[7] It is now in its seventh edition and is used as a standard textbook in India, Europe, South America, Australia and South-east Asia.
[citation needed] The book has been translated into Spanish, German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Greek, and in Arabic.
[citation needed] His research is in the area of bioinformatics[8] Navathe is working in advisory roles with Indian companies like Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), and Persistent Systems.
[9] Navathe taught as an assistant professor in the Computer Applications and Information Systems Department at the Graduate School of Business Administration New York University and at the Computer and Information Sciences Department at University of Florida before joining Georgia Institute of Technology in 1990.
He was the general chairman at the IFIP WG 2.6 Working Conference on Database Application Semantics (DS-6), Stone Mountain, Georgia, May 31-June 2.
He has been the associate editor of ACM Computing Surveys, September 1986 – December 1997, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Sept. '94.