“My dream is to create products for the largest
untapped market in the world—India”
Sanjay Mehta is CEO, MAIA Intelligence, a fast-growing company that is into
developing powerful Business Intelligence reporting and analysis products.
T
he Indian market is about application space. And today, I would
a lot of people consuming say I have so far been successful.
technology in small portions. I remember a time in the 90s
But even those add up to when CEOs or MDs of many firms
a lot. Indians surely are users of used to query the need for e-mail in
technology, but we cannot copy what the company. They used to think that
the West does or the way it works. if they could survive and do business
What India needs are technology without using e-mail, so could the
products that are simple to purchase, other employees of the company.
do not cost the earth and have Suddenly, in a decade, we all
relevant features. witnessed how this small application
My dream is to create products called e-mail has transformed the
for this largest untapped market in way we communicate. We anticipate
the world. a similar situation happening with
I had a dream of driving one BI application tools also, which, as
company, which could take up the per my perception, is following a
Sanjay Mehta, CEO,
challenge to create a successful IP trajectory leading to an explosion that
MAIA Intelligence (intellectual property) brand in the may find adoption at a mass level.
software products arena, which is a
less explored area by Indian software As told to:
majors, especially in the enterprise Vandana Sharma
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