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Azuga Celebrates 1000th Customer Milestone; Expands Engineering and Sales Operations in Bangalore
BANGALORE, April 13, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
The Disruptive Cloud-based Connected Vehicle Product Company Continues its Momentum
With a Hiring Plan for 600 People in a New Bangalore Facility in the Next 12 Months
Azuga [http://azuga.com ], the innovative cloud-based, rewards-driven, connected fleet
and driver behavior solution, announced its 1,000-customer milestone. Commercial fleets
both large and small, across all industries are benefiting from Azuga Fleet's
comprehensive social telematics
[http://www.slideshare.net/Azuga_GPS/azuga-social-telematics-1?qid c2ce48-51ed-4eba-b840-a16a3112f2b6&v=qf1&b=&from_search=1 ]
offering. Azuga began Q1 2015 with several large
fleet deployments, each with more than 2,000 vehicles, a testament to the breadth of its
offering, and the appeal of enterprise fleet managers to driver-centric, rewards-driven
solutions. Azuga also announced general availability of its Fleet product for the Indian
market.
In addition, Azuga announced the availability of its Azuga Insight product for road
usage charging in the state of Oregon. Faced with declining fuel tax revenues due to
increases in fuel efficiency of gasoline powered vehicles coupled with a higher population
of hybrid and electric vehicles, states in the USA are in various stages of implementation
to get a fair share of tax based on miles driven to help them maintain public roads and
bridges.
To support this rapid growth in products and services, Azuga announced that it has
moved to a brand new facility in Bangalore, India and has ramped up hiring to bring in 600
new team members in the next twelve months.
"The growth of Azuga's Bangalore facility is a testament to the ingenuity of the
talent here to completely execute a product strategy and follow that up with end-to-end
marketing and sales execution into the US and Canadian markets," said Ananth Rani,
Co-Founder and President of Azuga. "End-to-end sales execution has been so impactful, that
some of our team members have increased their salaries by over 800% in one year. Unlike
other Silicon Valley companies that execute product work based on strategy and guidance
from US management, Azuga Bangalore has inverted the model and has become the center of
the universe for all Azuga operations. Highly empowered, self-organizing teams in a flat
structure are delivering world class products. We are seeing the sequel to 'The World is
Flat' in terms of what Indian talent can do and are now tripling down on that investment
in India," he added.
In addition to the US and Canadian markets, Azuga announced that resellers in Latin
America were gaining significant traction. Trials have started in the UK and Australia and
sales operations have started in India with several customers responding very positively
to an automotive-grade OBD II plug-and-play device along with Azuga product offerings.
"Azuga was started with a vision to develop a best of breed platform and product suite
for connected vehicles and to deliver unparalleled value to customers through continuous
innovation and best-in-class quality," said Raju Dandu, Chairman of Azuga. "With the
breadth of automotive knowledge, cloud software and platforms coupled with device
manufacturing experience and vehicle compatibility, we are uniquely positioned to offer a
single platform for customers across consumer and enterprise. This new investment enables
Azuga to extend its global capabilities in the areas of product development, technology,
sales, support and customer success," he added.
About Azuga
Silicon Valley-based Azuga is shaking up the traditional GPS vehicle tracking market
with industry-first price points, easy-install hardware, lifetime warranties and no
contract terms. The innovative connected vehicle provider's cloud-based, social telematics
technology is disrupting the traditional Fleet Telematics marketplace. In addition, Azuga
is future-proofing customer investments in its technology by providing a best-in-class
Road Usage Charge platform to states that are looking into mileage-based user fees
[http://mbufa.org ] to offset declining fuel-tax revenues. For more information, visit
http://www.azuga.com and follow @Azuga [http://www.twitter.com/azuga ]_GPS on Twitter.
