Tellago, Inc.
Company: Tellago, Inc., Schaumburg, IL
Company Description: Tellago is a boutique application development firm that is revolutionizing the implementation of business and infrastructure software on the Microsoft and open source platforms by leveraging unique talent, processes and culture. Founded in 2008, Tellago has enjoyed over 300% revenue growth year on year and is recognized globally for its innovation and technical expertise.
Nomination Category: Company / Organization Categories
Nomination Sub Category: Best Overall Company of the Year - Up to 100 Employees
Nomination Title: Tellago, Inc.
Tell the story about what this nominated company achieved since January 1 2010 (up to 500 words). Focus on specific accomplishments, and relate these accomplishments to past performance or industry norms. Be sure to mention obstacles overcome, innovations or discoveries made, and outcomes:
Tellago was born in 2008 with a single goal in mind: revolutionize the
development of IT software systems. We live in a world in which IT applications
are often seen as massively painful efforts that are never delivered on time and
budget and rarely bring innovation to the business. Our approach to solve this
complex challenge was simple: hire the best technical talent in the market,
foment innovation, make agile processes a religion, create a great culture,
never cease to do right by the customer and see magic happen.
By 2010, our dream became a reality. Tellago is the proud home of some of the
world’s top thought leaders in a large number of technologies. Our experts are
world renowned authors, frequent speakers at industry conferences, and totally
obsessed with bringing innovation to our customers.
Tellago’s technology expertise has no parallel among Microsoft partners. The
talent of our team is recognized by the fact that many of our architects serve
as advisors to Microsoft product teams collaborating on the design of next
generation Microsoft technologies. More importantly, we are crazily passionate
about working with our customers in the challenges that require our technical
expertise and innovation.
Our practice areas involve service oriented architecture and connected systems,
cloud computing, application development and solutions focused on portals and
collaboration, RFID, business intelligence, e-commerce, and mobility tools. Our
customer base includes such major enterprises as Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines,
Macy’s, Toyota, Tyco, ADT, JetBlue, Microsoft, Evolution Benefits, and Bluegreen
Resorts. Since our inception, we have grown from 2 to 40 employees and have
seen our revenues increase year over year by 300%. One fact that speaks highly
of our company’s success is that we enjoy a 0% turnover rate. In fact, many of
our team members are prolific bloggers and several of them published unsolicited
testimonials this past year about how much they value working with Tellago.
To help bring superior technical solutions to our customers at reasonable
prices, we implemented Tellago Argentina, our offshore development arm. Many on
our Argentina team are recognized in the industry as superior technologists and
we are proud to say that we enjoy a reputation in the Argentine developer
community as the #1 company to work with as a Microsoft consultant.
In addition to our daily work with customers, we spend time every week working
on open source initiatives. In order to share that knowledge with the developer
community and customers, we established Tellago DevLabs, a workspace where
companies can find our latest open source technology releases to leverage in
their projects.
Finally, in July, we launched Tellago Studios, a sister company focused on
bringing software solutions that leverage Microsoft as well as open source
technologies to the marketplace. This past year has seen us grow tremendously
both in numbers and revenue. We are proud to say that through it all, we have
stayed true to our commitment to building a great corporate culture while
serving our customers very well.
List hyperlinks to any online news stories, press releases, or other documents that support the claims made in the section above. IMPORTANT: Begin each link with http://, and enclose each link in square brackets; for example, [http://www.youraddress.com]:
Tellago website: http://www.tellago.com
Tellago Studios website: http://www.tellagostudios.com
A look at our recent and upcoming activity:
http://www.tellago.com/who_we_are/news_and_events
Architect blog compilation: http://www.tellago.com/blogs
List of recent conferences we have presented at:
http://www.tellago.com/category/section/conferences
List of recent articles: http://www.tellago.com/what_we_says/articles
List of books that our team members have written:
http://www.tellago.com/what_we_says/books
Technology videos and conference presentations:
http://www.tellago.com/category/section/videos
Sample unsolicited testimonial from one of our US based architects:
http://professionalaspnet.com/archive/2010/07/15/Why-I-Love-Working-for-Tellago.aspx
Sample unsolicited testimonial from one of our Argentina based architects:
http://thegsharp.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/my-experience-at-tellago
Provide a brief (up to 100 words) biography about the leader of this nominated company:
Jesus Rodriguez is the co-founder of Tellago and Tellago Studios. He is an
internationally recognized speaker and author and serves both companies as Chief
Architect. Under his leadership, Tellago has established itself as one of the
world’s top software application development firms and has grown by 300% year on
year. In 2010, Jesus led the launch of Tellago Studios, which in only a few
months, has released three products and achieved widespread recognition. Jesus
serves as an advisor to Microsoft and Oracle and is the only person to currently
hold both the Microsoft MVP and Oracle ACE technology awards.