British Airways receives the NASSCOM “Business Transformation Award” for 2007-08

Mr Willie Walsh, CEO, British Airways, UK's largest international scheduled airline has received the prestigious NASSCOM "Business Transformation Award" for 2007-08 for innovative use of technology within an organisation.

The awards were presented at a ceremony in India on the sidelines of the NASSCOM India Leadership Forum 2008 and the winners were felicitated by the Civil Aviation Minister, Government of India, Mr. Praful Patel and the Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Mr. Vilas Rao Deshmukh.

Mr Willie Walsh CEO, British Airways thanked NASSCOM for the Business Transformation award saying "It is a great honour and means a great deal to everyone here at British Airways.

IT has genuinely transformed British Airways. Through the effective use of IT we have lowered our cost base, significantly improved our efficiency but most importantly we have improved our customer service and we have been assisted in this through the relationships we have established with the Indian IT industry and through the partnerships we have developed in the past ten years."

Mr. Arvind Thakur, CEO, NIIT Technologies said, "Over the past 11 years, NIIT Technologies has shared a strong and enduring partnership with British Airways in supporting their IT endeavours. We congratulate British Airways on receiving this prestigious award, which recognises the effective deployment of IT within an organisation."

The awards, conceptualised and presented by NASSCOM, seek to recognise some of the most outstanding business leaders and visionaries from across the world. The Business Transformation Award is conferred to an individual who has encouraged the use of technology within the organisation to achieve business goals and operational excellence. This individual would have spearheaded initiatives to automate the processes of the company to improve product/service quality and enhance customer responsiveness. The award was received by Mr. Robert Webb, General Counsel and Mr.Paul Coby, CIO, British Airways.

About British Airways
British Airways has been operating in India for 78 years and currently operates 43 flights per week from London Heathrow to five cities in India. It has a double daily services to Mumbai, double dailies connecting Delhi and London, three times per week to Kolkata, five flights a week from Chennai and a daily operation from Bangalore. British Airways has a worldwide network of over 145 destinations in over 70 countries. From October this year, British Airways will commence operations with five direct flights per week from Hyderabad to London Heathrow.

British Airways is the UK's largest international scheduled airline, flying to over 550 destinations at convenient times, to the best located airports. Whether customers are in the air or on the ground; British Airways takes pride in providing a full service experience.

The British Airways group consists of British Airways Plc and a number of subsidiary companies including in particular British Airways Holidays Limited. For further information please visit www.ba.com

About NIIT Technologies
NIIT Technologies is a leading IT solutions organization, servicing customers in North America, Europe, Japan, Asia and Australia. It offers services in Application Development and Maintenance, Enterprise Solutions including Managed Services and Business Process Management to organizations in the Financial Services, Transportation, Retail, Manufacturing and Government sectors

NIIT Technologies' software development processes are assessed at SEI CMMI – Level 5 Version 1.2. It's human resource processes are assessed at the highest level if maturity at PCMM Level 5. Further NIIT Technologies has processes and systems for information security management certified in accordance to the ISO 27001 standard, and its facilities offering Managed Services conform to ISO 20000 standard of Service Management.

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