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Divya Kumat, VP-Legal & Company Secretary of Datamatics Global wins Women Leaders in India Awards 2011

December 19th, 2011

Datamatics Global Services, a Global Information Technology (IT) and Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) organization, announced today that Ms. Divya Kumat, Vice President (Legal) and Company Secretary has won the “Women Leaders in India Awards 2011″. She was adjudged as the Leading Woman Company Secretary of the year 2011 in the 3rd edition of Women Leaders in India Awards, at a glittering award ceremony held at the Taj Mahal Palace, Colaba, Mumbai.

Ms. Kumat leads all legal and secretarial initiatives for Datamatics Group of companies. She has over 19 years of professional experience and has held progressively senior and leadership positions. She has been associated with Datamatics for more than 8 years.

On receiving the award, Ms. Divya Kumat said, “It is an honour to receive this award. As a part of Team Datamatics, I have always believed in the core values of transparency and corporate ethics, which also lay a robust foundation for sound corporate governance. The award therefore not only celebrates my personal achievements but also lays recognition to the highest standards of transparency and corporate governance at Datamatics. I would like to thank the jury members and the participants for recognising our efforts”.

Divya holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce (Honors), Bachelor of Law (LLB) degree and is a Gold Medalist in LLM with thesis in International Arbitration. She is a fellow member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India (FCS) and Merit holder in ICSA, London.

Annual Women Leaders in India Awards ceremony celebrates the remarkable achievements of the successful women leaders, entrepreneurs and professionals. The event recognizes an exceptional leader who has played an important role in the specific sector and developments on various levels. This esteemed award, which is in its 3rd year, is based on various parameters like internal perception within the organization, credibility, achievements and value contribution to the business. This year the initiative hosted 200 Top Women from the Business, Professional and Political Arena.

Source:http://www.indiaprwire.com/pressrelease/information-technology/20111216106714.htm

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BNY Mellon Captures ‘Outsourcing Deal of the Year’ Award from FSO Knowledge Xchange for Second Consecutive Year

August 2nd, 2011

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BNY Mellon, the global leader in investment management and investment services, announced that for the second year in a row it has won the ‘Outsourcing Deal of the Year’ award from FSO Knowledge Xchange. BNY Mellon was recognized for its partnership with Rainier Investment Management in providing accounting, performance measurement, account opening and reconciliation, and client reporting and billing services.

FSO Knowledge Xchange (FSOkx), a global media and research organization, announced the winners of its 2011 Excellence Awards at its fifth annual summit event in New York. Each year FSO’s research team and panel of judges conducts an extensive quantitative and qualitative analysis of nominations using a proprietary methodology that looks at uniqueness of the solution, interoperability, services covered, client benefits, geographic reach, revenue impact, process improvement, level of transparency, and other criteria.

“Our partnership with BNY Mellon has given us a real advantage in terms of how we allocate our people and functional resources,” said Melodie Zakaluk, chief operations officer of Rainier Investment Management. “Over the last year, we’ve been able to dedicate more employees to servicing our clients and continually enhancing the client experience, which is extremely important to us.”

“BNY Mellon displays true partnership with its clients, a theme we heard throughout our conference,” said Rekha Vatsa, chief executive officer of FSO Knowledge Xchange. “Its clients consider it not only a partner, but also an extension of their own organization.”

“We’re seeing significant growth in the outsourcing business, because it makes sense for investment firms to focus on managing assets and client relationships and allow service providers to administer their back-office and make the technology commitment,” said Lou Maiuri, BNY Mellon Asset Servicing’s global head of outsourcing. “This award is a validation of the success we’ve had in partnering with investment managers like Rainier and our position as an industry leader.”

Rainier Investment Management, Inc. is an employee-owned investment firm dedicated to enhancing client returns through insightful and disciplined identification of growth companies. Independently owned since 1991, Rainier remains a boutique firm focused on providing high-value-added U.S. equity and fixed income portfolio management. Headquartered in Seattle and with an office in New York City, Rainier manages $18.1 billion in assets as of June 30, 2010, including separate accounts and the Rainier Funds.

