BP selects Tata consulting unit as a strategic information technology vendor

August 13th, 2009 BANGALORE - Global software major Wipro Technologies Thursday said it has set up a consulting academy in the US to strengthen the customer management skills of its frontline employees. The enterprise application services consulting academy will inculcate the right engagement behaviour at an early stage for improving customer satisfaction, the company said in a statement here.

July 29th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India's information technology and outsourcing industry is expected to grow over 7 percent this fiscal to log revenues of $64 billion with much faster expansion within the domestic market, a leading industry group said Wednesday. The National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom) has forecast in its latest study that the software and outsourcing industry will log an export growth of 4-7 percent this fiscal to log $48-50 billion in revenues.

July 14th, 2009 HYDERABAD - Bodhtree Consulting, a leading consulting and technology provider, has forged a strategic software partnership with CompanyStore.IN for its centre of excellence (CoE) for SaaS and Cloud computing. CompanyStore.IN is a well known logo merchandising company that leverages technology to support marketing and branding for some of the biggest names of the industry.

March 16th, 2009 HYDERABAD - City-based IT service provider BodhTree Consulting has entered into a strategic partnership with Red Hat as independent software vendor (ISV), the company said Monday. Bodhtree's MIDAS (multi industry data anomaly solution) is now available on Red Hat JBoss enterprise platform, the IT company said in a statement.

August 13th, 2009 AIG reaches deal to sell Indian IT unit to MphasiSNEW YORK — American International Group reached a deal to sell another unit on Wednesday. The battered insurance giant will sell its AIG Systems Solutions Pvt.

September 21st, 2009 SAN FRANCISCO - Computer maker Dell is to buy technology services company Perot Systems for $3.9 billion in a bid to gain a foothold in the lucrative sector of information technology consulting, the company announced Monday. The bid price of $30 a share represented a 68-percent premium on the share price of the company founded in 1988 by former independent presidential candidate Ross Perot.

September 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Microsoft India and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) - a leading IT services, consulting, business solutions and outsourcing firm today announced a strategic alliance between the two companies to launch Microsoft-TCS virtualization Center of Excellence (CoE) in Chennai. Designed to help customers experience the right approach to applying and managing virtualization across IT architectural layers (namely server, machine, application and desktop) in their business environments - the CoE will leverage best of breed Microsoft technologies (such as Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008) to showcase virtualization scenarios to customers.

January 14th, 2009 KOLKATA - India's largest bank, the State Bank of India (SBI), has decided to retain its contract with scam-tainted information technology (IT) firm Satyam Computer Services for maintaining its Internet banking services, a top bank official said here Thursday. 'We are not at all thinking of changing Satyam as our vendor for Internet banking services.

February 26th, 2009 BANGALORE - IT infrastructure solutions and services firm Frontier Business Systems has set up a $4-million (Rs.200 million/Rs.20 crore) green data centre here to expand its operations across the country, the company said Thursday. 'The data centre's green virtualisation solutions will enable enterprises to reduce cost while improving business service availability, agility and performance,' Frontier chief executive Ravi Verdes said in a statement.

January 8th, 2009 BHUBANESWAR - The Orissa government will re-examine the application for land that the scam-tainted IT bellwether Satyam Computer wants for setting up a new unit in the state, a senior official said here Friday. The company sought land to set up a business process outsourcing unit, information technology department P.K.

September 22nd, 2009 LONDON - Hopes of new jobs have risen in Britain again after the government announced a loan of 10 million pounds to Tata Motors to manufacture an electric version of its Indica Vista car in this country. But a source close to Tata Motors gave a measured response Tuesday, saying there will be "a few" new jobs - and they will be mostly in engineering.

September 30th, 2009 MUMBAI - Anil Ambani-led Reliance Communications Wednesday said it has entered into a strategic alliance with Microsoft to offer Windows Mobile solution on its wireless networks. As per the agreement, Microsoft will offer solutions like push email support, chat, photo-sharing, content back-up and other applications to Reliance customers.

July 17th, 2005 According to Forrester survey data and analysis, Java's 66% penetration is the highest among strategic programming languages for enterprise applications. Visual Basic 6 (VB6) and C/C++ have nearly as much penetration as Java, but VB6 is past mainstream support and C/C++ has a comparatively limited ecosystem.

October 6th, 2009 MUMBAI - S. Ramadorai Tuesday stepped down as the chief executive and managing director of software major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). Ramadorai will be succeeded by the company's chief operating officer and executive director N.

June 18th, 2009 BANGALORE - IT bellwether Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is eyeing e-governance projects to cope with the downturn, according to a senior company official. "Post-elections, we believe conditions are ripe for e-governance projects to take off at the central and state levels," TCS chief financial officer S.