Tutis Technologies Limited was incorporated in September 1991 as Amex Computers and Services Private Limited. Later, in April 1995, the name was changed to Amex Information Technologies Limited. This, in October 2006, became Tutis Technologies Limited (Tutis). Tutis is a Latin word that means secured. The name Tutis was adopted as the company decided	"Tutis has functional expertise in BPO, KPO, BFSI, ITeS, defense and intelligence organizations and the services sector" - Aniket Jathar
to focus its business development on biometrics software and hardware, and its software products were already named as Tutis.

The company was founded by G S Chandrashekar. He is currently the Chairman and MD of the Tutis Group of Companies. The present promoters of the company are G S Chandrashekar and Aniket Jathar. Listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange, Tutis went public through an initial public offer in August 1999. It was a big moment when the company came into the limelight.

The company launched a biometric division in 2003. Tutis has two other subsidiaries in India - Vishal Information Technologies and Basiz Fund Accounting Services. “Tutis and its subsidiaries are not in complementary business models and each company is into different businesses within the ambit of the information technology industry,” said Aniket Jathar, Director, Tutis Technologies.

Vishal Information Technologies was started in 2001 and is a provider of IT-enabled services. From a humble beginning at a 3,000 sq ft office with 30 employees in its first year, VITL has grown into a multi-faceted $8 million ITeS company occupying 15,000 sq ft of office space in Mumbai and Chennai. It employs 190 professionals and operates through a channel of 800 contract employees who cater exclusively to VITL’s internal need. VITL has developed its expertise in the areas of data digitization, e–publishing, digital library and print on-demand.

Basiz Fund Accounting Services was started in January 2006. It is in the business of Fund Accounting, which is a back-office function that begins once a trade is struck and ends when information is sent to investors or broker dealers. The services cover uploads, trade validation, trade processing and valuations, maintenance, quarterly activities and annual activities. Most of Basiz’s clients are significant hedge funds.

Major projects undertaken
Project	Project for	Solution	Purpose
Mapping Project	SEBI and NSDL	High-end, large area, FBI-compliant fingerprint devices along with software. Deployed across India & UAE at more than 300 centers.	Used to create a database of investors as per SEBI guidelines. Data for more than a million users has been captured.
Employee database	NASSCOM	High-end, large area, FBI-compliant fingerprint devices along with software.	Used by NASSCOM to create an employee database that currently hosts more than five million registrations.
Computerization of Land & Revenue Department	IGR	Fingerprint-based solution	Used for capturing fingerprint data in property transactions replacing the age-old, traditional ink pad. Deployed across India at 2,000 locations registering approximately 1 lakh fingerprint captures every day. The system has been in use for the last five years.
Computerization of Land Records & Settlement Commissioner - e-Governance	Land Record and Settlement Commissioner	Fingerprint-based solution	Used by the designated authority to commit land transfer documents. Deployed across 750 locations; approximately 35,000 transactions mutated per month for the past five years
Driving license	State Transport Department	Capturing Biometric Identity of license holder and storing it on a smart card	To store and validate driver information through a biometric smart card being provided as the driver's license. It helps in instant and accurate information retrieval of the license holder.

For the last seven years, Tutis Technologies has been among the leading providers of biometric products and solutions in India. It is a pioneer in the field of biometric software solutions, card-based solutions and devices.

The early years saw Tutis grow rapidly as it added products from global leaders such as Siemens and CMS Computers to its client portfolio. Tutis also constantly endeavored to enrich its product portfolio and added several biometric products, including iGuard, to its list.

Jathar said, “Tutis aims at introducing not just technological innovations but a range of products to customize and redefine workspaces through the best office automation and security solutions. It has a range of biometric products and software solutions with a wide spectrum of functionality, interoperability and flexibility for customization.”

With advances in technology Tutis has made major progress in the field of identity recognition based on fingerprints, smart cards, RFID and even retina scanning. “Tutis has a functional expertise in several industries, especially BPO, KPO, BFSI, ITeS, defense and intelligence organizations and the services sector,” he added.

Tutis currently caters to all these industries with customized and flexible biometric solutions for physical and logical employee-presence tracking and monitoring, time attendance and access control. “These end-to-end biometric solutions are ideal for both large and small enterprises and can be used to simplify processes like payroll calculation and also make them user friendly,” Jathar explained.

Tutis Biometric functions globally; it is headquartered in Mumbai, India, with offices in the UK and UAE.

It has an impressive list of clients across the globe, including corporate giants Siemens, Wipro-Dubai, Emirates Group and ETA Ascon Group.

Major projects undertaken
1999	Started the Biometric division as a value-added reseller for biometric automation devices imported from China and USA.
2000	Established strategic partnership-based business model with Cross Match Technologies and SecuGen Corp, USA.
2000	The company successfully completed a large-scale project for the Government of Maharashtra for fingerprint-based Stamp Duty and Registration automation process for property transactions.
2001	It made a strategic alliance with Lucky Technologies for their Time - Attendance device-iGuard.
2002	Carried out a project on fingerprint-based automation for employee monitoring and exporting the data for payroll calculations in a large pharmaceutical MNC.
2003	The company established strategic alliances with leading biometric companies and strengthened existing relations through a series of aggressive media campaigns and visibility initiatives.
2005	It developed and launched its own security software Tutis Biometric Logon in Desktop as well as Enterprise versions. This software has been accepted by both end-users as well as enterprises with large networks.
2005	The company submitted a proof of concept and subsequently deployed Tutis Biometric Logon for a leading financial institution for an online banking application.
2006	It successfully deployed the Enterprise version of Tutis Biometric Logon at a UK-based call center with over 400 clients and nine servers.
2006	The company developed fingerprint matching technology, Fingerpoint Ver 1.2, for applications written for the Microsoft Windows platform.
2006	It released an upgraded version of Tutis Biometric Logon (TBL 2.0) with enhanced features like 'Cache Logon' and more AFIDs.
2007	Tutis Biometric Logon now supports Windows Terminal Services.

The company’s Biometric Division is headed by Aniket Jathar and has been divided into three departments—development, marketing, pre- and after-sales support. The combined employee strength for all three departments is around 50. Jathar said, “Our Mumbai office is the nerve center for all three activities. Licensing and e-mail support is also done from Mumbai. We have sales and support offices in Chennai, London and Dubai. In India, we have a network of resellers who provide installation support for our customers.”

The company is also planning to appoint software integrators in the Far East to provide after-sales support for its Tutis Logon products.

The most ambitious and perhaps the most successful project for Tutis was the development of Tutis Biometric Logon (TBL), a robust and scalable biometric security software solution that employs fingerprint-based authentication for desktop and domain log-on.

TBL runs on a Windows platform and replaces the conventional password-based Windows login with a fingerprint login for both desktops and domains. The software comes in two editions; Tutis Desktop Edition and the Tutis Enterprise Edition.

The software is being used in a diverse set industries and verticals, from banking and finance to ITeS to defense and intelligence. TBL facilitates time management for employees in large networks and BPOs where employee presence and movement directly reflect productivity. It can also be customized for integration with payroll software and can be used by managers to increase the efficiency of their business and secure their data.

TBL supports SecuGen’s fingerprint scanner SecuGen Hamster III as well as other scanning devices. SecuGen Hamster III is a compact fingerprint scanner with USB connectivity. It is scratch-, impact-, vibration- and electrostatic shock-resistant and comes with a three-year warranty.