UK's Serco buys InfoVision for $75 mn

NEW DELHI: In a first of its kind acquisition of a India-focused BPO by a foreign company, the UK-based $6-billion Serco Group has bought out
Gurgaon-based BPO major InfoVision.

The deal marks the entry of Serco Group, a business services company, into India. The company has bought a 60% stake and will acquire the rest over the next couple of years.

According to sources, Serco will pay about $75 million for the Rs 250-crore InfoVision. ET had reported earlier in September that Serco is among the frontrunners to acquire InfoVision.

InfoVision group has about 10,000 personnel and 60 clients. Serco, which offers a whole spectrum of support services but did not have a presence in the BPO space prior to the InfoVision acquisition, plans to have a workforce of 20,000 in the next 2-3 years.

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Women are vital part of India's IT workforce'

Bangalore, Nov 19: NASSCOM President Som Mittal on Wednesday, Nov 19 said Women consttuted a vital part of India's IT workforce and the industry will continue to attract more women employees and leaders.

Speaking at the third annual IT Women Leadership Summit here he said the Indian IT-BPO industry was a highly diverse and an inclusive industry. It has set world class HR policies in all areas including recruitments, training, retaining and promoting strategic business plans. NASSCOM announced the winners of Gender Inclusivity Awards at the Summit. The awards, in the second year now, honour companies in the IT-BPO industry which have implemented outstanding practices that promote gender empowerment and women leadership development.

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Extentia extends offshoring services to Europe

Extentia Information Technology, a global software development company, today announced the formalization of a strategic development relationship with CoSMIT GmbH, Germany, to provide software development and consulting services to their European clients.Extentia Information Technology is a software development and consulting organization primarily servicing North America and Europe. With strong technical skills both on Microsoft and Java platforms, Extentia is committed to delivering high quality, information technology solutions. The company focuses on providing global solutions, and addresses the needs of corporations and software development companies requiring Internet, webbased and clientserver solutions based on industry standards and emerging technologies.

With their consulting services and software solutions in the business intelligence space, CoSMIT have enjoyed rapid growth and success and can look back on numerous profitable years of business. CoSMITs product and service range covers Actuate Consulting, BIRT, Portal and Dashboard development, Databases, Training and custom tools for Business Intelligence.

With the increasing importance of open source software, BIRT solutions have become more attractive for organizations of all sizes. And with the increasing demand for BIRT based skills, CoSMIT, as an established integration service provider, is well positioned to further drive business and focus on customer needs in Europe.

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IT outsourcing deal from Godrej

In a major domestic outsourcing deal, Godrej Industries and Godrej Consumer Products have signed a 10 year outsourcing contract with HewlettPackard HP. The value of the contract was not disclosed, but would include application development and maintenance, infrastructure management and transformational initiatives. As part of the agreement between the firms, HP will also take over the staff working in the IT operations of the two companies.

This strategic outsourced partnership between HP and Godrej, one of Indias best known brands and leading corporate houses, will power various business transformation initiatives within Godrej and ensure longterm growth and competitive edge.

Since the first such outsourcing deal between Bharti and IBM, a number of similar deals have been announced by Indian business groups. In February this year, the Future group had signed a similar outsourcing deal for USD 150 million with Wipro, in which about 265 employees of Pantaloon Retail had moved to the IT firm. In this case, the IT management staff will be retained by Godrej, while the IT operations staff will move to Hewlett Packard.

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