The Hindustan Times , Delhi Edition April 21 , 2000 US-based Indian firm heralds new dawn of cyber billing The Web-based billing business is all set for a new dawn, thanks to the Indian American-run firm Savera Systems Incorporated. Inderpal Singh Mumick, 36, who co-founded the New Jersey-based private firm with Pradeep Chetal and Ramarao Kanneganti, is confident of carving a niche in Internet billing along with solving some of the problems that billing systems face. “Chetal and I came up with the name. We thought of it as a new beginning or new day in the billing area. We intend changing the landscape of billing, the dawn of a new era,” he said. Savera, with revenues of close to $10 million, has close to 50 employees, many of them fresh out of Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). Savera claims to deliver innovative, 100 per cent Web-based billing solutions to Internet provision (IP) and telecom industries. It markets solutions as hosted applications, via an application service provider or ASP, or as licensed products. Before Savera, Mumick, who holds a doctorate in computer science from Stanford and is a graduate of IIT, Delhi, spent a good time in billing at AT&T Bell Labs as principal technical staff member. He did pioneering work on the Sunrise research project at Bell Labs which led to numerous billing initiatives at AT&T and Lucent. Mumick is known for his work on materialized views technology and is the author of eight issued patents, more than ten patent pending applications and some 40 technical papers in leading journals and conferences. “Billing appears a very simple thing when you get it in the mail, but in the business field it is a complex issue and there are some genuine problems. We saw the advent of the Internet and saw the possibility of solving some of the problems,” Mumick said. The Hindustan Times, Delhi Edition