January 25, 2012
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ACCENTURE ACQUIRES NEO METRICS...Accenture has entered into an agreement to acquire Neo Metrics Analytics S.L., a leading consulting firm specializing in optimization and predictive analytics based in Madrid. Upon closing, the acquisition will add Neo Metrics' research and development capabilities and assets to Accenture's analytics portfolio, including Neo Metrics' advanced modeler solution, which automatically generates insight from any source of information and creates industrialized, highly-accurate analytical models.
UNISYS HELDS NOAA TRANSITION TO CLOUD-BASED SYSTEM..Unisys Corporation announced the successful completion of a project to transition 25,000 users in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to the Google Apps for Government email and collaboration platform--the largest transition to Google's cloud services by a federal agency to date. NOAA expects the new tools to help increase user productivity within the agency and to reduce operations costs by about 50 percent compared to in-house solutions. As a major subcontractor to Earth Resources Technologies Inc. (ERT), Unisys provided engineering and transition services to NOAA, including communications management and training. The team, which also included Google and Tempus Nova, completed all work on schedule, and NOAA transitioned to the new system in December 2011.
EARNINGS HIGHLIGHTS: Tata Consultancy Services - Net Income at $568 million up 9.1% Y-o-Y. Operating margins up 213 basis points at 29.2%. Growth seen across all markets and industries; Volume up 3.2%...WNS - Fiscal year 2011 revenues of $616.3 million, up 5.8% from fiscal 2010. 2011 net income1 of $9.8 million, compared to $3.7 million in fiscal 2010. Fiscal year 2011 diluted income per ADS of $0.21, compared to $0.08 in fiscal 2010...Infosys - Net income up 33 percent to $458M in the three months ended Dec. 31, from 17.8 billion rupees a year earlier...HCL Technologies - Consolidated net profit of INR5.73 billion for the October-December period, compared with INR4.00 billion a year earlier. Consolidated sales climbed more than 35% to INR52.45 billion. Net profit grew more than 15% and sales rose 13%.
WNS TEAMS UP FOR BI SOLUTION FOR UTILITIES...WNS announced its collaboration with Knowledge Relay LLC, a leading provider of Operational Business Intelligence products and services, to offer Data-to-Decision (D2D) services to its global clients in the Energy and Utilities segment, through user-driven, self-service operational business intelligence solutions.
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Taylor Wimpey, one of the largest homebuilders in the UK, has renewed its IT outsourcing contract with Logica for another five years, in a deal worth £15.2 million. Taylor Wimpey has been a Logica customer for nine years and this new deal will see the relationship extend to 2016. Logica will provide outsourcing of IT infrastructure management, technical applications support, managed testing and project delivery services for the UK house building business, with work taking place from Logica locations in the UK, India, and the Philippines.
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