Polaris Chairman and Founder Profile: Arun Jain

Arun Jain

Arun Jain Chairman, Managing Director and CEO of Polaris Software Lab Ltd., is the man behind the $180 million company and one of the top 10 global companies in the IT industry today.

Arun founded Polaris in 1993 with a meager sum of Rs. 10000. Today at the age of 44 he has a debt free and cash rich company, with cash reserves of over $20 million. Through his leadership the company has grown to over 5220 professionals and is a leading provider of comprehensive products and solution offerings for the Banking & Financial Services industry.

Arun has a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Delhi College of Engineering.

1983 Arun Jain starts IIS
1986 Nucleus Software Workshop Pvt. Ltd Chennai
. First outsourcing relationshiip started
1993 Polaris Software Lab Ltd Incorporated
1995 Quality processes aligned to SEI CMM Level 3
1997 First Offshore Development Center commissioned for Citibank, LA
. Wholly-owned subsidiaries formed in US and Singapore
1998 Wholly-owned Subsidiary in UK
. Quality Processes aligned to SEI CMM Level 4
. Quality Processes ISO 9001 Certified
. Polaris Retail Infotech Ltd. formed in Chennai
1999 Polaris goes public and is listed in the major stock exchanges.
First ATM Development Lab, First Secure Lab.
2000 State of the Art Development Facility operational at Chennai, India
. Wholly-owned subsidiary in Germany
2001 Wholly-owned subsidiaries in Switzerland and Ireland
. Polaris becomes the World’s First CMMi Level 5 Company
Commences operations in Japan and HongKong
2002 Polaris among top 25 employers in India
. Business Continuity Center in Singapore operational
. Merger with Orbitech
2004 BS7799 Certified

IT Services

POLARIS looks at your processes and applications together in the same “layer” so that you get the combined power of Products, IT Services and BPO. Our service offerings inlcude:

Outsourced Application Services
Custom Application Development
Application Maintenance
Application Re-engineering
Independent Testing and Validation
Application Portfolio Management
Specialized Offerings

Supply Chain Management (SCM)
Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing
Systems Integration Strategic Technology and Architecture Consulting

Consulting Services

Outsourcing feasibility analysis
Process consulting
Architecture Consulting
Cost of Quality
Business Consulting

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