Systems Integration Asia – April-May 2018

PROFILE

Bengaluru Firm Making it Big, Building AV/ICT

Architecture for Almost Every Space

'AVID' Technology Practitioners

Since the earliest mes in the audio visual in India, there had been some amazing

stories of success, inspiring models of entrepreneurism, and a prideful number of

rewarding recognions. However, here is a story that 'integrates' all these factors

so seamlessly, and 'distributes' the joys of proceeds to all its stakeholders, as it

grows from simple to sublime status in relavely no me.

AV Integraon and Distribuon (India) Private Limited – AVID, as they are fondly

called – appear prey much true to their name, as it all came to manifest on the big

stage when it celebrated its 10th Anniversary recently in Bengaluru. Taka a peep

into what makes them so.

In the current days of complex currents characterizing every day
challenge, one hardly needs to be told about how difficult it is to
ideate a start-up, nourish it by capitalzing opportunies, catalyze it
with spirited guidance and strong back-up, and lead it to fruion on
comparavely faster rate than the most inspiring competors
around.

Bengaluru-headquartered AV Integraon and Distribuon (India)
Private Limited is one stakes its claim to be one, quite AVIDly!
Consider this:

Ÿ An AV enterprise (the only so far) that has won as many as 30+
Awards and recognions – both on the naonal and internaonal
plaorms – within ten years of its incepon

Ÿ A company that has an install base of over 6000, with 1800+
customers being served through 200 skilled personnel

Ÿ A company that is the industry's first to have a 1800 toll free
number with a Ticket-based Call and Incident-based Support
Helpdesk. The ckeng system is a device-independent tool and
operates across various plaorms of mobility, telephony and
eMail.

Ÿ An AV enterprise that has a pan-India office presence and pan-
Asia foot print of presgious projects

Ÿ An AV enterprise that shot up into the league of 100 SMEs within
eight years of its business journey

That is, probably, suffice to vouch for its impressive march unto

excellence. That is AVID.

Founded in 2008 by Kaushik Mukhopadhyay – of IAV fame – along

with his wife Mahua, AVID India is perhaps the most award winning

AV Systems Integrator in Asia with numerous flagship projects to its

credit in the last 10 years of its existence.

By the me the Mukhopadhyays were contemplang seng up a

company of AVID's nature, Kaushik had already travelled a

substanal distance of entrepreneurship with IAV. Why did he, or

they need to set-up one more?

“In the days of increasing complexity in maintaining an AV

infrastructure, there is need for specialized services in the area that

forms the base plaorm for all AV infrastructure outsourcing,” says

Kaushik. “With sophiscated equipment and system soluons

coming into easy access, IT and Facility Managers of business firms

have realized that they needed to provide add-on and value-added

services that are "over and above" the basic services they normally

provide to their users,” he explains the reasoning. “AVID has taken

this service very seriously and began invesng heavily in seng up a

robust infrastructure in place.”

According to him, project-based recruitment soluons offer an

outsourced approach to opmise clients' talent acquision and

AVID Bengaluru Office

Managing Director & CEO