BNY Mellon Asset Servicing offers clients worldwide a broad spectrum of specialized asset servicing capabilities, including custody and fund services, securities lending, performance and analytics, and execution services. BNY Mellon Asset Servicing provides services through BNY Mellon and other related companies.

BNY Mellon is a global financial services company focused on helping clients manage and service their financial assets, operating in 36 countries and serving more than 100 markets. BNY Mellon is a leading provider of financial services for institutions, corporations and high-net-worth individuals, offering superior investment management and investment services through a worldwide client-focused team. It has $26.3 trillion in assets under custody and administration and $1.3 trillion in assets under management, services $11.8 trillion in outstanding debt and processes global payments averaging $1.7 trillion per day. BNY Mellon is the corporate brand of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation (NYSE: BK).

Source:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bny-mellon-captures-outsourcing-deal-of-the-year-award-from-fso-knowledge-xchange-for-second-consecutive-year-126515703.html

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IBA Group Wins European IT Excellence Award 2011

February 16th, 2011

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IT Europa (http://www.iteuropa.com/), a leading European IT publisher and market intelligence organization, announced the winners of the European IT Excellence Awards 2011 – the pan-European awards event for IT and Telecoms channels. The finalists were honoured at a celebration dinner at The London Marriott Hotel, Grosvenor Square, London.

The contest was organized to recognise the crucial role that Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Solution Providers play in the delivery of real world solutions, and attracted entries from 31 countries. Entries were submitted by ISVs and resellers describing the solution provided and each had to be supported by an endorsement by the client. Sixty-two companies from 22 countries made the finals. The winners were selected by an independent panel of consultants and editors.
IBA Group (http://www.ibagroup.eu/ ) participated in the contest for the third time. The company was selected a finalist in 2008 and 2010. This year, IBA Group became the winner in the category Relationship Management.

In congratulating the winners, Alan Norman, Managing Director of IT Europa said:”The overall quality of entries was extremely high and demonstrated the depth of talent in the channel community across Europe. I congratulate all the winners and wish them and all the finalists every success in the year ahead.”
Sergei Levteev, IBA Group CEO and President, commented: “We are proud to be a winner in this renowned European contest. In the competition, judges evaluated not companies’ operations but individual projects that contributed to the clients’ success. In other words, they evaluated the everyday work of our programmers. The victory is just another confirmation of the high professional level of IBA Group’s IT specialists.”

Source:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/iba-group-wins-european-it-excellence-award-2011-116228394.html

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Wipro Technologies wins industry award

December 21st, 2010

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In the VLSI design area, Wipro works on leading edge technologies to deliver end-to-end chip design services for semiconductor companies.

Wipro Technologies, the Global Consulting, System Integration and Outsourcing Business of Wipro Limited has announced that it has been awarded the ‘2010 Outstanding Corporate Award’ for contribution to the Embedded systems and Very-Large-Scale Integration (VLSI) industry segment. The ‘2010 Leadership Awards for the Embedded/VLSI Industry’ are administered by Mentor Graphics, and SiliconIndia. Wipro is a recognized leader in the Product Engineering Services area and has been recognized for its commitment towards delivering high-value engineering solutions that help customers to accelerate time to revenue by building the right products that suit the end users.

Wipro is the world’s largest third party R&D services provider, according to a 2009 report by an independent research firm, Zinnov Management Consulting.
In the VLSI design area, Wipro works on leading edge technologies to deliver end-to-end chip design services for semiconductor companies. The Product Engineering group at Wipro also serves system companies in multiple industry verticals. Wipro has developed a collaborative eco-system of partners over the last two decades to offer turnkey solutions to customers.

Wipro’s product compliance and certification lab – ‘Tarang’ has world class facilities that help test products in aerospace, automotive, computing, consumer electronics, industrial automation, medical electronics and telecommunication industries. It is a one-stop-shop offering consultancy and pre-compliance testing in the areas of EMI/ EMC, Mechanical, Thermal, Acoustic, Safety and Reliability. Wipro also offers product certification enabling services across geographies. This is a NABL (ISO/ IEC 17025) accredited facility.

