The Axis of Success

The Axis founders believe, entrepreneurship is all about understanding your responsibility more deeply 

Gyanesh Kumar & Devesh Kumar Thakur, Directors, Axis Softech

Early days were very beautiful and energetic. Although we never had lack of energy for anything since beginning but certainly the early days were more enthusiastic and ignorant. With time we have become more and more pragmatic for work and business, but in early days we were carelessly adventurous and had lot of appetite for risk. All in all our early days were fairly bright and energetic.

Beginning of career

Gyanesh Kumar - Immediately after my engineering, I joined Hero Group in its ITES division, providing consultancy to its clients located overseas. After working for some time I felt the urge of establishing my own business to provide services in IT sector. Since then I have been working dedicatedly with Axis Softech to take it to a new height every day. We have always believed in innovation and growth. The company has strong foundation, which helps us determine the pain areas of our clients and we work hard on those areas to remove it permanently. The company has been working very closely with Travel Agencies and travel companies for years now to provide them all integrated travel based solutions at most affordable cost.

Devesh Kumar Thakur- After finishing my Business Management, I had started my career from FMCG sales. Then got an offer from a USA based IT company and joined its Hyderabad region for IT Sales. After achieving Targets & Awards I realized my effort against sales and IT Market, established the Axis Softech (P) Ltd. & taking it now on the next level.

 About the Axis Softech

Axis Softech offers travel portal solutions, which are customized according to needs of travel agents and companies. Developing travel portals with comprehensive integration of APIs at competitive price has been a unique proposition of the company. The company also guarantees cheapest ticket fares to travel agents and agencies for flight, hotels, buses and cars as well as the best commissions & discounts on industry wide fares. Primary target audience of the company are Travel Agents, Agencies, B2B Travel Agencies, Hotel Booking Agencies, Bus Booking Agencies, Car Booking Agencies, companies dealing into travel and tour business as well as corporate with internal travel desk.The company has a presence in the market since 2002, although it was formally registered on

20^th October 2005. Headquartered in New Delhi, it has branch locations at Mumbai, Ahmadabad, Jharkhand and Bihar. B2C and B2B business models are being followed at Axis Softech. Presently, six B2C and one B2B products are rolled out by the company under brand name, “Safari”. The company maintains a well-built infrastructure for employees offering an environment for holistic development. The team of designers and developers are able to create feature rich designs with proper navigation functionalities and solutions. As Indian Tourism Market is poised to have a fervent growth rate, the company envisions offering a versatile range of products that caters to emerging needs of the industry. It is looking forward to acquire more than 80% of Travel Technology market within India and quickly expand in other growing Global markets such as Middle East, Europe and America. Axis Softech aims to be one of the largest global travel technology providers.

Getting into entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurship has always been on our mind. We were always self motivated and a self believer. We knew our strength and weaknesses which always helped us undertake tasks and complete it to be best. We believe, entrepreneurship is all about understanding your responsibility more deeply and give your 100% to execute the desired work.

First Concept and Idea of Setup

With the growth of Travel Business and as we have been providing our Portal & integration services to different travel companies in past, we thought of endeavoring into the same segment with more and more dedication. Looking at the customer’s situation we also presumed a serious problem that the Travel Agencies could not afford to build a travel portal for the enormous costs the IT companies used to ask them. There were also serious issues of finding a right kind of inventory supplier, who used to charge exorbitantly to provide their live supply. Looking at all such problems, we thought of providing an indigenous product to our customers & solve their problem at one go. Therefore, we have built our own product which can facilitate different kinds of consumers on the basis of their requirement and budget. Now our customers do not face the same problem anymore and they can freely buy an all integrated product & happily use it thereafter to conduct business and generate profit.

Professional Achievements

Gyanesh Kumar- I have developed the company brick by brick, envisioned the products, shaped them & have taken the company to this level.

Devesh Kumar Thakur- I have developed & mentored the company until now. I have propelled the growth of the company by my creative contribution.

Challenges and roadblocks in career

The most important challenge was to develop and indigenous Online Travel product for our customer. To achieve this, it was important to have different suppliers under single umbrella and at the same time, it was also important to provide a low cost solution to our customer so that they can conduct business. We have worked really hard to achieve some of the world’s best supplies for Flights & Hotels which have elevated us far above our other counter parts. Our products have given a confidence to our customers that Axis Softech is the company which they were always looking at and the products offered by Axis is the Product which solves all their problems.

Success mantra

The success mantra in life is that be committed to your work and keep “SMART” goals means keep specific goals, measurable goals, achievable, relevant goals and goals that are completed within time Frame. There are no short cuts in life to achieve the growth in moving a ladder step by step

Advice to young entrepreneurs

Today’s youngsters are very impatient they should try to keep patience in life because you will achieve everything but after some hard work because success and money is not cake walk you have to do rigorous efforts to achieve it. Today lots of youngsters start their business without practical experience of industry and they suffer a huge loss so learn step by step and then start your business if your aim is to start the business.

Future plans and road maps

We are launching new products that have enriched features where customer can easily book Flight+Hotel, Hotel+Car, Flight+Car and some more innovative products that will be helpful for travel agents, agencies and consumers also, which in itself shall add value and act as a marketing tool to us.With range of versatile products developed at our end, which also tends to cater to the emerging needs of all kinds of travel agencies, we look forward to acquire more than 80% of the Travel Technology market within India and quickly expand towards other growing Global markets like Middle East, Europe and America. We aim to become one of the largest Travel Technology providers globally.