Emantras
Emantras is a global digital education company founded in 2000 that is headquartered in Fremont, California. Emantras have development centers in Chennai and Gurgaon, India, and a widespread presence across the globe. Emantras provides training, education and work flow solutions worldwide for Fortune 500 corporations, academic institutions, publishers and everywhere in between.
Growth in Recent Years
Emantras Interactive Technologies started as a small web development company focused on using Macromedia Flash to educate. Emantras has since expanded services across multiple domains within e-learning and digital media. Today Emantras is a comprehensive digital education and performance enhancement company addressing the educational and training needs of institutions and enterprises globally. As a part of its continuous expansion, Emantras currently runs its Business operations across the globe in: Atlanta, GA, Los Angeles, CA, Philadelphia, PA, and Ridgewood, NJ in the US, with additional offices in France.
In 2008, Emantras expanded its services to the next level primarily focusing on developing solutions for the "MEDIA" generation.
Timeline
2000 - Company founded in 2000 by Sesh Kumar, who currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the company. Emantras was initially started as a seven member company delivering services in web development and related areas
2001 - With a team of 20 people, Emantras emerged as a complete web solutions company with new customers, delivering websites in Flash, web applications, presentations and e-commerce applications.
2002 - Continuous growth and expansion of services in new areas resulted in growth in team size to 50. In 2002 Emantras became a total IT solution company delivering services in multiple areas such as Software development, Web Maintenance, Hosting and Search Engine Optimization.
2003 - saw a quick functional growth and diversification in the services offered. Emantras emerged delivering comprehensive e-learning related services such as custom courseware, 2D/3D animations, LMS integration, and training manuals.
2004 - Became a global company with world wide head quarters in Fremont, CA. Expanded operations in Europe A complete Digital Education company providing elearning services across varied industry verticals such as k- 12 and Higher Ed, Healthcare and Pharma and Corporate and Enterprise. Achieved the ISO 9001:2000 Certification for Quality Management System. Established new development centre in Chennai, India
2005 - A 200 member company. New customers including fortune 500 companies. R&D on product development. Became content partner for Angel Learning.
2006 - Among the first 100 companies to be certified for ISO 27001:2005 (information security standards). Introduced products such as DCE, MobLs. R&D on mobile learning and game based learning. Successful partnership with Adobe, Saba and Blackboard
2007 - Emerged as a company specializing in content creation and technology enablement services. Continuous growth, 350+ Employees, 100+ global client list, including Fortune 500 companies Established second development centre in Chennai, India Established a learning & media lab focusing on research & development of various methods to make learning though digital medium most effective. Introduced products like HaLo, REED. Expansion of services into high end game based learning On the road to CMMI level three.
2008 - Emantras diversified a little further by launching a new business unit in Gurgaon, India called Mlab. Mlab is the specialty media division of Emantras with an expertise in animation, VFX, user design and gaming. Mlab produced two short movies- Music Binds all and Curios Todd, which were well received and screened in prestigious festivals like IIF-la and Annecy, France.
2009 â Mindwire - an iPhone application developed by emantras to facilitate learning through subscribed stack cards/quizzes.
Key industries
Emantras has aligned its business across verticals and now handles K12, Higher Ed & Career College, Publishing, Enterprise & Healthcare as of now, with clients which include Pearson Education, McGraw Hll, Cengage learning, Lufthansa, IKEA, Grundfos, Danfos, Infosys, Toyota, Saint Gobain etc.
References
Emantras and ACU to deliver Mobile learning-ACU is Abilene Christian University, Checkpoint e-learning website, article dated October, 2008.
IKEA awards two year contract to Emantras -Newswire, Sept 23, 2008 (Emantras press release)
New dimensions with Emantras integration-press release, March 1, 2007, Angel Learning corporate website
External links
Official website :Emantras.com, MLab Emantras, Vibrantribes
iPhone Apps: