Sankhya Technologies is a software product company focused on developing software platforms and offering innovative platform driven solutions to industries. Key platforms and solutions include SANKHYA V-One for business process automation for the SMEs, Teraptor for embedded system design automation and Varadhi a middleware solution for distributed computing. Sankhyas customers represent a broad range of industries including semiconductors and chip design, consumer electronics, software, power plant control, defence electronics and manufacturing. Sankhya has received several awards and recognitions including the prestigious Lockheed Martin India Innovation Award during the year 2008. Sankhya has received 2 US Patents on its technologies and has several pending patents. Founded in 1996, Sankhya Technologies is a privately held company with development centers in Chennai and a 20,000 square feet SEZ facility in Visakhapatnam Vizag, India.