Vinod Sood, Managing Director at Hughes Systique Corporation
One-Stop Technology partner, who empowers its clients with the ‘Edge’
HUGHES Systique Corporation (HSC), part of the HUGHES group of companies with its Global Research &Development and Delivery center in Gurgaon, India is a leading provider of Outsourced Product Development and Engineering R&D services in the Communications, Multimedia and Embedded domains.
A CMMi Level 5 company, Hughes Systique is a global organization committed to achieve technological excellence. The firm counts Tier 1 Original Equipment Manufacturers & Independent Software Vendors and emerging technology companies as its esteemed customers worldwide.
HSC's in depth knowledge of Communication Networks & Applications have enabled it to deliver state of art and 'first in the world' mobile applications on multiple platforms.
HSC also specializes in providing complete end-to-end product engineering services ranging from technology & product consulting, architecture, development, testing/validation to technical support for a variety of contemporary and emerging technologies across the end-to-end Communication chain.
The organization focuses on fostering innovation and skills development amongst the employees in key strategic technology areas such as Connected Devices, Multimedia OTT-TV, IoT, Data Visualisationand Analytics.
The organization has established four key 'Centers of Excellence (CoE)', which are lead by industry experts, who provide guidance and direction for various technological initiatives.
These Centers of Excellence are instituted with a vision of the future of each technology area; and continuously churn innovative ideas, technology white papers and reusable components that help in accelerating customer project development.
The firm follows strict IPR (Intellectual Property Rights) protection norms and has an established Information Security Management framework governing the organization, development and management of different aspects of information security.
Hughes Systique Corporation was formed in 2005, and the separate Mobile Application development division was established, keeping in view the immense potential of Mobile devices in extending the reach of services in various domains like Retail, Communications, Multimedia and IoT.
Since inception of this division, the firm has served more than fifty well known brands namely, Dish TV, EchoStar, Hughes, Intel, Nokia ALU, Yatra, Blaupunkt etc.
The Adroidteam at HSC develops exclusive mobile apps in-house employing best in class technologies such as cross platform mobile app frameworks like Ionic 1& 2 and Progressive Web App methodology; it also utilizes Tensorflow (Google's Open Source Machine Learning Library) for creating high performance Mobile apps.
Some of the notable applications developed by the firm includeVideo streaming Application for EchoStar/Dish TV, Travel App for Yatra, Car infotainment App for Blaupunkt, RCS (Rich communication suite) – Audio, Video and Text chat for Acision, DLNA based Media sharing Appfor one of the largest 4G networks and many more.
Cross platform development
Mobile Test Automation tools
Use of advanced development and App analytics tools
Focus on App performance: Low memory footprint, CPU and NW usage
Understanding of Mobile Operating System frameworks and related customizations
Focus on App User Experience (UX)
To quote Mr. Vinod Sood, Managing Director at Hughes Systique Corporation, "Our Unique Selling Proposition comes from a strong understanding of underlying domains like Retail, IoT, Communications and Multimedia. Our strong hold in some of the key technologies and protocols in these areas helps us develop complex, scalable and high performance Mobile Apps."
With a proactive approach towards innovation and achieve excellence in services, Hughes Systique has been evolving continuously. It has made great strides in building unique mobile apps, which are marked as major milestones in its journey towards reaching pinnacle of its services; the major ones include launch of Sling TV in 2015, launch of Yatra Lite in 2016, and launch of Blaupunkt Infotainment App for Honda 2017 edition cars.
The firm is now directing all its efforts towards starting new projects in area of IoT (Internet of Things), Retail and Multimedia. Furthermore, the firm will continue to strengthen offerings in Mobile Application area while tracking latest advancements inAndroid, iOS and Web platforms. Also, there are plans to foray into next gen domains like Machine Learning and Mobile App security.
Vinod Sood, Managing Director, Hughes Systique Corporation
A veteran of the Telecom Software industry, Vinod Sood has built high performance teams at premier Telecom R&D organizations in India. He has exceptional track record of building profitable and sustainable institutions from conceptualization to maturity.
Vinod adorns many roles- He is a member of the CII National Committee on IT, ITeS& e-Commerce and a member of NASSCOM's and AMCHAM's Northern Regional Council; he is an elected member of NASSCOM Engineering Council; he has also been on the NASSCOM Mentor Panel for Emerging Companies.
Vinod has served as a member of the Advisory Committee of the Institute of Informatics and Communications, University of Delhi and also as the Chairman of RMC-CORE in Network Engineering (setup by TIFAC, Department of Science and Technology Government of India) – a government, Academia and Industry partnership initiative.
A Gold Medalist alumnus of PEC Chandigarh, Vinod is also involved in guiding and mentoring young entrepreneurs and startups and is a TiE Charter member.
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