IceWarp Gunning Towards a Huge Target with a Mission of Growing 4X by 2025

Witnessing the pandemic situation since last year, remote working has been the new normal for a lot of organizations. Though the new work culture has been a blessing in disguise for many companies, but for their privacy, organizations have been looking for safer communication tools for the team to have a seamless workflow. However, enterprises have understood the importance of Hybrid Collaboration and the demand of the new normal, witnessing the second wave for lockdown in the country. There is no surprise that the demand for Video and Team collaboration tools is increasing even more compared to the previous year. And, looking into the unpredictable times, the CIO’s will have to rethink leveraging cost-effective secured solutions for the organizations. 

In an Interaction with Jayanta Ghosh, Editor in Chief of SSI, Mr. Pramod Sharda, CEO – IceWarp India & Middle East,  share his thoughts about how IceWarp helping large organizations to have a secured and connected interface.

How Video and Team collaboration tools will remain CIO’s priority?

Witnessing the current situation of pandemic and its hazardous effect around the world, the priority for all the CIO’s have completely shifted to team collaboration tools, ensuring seamless communication. Various departments of organizations have been focusing at being able to connect without compromising on the productivity. At such situations, tools like video and team collaboration have been playing a very vital role since last year, for the organizations to manage seamless connectivity with the employees and clients. Furthermore, CIO’s have agreed with the importance of these tools, thus the demand of team collaboration tools has witnessed a predominant growth over the years. In current cenario every organization is looking to have the right solution in order to connect,
communicate and collaborate within and outside the ecosystem, and to ensure business continuity, the collaboration tools have continued to remain as an important part of the CIO’s plans.

How is IceWarp helping large organizations to have a secured and connected interface?

We have been empowering large organizations across various verticals like Pharma & Healthcare, BFSI, BPO’s, Retail, Manufacturing, and more, with IceWarp’s all in one E-mail and Collaboration Suite to achieve optimum teamwork. Our Customers are leveraging services like Business Email, TeamChat for collaborative and project teamwork; real-time office document collaboration, online meetings and much more which are currently the need of an hour, because of the current remote working scenarios. But, I need to state that the security threats have been our major concern during the Covid-19 crisis, hence, security is utmost important, and that’s something we at IceWarp truly believe and ensure the organization’s safety and security of data, with critically designed secured system.

How the company has been expanding in the Indian market?

We at IceWarp have witnessed an unprecedented growth in the last 6 years of our existence in the Indian market. Although, we are a Global Brand with our presence across 50+ countries, we had initial challenges to overcome in the Indian market. But, today we are proudly povisioning our services to 1200+ customers across the nation and growing every year in double digits. We have been getting the support from the Industry in terms of accepting our product as the best and only alternative to MS Exchange, MO365 and GSuite and we have been bestowed with awards and accolades too.

IceWarp Presence

Today, globally IceWarp has presence across 50+ countries. In India, we have been able to acquire customers in every vertical but majorly within BFSI, Pharma & Healthcare, Manufacturing & FMCG, BPO’s and Retail. In a short span of 6 years launched in India we are already catering to 1200+ customers today.

How lockdown has acted as a reason for their expansion?

With the lockdown of 2020, we have witnessed an undoubted increase in demand for our solution tools. Though, everyone was not prepared with technology solutions when the lockdown was announced earlier, and has brought unprecedented challenges initially. Most of the organizations were concerned about the teams working and how to be on the same page. The pandemic has triggered the need of upgraded remote working culture and many businesses have revised their IT strategies and growing need for employees to communicate without interruption to boost the demand for team collaboration solutions to efficiently carry out team meetings and conferences.

Also, IceWarp have witnessed a growth of collaboration solution by 60% among its new as well and existing customers. Our company has witnessed 2-way growth – one, where existing customers who were using plain vanilla email adopted Collaborative Platform. Second, new customers looked for a cost-effective alternative to solution providers like GSuite, MO365 and chose IceWarp as their preferred Solution provider for Business Mailing and Collaboration.

What are their future plans

We are very much focused at our future plans. We have experienced that India has a huge potential and has a big market. Currently we are expanding our teams, when organizations are showing the pink slip to their employees. The demand for our solution requires a bigger team to hit the market with all thrust. We have already been working on our third site at a local datacenter in India for creating another cloud site. And we are further gunning towards a huge target with a mission of growing 4X by 2025.