SmartCEO Contact:
Georgia Patton, georgia@smartceo.com
Special Projects Manager, SmartCEO Publishing, Inc.

CompuGain Contact:
Manju Naglapur, manju@compugain.com
Director, Consulting Services, CompuGain Corporation.

Washington's SmartCEO magazine has designated CompuGain Corporation as a Future 50 company. The list represents the top privately-held, fast-growth companies in the Greater Washington, D.C. area. SmartCEO carefully shortlists 50 companies out of hundreds of nominations based on employee and revenue growth over the past three years. The magazine publishes smart ideas to help educate, motivate and inspire Washington's business decision-makers. Profiles of CompuGain Corporation and other Future 50 winners will appear in January's edition of Washington SmartCEO Magazine.

It is truly an honor to have the chance to recognize your company for the steady growth you have experienced over the past three years. Future 50 companies are an elite group of companies comprised from all industries across the Greater Washington area.

This year, the list experienced record-breaking history with a combined employee growth of over 21,000 local employees and combined revenue growth of over 6 billion dollars!!

About CompuGain
CompuGain is your trusted partner for information-intensive applications and solutions development. While no client engagement is alike, our clients demand a high level of quality and accountability, delivery of which we have been very successful. This is our key success factor. Over the project life cycle, it's about delivering exceptional quality from our people who are passionate about achieving excellence and meeting the highest quality standards and the best practices.

CompuGain began as a consulting services company in 2000. Following our past success, CompuGain has grown in both the project services and professional services fields. Our client base includes a blue chip customer base of Fortune 500 and emerging growth companies.

CompuGain's mission is to provide timely, diverse, and qualified services to meet customer needs and exceed expectations. CompuGain strives to deliver innovative and effective solutions to add value to the business of our clients, enabling them to achieve high performance. In this vein, we continue to invest in the development of customized services and solutions to provide clients with the most advanced tools to achieve their critical missions effectively and efficiently.

Feb 25th 2008

CompuGain has relocated its headquarters to a larger office space in Herndon, Virginia due to continued expansion of its business. "The relocation and expansion of our corporate offices signals the rapid growth of CompuGain and the widespread adoption of CompuGain's IT and Financial Services in various industries" said President and CEO, Debasish Hota. This location houses CompuGain's back office operations and project delivery teams, while also providing sales, recruiting, and client management services.

New Address:
CompuGain Corporation
13454 Sunrise Valley Drive
Suite 440
Herndon, VA 20171

Phone: 703-956-7500
Fax: 703-991-6341
E-mail: info@compugain.com

Client

• Global Power Generation, Distribution and trading company.

Business Challenge

• Implement IT Disaster Recovery Plan since IT systems were the backbone for its business transactions. The assurance of continued business operations, if it’s data centers failed needed to be created.

Project Objectives

• Implement ITDR and ITBCP.
• Plan, execute and document tests in a quality assurance environment.
• Build a higher level of organizational readiness to handle a disaster to the data centers and continue essential business operations if such disasters occurred.

CompuGain Approach

• A time-tested enterprise-class frame work for disaster recovery was introduced. Tests were executed in record time. CompuGain's team had the right mix of enterprise architect, network engineer, BCP specialist, technical writer and project manager. Applications were categorized into Tiers based on business drivers. Each application was tested in isolation in quality assurance environment. Subsequently all tier-1 and tier-2 applications were tested in a single test window, to provide a high level of reassurance about organizational staff and technologies to handle a disaster.

Results and Benefits

• Compugain provided a comprehensive frame work for disaster recovery testing.
• The CompuGain DR team completed DR testing twenty applications which included enterprise class SAP application instances in record time.
• Organizational readiness at the company was increased by many folds.
• Ensured that sound continuity practices were adopted and maintained throughout the organization.
• Reduced risks and costs associated with disasters and interruptions to critical business processes.
• Documentations were established for the benefit of the staff to operate with efficiency in case of a disaster to the data centers.
• Hands-on training was provided to the staff in the course of the above 'simulated disaster' tests to handle a real disaster.

Technology and Techniques

• Oracle DataGuard, SAP Application Instances, Active-Active MS-Outlook servers, SQL server Log shipping, SAP portals, Inquira, DocuShare, Custom Java Programs, Great Plains, Millennium, ERWin, CorpTax, ComShare and enterprise wide network infrastructure were analyzed and tested.

CompuGain Corporation tops the list of the fastest growing technology companies in Virginia as recognized by Deloitte & Touche LLP at an award event held September 24 at Sequoia in Georgetown. Called the "Deloitte Virginia Technology Fast 50," the annual award program ranks technology companies located in Virginia by revenue growth. The awards in Maryland and Virginia are sponsored by Morrison & Foerster LLP, NASDAQ OMX and SmartCEO Magazine.

"Deloitte's Virginia Technology Fast 50 companies have shown the strength, vision and tenacity to succeed in today's very competitive technology environment," said Mr. Gary H. Tabach, Managing Partner for Deloitte's Greater Washington Practice. "We applaud the successes of CompuGain Corporation and acknowledge it as one of the very few to accomplish such an impressive growth rate over the past five years."

"The 2008 Virginia Fast 50 companies are especially noteworthy this year given their remarkable growth in a challenging business environment. As a firm that works with many of the world's most successful technology and life science businesses, Morrison & Foerster is proud to be associated with the great companies being honored today," said Tom Knox, Partner and Co-Chair of the firm's East Coast and Europe Corporate Practices.

The Virginia Technology Fast 50 program is hosted by Deloitte & Touche LLP, along with Morrison & Foerster LLP, NASDAQ OMX and SmartCEO magazine.