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Wednesday, August 30, 2023
With our partnership with RHYM Technologies we expand our footprint in the European Region. RHYM’s “Wheel of Cyber Defense” provides a comprehensive defense approach covering 360° posture assessment including internal and external views, Cyber Risk Quantification, Cyber Threat Intelligence, SecOps, Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service and forensics. This is one of the unique cutting-edge technology collaborations in the industry for creating business resilience for clients with Hybrid DRaaS for On-Premises and Cloud deployments. Clients will be assured of backup and recovery of critical data and software assets due any type of disruptive events including cyberattacks.
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
The publication also showcases an insightful interview of Sudish Kumar - Chief Operating Officer (Sales Operations) outlining the success story of Perpetuuiti and our customers - our journey since inception, product evolution, customer success stories, and key initiatives that have been implemented, besides others.
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
Dun and Bradstreet employed a combination of qualitative and quantitative parameters to analyse various details available to shortlist the companies for this listing/ feature. The featured companies were duly evaluated by an eminent panel of industry leaders and experts at a jury meeting. The featured organizations (Leading SMEs of India 2022) were selected on the basis of multiple factors of excellence, financials, market-share, product/ service capabilities, customer eco-system, among other factors.
The publication also showcases an insightful interview of our Founder & CEO, Rohil Sharma outlining the success story of Perpetuuiti – our achievements, our journey since inception, and key initiatives that have been implemented, besides others.
Monday, December 12, 2022
This new service will be available for their joint Microsoft Azure customers in India. The offering will help both enterprises and Small and Medium Business (SMB) customers to minimize recovery time, data loss, and associated downtime costs. As part of the partnership, Perpetuuiti will provide the Hybrid DRaaS solution, while SoftwareONE will power the exclusive distribution network to enable the service for their joint Azure customers in India. Both the organizations will together facilitate end-to-end services depending on the underlying disaster recovery facilities, infrastructure, and the operations team.
Monday, September 19, 2022
Outlook India magazine has published an insightful interview outlining how Perpetuuiti has helped STC in intelligently automating their business continuity and service availability, delivering a whopping 90% reduction in complaint processing as well as review time.
Wednesday, June 01, 2022
Outlook India magazine has published an insightful article outlining how Perpetuuiti empowers people and businesses alike by delivering the world’s most-comprehensive and urbane automation platforms making work simple and more human. This article has been published in the Independence Day special issue of Outlook India magazine.
Thursday, April 17, 2021
Thursday, April 1, 2021
Perpetuuiti, global leader in disaster recovery and robotic process automation today announced expanded investments in North America with direct availability of their breakthrough Resilience Automation and Intelligent Automation platforms (IT Autonomics and Intelligent OCR & RPA), recognized by Gartner peer reviews with the highest ratings for IT Resilience Automation. Adding Shawn Blevins as Chief Revenue Officer for North America, formerly an executive from SAP, Oracle, Microsoft and Booz Allen Hamilton, Perpetuuiti is now available directly as well as from key consulting partners.
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
The additional capital will help Perpetuuiti accelerate its vision to empower customers to intelligently automate end-to-end business and IT processes – bridging the gap between the front and back office with an AI-powered intelligent enterprise automation platform. The capital will advance the company’s focus on improving human-to-bot collaboration through attended automation, resulting in enhanced customer experiences and increased employee productivity.
Tuesday, August 11, 2020
This article has been published under “The 40 Under 40 Innovators Issue” of the magazine which recognizes executives who have been innovating processes/business models by engaging in more forward-looking ways of thinking and redesigning solutions to disrupt businesses globally. Through this article, Prashant Kakade, Co-founder and Director of Global Delivery, Perpetuuiti shares an insight on how Artificially Intelligent software bots are changing the way people, processes and technology interact for productivity gains. He says, “In this environment, digital workforce from Av3ar™ is arguably more important than ever in driving organizational adaptation and resilience, strengthening Perpetuuiti’s role as a strategic technology partner to its customers”.
Friday, July 03, 2020
Perpetuuiti has been ranked ‘49th’out of 450+ companies participated in the “Dream Companies To Work For’ along with another award for ‘Organization with Innovative HR Practices”. These awards reflect our vision of building a high-trust organization by investing in our people and implementing innovative HR practices that enable competency, development and promote individual aspirations and growth. We want to thank our employees, who have been our greatest strength and without their dedication and commitment, this honor would not have been possible. A special note of appreciation for our HR team who have been instrumental to achieving this milestone. This award was presented by ET Now at the 27th Edition of World HRD Congress event held on February 16th, 2019 in Mumbai. Winners were decided by the panel of eminent leaders from the Industry.
Saturday, Febuary 16, 2019
This award is a benchmark to recognize the most eminent HR professionals for their superlative achievements in the field of Human Resource Development. This award was presented by ET Now at the 27th Edition of World HRD Congress event held on February 16th, 2019 in Mumbai. Winners were decided by the panel of eminent leaders from the Industry.
Saturday, Febuary 16, 2019
Perpetuuiti has been awarded with the CIO Choice 2019 Honor and Recognition for its ‘Business Service Continuity and Availability Management’ solution delivered through its flagship product, Continuity Patrol™. Organized by the Centre of Recognition & Excellence, the CIO Choice 2019 Honor and Recognition is an acknowledged platform amongst the CIO communities where the winners were decided by an advisory panel of imminent CIOs and an independent survey from across the country.
Friday, January 11, 2019
In today’s generation, it is tough to focus on business due to less innovation. This is where Perpetuuiti made its mark by enabling Digital Transformation for companies by building futuristic software products that help transform the way business operate. It is leading Enterprise Software products company with innovative solutions built in accordance with global benchmarks transforming the way businesses operate in the digital age.
FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 2016
Business leaders aiming to establish a digital culture should start small. “Digital enterprise demands different skills, working practices, organizational models and even cultures”. It is relatively easy for the boardroom to move digital transformation up its agenda, but actually delivering it is another matter. To change an organization designed for a structured, process-oriented world to one designed for adaptation, learning and experimentation is very difficult. Some organizations will navigate that change, and others that can't change will become outdated and be replaced.
Friday, August 24, 2018
Possessing a unique combination of proven business knowledge, forward-looking technical knowledge and market vision, Rohil, Founder & CEO of Perpetuuiti has become a thought leader in the technology world by enabling leaner Digital Management to Organizations.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2016
Computers have penetrated deep into our lives, both in commercial sector and also domestic. A major reason behind this phenomenon is since they are very simple to record and store data. Today, almost every business uses computers in its organization and is highly dependent on it. As a matter of fact, computers have become prerequisite in any industry. While they help store data in a very compact size, it also has a disadvantage; losing of the data. Data destruction can be caused by several reasons, despite of even taking upmost care, sometimes.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 2016
After receiving the award, Rohil, CEO at Perpetuuiti commented, “IE20 was the most exciting competition for Perpetuuiti and we are thrilled to receive this huge recognition. This unique opportunity has allowed us to represent Perpetuuition the international stage and develop our global potential. It is really an honour for Perpetuuiti to be positioned amongst India’s top 20 emerging businesses and will lay the foundation for our success in the international market.” “We are also thankful to Mr. Modi as the initiatives taken by him led to IE20 and gave a great platform for start-ups and entrepreneurs like us,” He added.
THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 2016
Bagde is a high-tech industry veteran with more than 17 years' experience has been part of Perpetuuiti's sales team for 4 years and previously held the position of VP - Sales and Strategic Products. After the promotion, he will lead Perpetuuiti's sales team in India and will be responsible for driving sales operations, strategies and training. He will also oversee expansion of the company's business through strategic alliances and partnerships.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 2016
AI and IoT are inseparable. But as the current approaches don’t scale to IoT volumes, the future realization of IoT’s promise is dependent on Machine Learning (ML) and AI to find the patterns, correlations and anomalies that have the potential of enabling improvements in almost every facet of our daily lives.
TUESDAY, MARCH 01, 2016
The ‘Virtual Workforce Solutions’ category recognizes the preferred provider of solutions that have the capability of applying specific technologies to easily and rapidly automate the standardized, day-to-day IT workload related jobs to enable simpler and automated Business Processes
THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 2016
Perpetuuiti multilingual product versions are not anymore unmapped. To foster Innovation and an endeavor to automate end-to-end IT solutions – the company is addressing the pain points of CIOs and IT managers across multiple verticals. The company is to look for as its forte matches ‘Innovation for Tomorrow’.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2015
IBM Global Entrepreneurship Program (GEP) has announced the winners for its SmartCamp Pune edition, which took place last week, and we’re happy to share that Perpetuuiti wins the IBM SmartCamp 2015 Pune edition. The startups were judged by Srikanth Sundarajan, Partner at Helion ventures; Dulles Krishnan, Executive Director-Asia Pacific at IBM Smart Commerce; Aruna Schwartz, Founder of Stelae Technologies and Anoop Mathur, Founder of CIO Angel Network.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2015
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2015
Even though IT companies are increasingly going global, many of them are realizing that ignoring the local flavor can lead to missed business opportunity. Despite smashing down geographical barriers with technology, the universal message does not necessarily resonate well with customers and partners across culture and language.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2015
Video interview of Rohil with the Editor of ChannelWorld.
MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 2015
Perpetuuiti's products, along with their collaterals, have now been translated into local foreign languages to address the needs of key global markets. The translated products will be able to address the specific pain points and local issues of organizations that are perhaps not as comfortable using an English interface.
Perpetuuiti TechnoSoft Inc., a leading IT Service Continuity and Availability Management solutions provider, announced today that it has been identified as a 'Sample Vendor' in two of Gartner's 2015 Hype Cycle reports - 'Business Continuity Management and IT Disaster Recovery Management' and 'Infrastructure Services.' Perpetuuiti has featured in Gartner's Hype Cycle reports for two years consecutively
TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 2015
Perpetuuiti TechnoSoft Inc., a leading business service continuity and availability management solutions provider, today announced the appointment of Robert W Frick to the company's Board of Directors. He currently provides his extensive expertise in finance and business operations to seven companies and serves on a number of public and private boards, including Charles Schwab Bank, Lucas Film Limited and Responsys. His responsibilities will include providing an overall vision and guiding Perpetuuiti in its growth.
TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015
AI has undergone considerable changes over time and latest trends indicate that it is gradually turning into a cost-effective and easy-to-deploy technology. This is evident as Big Data is growing in volume, variety and at an unprecedented speed. It has the potential to offer substantial insight to businesses.
MONDAY, JULY 20, 2015
Singapore-based Perpetuuiti which currently counts Intel Capital as its sole institutional investor has also roped in former Bank of America executive Robert WFrick from BofA as a director on its board, at a time when the company is looking to break into the US and sell its products to large organisations.
THURSDAY, JULY 16, 2015
Rohil: As business continuity evolves, so do the responsibilities and demands on industry personnel. Contrary to the popular belief, most companies and organizations categorize business continuity planning as a risk aversion mechanism or insurance policy. Business continuity planning consists of steps, policies and procedures that are activated once a disaster has occurred. The objective is to recover as quickly as possible to minimize downtime. Having a plan in place saves time, money, and possibly entire company. A business continuity plan will not prevent the earthquake, flood or most other types of disasters from happening. What a tested business continuity plan could do is potentially save thousands, if not millions, of dollars in production losses and reputation of business.
TUESDAY, JUNE 30, 2015
Not surprisingly, organizations have made it a high priority to develop and implement reliable business continuity plans to ensure that IT services always remain up and running. With trends like social networking, mobility and cloud coming into play, the need for business service continuity and availability assurance, and IT disaster recovery is only going to increase further. Business organizations are, therefore, on the lookout for the latest and most effective technologies/ solutions to efficiently manage business service availability and IT disaster recovery.
TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 2015
As companies look to do more while consuming fewer resources, the role of disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity (BC) technologies becomes even more pertinent today. The ability of an organization to recover from a disaster is directly related to the degree of BCP (Business Continuity Planning) that has taken place before the disaster.
TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 2015
Perpetuuiti Technosoft Inc. a leading Business Service Continuity and Availability Management solutions provider, today announced that it has been named “Cool Vendor”, based on the March 26, 2015 report titled “Cool Vendors in Business Continuity Management and IT Disaster Recovery Management” by Roberta J. Witty, John P Morency and Dave Russell at Gartner, Inc
MONDAY, MAY 18, 2015
Perpetuuiti Technosoft announced its partnership with Cyber Innovation Labs (CIL), a premier provider of enterprise-class managed Infrastructure-as-a-Service solutions and professional services, in North America. CIL will deliver Perpetuuiti’s extensive business resiliency and service availability suite to the North American market.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2015
Addressing the crucial need of CCOs, CIOs and CEOs to find the perfect banking technology and provider for their enterprises, CIO Review identifies “20 Most Promising Banking Technology Solution Providers”. A distinguished panel of the industry’s topmost CEOs, CIOs, VCs and analytics including CIO Review’s editorial board securitized the list of companies. The panel recognized Perpetuuiti for this list based on its offerings that address Business Service Availability Assurance, Orchestration and Automation challenges.
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2015
Perpetuuiti TechnoSoft, a leading global Information Technology products company, today announced that the company has been awarded with the CIO Choice 2015 Honor and Recognition for its ‘Business Service Continuity and Availability Management’ solution delivered through its flagship product, Continuity Patrol™. Organized by the Centre of Recognition & Excellence, the CIO Choice 2015 Honor and Recognition is an acknowledged platform amongst the CIO communities where the winners were decided by an advisory panel of imminent CIOs and an independent survey from across the country.
MONDAY, JANUARY 12, 2015
A distinguished panel of the industry’s topmost CEOs, CIOs, VCs and analytics including CIO Review’s editorial board securitized the list of companies. The panel recognized Perpetuuiti for this list based on its offerings that address Business Service Availability Assurance, Orchestration and Automation challenges.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2014
“You will never get the insights for proper Business Continuity Planning until and unless you can monitor the applications in real-time and in an automated manner. Application dependency is a big factor and Perpetuuiti is an innovation leader in automated application dependency mapping,”says Rohil, CEO, Perpetuuiti.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2014
ET Telecom, the Telecom special edition of The Economic Times online has carried an authored article by Mr. Rohil titled- “Prioritizing Service Availability for Telecom Sector” on Friday, December 26, 2014. The article talks about the importance of incorporation of business resiliency and service availability management for the telecom sector. It states how non-availability of services can be a costly affair that leads to frustrated consumers, idle employees, and bad publicity. It further states that it is critical that organizations focus on comprehensive plans capturing detailed process workflows, people’s role and responsibilities, critical data, software and machines.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 2014
Financial Express Online has carried an article titled “Prioritizing business resiliency by businesses in the banking sector” authored by Mr. Rohil. The article talks about the significance of uninterrupted services for financial institutions. It also details the vulnerability of these organizations to IT disruptions and the repercussions of non-availability of services. Furthermore, the article elucidates how can financial institutions ensure business resiliency and service availability
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2014
Perpetuuiti has been featured in The Financial Express today, Monday, December 15, 2014, in a two page story on Express IT Awards titled “Express IT Awards: Raising a toast to technovation”. The second page details the profile of the winners in various categories. Perpetuuiti’s profile has been featured under the Entrepreneurship Award category. It says-“Perpetuuiti is a global software product company in the space of business resiliency and service availability management. Perpetuuiti is focused on developing software products that enable organisational visibility into BCP/IT investments, ensuring business continuity in crisis situations that may cause supply chain interruptions, loss of or damage to critical infrastructure”.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2014
“Perpetuuiti is an Enterprise Software Company focused on building products that address Business Service Availability Assurance, Orchestration and Automation challenges. I am happy to say that within 4 years of its existence, Perpetuuiti has a global presence with offices in USA, India, Singapore and Middle East.” States Rohil, CEO of Perpetuuiti. “We aim to help our clients in providing uninterrupted services by ensuring Business Resiliency and Service Availability in crisis situations like catastrophic events or obvious disasters that may cause supply chain interruptions, loss of or damage to critical IT infrastructure”, further elaborated Rohil.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2014
Perpetuuiti Technosoft announced its partnership with Cyber Innovation Labs (CIL), a premier provider of enterprise-class managed Infrastructure-as-a-Service solutions and professional services, in North America. CIL will deliver Perpetuuiti’s extensive business resiliency and service availability suite to the North American market.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2014
The story includes an exclusive interview of Rohil where he talks about the vitality for software industries to leverage one another’s strengths and build solutions due to emergence of smarter business practices.
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2014
In his authored article titled ‘The Art of Creating Something’, Divyank Shukla, R&D Head, Perpetuuiti details the Seven Steps in Creating Something.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2014
In his authored article tiled ‘Preparing to fight risks’, Rohil, CEO, Perpetuuiti talks about the importance of incorporation of business continuity and disaster recovery strategies into organizations’ IT budgets, given the varied nature of risks faced by companies, technical or otherwise. It elucidates the challenges faced by organizations of not knowing where to begin and when to create or update plans. While organizations incorporate business continuity and disaster recovery strategies into their Information Technology (IT) budgets, the plan should attend to the human and processes side of the business as well.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2014
Perpetuuiti has been mentioned as one of the three enterprise software companies that Intel has recently invested in.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2014
Gartner Inc. has named Perpetuuiti a vendor for ‘Recovery Assurance and Orchestration Automation’ products in Gartner’s ‘Hype Cycle for IT Service Continuity Management, 2014’ Report. The Hype Cycle report is driven by the increased business need for sustainable IT service continuity. The report’s focus is the significant technology and operations evolutions that are driving support for sustainable business resilience.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2014
Business World online has carried an authored article titled, ‘VUCA Spells Doom For Businesses, Boom For BCM’ attributed to Mr. Rohil, CEO, Perpetuuiti. The article talks about how even the most risk-aware organizations are likely to experience low-probability but high-impact events that can fundamentally change businesses and even entire industries. It provides a detailed explanation to the concepts of BCMS and BCP.
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2014
Nirmal Kumar, Head, Delivery and Operations, Perpetuuiti talks about how organizations are increasingly leveraging diverse global virtual teams to build a strong competitive advantage. Nirmal has been quoted saying “It is not possible for growing businesses, intending to expand in various markets, to set-up base in every single country. At the same time hiring local talent – who understands the specific market – is an indispensable strategy to ensure successful expansion. In such a situation, one of the best methods to tap the local talent pool is by establishing virtual teams and connecting them with other global teams to work together”.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 2014
Perpetuuiti has been quoted as one of the 50 iSpirt classified as being in the “adolescent” stage, or as having promising products and customers but not yet at a scale where revenues are predictable. Mr. Rohil, CEO, Perpetuuiti’s business in US market says, “Our US partners have aligned a POC (proof of concept) for a large customer based in Cincinnati.” Further, Perpetuuiti has been mentioned as being one of TCS’ COIN (co-innovation) partners and being sometimes called in for a customer pitch.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 2014
Rohil, CEO and Co-Founder, Perpetuuiti tells CXO Today, “Disaster Recovery (DR) planning and management is seen as an unnecessary baggage by Indian companies even today. However, this is an area companies cannot afford to ignore.”
