Wipro Technologies, the global IT services business of Wipro Ltd, on Tuesday said it has opened a dedicated global command centre for Aviva, a life insurance firm in the United Kingdom.
The centre was inaugurated at Wipro’s remote managed infrastructure services centre in Pune by Patrick Snowball, group executive director, Aviva plc. "The centre will provide remote managed services for the entire IT infrastructure of RAC, a business division of Aviva. The services includes 24x7 monitoring, service desk, data centre management, desktop applications packaging and support, messaging and database support," a Wipro release said.
The technology-agnostic managed services centre, developed exclusively for Aviva by Wipro Technologies, will provide Aviva with a real-time view of infrastructure services that support critical business operations, the release said. Aviva chose Wipro in 2003 as a preferred technology partner, following which Wipro Technologies set up an Offshore Development Centre in Bangalore and Pune.
Wipro opens new centre for Aviva
March 8, 2006, 9:59 amSatyam launches ODC in Bangalore for Invista
March 8, 2006, 9:58 am
Satyam Computer Services Ltd, a software services firm, said on Tuesday that it has launched an offshore development centre (ODC) in Bangalore for Invista, a producer and marketer of premium fibres, resins and intermediates.
Invista is one of Satyam key customers in the manufacturing vertical, a company release said. The ODC was inaugurated by Erik Viens, chief information officer, of Invista.
The 5000 sq. feet ODC for Invista is housed in Satyam’s development centre in Bangalore, and would provide IT and application maintenance services to Invista.
Satyam, which has had a business relationship with Invista for over four years, won a multi-million dollar contractor from Invista in January last year. The contract is for an initial period of three years.
Under the agreement, Satyam provides Invista application maintenance support for five clusters across the globe covering SAP technologies.
The contract also includes a global multi-lingual help desk support for their global enterprise applications provided by Nipuna, Satyam’s BPO subsidiary.
Invista is one of Satyam key customers in the manufacturing vertical, a company release said. The ODC was inaugurated by Erik Viens, chief information officer, of Invista.
The 5000 sq. feet ODC for Invista is housed in Satyam’s development centre in Bangalore, and would provide IT and application maintenance services to Invista.
Satyam, which has had a business relationship with Invista for over four years, won a multi-million dollar contractor from Invista in January last year. The contract is for an initial period of three years.
Under the agreement, Satyam provides Invista application maintenance support for five clusters across the globe covering SAP technologies.
The contract also includes a global multi-lingual help desk support for their global enterprise applications provided by Nipuna, Satyam’s BPO subsidiary.
AT&T deal will claim 10,000 job cuts in 3 yrs
March 8, 2006, 9:57 am
AT&T Inc. plans to cut up to 10,000 jobs, mostly through normal turnover, if its $67 billion purchase of BellSouth Corp. is approved by shareholders and regulators, AT&T’s chief financial officer said.
The workforce reduction would take place over three years, AT&T’s Rick Lindner said. Before the cuts, the combined company would have around 3,17,000 employees, including Cingular Wireless LLC, which is now an AT&T-BellSouth joint venture.The new company would be United States’ largest phone company — with nearly half of all lines. It also would be the largest cell-phone carrier and the largest provider of broadband Internet service.
Still, investors and analysts expect it to pass regulatory muster due to the fact that phone companies are facing increasing competition, especially from cable operators. The acquisition, which was announced on Sunday, is expected to close in 2007.
The 10,000 planned job cuts are in addition to the 26,000 cuts AT&T has already announced — 13,000 due to SBC’s acquisition of AT&T Corp., which closed in November, and 13,000 due to shifting priorities in the business. The combined SBC-AT&T took the name AT&T Inc.
At the Communications Workers of America, which would have about 2,00,000 workers at the combined company, spokeswoman Candice Johnson said the merger would be a "good opportunity for job growth" as the company expands into new technologies.
"We’re not looking for job losses at all," Ms Johnson said. The union has not yet endorsed the merger.San Antonio-based AT&T expects the acquisition to save it $2 billion annually at first, increasing to $3 billion a year by 2010.
Slightly more than one third of the savings would come from reduced labor costs and consolidation of support functions and corporate staff, Mr Lindner said. The combined company would be based in San Antonio, depriving Atlanta of one of its largest corporate headquarters. Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue and Atlanta Mayor Shirley Fra-nklin said they both will fly to Texas soon to try to persuade AT&T’s officials to move their headquarters to Atlanta. (AP)
The workforce reduction would take place over three years, AT&T’s Rick Lindner said. Before the cuts, the combined company would have around 3,17,000 employees, including Cingular Wireless LLC, which is now an AT&T-BellSouth joint venture.The new company would be United States’ largest phone company — with nearly half of all lines. It also would be the largest cell-phone carrier and the largest provider of broadband Internet service.
Still, investors and analysts expect it to pass regulatory muster due to the fact that phone companies are facing increasing competition, especially from cable operators. The acquisition, which was announced on Sunday, is expected to close in 2007.
The 10,000 planned job cuts are in addition to the 26,000 cuts AT&T has already announced — 13,000 due to SBC’s acquisition of AT&T Corp., which closed in November, and 13,000 due to shifting priorities in the business. The combined SBC-AT&T took the name AT&T Inc.
At the Communications Workers of America, which would have about 2,00,000 workers at the combined company, spokeswoman Candice Johnson said the merger would be a "good opportunity for job growth" as the company expands into new technologies.
"We’re not looking for job losses at all," Ms Johnson said. The union has not yet endorsed the merger.San Antonio-based AT&T expects the acquisition to save it $2 billion annually at first, increasing to $3 billion a year by 2010.
Slightly more than one third of the savings would come from reduced labor costs and consolidation of support functions and corporate staff, Mr Lindner said. The combined company would be based in San Antonio, depriving Atlanta of one of its largest corporate headquarters. Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue and Atlanta Mayor Shirley Fra-nklin said they both will fly to Texas soon to try to persuade AT&T’s officials to move their headquarters to Atlanta. (AP)