think3 starts commercial operations in India

think3 Inc., Italy based pioneer in providing solutions for product development and innovation worldwide is commencing commercial operations in India. To strengthen its reach and network in India, the company has appointed Adroitec as its National Distributor and entered into a co-promotion partnership with Hewlett Packard India. The company is looking to seal a slew of partnerships with a host of VARs (value added re-sellers) as well over the next few months. The company has since hired a dedicated direct sales and marketing team of twelve highly experienced professionals across India. The company is targeting manufacturing, engineering, and education verticals, which it sees as replete with immense potential.

According to Tom Davis, Director–International Sales, think3 Inc., “think3 is aggressively looking to establish a foothold in India after its success in Italian, Japanese & European markets. The exponential growth in the manufacturing, engineering and education verticals presents an immense opportunity before us, which we would like to leverage and tap into. India is a key market for think3 globally and our solutions in the areas of Industrial Design, Product Design, Tool Design and PLM offer an end to end solution for this market. In fact, in that sense think3’s entry will impact the Indian market more by catalyzing increased world-class product development and innovation at these companies. Over the next 3 years we see India emerging as among the Top 3 market for think3 globally.”

Sivaram Narjala, Managing Director, think3 India, said, “Our existing R&D/support presence in India coupled with think3’s global expertise presents a formidable combination as we enter the Indian market since we are building on a firm base.”

Commenting on the partnership, Saroop Chand, Adroitec, said, “We find that the technology environment provided by think3 is world class and this is a strong value proposition to go back to our customers. We see tremendous traction in the market that think3 plays in and are confident of the capability think3’s technology has in addressing the needs of the Indian market. The think3 product line fits well into our overall company philosophy and as such we will be dedicating a large sales team for this. We are delighted to partner think3 and look forward to growing together in India.”



According to Rajnish Gupta, Country Manager - Commercial Desktops & Workstations, Personal Systems Group, HP India, “HP intends to capture the domestic workstation audience from the manufacturing, telecommunications, media, life science divisions, architecture, engineering and financial & educational institutions. We believe that with think3’s technology in HP workstations, our customers will benefit immensely as the combination will allow designers and engineers to seamlessly transition from 2D to 3D technology environments. This association will help us to broaden our offering to customers in the country.” HP Workstations lead the industry with increased power, performance and manageability. They are powering technological advances from automotive, aerospace and electronic design to animation and computer graphics with breakthrough performance and seamless compatibility.

About Adroitec: Adroitec Information Systems Limited formerly HOPE Consulting Inc. with a team of dedicated professionals offer end-to-end CAD solutions to manufacturing companies in India and is an ISO 9001 Certified Global Consultancy and Services Company. Adroitec drives to stay at the forefront of technology.

About Hewlett Packard: HP focuses on simplifying technology experiences for all of its customers – from individual consumers to the largest businesses. With a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure, HP is among the world’s largest IT companies, with revenues totaling $97.1 billion for the four fiscal quarters ended April 30, 2007. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at www.hp.com.

About think3: think3 has been operating in the ICT sector for over 25 years providing technology that links three separate design areas-concept, its’ development and finished product. This way, think3 enables thousands of its customers to innovate and rise to the challenges of global markets. The integration of processes helps accelerate time-to-market besides reducing cost. think3 counts among its customers some of the most significant enterprises in the industrial space such as Alessi, Honda & BMW. With offices across Europe and Asia and a network of VARs, think3 is present in most global markets. For details visit http://www.think3.com
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