Emantras
Emantras, is a digital education company selling integrated digital and mobile solutions. Headquartered in Fremont, California, Emantras has development centers in Chennai and Bangalore, India. Emantras provides education, training and work flow solutions for academic institutions, publishers and corporations.
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| Industry | K12, Higher Ed & Career College, Virtual Schools, Publishing, Enterprise, Healthcare |
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| Founded | 2000 |
| Founder | Sesh Kumar |
| Headquarters | Fremont |
Area served | USA Fremont CA, EUROPE – Netherlands & France ASIA – Chennai, India |
Key people | Sesh Kumar (Founder and CEO) Catakam Kumar (Director – Operations & VP – Strategic Learning Partnerships) Ramesh Jain (CFO) |
| Products | Mobl21, Object21, TIE, Knode, Punflay, Mlab, Mathomatix, REED, Course Catalog, eMiLS, MobLS |
| Services | Curriculum & Instructional, Design Graphic & Animation, Video & Short Films, Lms Integration, Custom Courseware, Web 2.0 Technology & Applications, Content Localization, Assessments & Tests; Consulting: Simulations, Virtual Words, e-Learning, m-Learning, Educational Pedagogy, GenM Learning, Learning 3.0, Educational Gaming, Learning Objects, Design Consulting |
| Website | www.emantras.com |
Emantras started as a small web development company focused on using Macromedia Flash to educate and expanded services across multiple domains within e-learning, mobile learning and digital media.
History
2000 - Company founded in 2000 by Sesh Kumar, who currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the company. Emantras was initially started as a seven-member company delivering services in web development and related areas
2001 - Emantras built websites in Flash, web applications, presentations and e-commerce applications.
2002 - Emantras became a total IT solution company delivering services in multiple areas such as Software development, Web Maintenance, Hosting and Search Engine Optimization.
2003 - Emantras produced comprehensive e-learning related services such as custom courseware, 2D/3D animations, LMS integration, and training manuals.
2004 - Became a global company with worldwide headquarters in Fremont, California. Expanded operations in Europe A complete Digital Education company providing elearning services across varied industry verticals such as k- 12 and Higher Ed, Healthcare and Pharma and Corporate and Enterprise. Achieved the ISO 9001:2000 Certification for Quality Management System. Established new development centre in Chennai, India
2005 - New customers including fortune 500 companies. Became content partner for Angel Learning.
2006 - Certified for ISO 27001:2005 (information security standards). Introduced products such as DCE, MobLs. R&D on mobile learning and game based learning. Partnered with Adobe, Saba and Blackboard
2007 - 100+ global client list, including Fortune 500 companies Established second development centre in Chennai, India Established a learning & media lab focusing on research & development of various methods to make learning though digital medium most effective. Introduced products like HALO, REED. Expansion of services into high end game based learning.
2008 - Emantras diversified a little further by launching a new business unit in Gurgaon, India called Mlab. Mlab is the specialty media division of Emantras with an expertise in animation, VFX, user design and gaming. Mlab produced two short movies- Music Binds all and Curios Todd, which were screened in festivals including IIF-la and Annecy, France.
2009 – Mindwire - an iPhone application developed by Emantras to facilitate learning through subscribed stack cards/quizzes.[1]
2010 - Emantras entered the mobile learning industry with the launch of its new mobile learning application, Mobl21. Later this year, Mobl21 won the “Most Innovative Education Product or Service” award from the Software & Information Industry Association as part of the Innovation Incubator Program at its annual Ed Tech Industry Summit, held May 24, 2010, in San Francisco. Mobl21 also won the Distinguished Achievement Awards for best Educational Toys and Games from American Educational Publishers in June 2010.
2011 - Mobl21 wins the Innovation Award from Learning Without Frontiers in January.
2012 - Emantras won the distinguished Brandon Hall Gold Award for excellence in the Competencies and Skill Development category. Emantras also won its first Emmy award for its contribution in a Spanish infomercial, titled ‘Cardiovitaminas’
Key industries
Emantras has aligned its business across verticals and now handles K12, Higher Ed & Career College, Virtual Schools, Publishing, Enterprise & Healthcare as of now, with clients which include Pearson Education, McGraw Hill, Cengage learning, Elsevier, Lufthansa, IKEA, Grundfos, Danfoss, Infosys, Toyota, Saint Gobain etc.[2]
Mobl21
Mobl21 is an educational application created to facilitate mobile learning by complementing current learning methods. Available as a mobile app, desktop widget or web application, Mobl21 provides users access to customizable learning material, which can be accessed anywhere.
References
- General
- Emantras and ACU Partners to Deliver Mobile Education
- IKEA Awards Emantras with A Two Year Contract to Implement and Enhance its e-Learning Initiatives Newswire, Sept 23, 2008
- ANGEL LMS Provides New Dimension of Rich-Media, Simulation and Game-Based Learning with EMANTRAS Integration Angel Learning, March 1, 2007
- Interview | Sesh Kumar is Taking Education Everywhere
- Emantras: Digitally yours!
- About Emantras
- Learning Solution Magazine Article
- Mobile Learning
- Frog Dissection by Emantras
- Specific