Whizible, a leading software for project service automation (PSA), announced the launch of its latest version Whizible20 on January 20, 2020. Whizible is cloud-based software, offering automation solutions for all project management processes.
Whizible customers, Industry leaders, and prospective customers were present for this landmark event held in the Sheraton, Pune on Jan 20, 2020, to show their support for Whizible team and their confidence in the product itself.
Born in the year 2001, Whizible got a transformative rebirth with contemporary and engaging UI/UX and additional features enabled using the latest technologies such as BOT, AI, NLP and machine learning.
Dr Ganesh Natarajan, Founder 5F World (a platform for Digital Start-ups, Skills and Social Ventures in India), and the ex-Chairperson of NASSCOM graced Whizible launch event as the chief guest.
In his speech, Dr Ganesh Natarajan said: “Whizible can be a real accelerator, for the services organizations to achieve excellence”.
Uday Kothari, the original architect of Whizible (and the co-founder of Compulink Systems) and Ramesh Kadaganchi, the General Manager at John Deere India Pvt Ltd (Global delivery centre) were the guests of honour.
A panel discussion to understand “how to orchestrate business excellence using Whizible”
The following industry leaders participated in the panel discussion.
Shridhar Shukla – Co-founder of kPoint Technologies, and GS Labs, Formerly, Director and COO, Persistent Systems and
Sunil Nikhar – CEO Digilant Solutions Pvt Ltd and serial entrepreneur
Nishigandh Pitambare – Director SAP for Wurth IT India,
Lingaraj Prachande – from Fujitsu Consulting India
Anand Deshpande, the Founder Chairman of Persistent Systems was also present for the launch event
The expert panellists shared their experiences with Whizible and also provided insights into how Whizible 2020 can play an important role in the coming decade to create customer success.
Whizible story
Whizible, which began its life as ProjectByNet, and later was renamed as Whizible to truly reflect it’s value-proposition, had the first-mover advantage when it was launched in 2001. The product that was launched to offer the simple functionality of providing a web interface to Microsoft project, went on to become the complete solution for integrated project portfolio and resource management.
Whizible witnessed a phase of phenomenal success over the next eight years from 2001 to 2009, with garnering venture capital funding, rapid growth of customers, strengthening of the value delivered to Whizible users and going public.
With an objective to support further growth, the founders Vishwas and Uday exited the company and merged Compulink with a bigger company with a diverse portfolio. But, contrary to their expectations, Whizible got neglected by the new owners and customers suffered.
Rekindling Whizible for Improving Customer Success
In spite of weak customer support and lack of product innovation after Whizible was transferred to the new owners, many customers continued using Whizible.
And the second innings for Whizible started in 2016-17.
A new company – Lifeline was started by some of the original team members with specific focus to support the Whizible customers. The IP of Whizible was later purchased.
Whizible team took up that challenge of working on revamping the entire product while continuing to serve the existing customers. This was much like changing the wheels of the car while it was being driven.
Whizible Founder and CEO, Vishwas Mahajan thanked the Whizible team for their continued efforts and commitment towards making the launch a success
