A bit of History..

Dataflow Software was founded in 1985 by Rajiv Bhagwat. This was the time when personal computers were becoming popular worldwide.

One of the first developments included a Devanagari word processor for Apple II. This was later transferred to a PC clone to become a full-fledged DTP application. Back then, Macs were the only alternative to big typesetting equipment. Entry of cheaper personal computers opened up this technology to a wide variety of printing houses.

Thus, Dataflow was the first company to introduce the software for DTP in Indian languages. Dataflow's Devyani software was released in November 1986 and it started off the DTP industry in India. Several Newspaper and Magazine installations followed and the mushrooming DTP bureaus quickly standardized on Dataflow's software products.

Among the most prominent customers, the Times of India group was the first large group to embrace Devyani DTP. It is used both by The Maharashtra Times and by The Navbharat Times. (The very first newspaper was 'Navbharat Times', Lucknow edition.) The Indian Express, Sakal and the Tarun Bharat group were also among the early followers. Newspapers from Lucknow, Delhi, Aurangabad, Goa, Gauhati and other far away places started using Devyani. Today, in the city of Mumbai alone, more than 22 newspapers use Dataflow's software.

Devyani started off the development of softwares for other Indian languages and their fonts. Dataflow was again the first company to introduce Oriya, Gujarati and Urdu on computers. Urdu, due to right-to-left writing combined with top-to-down placement of characters within a word, still remains a difficult script to computerize.