Mantra has successfully provided consulting and IT outsourcing services to many businesses and Fortune 500 corporations. Here is a list of vertical markets that represent Mantra's client base.

• Telecommunication
• Banking / Financials
• Healthcare
• Consulting Companies
• Independent Software Vendors (ISV)

OFFSHORE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT AND MAINTENANCE
Customer – Large Financial Institution in NY
Domain - Financials
Challenges – Customer needed to - bring new version of product to the market faster, reduce the support cost of old, complex app, ability to find and retain the resources to work on old technology, realign current resources team towards newer version
Mantra’s Solution – Mantra worked very closely with management and IT teams and designed 4 tier smart sourcing solution. Off-shoring was just a 1 tier. Entire project was broken in to 22 milestones with proactive risk mitigation process for all milestones.
Value Addition
• New product was beta launched 6 weeks ahead of schedule.
• All 22 milestones delivered on time,
• 41% reduction in maintenance cost of old app,
• 22% reduction in support calls through code enhancement,
• 12 hour turnaround time on level 1 and 2 defects in old application.

OFFSHORE TESTING
Customer – Midsize Independent Software Vendor (ISV)
Domain – Financial / Telecommunication
Challenges – with in-house team developing a very complex web based application, customer wanted an offshore testing team to quickly learn the app and perform performance, system and security testing. Major challenge was how to transfer the domain knowledge to the offshore testing team of 15 test engineers.
Mantra’s Solution – Mantra came up with a very effective sourcing model by combining all onsite/offsite and offshore resource teams. It then formed special processes for communication and Knowledge Transfer (KT) phase. Finally, Mantra came up with master project plan with very tight deadlines. Mantra’s 1 project manager, 2 team leads and 15 test engineers executed that plan relentlessly to ensure successful delivery.
Value Addition
• Mantra’s offshore testing team exceeded all the expectations that customer had.
• At the end of testing phase – this web based app was very well received by the end customers and provided a distinct competitive edge.
• Mantra later moved on to maintain this application for the customer, with in-house team focusing on newer version.

APPLICATION PORTING AND DATABASE CONVERSION
Customer – Regional Healthcare Company
Domain – Healthcare
Challenges – With the new acquisition, the biggest challenge for this company was to integrate key database systems from both the companies. Making sure all data is covered, HIPAA secured and readily available. Another challenge was to ensure that applications are ported to the new .NET platform without losing any operational time.
Mantra’s Solution – Mantra proposed onsite / offshore model. With very detailed analysis of both the systems and right combination of onsite/offshore resources Mantra was able to successful integration of both the systems. Project managers went a step further by creating contingency plans for every mile stone to ensure that all the deadlines are met.
Value Addition – Successful and optimized integration of both the systems.
• No loss of data, productivity and efficiency.
• 0% down time.
• Customer got a very quality applications, faster turnaround times.
• And, resource scalability with faster ramp up and down times.