Zyme: Building a speciality IT services firm: In conversation with Chandran Sankaran, Founder and CEO, Zyme Solutions

Zyme Solutions was founded by Chandran Sankaran in 2004 in Silicon Valley in the US and Bangalore, India, and is the channel data company for the global high-tech industry. Zyme helps high-tech manufacturers like Dell, Logitech, Cisco and Seagate to track how much of their product is selling in the indirect distribution and reseller channel, and how they could use this data to make critical business decisions. The company receives sales data feeds from distributors in 140 countries every week, and accumulates and validates information on several hundred thousand solution providers who are selling products on behalf of the manufacturers in those regions.