WinIT Software to develop 10 apps for BlackBerry10

The company has already created end apps for Jet Airways, ABP, Blue Frog, which are likely to go live shortly

WinIT Software, a Hyderabad-based mobile application strategy and development company, is in the process of developing 10 apps for BlackBerry (formerly Research in Motion)’s proprietary mobile operating system, BlackBerry 10.

“We have been working directly with RIM since the last few months, and have so far developed apps for our end clients –– Jet Airways, ABP (Anandabazar Patrika) and integrated music project Blue Frog –– which will go live shortly. In the next two to three months, I can see at least 10 of our clients adopting this new platform,” Prakash Sreewastav, chief executive officer of WinIT, said.

Much ahead of the launch of BlackBerry 10 in January 2013, the Waterloo, Ontario-based company, which has over 28,000 registered developers in India, had opened up the platform’s Alpha SDK (software development kit) to the developer community.

“We have launched the Blackberry 10 Alfa SDK around six months ago, which is eight months before the launch date. This move is to make sure that developers get equipped and have their apps ported and ready, post launch,”  Annie Mathew, director (alliances and business development), BlackBerry India, had told Business Standard last December.

Stating that the Indian market was going to be good, considering the traction that BlackBerry 10 is witnessing, Sreewastav said the company was telling all its new clients to move to the new operating system.

Since the last four years, WinIT has developed over 300 custom-made mobile apps for various domestic and global companies across verticals on SDKs of BlackBerry, Android, Windows and iPhone. At present, around 30 per cent of its clients are Indian companies.

On the company’s plans to raise a $5-million private equity fund to expand its operations to the US, Europe and Asia-Pacific, he said, “We are working on a very exciting platform right now. We will look at the fund-raising plans once this platform gets a little more users.”