WEDNESDAY, JULY 02, 2014
Perpetuuiti TechnoSoft, a leading global Information Technology products company, unveils today its newly expanded R&D lab in Pune, giving a major thrust to its research and development capabilities (R&D). The new lab is 20,000 sq.ft. in area and will help Perpetuuiti in its innovation efforts, incubating and developing Business Continuity Management (BCM) and Disaster Recovery (DR) products.”
MONDAY, JUNE 30, 2014
Perpetuuiti TechnoSoft, a leading global Information Technology products company, unveils today its newly expanded R&D lab in Pune, giving a major thrust to its research and development capabilities (R&D). The new lab is 20,000 sq.ft. in area and will help Perpetuuiti in its innovation efforts, incubating and developing Business Continuity Management (BCM) and Disaster Recovery (DR) products.”
MONDAY, JUNE 30, 2014
Rohil, CEO, Perpetuuiti in this article talks about how even the most risk-aware organizations are likely to experience low-probability but high-impact events that can fundamentally change businesses and even entire industries. The article provides a detailed explanation to the concepts of BCMS and BCP. It further highlights the importance of a robust BCM solution and the consequences that enterprises are likely to face due to VUCA (Vulnerability, Uncertainty, Complexity & Ambiguity). The article concludes by saying that the future of BCM/ ITDR lies in automation.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 2014
The article discusses how several of the new ventures are setting apart a considerable portion of their seed capital for investments in research and development in diversified sectors. In this regard, Sundar Raman, CTO, Perpetuuiti says that their company spends up to a quarter of their budget on research and that source applications make collaborative research possible. The article further talks about Perpetuuiti setting up a research lab focused on developing cloud-based applications. It mentions that the company backed by Intel Capital, expects to raise a second round of funding this year
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 2014
Volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity characterize any business environment today. High time Indian enterprises did something about it, says Rohil, CEO, Perpetuuiti.
Volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity characterize any business environment today. High time Indian enterprises did something about it, says Rohil, CEO, Perpetuuiti.
Rohil, CEO, Perpetuuiti quotes that the Modi led BJP win has increased the morale of the general public and corporate alike. He further talks about what corporates are looking for from the government along with the growing need of nurturing upcoming talent. He concludes by talking about building standards in India on Business Continuity and their rapid implementation with the likes of developed nations like USA, UK, UAE and Singapore.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 2014
Rohil, CEO, Perpetuuiti reacts positively to Prasad’s initial comments and quotes that India needs to create an ecosystem that nurtures talent and start-ups in order to produce companies like Microsoft or Facebook.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 2014
Vidur Kohli, Executive Vice President – Continuity Business, Perpetuuiti talks about the role of ethics in promoting oneself at the workplace. He quotes, “Moral ambiguity is difficult because it forces people to take responsibility for their own actions, rather than falling back on convenient rules and customs…”
TUESDAY, MAY 20, 2014
Perpetuuiti positioned as a Leader and a Disruptive Force in midmarket and SMB DRaaS providers from Asia Pacific.
TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2014
Perpetuuiti TechnoSoft is looking to raise up to $20 million (120 crore) in fresh funding, as the Singapore-based product technology company expands its footprint in new geographies.
MONDAY, APRIL 21, 2014
DR is just a box checked for many and merely a happy ivory tower for others. Here’s a Perpetuuiti’s CTO’s view on all those long-due changes that DR landscapes are and should be embracing
TUESDAY, APRIL 09, 2014
Perpetuuiti’s flagship product Continuity Patrol™ has been shortlisted among 50 most innovative products in India by InTech50, a joint initiative by iSPIRT and Terrene Global Leadership Network
TUESDAY, APRIL 09, 2014
Leading provider of training and consulting services – Continuity and Resilience (CORE) has named Mr. Rohil, CEO – Perpetuuiti as ‘BCM Leader of the Year’ in December, 2013.
THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 2014
The annual list of companies is selected by a panel of experts and members of CIO Review’s editorial board to recognize and promote technology entrepreneurship. The panel selected Perpetuuiti for this year’s list based on its offerings that include business continuity planning and disaster recovery software products for enterprises.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2014