TCS, Infy, Satyam, HCL in fray for BSNL deal
SOURCE: EconomicTimes
DATE: September 9th, 2008
Country’s four leading IT players TCS, Infosys, Satyam and HCL have bid for a BSNL project worth Rs 400 crore which will make state-run telecom company a a paperless organisation.
BSNL is likely to select the player within the next three months for countrywide adoption of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). “We have received bids from TCS, Infosys, Satyam and HCL for country-wide implementation of ERP which will make BSNL offices paperless,” BSNL Chairman and Managing Director Kuldeep Goyal told the media.
TCS, the country’s largest software exporter has bid for the project in tie-up with enterprise software application Oracle, while the other three players have bid for the project in tie-up with SAP. The project is likely to be implemented in next 18 months after selection of the IT firm.
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) is the planning of how business resources (materials, employees, customers) are acquired and moved from one state to another. An ERP system supports most of the business system that maintains in a single database the data needed for a variety of business functions such as manufacturing, supply chain management, financial, projects, human resources and customer relationship management.
“The ERP will improve the efficiency of BSNL…. information will be available to the management as and when they require. It will also help in monitoring the performance of the company,” Goyal said.
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