“Effective leaders allow great people to do the work they were born to do.”
Rohit Gaur, Managing Director at Infragistics, follows this mantra and implements that in his leadership. He says, “Effective leadership builds trust between Infragistics’ leaders and our employees; it is the glue that enables all our efforts to succeed.”
Mr. Rohit Gaur has spearheaded Infragistics operations in India since 2013 and he believes in leading by example. Effective leadership is an important aspect of Infragistics culture. As a leader, he sets high standards for his team by encouraging new ideas and promoting innovation and creativity. He also inspires and motivates his team by sharing a common vision. This helps the company build an environment where people love to work, support each other, and learn how to complement each other’s skills.
An Impressive Journey
Based in Gurgaon, Mr. Rohit Gaur has over 27 years of experience in sales, building relationships with customers and partners at large multinational companies, small and medium-sized businesses, and Indian government organizations. He holds a Bachelor’s degree from Kurukshetra University and a post-graduation diploma from the Aptech Institute. Mr. Rohit Gaur started his first job as a Channel Manager at Symantec Corp in 2001. He continued in the IT industry and moved into Serena Software as an Enterprise Account Manager. Later, he joined Microsoft as an Alliances Manager in North India. In 2011, he started working with Symantec as the National Sales Manager – Enterprise (PSU) before joining Infragistics.
Changing the Software Development Industry
Infragistics was founded in 1989 and has become one of the world’s leading enterprise software developers with offices in India, the United States, England, Japan, Bulgaria, and Uruguay. The company has continued to excel in the industry by meeting clients’ expectations and delighting customers with sophisticated and easy-to-use software. It has a developer and UX professional community of over 1.4 million and has gained great recognition in the software development industry. The company serves enterprise software leaders, CIOs, and independent software developers who need sophisticated, reliable software to fill their UX/UI, app development, business intelligence, and digital workplace needs.
Infragistics collaborates internally and works closely with customers to co-create solutions that address their pain points and anticipate their future needs. The company is committed to improving through innovation, and customer collaboration provides the insights and feedback necessary to develop and advance its cutting-edge solutions.
For example, its development team works closely with customers to incorporate new features into its products, such as Reveal (embedded analytics) and App Builder (low-code software). With its skilled team of developers and input from its customers, the company provides continually updated leading-edge enterprise software solutions that solve problems for software developers, CIOS, CTOs, and other IT professionals.
Overcoming the Developer Shortage
A major challenge facing the IT industry is the shortage of software developers. According to the Reveal survey, recruiting developers with the right skills was a top challenge with more than a third of respondents (37.5%) indicating that they will continue to have trouble hiring skilled developers. To address this challenge, low-code tools have emerged as the cornerstone of modern-day app development, driving innovation and digital transformation.
The Reveal survey of software developers found that low-code software is a powerful tool for boosting productivity. Nearly all the 585 respondents (90.4%) said that low-code tools boosted developer productivity in their organizations. New low-code software platforms like Infragistics App Builder increase developer productivity and enable novices to create apps with minimal training.
The company believes that the market for low-code software to boost developer productivity will continue to explode. IT departments are being asked to do more with less while their struggles to hire skilled developers continue. That is part of the reason why seven out of ten software developers (71.8%) are currently using low-code/no-code tools, according to the Reveal survey.
The Role of Reveal in Modern Analytics
Information has become a critical enterprise asset and analytics is an essential competency in the most successful organizations. We are undergoing a cultural shift toward data in driving business decisions. Conversations that were once based on hunches and personal assumptions are now filled with data to make decisions.
Business intelligence has become an imperative in decision-making. The main reasons software developers and their customers want embedded analytics/business intelligence software are to make better business decisions, improve productivity, increase sales/revenue, understand business problems, and identify trends. Embedded analytics is the future of harnessing the power of business intelligence. The 2024 Reveal survey found that 71.6% of developers expect their organization’s focus on business intelligence to rise. Developers will continue to rely on embedded analytics software like Reveal to cut development time and reduce costs.
This transformation toward data-based decision-making prompted the company to develop Reveal embedded analytics software in 2019. Reveal integrates into the user’s application ecosystem and offers complete control and flexibility for customized analytics. This integration allows users to transform data from various sources. The transformed data is presented as visual displays which help decision-makers understand the information and take action.
Driving Growth through a Strategic Approach
Regarding driving the growth of the company, Mr. Rohit Gaur quotes a line from Infragistics CEO Dean Guida’s book – When Grit is Not Enough: An Entrepreneur’s Playbook for Taking Your Business to the Next Level. “We need to change direction and realign when market conditions change, new information becomes available, or signals from customers, competitors, and staff show a new direction.”
Infragistics is a learning company committed to the scientific method of driving business outcomes and growth hacking, so it’s constantly collaborating and exchanging feedback. The company adjusts to changes in the marketplace, customer buying habits, competitors, and other factors. It drives growth in India through increased communication and alignment.
The company’s strategic plan is an intentional, structured process of using available knowledge and data to chart a business direction. The team finds out what works and what doesn’t and changes the strategic plan when appropriate. This process prioritizes efforts, allocates resources, aligns executives, shareholders, and employees with the organization’s goals, and ensures that decisions are backed by data and sound reasoning. The company is continually adapting to moving variables in its business cycle. This allows Infragistics to run its current business effectively and still make the investments needed to remain nimble enough to move where the market is going and have a competitive advantage.
Standing Out in the Software Development Industry
Infragistics has operations in six countries, and its client roster boasts 100 percent of the S&P 500, including Fidelity, Morgan Stanley, Exxon, Intuit, and Bank of America. It has a passion for craftsmanship which comes from its desire to deliver simple and beautiful experiences that drive productivity across digital product teams, and that enable data-driven, high-performing teams across an entire organization.
Infragistics products are built with care and attention to every small detail, from its learned expertise over the last 35 years. With its products Reveal and App Builder, it gives business users the latest advancements in self-service business intelligence and low-code application development. Over the past three and a half decades, Infragistics has become a worldwide leader in providing tools to enhance business intelligence and accelerate application design and development.
An Effective Leadership Approach
Mr. Rohit Gaur has been an effective industry leader for years, with a leadership approach that focuses on trust and inspiration. His willingness to work collaboratively with teams and customers aligns with Infragistics’ mission to improve and innovate. He enjoys building relationships, forming true partnerships, helping customers tackle new challenges, and meeting their needs in innovative ways. He is proud to lead Infragistics’ growth in India and help maintain Infragistics’ position as a world leader in user interface development tools and multi-platform enterprise software products.
