Webdunia.com Pvt. Ltd. is an Indian Language Technology products and services company with portals running in 9 Indian Languages. Webdunia is assessed at SEI-CMMI

Capability Maturity Model

The Capability Maturity Model is a development model that was created after study of data collected from organizations that contracted with the U.S. Department of Defense, who funded the research. This model became the foundation from which CMU created the Software Engineering Institute...

 Level 3. Webdunia carries specializations in providing Localization Services, Mobile VAS Content, Language Technology, Enterprise & Web Solutions.

With headquarters at Indore in India, offices in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai and a centre in US, it is a fast growing company with over 400+ employees.

Timeline

• 2000: Founded in India.
• 2001: Received Jasubhai Digit Media Awards for Best Email Service (3rd Rank)
• 2003: Became Mobile content and application providers in Indian Languages on R-world for Reliance Infocomm.
• 2003: Received Microsoft's "Excellence in Localization" award.
• 2004: Became partner of BBC to provide language content
• 2004: Became Certified Brew Developers
• 2005: Achieved CMMI Maturity Level 3 Status
• 2006: Emerged as the first company to deploy WAP portal in Indian Languages
• 2006: Awarded "Best Information Application" by Qualcomm Brew during Qualcomm Brew Conference
• 2008: Became member of prestigious "GALA"
• 2008: Awarded Aksharam award for Outstanding achievement in Language Technology
• 2008: Launched the first Multilingual Blogging and Micro Portal Creation Community Engine "Mywebdunia"
• 2008: Mywebdunia Nominated for Manthan Awards
• 2009: WIOC Lite selected among best IT Innovations Nasscom 2008
• 2010: Webdunia Win Gold Award @ Exchange4Media IDMA 2010
• 2010: Webdunia win Calling All Innovators Award @ Nokia World 2010

Business Practices

Localization

Webdunia Localization services include

• Text Translation
• Software Localization
• Linguistic Review/Testing
• Website Localization

Webdunia's full-time translators and subject matter experts localize the content for the following industries: Consumer Products, Technology, Education, Financial Services, Telco/Mobile Government and Public Sector, Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Automotive.

Mobile Applications

Webdunia provides back-to-back mobile-applications with full product life-cycle support including design, development, testing, porting, vendor-certification and carrier readiness. Webdunia carries expertise in multiple Wireless Platforms and Technologies. The company delivered numerous enterprise and entertainment mobile applications across Genres - Social Networking, LBS, Mobile TV, Instant Messaging, Gaming and Verticals - Media, Entertainment & Publication, Healthcare.

IT Services

Webdunia IT offerings include:

• Portal & Website Development
• Web Application Development
• .Net Migration
• WPF and Silver Light based Websites & Applications
• Mobile Application Development
• Corpus Creation/ Collection
• Language Consultancy
• Content Syndication

Products

Webdunia provides an array of innovative technology products keeping itself updated with the latest trends in the market.

Mobile Technology

WAP	Bollywood/Hollywood, Devotional/Festival Applications, Imagery/Music (3D), Calendar and Slide Shows, Cricket and Many More Branded/Non-Branded Content.
SMS 53434	Pull and Push SMS (Games, Wallpapers, Ringtones, Jokes etc), SMS Subscription Alert (Stock/Cricket Score Update/Shayari/Jokes), Content Categories (News, Fun, Sports, Quotes and Trivia).
Applications	2D/3D Mobile Games, Java ME and BREW, Windows Mobile, iPhone, Java EE and Symbian.

Web Products

CMS (Content Management System)	A thick client window based desktop application supported by assorted web based applications, used for publishing static, dynamic plus multimedia content on portal/website.
WIOC Lite	An Input/Output Component for inputting/editing text in Indian Languages that can be embedded with web based application.
Webdunia Data Converter	A conversion application to convert data from one format to another. It is used to convert Indian Language TTF font data to Unicode & vice versa along with conversion facility for various other data formats like Utf-8, Iscii, and Phonetic.
WET	An Indian Language Phonetic Transliteration engine which can be seamlessly plugged in with various web or mobile applications and is used by Industry stalwarts like Microsoft, Yahoo, Oriental Insurance for their various applications.
TTS	A Font and Language independent Text To Speech Synthesis system in Indian Languages.
Blogging Engine	A powerful, cost-effective and customized Blogging solution, especially tuned for Indian Languages Unicode support.

Multilingual Web Applications

MyWebdunia	A Blogging Engine in Indian languages including English to showcase videos, thoughts, music and photos.
Search	A Search Engine that allows searching lingual data and relevant information from web in 9 Indian Languages.
Language Portals	Indian Language Community Portals.
24 Dunia	A News Aggregator site that aggregates headlines & detailed news from various Indian and International Sources. This site offers News from Business, Sports, Entertainment, Health, National & International.
Games	A multilingual Gaming Portal with assortment of games designed with the real Indian regional aroma.
Dosti	A Social Networking community website in Indian languages and English.
Mail	The first multilingual mailing solution in Indian Languages.
Greetings	A collection of most vibrantly created multilingual e-cards online.
Classifieds	An online classified service that provides its Users a platform to display their various products and services for Sale & Purchase. This property is also in Indian languages and English.
Quiz	A quizzing platform in Indian Languages and English.
Quest	A multilingual Question and Answer based property where Users can ask Questions and the other Users can post their answers to these Questions. Users asking Questions can rate the answers as Best Answers.
Calendar	A free online sharable calendar service to organize personal & professional schedules in seconds.

Processes

Project Management & Quality Practices
Project management is done using Quality Management System styled as "i-PACE" (Integrated Project Analysis, Communication & Execution). "i-PACE" is an end-to-end collaborative Web based project management tool which ensures quality and timely deliveries by providing a continuous monitoring across the lifecycle of the project; it helps in managing Quality, time and communication among stakeholders, in Analysis, Communication and Execution of the project systematically.

Engagement Models
The company offers several engagement models. The engagement models offered for outsourcing are "Project" based and "Time & Material" based. These models can be deployed as offsite, onsite, Dual Site or dedicated offshore development lab.

Technology Relationships

• Microsoft: Webdunia has been the Microsoft Certified Partner since 2003. The relationship further strengthened with Webdunia receiving the Microsoft's award "Excellence in Localization" in 2003.
• BREW Certified Partner
• Member of prestigious "GALA"

Corporate Social Responsibility

Webdunia's Saathiya; "a voluntary group of Webdunia employees", takes initiatives towards socio-economic upliftment of the weaker sections of society. Saathiya team is associated with orphan and old-age homes and visits them regularly. The funds for this are collected via small voluntary donation every month from the employees. Saathiya utilizes this collection by serving these societies with required items like food, utensils, medicines, toys, clothes or any other materialistic things they require. The service usually relates to festive requirements whenever any festival is around. Saathiya committee always aims to increase their social involvement and try to support in many ways like donating blood, celebrating festivals with them.