Infogrid Pacific
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Infogrid Pacific is a Singapore based company, with offices in Pune (India), London (UK), and Auckland (NZ). Infogrid Pacific was founded in 2004 by Richard Pipe, Deepak Chandran, Duming D'Souza and Joseph Yeo after leaving DX Technologies Pvt. Ltd, in order to develop and sell new generation Web Services based content management and digital publishing technology and solutions.
Richard Pipe along with the core team founded innovative publisher solutions provider Versaware (India) Pvt. Ltd. in May 1999, as the production and technology development operation for early e-book mover and shaker Versaware Inc. (Delaware). Notable was the deal to digitize the entire backlist of UK publisher Taylor and Francis. Versaware Inc. went into liquidation in 2002, and Versaware India survived through a voluntary liquidation. and continued to grow after a reorganization to DX Technologies Pvt. Ltd. with a solid order book, substantially ongoing work with Tayor and Francis and other large academic publishers. It was sold in 2002/3 to Singapore based Isoftel (later renamed 1st Software Corp. Ltd). It was again sold to Benchmark Holding, an Australian based company.
In 2005 Infogrid Pacific released IGP:ECMS Solutions, which was quickly followed by a significant set of product updates in 2006. The application is a suite of Service Oriented (SOA) solutions built on an Open Source framework and designed to provide a high quality, affordable, content management solution, to the SME/SMB market, particularly within developing countries.
In March 2007 Infogrid Pacific capitalized on the early experience in e-book development and moved aggressively into developing multi-format Online digital XML authoring systems with a special product release named IGP:PublisherECMS. This is optimized for complete content life-cycle management through extension service modules IGP:FLIP (Front List Interactive Processing) including authoring, editing and instant generation of output formats for print PDF using Prince_XML as the prime rendering engine, e-books - (EPUB, Mobipocket, MS Reader, eReader, plus special packaging for CD-ROM/DVD release and SCORM learning objects.
In December 2008 Infogrid Pacific released AZARDI, an open source ePub format Reader with built in file editing functions to allow non-DRM'ed files to be opened, edited and corrrectly repackaged. This was followed closely by the free, but closed source eScape, a stand-alone application for Windows and Linux, that allows the creation of ePubs from Open Office Documents exported to XHTML.
As of March 2009 Infogrid Pacific has AbOUT 180 employees, 40 in core application development and support, 140 in specialist digital production services, with director level sales operations in Auckland, London, Singapore and Pune.
Infogrid Pacific license their applications directly to end-users and through a reseller network.
See also
- EPUB
- e-book format comparisons
- Enterprise Content Management
- Web to Print