HCL bags IT outsourcing deal from Fortis Healthcare.

New Delhi | 05 Oct 2009

HCL Infosystems will manage and oversee the IT
processes of Fortis Healthcare Ltd for fivye years under
an IT outsourcing deal forged between the two firms.
Under the deal all the hospitals of Fortis will be
standardized through the IT systems of HCL and this
activity will be completed within 12 months.
HCL will deploy Hospital Information Systems (HIS) &
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions to
standardize operations across Fortis hospitals. Solutions
enabling automation of financial processes and business
intelligence & analytics solutions will also be offered to the
Healthcare major.
Fortis will also be able to have an online sharing of patient
records and data.
For Fortis , This tie up will create newer benchmarks in
the quality of healthcare delivery and patient care and
take it to the next level, IT forms the back bone for
hospital operations and improved patient care. The
system integration with high end IT infrastructure would
result in enhanced performance and superior patient care.
With this initiative they will not only have an integrated IT
platform meeting the needs of our company today but
also have a robust IT infrastructure capable of servicing
the future needs of a large network of hospitals across
national boundaries and geographies.
For the HCl infosystem this deal with Fortis Healthcare is a
strategic and an effective move that will not only set new
benchmarks for the Indian healthcare industry but also
have a positive rub-off on the Fortis Healthcare objectives
to provide quality treatment to its patients.
TCS clinches five-year Volkswagen contract
Financial Express – 14 May 2009
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the country‘s largest IT
services and business process outsourcing company, has
bagged a five-year contract with the Volkswagen Group,
UK. TCS said it will deliver IT transformation and support
services for the Volkswagen Group‘s operations
throughout the UK, and across brands such as Audi, SEAT,
Škoda, Volkswagen Passenger Cars and Volkswagen
commercial vehicles.
TCS will combine onshore and offshore IT support and
transformation services for Volkswagen Group‘s
operations throughout the UK. It will support the
Volkswagen Group in its business transformation
programme to meet its aim to sell more cars, sell more
parts, drive down costs.
It will also support all brands within the group as it
1. Moves to a consolidated
2. Standardised business platform
3. Enabling geographic mobility of Volkswagen employees
4. Increased flexibility,
5. Cost reduction.
This is the first time Volkswagen has implemented an
onshore-offshore model for its IT systems, the release
said.
―In this challenging environment, organisations are
looking to increase efficiency and flexibility in order to
stay competitive.
1.By helping Volkswagen Group UK consolidate their IT
systems onto a single platform,
2.And Harness the power of our Global Network Delivery
Model, we are not only streamlining their infrastructure,
but also their wider businesses processes. In the current
economic climate, ensuring a business is fit, well and lean,
in this way, is the key to success.‖
Wipro bags LIC's 5-yr IT outsourcing deal
Business Standard – 14 May 2009
In another affirmation of its growing clout in the domestic
market, Wipro Infotech, the India and Middle East
information technology services business of Wipro Ltd, has
clinched an IT outsourcing deal from Life Insurance
Corporation (LIC) by piping its large Indian rivals.
The contract, which involves upgrade of LIC‘s front-end IT
application programmes (FEAP) to make these accessible
through the web, is said to be worth about Rs 200 crore,
and will be done over five years, a highly-placed source
told Business Standard. By making applications accessible
through the web, LIC expects to reduce the load on its
servers and improve the processing time.
Sources said LIC expected to drastically reduce the cost of
running the applications by making processing happen on
the desktop.
It is understood that most large Indian IT outsourcing
companies, including TCS, Infosys and L&T Infotech, had
competed for the contract. It was considered prestigious,
not because of its size but because it involved a
prestigious public sector organisation like LIC.
Anand Sankaran, head of the India and Middle East
business of Wipro, said, ―Discussions are still under way
and therefore it won‘t be possible for me to firmly
comment on this.‖
Analysts say the recent deals that Wipro has won, coupled
with the strong pipeline the company has in the domestic
market, is expected to make it the second largest player
in the domestic market after IBM, which earns over $2
billion revenue from India. Sources in Wipro say that if one
discounts IBM‘s product revenues in India, the gap
between it and Wipro‘s services business in India is only
about 10 per cent.
LIC is an existing customer of Wipro, which has
implemented all the entire data warehousing for the
insurance major. In the financial services sector in India,
HDFC Bank and Dena Bank are two large customers.
Wipro has become aggressive in the domestic market as
deal flows from the US and Europe have waned during the
past two quarters in the wake of the global financial
meltdown. Last quarter, Wipro won a six-and-a-half year
mega outsourcing e-governance deal from Employees
State Insurance Corporation (ESIC), beating TCS and
Infosys. The deal, valued at Rs 1,182 crore, involves
modernisation and automation of the entire healthcare
benefits administration set-up of ESIC.
Recently, the company bagged a nine-year contract from
telecom services provider Unitech Wireless to set up and
manage the company‘s entire IT applications. The deal,
said to be worth over Rs 2,200 crore, is the largest-ever
win by the company in the Indian market. It is also
understood to be in the race for a large outsourcing deal
from Swan Telecom.