Entrepreneur Year Book 2012 > Mobile City > LeewayHertz
LeewayHertz
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ABOUT US:
LeewayHertz designs and develops iPhone, iPad and Android apps for enterprises. Their team has decades of combined experience in creating apps for use within enterprises. Their approach focuses on achieving an optimal user experience while accomplishing the business objectives of their customers. This approach helps them create engaging, highly intuitive, yet functional apps. LeewayHertz has already delivered more than 200 enterprise-grade apps for Fortune 500 companies including Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, Astellas Pharma and many more. They have delivered apps for improving sales team collaboration & efficiency, building new revenue channels on mobile, and providing various business tool kits on the mobile platform.
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FOUNDED:
2007
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KEY PERSON:
Akash Takyar
CEO and Founder
Akash Takyar founded LeewayHertz Technologies. Under his leadership LeewayHertz has grown quickly; attracting world-class talent to the company. His mastery of usability, interface design, and system architecture has motivated the company to create aesthetically beautiful,useful and highly functional applications. Akash has a Master’s Degree in Computer Applications from Indraprastha University. He has also been awarded the prestigious Indira Gandhi Priyadarshini Award in 2008 as well as been nominated for Most Popular Entrepreneur by Sun Microsystems Sun Startup Essentials in 2009.
EMPLOYEE COUNT: 120
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CUSTOMER PROFILE:
The company is 100% referable with their clients. Their clients include:
INVESTORS:
Self funded. No investment.
COMPETITORS:
Sapient Nitro
WEBSITE:
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SOLUTIONS:
LeewayHertz’s world-class development teams deliver quality app solutions by harnessing the latest technology and features of today's smartphones and tablet devices. The company understands that mobile apps often require back-end solutions extending deep into one’s existing infrastructure. They work seamlessly with organizations to develop the right solution for their needs.
REVENUE MODEL:
They work on fixed bid basis.Typically their solutions are customized to enterprise needs depending on the requirements.
WHAT NEXT?
LeewayHertz is already expanding to UK and Canada. In future, they plan on opening a LeewayHertz Career Development Center to teach mobile app design and development.
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DIFFERENTIATING FACTORS:
LeewayHertz with its team has had the opportunity to work on awide spectrum of projects, gaining valuable experience in the mobile app domain. Their customers feel that they create apps with amazing user interfaces (UI). They have designed, developed and delivered enterprise-grade apps for Fortune 500 companies. LeewayHertz utilizes a process to build apps that is unique to the industry. First, LeewayHertz interviews all stakeholders for each project to discover the total objectives for a given app concept. Next, they discover all technical requirements, such as the existing infrastructure the app has to interact with. Then, before theywrite a single line of code, they design each and every screen of the app, with intense feedback from their client. Once their client is completely satisfied with the screen designs, they create iterative test releases of the app by implementing feedback. By focusing on the user experience, their approach helps them create engaging, highly intuitive, yet functional apps for less time and cost than their competitors.
MAJOR MILESTONES:
LeewayHertz has created a very strong portfoliowith themobile apps they have designed and developed for enterprises.Their customers include some of theworld's biggest brands, including several Fortune 500 companies.
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