e-Zest Solutions. It all started when Deshmukh and his friends, who shared a passion for technology, wanted to do something of their own when they got moved by a book named ‘The Creation of wealth - The Tatas from the 19th to 21st century’ by R M Lala.

e-Zest saw the light of the day in a 12x8 office in Bandra, Mumbai when the friends launched a customer focused and technology-driven company providing product engineering and enterprise software/application development services that help clients in crafting holistic value for their software development efforts. With an uncertain growth, the friends stepped in the shoes of sales representatives and travelled extensively to build relationships with new clients which worthily rewarded the company in the long run. Today, the company specializes in providing cloud computing, enterprise mobility, analytics and UI/UX outsourcing services and serves over 80 satisfied customers worldwide ranging from startups to global 500 business corporations like Volkswagon India, Reliance Industries, Siondo, Emerson Engineering, ESSAR Oil and several others. They have fully functional offices in Pune, Mumbai and Bangalore in India & Detroit in the U.S. and provides services like product engineering, outsourced product development, enterprise application development, custom software development, startup services and web and mobile/iPhone application development through their 350+ professionals on board.

The company focuses on understanding its clients’ needs and delivers IT services and solutions at right value and required speed. “We bagged one of our first projects from Israel in our first year of inception. The project was with regards to voice recognition. We bagged the project and realized that developing world class products is our passion rather than marketing. This project gave us the push and installed confidence in us,” explains Amol Pande, Director & Founder, e-Zest.

Thirteen years in the game and today the company stands high along with Capgemini, Cognizant, Deloitte, Dextra, MarketShare, Wipro, Accenture, FUJISOFT, Hitachi Solutions and other 833 companies as a privilege Advanced Consulting Partner status of AWS (Amazon Web Services). The company offers cloud consulting and development services and with the new Advanced Consulting Partner status that highlights advanced knowledge of e-Zest on AWS and its wide and proven expertise in handling critical cloud projects to maximize scalability, availability and performance. They are conducting joint event with AWS to communicate Cloud – Roadmap offerings for Enterprises & Datacenter transformation case studies with Fortune 500 clients. This shows how confidently e-Zest is playing their cards right in the most emerging market called Cloud and rising as a strong player in the space by deploying their services of cloud application development services, cloud infrastructure provisioning and administration and cloud computing consulting and professional services through different cloud deployment models like Public, Private and Hybrid cloud services. On the cloud computing consulting and professional services front, e-Zest caters to the ISVs and enterprises by providing experienced professionals in the areas of cloud readiness assessment and ROI/TCO calculations, business critical cloud security assessment and solutions, cloud high availability and storage related consulting services and several others.

A global travel services company headquartered in Paris and Minneapolis was looking for a business and technology consulting partner to implement solution that would replace their existing Microsoft Excel based PEM (Price Evaluation Model) with SaaS based delivered solution and wanted to standardize and automate it to meet worldwide strategic business goals of the company. e-Zest with their strong expertise in travel and hospitality domain coupled with business and technology consulting skills provided the company with a highly cost effective technology solution. e-Zest recommended developing user experience exactly like excel sheet based on cloud, so that client can save millions of dollars on training to users in more than 30 countries and achieved this using rich internet technology & strong architectural skills at e-Zest. They delivered projects for half the time & resources over their competition. e-Zest developed a Quote engine solution which is used on the SaaS based delivery model, it is accessed by all the global offices of the company.