“Wipro Technologies has been the biggest driver and motivator to most of the R&D services companies in India and across the globe. With this award it will be one more stepping stone for Wipro in the endeavor to become the largest R&D services company in the world. We salute Wipro on this significant achievement and outstanding contribution to India VLSI and Embedded Industry,” said Dr Walden C. Rhines, Mentor Graphics CEO and Chairman of the board.

Ayan Mukerji, Senior Vice President and Global Head, Product Engineering Services, Wipro Technologies, said, “We are elated by this recognition of our achievements in the Product Engineering space. This award is a strong testimony of our capability and position in the VLSI/embedded design industry and our efforts to accelerate the product life cycle, reduce product and compliance failures; and build smaller, faster and power-efficient chips. We will continue to partner with our customers to deliver industry leading solutions in embedded design as well as address their product marketing and next generation product development needs, and enable them to optimally leverage technology and become more competitive.”

The SiliconIndia Mentor Graphics Leadership Awards for the Embedded/VLSI industry are the first annual industry awards instituted for the VLSI/Embedded sector.

The winners of these awards were chosen jury panel consisting of eminent industry leaders such as Guru Ganeshan, Managing Director, ARM-India Operations; Vivek Sharma, Vice-President Asia Pacific & India

Operation Director, India Research Centers, STMicroelectronics; Srini Rajam, Chairman and CEO, Ittiam Systems; Dr. Satyanarayan Gupta, CEO, Concept2Silicon Systems; Pravin Desale, Vice President, Milpitas CA (Storage Components Division), LSI; Santhanakrishnan Raman, Managing Director, LSI India R&D and Rajiv Kapur, Managing Director, Broadcom India.

Source:http://www.indiainfoline.com/Markets/News/Wipro-Technologies-wins-industry-award/5026850598

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RP wins UK BPO award for 3rd time

November 1st, 2010

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The Philippines is now a three-time winner of the National Outsourcing Association’s “Offshoring Destination of the Year Award” after it bagged the prize at the NOA 2010 Awards.

This also makes the Philippines a back-to-back winner as it also won the same award last year and for the first time, in 2007.

The awards night was held last Oct. 21 at the Park Plaza Riverbank which is right in the heart of London.

Philippine trade attaché Mike Ignacio and marketing officer Vic Casim received the award in behalf of the country.

The NOA is United Kingdom’s only outsourcing trade association.

Advocating best practice, the NOA represents outsourcing end-users, vendors and other companies, which support outsourcing such as legal firms, consultancies and HR. It is also involved in research, events, education and public affairs.

In the past four years, the NOA has set high standards in the recognition of outsourcing as a legitimate business practice. The awards also give recognition to companies or people worldwide who exhibit excellence in the field of outsourcing

In 2009, the Philippine BPO industry generated $7.2 billion in export revenues, employing close to 450,000 workers, making the Philippines the world’s second biggest BPO player next only to India.

The Business Processing Association of the Philippines (BPAP) is the umbrella trade association of the Philippine BPO industry representing the entire spectrum of BPO and IT-enabled services, including customer service, back office outsourcing, software development, engineering design, digital animation, and game development.

By the end of 2010, BPAP expects the BPO industry to register revenues close to $9.5 billion, which is a 26-percent improvement from the previous year.

The headcount of BPO full-time employees in the country is also expected to increase to 650,000 by yearend.

This year’s nomination entry was submitted by the Bureau of Investments in cooperation with BPAP.

Source:http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=625961&publicationSubCategoryId=71

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UK body confers outsourcing award to PHL

October 31st, 2010

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The Philippines is an “abundant graduate workforce” that makes it a “veritable offshore giant for the UK BPO market,” a UK-based outsourcing trade association said when it gave the Offshoring Destination of the Year Award to the country for the third time.

The country bested nominees Egypt, Sri Lanka and Ukraine to clinch the top award given by UK’s National Outsourcing Organization, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said in a statement.

The NOA — a recognized, 20 year-old outsourcing trade association in the UK and a founding member and prime mover of the European Outsourcing Association — also noted the country’s 92 percent literary rate, a 36-million labor force with 450,000 university graduates per year and about 100,00 finance and accounting graduates, and the general ability to understand and speak English with a neutral and understandable accent, as factors that make the country a good place to outsource.

