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September 26, 2007

International News

Capgemini has signed a five-year agreement with NXP Semiconductors, the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, to provide end-to-end Finance and Accounting (“F&A”) services, including Procure-to-Pay and Record-to-Report. Under the terms of the agreement, which expands the existing long-term relationship between the two companies,
approximately 110 professionals, who are currently based in India, will join Capgemini’s Business Process
Outsourcing (“BPO”) Excellence Delivery Centre in Chennai, India starting October 1, 2007. This brings the number of dedicated BPO experts in India to nearly 1,500.

EDS announced the launch of a world-first payment card utility in Australia to make it easier for financial institutions to modernise and manage card services in an increasingly competitive market. The Regional Cards Utility gives banks and other credit providers access to the latest technology and business systems under an innovative shared service model.

Wipro Technologies has won a five-year, $130 million contract from British utility Thames Water.Wipro will provide integrated IT services encompassing applications support, maintenance and infrastructure management services. Thames Water is an old Wipro client but this is the largest single deal that the company has gotten from the British utility. Wipro has over 1,500 people energy and utility practice with capability in consulting, package implementation, systems integration, application development and maintenance, testing services, business process outsourcing and infrastructure support services. Thames Water is responsible for water supply and waste water treatment in parts of London, Surrey, Wiltshire and Thames Valley in the UK.

EDS announced the successful implementation of a new flight planning and slot management system for Brussels Airlines, a leading Belgian airline. In March 2007, SN Brussels Airlines and Virgin Express merged to become Brussels Airlines. Immediately thereafter they decided to consolidate flight operations and migrate the combined fleet onto one single flight planning and slot management system. After a thorough market evaluation and benchmark comparisons, Brussels Airlines selected EDS Flight Planning with the slot management module as their future flight planning system.


Posted by jbowles at September 26, 2007 05:17 PM