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NIIT Technologies Champions the IT Transformation at Prism Cement
NIIT Technologies, the global IT services provider headquartered in New Delhi, today announced the successful SAP implementation at Prism Cement. This extends NIIT Technologies' footprint in the Cement industry in the realm of enterprise solutions implementations.
'Project Champion' is Prism Cement's flagship endeavor to integrate the business processes of Logistics, Financials and Human Capital Management under one umbrella by incubating global best practices. Built around SAP R/3 ECC 5.0, the implementation effort involved integrating the application across multiple locations that include Headquarters at Mumbai, Cement Manufacturing Plants at Satna (MP), a Packing Plant at Allahabad (UP) and the Marketing offices in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Uttaranchal and Bihar. The implementation covers 2 cement plants, 9 Regional Marketing Offices and multiple warehouse locations.
Mr. S Ramnath, Senior President (Corporate Affairs), Prism Cement, said, "Project Champion is a significant step towards embracing best practices and standards. NIIT Technologies has been our Information Technology Partner in this endeavor."
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Mr. M M Goel, President (Works), Prism Cement, said, "The implementation of Project Champion is an important milestone in Prism Cement's journey towards optimizing business process efficiencies across the organization. NIIT Technologies has been instrumental in ensuring the implementation was as per plan and budget and has been our ideal partner."
Mr. Arvind Thakur, CEO, NIIT Technologies said, "The resounding success of the implementation and the current steady state operations on the new system makes us the proud IT Transformation Partner of Prism Cement. Our deep industry experience in delivering large scale, multi-location implementations for the continuous Process industry enabled our team to meet our customer's expectations."
He further added, "We will continue to deliver value through our continued commitment to the business and operations objectives of Prism Cement."
Mr Arvind Mehrotra, SVP & Business Head (Asia Pacific & India), NIIT Technologies stated, "Our team tided over several challenges to ensure the transition from Legacy systems to SAP was seamless with minimal disruptions to business operations. This application will champion the future operations' objectives of Prism Cement by delivering improved user productivity and enhanced process efficiencies. Our team has trained over 150 users at Prism Cement to effectively leverage the application."
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.
Safe Harbor
Certain statements in this release are forward-looking statements, which involve a number of risks, and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in such forward-looking statements. The risks and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding fluctuations in earnings, our ability to manage growth, intense competition in IT services including those factors which may affect our cost advantage, wage increases in India, our ability to attract and retain highly skilled professionals, time and cost overruns on fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration, restrictions on immigration, our ability to manage our international operations, reduced demand for technology in our key focus areas, disruptions in telecommunication networks, our ability to successfully complete and integrate potential acquisitions, liability for damages on our service contracts, the success of the companies / entities in which we have made strategic investments, withdrawal of governmental fiscal incentives, political instability, legal restrictions on raising capital or acquiring companies and unauthorized use of our intellectual property and general economic conditions affecting our industry. The company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statement that may be made from time to time by or on
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Feb 07 , 2008
