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Cupola Technology: Furnishing Boutique Design Approach for Product Development in the Connected Ecosystem

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The field of product design and development has evolved in recent years, in a remarkable way, to utilize new technologies and to apply new practices to conceive products better and faster than ever. However faster development, better technology and new products may not be addressing some of the significant challenges of product designing like development speed, platform flexibility, increased complexity and User experience. Thus, the companies that are expected to come out ahead in the next few years will be the ones which have experience in building world class products, understanding of the emerging market requirements and have the product development skills to match the need. Catering an exquisite approach for building a product from an idea and successfully bringing it to market is Cupola Technology, Bangalore based boutique design house.

Founded in 2011 by Ajay Agrawal and Huzefa Saifee, Cupola has emerged as the next generation boutique software design house, with unique competencies in developing innovative solutions for wide range of industries. Cupola has helped many of the world’s top companies with their end to end technology services. The company fosters continuous innovation by aligning its R&D initiatives around key emerging trends and technologies. Accomplishing a product mindset rather than a project mindset, Cupola Technology is well furnished to handle all phases of product development lifecycle.

Having successfully delivered 25+ products in past 5 years, Cupola claims the growth of its clients along with the company to be the biggest testimony. “In most cases Cupola started with one single program with its clients and currently is the de-facto technology partners for them” states Ajay Agrawal, Co-Founder & CEO at Cupola Technology. With 20 plus years of experience in engineering and management; Ajay and his team has been successful in bootstrapping multiple start up’s and building emerging market products for the global market place; and thus deploying his expertise in Cupola, Ajay presents a product development company that offers complete product engineering services including Embedded, Next Generation Networks, Internet of Things, Connectivity, Mobility, Cloud and Analytics to build cutting edge products.

Solutions for Assorted Segments
This ‘product development’ focused company inherits expertise of serving a sundry of emerging market segments like Industrial Automation, Oil and Gas, Communication Services, Wearable Devices, Digital home and Entertainment, Travel and Logistics, Security and Surveillance. Tremendous experience in building connected devices, middleware, cloud platform and mobile applications aids Cupola to build and deploy both devices as well as managed services. Smart Fitness Tracker Device, Baby Temperature monitoring device, IoT enabled smart gateway, IoT software Platform, Fleet Management System, Real time Asset monitoring system, Network device provisioning system are some of the top-notch works of Cupola.
With the significant evolution of global OTT video market over the past years, Cupola is experienced in building world class OTT and IPTV solutions; with RF to IP Video Switch, Multi-screen Video Streaming Platform, IP Camera Streaming over Internet and Cloud Based Video Recording Service being few from the basket.

The company has built products to manage the complex network deployment that enhance the customer’s satisfaction quotient with the seamless delivering of the network deployment, network management and customer issue resolution. “Multi Access Wireless Broadband Router and LAN Emulation for software defined radio are a few to be named for the exclusive works of Cupola in Broadband and Wireless segment.” says Huzefa.

Cupola has been instrumental in building ruggedized IoT enabled devices integrating variety of sensors and wireless equipment. With in built capabilities to monitor the health of radios and other hardware components, these devices are self-healing and provide alerts to maintain 24x7 uptime for any Industrial automation deployment. The sensor data is aggregated with the cloud based IoT Platform that supports the remote device management and doubles up as a command and monitoring center.

Future Roadmap
The company measures its success by its client’s success and believes in earning trust of its clients by serving them with utmost integrity and professionalism; in order to assist them build a World Class Product. Besides, Cupola follows the philosophy of getting a product, working on it and introducing it in the market with a mindset of continuously working on enhancing it efficiency.
The new age business like retail, logistics, industrial automation, field force etc. are focused on the operational efficiency; so a platform for real time tracking, management of variety of assets and support to automate the business use cases is vital. Sufficing the requirement; Cupola is uniquely positioned to deliver products and solutions to aid the revolution.

Cupola recently expanded its operations in India, with the inauguration of its second development center in Bangalore. The company is home for 70 plus skilled engineers presently and with the management team coming from a rich experience in Silicon Valley startups as well as Product MNC’s. “We further propose to rapidly add new members in our family” concludes Ajay. With their remarkable experience in engineering and management fields; Ajay and Huzefa look set to further expand Cupola to newer and greater heights.

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