The Dot Com era set the tone of leveraging the best of technologies to develop rich, user-friendly, and effective desktop applications that work offline and run off the Web browser. Helping users to spruce up their business environment through rich, easy to use, easy to access, new generation Rich Desktop Applications (RDAs), Gautam Goradia, having over 25 years of international business experience, founded Hayagriva Software (P) Ltd. in 2001.

Gautam, who is also the Chief Managing Director (CMD) of the company, says, “We’ve developed rich desktop applications that allow PC users easily organize and manage their information assets, resulting in better asset utilization to improve their performance, and accelerate their business productivity. Each of our products offer domain based utility value to the users, using the underlying philosophy of PIM (Personal Information Management). We’ve created PIM products in the areas of digital assets management, education, and entertainment.”

Explaining the objective of the products, Gautam says, “Our products will enhance the productivity of a computer user and improve the way a user works, learns, or seeks entertainment.” The company plans to launch its first product YO PEDIA by the middle of this year. YO PEDIA allows users access and manage everything they do on the Internet and desktop through one convenient window. From individual PC users to large organizations, everyone relies heavily on organizing through the folder hierarchy system that is very resource consuming, which unfortunately does not help the user ‘locate’ the item he or she is looking for. Gautam says, “YO PEDIA takes away the user’s drudgery of folder management, as the product requires just one YO PEDIA folder to manage everything on the computer. Yet, YO PEDIA’s smart ‘locating’ mechanisms will help the user quickly locate what he or she is looking for. Also, YO PEDIA users will be able to perform routine tasks like creating a file with just ‘one click’.

The company’s roadmap includes the development of an enterprise version as an immediate second step to the initial professional edition of YO PEDIA. Gautam says, “YO PEDIA design concepts that are applied in the context of enterprise search, document management, and enterprise social networking, offer many exciting possibilities, and the opportunity to capitalize on a rapidly growing market for solutions like Microsoft SharePoint or light weight alternatives like Google Sites.”

Having a strength of 20 people in the technical team, Hayagriva has received feedback from early adopters, which suggest that the initial professional edition version of the product is fairly mature, and now the company plans to present this product to key influencers worldwide for feedback, and as part of its test marketing strategy.