AvePoint- TJ Jiang and Kai Gong’s unique company that enables software solution for infrastructure management
An independent software manufacturing and vendor firm AvePoint has a name in the industry because of its miscellaneous service. It is known for the development and selling of software as well, for software management. In 2013, it marked its name in a list of Deloitte Fast 500 of the fastest-growing companies in the world. Also, it was listed as the fastest-growing company in America in Inc. magazine’s “Inc. 500|5000” list. Presently, AvePoint acquired 13,000 plus enterprise clients worldwide. Today, the firm is successfully serving the industrial, education, healthcare, financial, as well as energy sectors all across the continents.
About AvePoint
It is a New Jersey-based software development and management platform, set up in 2001. As well, it has several operational centers across the continents. Some of the operational centers are located in the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, China, South Africa, U.K, France, Germany, Switzerland, Singapore, and the Netherlands. The firm is known for software development, selling, and management. So that enterprise collaboration systems work well.
Today, dozens of organization belonging to all kind of fields prefers AvePoint. In fact, it had more than 12000 enterprise customers from financial, legal, cosmetics, mining, health, and many other fields. Even the government and defense of many countries trust AvePoint for software management.
The services offered by AvePoint
AvePoint offers infrastructure and governance development platform with its DocAve software platform. It enabled the optimization, integration, management, and protection for its product SharePoint. In 2012, the newer version with more features was released. As well, to design the governance policies for SharePoint, it launched DocAve Governance Automation in the same year.
Moreover, it also offers a SaaS platform for Microsoft Office 365 along with online backup for MS office 365. Apart from that, it also enabled the platform to minimize the risk of privacy violations. To restrict malicious attacks, data piracy, it designed the AvePoint Compliance Guardian Online platform. Also, it’s governance Automation online s/m offers the best service to business-centric users.
Some other platforms are AvePoint Compliance, DocAve Content Shield, DocAve File Share Navigator, and many more.
Other Services
Apart from being independent software management, the firm has been working in partnership with Microsoft. In fact, it’s a gold-certified partner of Microsoft. AvePoint Works to enhance the compatibility of SharePoint products as per changing needs. As well, it involved equipment manufacturer partnership. Because it focuses on leverage it’s a technology using third-party applications.
Six years ago in 2014, Rackspace and AvePoint announced agreements. With this, the firms will focus on hosting and value-added reselling. Additionally, the content management products of AvePoint will be available for Rackspace’s clients.
Glimpse to Founders life
TJ Jiang
He is the co-founder and present Co-CEO of the firm. TJ attended Cornell University for a bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Electrical and computer engineering. However, he also went to NYU Stern School of Business. Presently, he handles the AvePoint business strategy and development. In 2010, he received Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year award in New Jersey.
Early Career
Before co-founding AvePoint, his career focus was on designing and implementing fix-income trading systems, global equity program trading platforms. As well, he was interested in credit risk modeling and researching Data Mining. Throughout the career journey, he spends much of his time meeting with customers, partners, and industry analysts in order to better understand the customer journey. So that to consult on practical and effective business outcome-based digital transformation.
Kai Gong
He is one of the founding members and present co-Ceo at AvePoint. Before that, he was a senior software engineer at Bell Labs at Lucent Technologies. Prior to that, he also served at Jhonson and Jhonson as a software engineer. Kai Gong attended Southern University to study Computer Science.
Awards and recognition of AvePoint
In a very short duration, the firm proved it’s excellence and get noticed at the international level. It’s DocAve 6 product was recognized as Best of TechEd. As well, the firm was the finalist at Microsoft partner of the year award 2013 in three categories. Those categories were the SharePoint app developer, Content partner, and the public sector partner of the year.
However, it also received the Microsoft partner of the year award in 2014. Moreover, its name among Deloitte Fast 500 of the fastest-growing companies in the world.
Bottom Line
Since it’s the foundation, AvePoint Inc is providing miscellaneous service and software solutions for infrastructure management. It covers enterprise content management, web content management, governance, as well as cloud integration. AvePoint is a trusted provider of many enterprises from many fields. Today, more than 14,000 enterprises and 3 million-plus cloud users trust AvePoint to manage SharePoint as well as Office 365 data.
Jayshri is an Electronics Engineer, but her passion towards writing made her to be in this field. Apart from content writing, she loves reading, writing and surfing on various topics. In her free time, she likes to watch TV series and news. Sherlock Holmes is her all time favorite show. Jayshri loves cooking various Indian-western dishes.