HYDERABAD, INDIA: Bodhtree (www.bodhtree.com) has announced that it has teamed with Kunal Mittal (www.kunalmittal.com) to accelerate its SaaS and cloud computing business in the US market. Gartner has forecasted the 2008 cloud number to be $46 billion, climbing to $150 billion by 2013.

Bodhtree expects the partnership will expand its market reach and help deliver significant customer benefits that include much lower cost, faster time to market, and opportunities for creating new sources of value. The company also sees the US market as a major opportunity to expand its business growth worldwide, said a press release.

Bodhtree’s center of excellence (CoE) focuses on extending competency in the areas of SaaS and cloud computing. CoE identifies technology trends and provides thought leadership, sets direction refine methodologies and processes for SaaS based solutions, apart from enabling companies to leverage its cloud computing services and share best practices.

Bodhtree and Kunal have a unique product development methodology to deliver a basic version of your SaaS applications in 90 days (Idea-Product in 90), providing you a unique time to market opportunity for a saleable product, said the release.

Making the announcement, Sanjiv Gupta, chairman of Bodhtree said, “Our focus is to ensure our clients experience successful adoption of cloud technology. Our partnership with Kunal Mittal is aimed to bring significant business value to our existing customers and future partnerships for our center of excellence (CoE) in all the markets we operate.”

Kunal Mittal, technology evangelist at www.kunalmittal.com, said, “The partnership with Bodhtree will offer cost efficient CoE for SaaS and cloud Computing alternative for customers in the US. Bodhtree’s Expanded (CoE) offers services to rapidly define build and deploy SaaS solutions in the Cloud”.

The CoE identifies technology trends and provides thought leadership, sets direction refine methodologies and processes for SaaS based solutions for various verticals and horizontal businesses, that enables companies to leverage cloud computing services and share best practices.