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An Interview with Karan Yaramada, Jade Global CEO: ‘We’re Well-Positioned
to be a Strategic Digital Partner for Mid to Large Enterprises in their Digital
Transformation Journey’
“We have been ranked on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. for
the past nine years in a row.”
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loud computing platforms and
applications are proliferating
across enterprises today, serving
as the IT infrastructure driving new
digital businesses. skills, project management and
flexible delivery models to help
you accelerate business agility and
achieve digital transformation.
At the same time, customer
expectations are higher, and the risk
of turnover is higher due to agility
the cloud offers. Software vendors
need a sharper focus on customer
satisfaction and a clear realization
of reduced cycle time in addressing
customer issues. Karan Yaramada, Jade
Global CEO, spoke
exclusively to The Silicon
Review. Below is an
excerpt.
Transition to the cloud means more
than just a change in pricing. To
be successful with cloud offerings,
software vendors must retool
their operations and remodel their
business structures to achieve greater
efficiency and adapt to the new
realities of lower average sales prices
and lower margins.
In light of the foregoing, we’re thrilled
to present Jade Global.
The company provides
enterprise business application
implementations, integrations,
software product engineering, cloud
services, technology advisory, testing,
and managed services across diverse
industries.
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Jade Global brings the right
combination of process knowledge,
product expertise, technical
The company was founded in 2003
and is headquartered in San Jose,
California. Its East Coast headquarters
are located just outside Philadelphia
in North Wales, Pennsylvania. Jade
Global’s European offices are in
Reading, UK and Vienna, Austria.
Jade’s delivery centers are in Pune
and Hyderabad, India and Toronto,
Canada.
How and why was the
company set up? And how did
you expand your company and
its offerings over the years?
After the Dot Com boom and Y2K
bust, I observed a major shift in IT
services and business becoming
more global by nature. There was an
opportunity in the market to start
an IT services company that had the
culture, competitive pricing, and
benefits of a boutique firm, but at the
same time could provide customers
with large-scale IT projects.
Becoming an entrepreneur virtually
overnight was a complete bootstrap,
bottom-up undertaking. I spent the
first year at Jade Global working
simultaneously on three Oracle
upgrade projects. Gradually, I
surrounded myself with a team
and hired Jade’s first employees,
tapping into my personal network
and circle of friends. Despite the
challenges of entrepreneurship,
I always kept a long-term vision
in mind. As Jade Global grew, we
expanded our offerings to include
enterprise business application
implementations, integrations,
software product engineering, testing,
support, cloud services, technology
advisory, and managed services.
Today, Jade Global is an Oracle
Platinum Cloud Select Partner,
Salesforce Silver Partner, Dell Boomi
Certified Select Implementation
Partner, and ServiceNow Silver
Partner with additional strategic
partnerships with NetSuite, Microsoft,
Zuora, and Tableau. Our wide range
of offerings allow us to design robust
solutions for a variety of industries
and client needs.
In February 2017, Jade Global
embarked on another major
expansion, physically. We opened a
second US headquarters located on
the East Coast in Philadelphia through
acquisition. In early 2019, we set up
two new European entities in Toronto,