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SOURCE: Time of India
Date: July 27th, 2009

The railways have awarded a pilot project for an integrated coach management system (ICMS) to Infosys Technologies. The project is likely to cost about Rs 210 crore.

According to a Railway Board official, the success of the project will decide the time frame for the railways to take up this ambitious project from safety point of view.

Under the ICMS plan, the railways intend to automate the maintenance and repair of passenger coaches through improved method of new multiple technologies. The new system is likely to have three different modules including punctuality, stock and time tabling, he said.

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SOURCE: Business Standard
DATE: July 5th, 2009

IBM today said it has entered into a 10-year strategic outsourcing deal of over Rs 80 crore with the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (Amul).

Under the terms of the deal, approved by the GCMMF, IBM would help transform the information technology structure of GCMMF and the milk unions to enable and support their accelerated growth plans.

IBM will manage and operate the IT environment of Amul for the next 10 years.

SAP ERP on the IBM technology platform is the chosen vehicle for this transformation, IBM said in a statement.

IBM will also build a state-of-the-art data unit backed by a disaster recovery centre, define the security policy and maintain and manage the entire technology and application landscape.

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Firstsource Solutions, a leading India based business process outsourcing (BPO) company announced a five year deal to provide outsourcing services to Idea Cellular , the third largest private telecom provider in India. The deal is estimated at $30 million

SOURCE: Times of India
Date: June 24th, 2009

Promising a passport within three days, it peddled a dream to Indians crowding understaffed and overburdened regional passport centres. But the Passport Seva Project — one of the government’s flagship e-governance programmes — is running behind schedule.

In October 2008, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) signed the agreement with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) to implement the project, estimated to be worth Rs.1 billion. Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon had then said the pilot project — with centres in Chandigarh and Bangalore — will become functional in June 2009, with the rest of the country to be serviced by 77 stations in 2010.

But it seems increasingly unlikely that the schedule will be adhered to. A major reason for the delay is the inordinate time required to draft the software requirement specification (SRS) document, which was completed only recently.

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SOURCE: Business Standard
DATE: June 5th, 2009

Global firm IBM today announced that it had teamed up with India Glycols, a market leader in India for Glycols and other value-added speciality chemicals, for enterprise IT infrastructure services.    

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DATE: May 25th, 2009
SOURCE: EconomicTimes

HCL Infosystems on Monday announced that it has bagged a Rs 240- crore system integration project from state-run telecom operator Bharat Sanchar Nigam (BSNL). The contract involves the implementation of over 60,000 enterprise resource planning (ERP) licences, making it the largest rollout in terms of licenses issued for any single project in the country.

As per the contract, HCL will migrate BSNL’s finance, commissioning and operations functions onto a single ERP system. The project rollout includes setting up the main data centre at Hyderabad and the disaster recovery data centre at Kolkata.

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Date: May 14th, 2009
Source: Rediff

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Wipro has clinched the LIC ( Life Insurance Corporation) India deal to upgrade their front end IT systems. The order is worth around Rs 200 crores ( US $ 40 million). Wipro will web enable LIC front end systems over 5 years. Wipro is the second largest player in domestic Indian markets after IBM which earns $ 2 billion. Wipro gets 22% of their business from India.

Other Wipro domestic deals and customers

HDFC
Dena Bank
Employee State Insurance Corporation
Unitech Wireless