For further information, contact:
Media Contact:
Ashok Nagaraj,
ashok.nagaraj@dishacom.com,
+91-9449834080,
Director - Disha Relations,
Disha Communications
Azuga
Azuga Celebrates 1000th Customer Milestone; Expands Engineering and Sales Operations in Bangalore
BANGALORE, April 13, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --
The Disruptive Cloud-based Connected Vehicle Product Company Continues its Momentum
With a Hiring Plan for 600 People in a New Bangalore Facility in the Next 12 Months
Azuga [http://azuga.com ], the innovative cloud-based, rewards-driven, connected fleet
and driver behavior solution, announced its 1,000-customer milestone. Commercial fleets
both large and small, across all industries are benefiting from Azuga Fleet's
comprehensive social telematics
[http://www.slideshare.net/Azuga_GPS/azuga-social-telematics-1?qid c2ce48-51ed-4eba-b840-a16a3112f2b6&v=qf1&b=&from_search=1 ]
offering. Azuga began Q1 2015 with several large
fleet deployments, each with more than 2,000 vehicles, a testament to the breadth of its
offering, and the appeal of enterprise fleet managers to driver-centric, rewards-driven
solutions. Azuga also announced general availability of its Fleet product for the Indian
market.
In addition, Azuga announced the availability of its Azuga Insight product for road
usage charging in the state of Oregon. Faced with declining fuel tax revenues due to
increases in fuel efficiency of gasoline powered vehicles coupled with a higher population
of hybrid and electric vehicles, states in the USA are in various stages of implementation
to get a fair share of tax based on miles driven to help them maintain public roads and
bridges.
To support this rapid growth in products and services, Azuga announced that it has
moved to a brand new facility in Bangalore, India and has ramped up hiring to bring in 600
new team members in the next twelve months.
"The growth of Azuga's Bangalore facility is a testament to the ingenuity of the
talent here to completely execute a product strategy and follow that up with end-to-end
marketing and sales execution into the US and Canadian markets," said Ananth Rani,
Co-Founder and President of Azuga. "End-to-end sales execution has been so impactful, that
some of our team members have increased their salaries by over 800% in one year. Unlike
other Silicon Valley companies that execute product work based on strategy and guidance
from US management, Azuga Bangalore has inverted the model and has become the center of
the universe for all Azuga operations. Highly empowered, self-organizing teams in a flat
structure are delivering world class products. We are seeing the sequel to 'The World is
Flat' in terms of what Indian talent can do and are now tripling down on that investment
in India," he added.
In addition to the US and Canadian markets, Azuga announced that resellers in Latin
America were gaining significant traction. Trials have started in the UK and Australia and
sales operations have started in India with several customers responding very positively
to an automotive-grade OBD II plug-and-play device along with Azuga product offerings.
"Azuga was started with a vision to develop a best of breed platform and product suite
for connected vehicles and to deliver unparalleled value to customers through continuous
innovation and best-in-class quality," said Raju Dandu, Chairman of Azuga. "With the
breadth of automotive knowledge, cloud software and platforms coupled with device
manufacturing experience and vehicle compatibility, we are uniquely positioned to offer a
single platform for customers across consumer and enterprise. This new investment enables
Azuga to extend its global capabilities in the areas of product development, technology,
sales, support and customer success," he added.
About Azuga
Silicon Valley-based Azuga is shaking up the traditional GPS vehicle tracking market
with industry-first price points, easy-install hardware, lifetime warranties and no
contract terms. The innovative connected vehicle provider's cloud-based, social telematics
technology is disrupting the traditional Fleet Telematics marketplace. In addition, Azuga
is future-proofing customer investments in its technology by providing a best-in-class
Road Usage Charge platform to states that are looking into mileage-based user fees
[http://mbufa.org ] to offset declining fuel-tax revenues. For more information, visit
http://www.azuga.com and follow @Azuga [http://www.twitter.com/azuga ]_GPS on Twitter.
For further information, contact:
Media Contact:
Ashok Nagaraj,
ashok.nagaraj@dishacom.com,
+91-9449834080,
Director - Disha Relations,
Disha Communications
Azuga