Fulcrum and Widgr partners to Develop Marketplace Platform

By siliconindia   |   Monday, 18 July 2011, 23:58 IST   |    1 Comments
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Fulcrum and Widgr partners to Develop Marketplace Platform
Bangalore: Fulcrum and Widgr B.V, entered into strategic partnership to develop and support Widgr Marketplace platform. The partnership encompasses a wide range of business understanding in Software development, maintenance and IT enabled services needs of Widgr Marketplace Platform. Fulcrum will support Widgr on development, maintenance and support of its innovative global, cross brand, cross technology marketplace for embedded software solutions targeted at enterprises. Headquartered in the Netherlands, leader in community-based Marketplace for widgets, Widgr is a unique solution discovery platform for enterprises, which was co-founded by Harmen van der Kooij and Dennis Rot. The unique feature of the marketplace is the ability to do a live preview of published solutions on the leading enterprise web platforms. It aims to provide enterprises with a clear and transparent overview of re-usable widgets for different platforms and technology stacks. It emphasis on building high quality, standards-based, enterprise-ready widgets that can be sold to multiple customers and which will get better solutions, quicker and cheaper. Widgr and Fulcrum Product Engineering team will accelerate the public beta release of Widgr Marketplace. "Widgr has a strong experience in enterprise solutions and developed a value added marketplace to bring the solutions and enterprise together", says Dhana Kumarasamy, Executive Vice President, Technology and Global Delivery, Fulcrum. Incorporated in 1999, Fulcrum Worldwide has worked with its clients to help them become stronger, more efficient and much agile. Headquartered in NJ, U.S. and with global delivery centers in Reading U.K., Mumbai and Pune, India; the company builds long term partnerships with its customers by providing Portal/Architecture assessments, Framework-based solutions, Middleware integrations, Cloud-based services, Digital development, real time analytics, ECM, CRM and many more. They have delivered more than 50 enterprise wide portals in Insurance, Manufacturing, Education, Media and Life Sciences industries. The company is a certified CMMI organization with a metrics driven culture and is ranked among top 100 companies by Great Place to Work for 2011, 15th Best IT employer in India by IDC Data Quest, 2008 and Fastest Growing Private Organization by INC in 2008/09. "Fulcrum is uniquely positioned to support end to end cross technology web platform infrastructure, software development and support needs of Widgr Marketplace", says Kooji.