The country’s “world-class telecommunications infrastructure and unparalleled government support in the form of income tax holidays of up to six years and other fiscal and non-fiscal incentives also heavily boosted the country’s chances,” the DFA also noted.

Fiscal incentives after the initial four- to six-year income tax holiday include granting outsourcers who locate their offices in buildings and installations accredited as Philippine IT economic zones a flat five percent tax rate on gross income.

The NOA Awards are held every year in recognition of the best practices in the UK outsourcing industry, with 17 categories in contention this year.

The award was received by Commercial Attaché Michael Alfred Ignacio and Trade of Investment Representative Vicente Casim of the Philippine Trade and Investment Center in London.

Awarding ceremonies were held at the Park Plaza Riverbank Hotel in London on Oct. 22, the statement noted. The Philippines received the same award in 2007 and 2009.

The country’ entry for this year’s NOA Awards was prepared and submitted by the Board of Investments, in cooperation with the Philippine Outsourcing Industry, Business Process Association Philippines and other major players.

7.2B industry and still growing

Industry records show the country’s BPO industry employed around 442,000 employees and garnered revenues of $7.2 billion last year, a 19% gain from 2008’s $6.06 billion. For this year, revenues are still expected to hit $9.5 billion.

The country has become a location of choice for outsourcing in the fields of customer service; legal and medical transcription; backroom operations for finance, logistics and accounting; and software development and animation — all primarily because of cheaper labor costs and an English-speaking workforce.

Working conditions and compensation remain of “good quality” for the country’s business process outsourcing (BPO) workers, the International Labor Organization (ILO) said.

However, it also noted that BPO employees — the majority of whom are working in call center facilities — suffer from work-related health problems.

Among these problems are sleep disorders, fatigue, eye strain, neck, shoulder and back pains, and voice problems. The ILO study also indicated that BPO workers have less freedom, and are constantly under “high levels” of stress.

Some of the stress-inducing factors mentioned in the study were harassment from irate clients, excessive and tedious workload, performance demands, monotony, and regular night work.

Source:http://www.gmanews.tv/story/204809/uk-body-confers-outsourcing-award-to-phl

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Syntel retail solution earns “partner of the year” award from Microsoft India

September 27th, 2010

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Syntel, Inc. , a global information technology services and Knowledge Process Outsourcing (KPO) firm, today announced it has been named “Partner of the Year” by Microsoft India for the distribution and services industry.
Syntel was honored for its Store Service Workbench (SSW), an innovative cross-functional retail solution built on the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) platform. The solution empowers stores with business intelligence, scorecarding and training, while enforcing business excellence through a robust task management, store audit and collaboration platform.

Accessible though a browser or mobile devices, SSW is an ARTS-based platform that features open architecture, making it highly customizable with low effort requirements.

Jitesh Shetty, Director of Microsoft India’s Industry & Partner Group, described Syntel’s solution as, “an intuitive, easy to use solution that enables store managers/regional managers to get a snapshot of business with near-real time visibility.” He also cited substantial interest for Syntel’s solution from retailers as a factor in the award.

“We are extremely proud to receive this award from Microsoft,” said Raja Ray, Head of Syntel’s Retail, Logistics and Telecom business unit. “The Store Service Workbench is an innovative part of Syntel’s end-to-end suite of retail solutions. Retailers need the right blend of cross-functional business intelligence and training to stay competitive, and the SSW helps achieve this by reducing operating costs while improving business agility.”

Syntel is implementing this solution for a department store retailer seeking to improve its retail operations. The store audit will be rolled out in phases to over 500 supervisors across its locations.

Syntel was presented this award at the Microsoft Partner Summit in Mumbai, India on September 8, 2010. The annual awards recognize the development and delivery of the most outstanding solutions using Microsoft products.

Source:http://www.marketwatch.com/story/syntel-retail-solution-earns-partner-of-the-year-award-from-microsoft-india-2010-09-27?reflink=MW_news_stmp