WNS announces multi-year US D 1 billion BPO contract with Aviva
WNS (Holdings) Limited, a leading provider of global Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services, has entered into a transaction with Aviva, the world’s fifth largest insurance group with USd 95 billion revenue in 2007. The WNS-managed facility in Pune will remain with WNS.

TCS receives Innovation Award from Ferrari
Tata Consultancy Services, the leading IT services, business solutions and outsourcing firm announced it has received the Innovation Award from Ferrari, for its ability to use technology services to spur innovation in one of the most competitive and technologically advanced arenas of automobile engineering. The
seven-time F1 World Champion Michael Schumacher presented the Innovation Award to TCS officials

Newgen Software wins the Emerging India Award
Newgen Software Technologies limited, a leader in the field of Business Process Management (BPM) and Enterprise Content Management (ECM) has announced that it has won the CNBC-TV 18 and ICICI Bank Emerging India Awards. The award was felicitated in a grand ceremony in London by the Honourable Commerce Minister, Kamal Nath and India’s steel tycoon, L N Mittal to Diwakar Nigam, Managing Director, Newgen Software in the ‘Information Technology, Communications and Entertainment (ICE) and IT-enabled Services (ITeS)’ category.

Rankings and Patents

L&T ranks first in Quality in Wall Street Journal Asia Survey
In a survey conducted by Wall Street Journal Asia, L&T has ranked No. 1 in Quality among its Indian peers. In the overall listing of India’s Top 10, L&T has claimed the sixth position.

Satyam BPO ranked No 2 BPO vendor globally
Satyam Computer Services Limited has announced that Satyam BPO, its Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) arm, has been ranked second among the world’s leading BPO vendors in Brown-Wilson Group’s Black Book of Outsourcing.

Wipro is ranked fourth in the ‘Top Companies for Leaders’ in India, fifth in Asia Pacific region and 20th globally

Wipro participated in the ‘Top Companies for Leaders’ 2007 Survey conducted by Hewitt Associates, Fortune Magazine, and The RBL Group, and were amongst 563 companies globally to participate. Wipro was ranked fourth on the ‘Top Companies for Leaders’ in India, fifth in Asia Pacific region and 20th globally.

Infosys awarded two patents by the United States Patentand Trademark office – patents granted in Holography and Mobile Communications

Infosys Technologies Limited, today announced that it has been granted two patents by the US Patent and Trademark Office. These patents are in the areas of holography and mobile communications.

Global Expansion

Mindtree plans nearshore presence and announces Mexico development centre
MindTree Limited, a global IT and R&D services company announced its intention to open a new development centre in Monterrey, Mexico later this year. The new development centre will help the company strengthen its nearshore operations in the United States and Latin America.

Skelta widens European footprint with Financefirst alliance
Skelta Software, a leader in BPM and Workflow solutions recently announced a partnership with Financefirst as their Value Added Reseller for the European market. Financefirst provides an array of financial services in accounting, finance, tax preparation, cash flow planning, reporting and controls to customers in Europe.
Financefirst supports CFOs by streamlining back office, improve efficiency, and get better insight in their day-to-day operations

Customer Announcements

Hyatt shared service centre, LL C selects Genpact for finance and accounting services
Genpact, which manages business processes for companies around the world, has announced that it has signed a five-year contract to provide finance and accounting services to Hyatt Shared Service Centre, LLC. The decision to reengineer and globalise these services is part of Hyatt’s global competitive improvement initiative.

Education and Skill Building

MphasiS launches ‘College Connect’ for Engineering Colleges;
partnership with academia to help build industry ready talent MphasiS, an EDS company today formally launched its ‘College Connect’ programme. The company will partner with Engineering Colleges to help bridge the gap between academics and industry needs thereby creating talent thatcan be deployed on real time project work immediately. ‘College Connect’ is being undertaken with Birla Institute of Technology – Ranchi, MIT – Pune, MSEC – Chennai, New Horizon – Bangalore, NIST – Berhampur, Orissa and
Sathyabama University – Chennai.

Gender Inclusivity

International house and Merrill Lynch continue to prepare women for leadership positions

Merrill Lynch, one of the world’s leading financial management and advisory companies, has awarded a USD 50,000 grant to renew for the fourth year, its support of the Women’s International Leadership (WIL) Programme at International House. 18 women from 13 countries were chosen to participate in the
2007-08 WIL Programme. Since its inception in 1990, more than 200 women from a variety of cultures and disciplines have participated in this merit-based scholarship programme.

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