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  • NIIT Technologies partners with C-DAC, Noida for SaaS Delivery

    NIIT Technologies, a leading IT solutions organisation headquartered in New Delhi, announces its partnership with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Noida, to offer value added application services through the Software as a Service mode of delivery.

    NIIT Technologies recently launched its ‘Software as a Service' (SaaS) offering and has tied up with C-DAC, Noida to host their applications. C-DAC, Noida has a state-of-the-art data centre at its Noida premises which will be leveraged to provide multi-tenanted enterprise solutions on demand to customers in the Government and Corporate sectors.

    To begin with NIIT Technologies will offer its Procurement solution ‘Procure Easy' through C-DAC's hosted facility. Procure Easy is built on a robust framework of an end-to-end e-Procurement solution. This SaaS-based offering is a feature rich, user-friendly e-Procurement solution that meets the diverse procurement process needs of various enterprises. It has built-in functionality to map with discrete financial and commercial applications in a multi-faceted organisational landscape.

    C-DAC (Noida) stated, "C-DAC was aiming to extend the facility of its data centre to Government organisations which may not have the adequate facilities/ set up or the requisite technical manpower in the field of IT. NIIT Technologies came at the right time to extend the potential of our data centre offerings through the provision of value added services for NIIT Technologies' SaaS offerings. C-DAC, Noida along with NIIT Technologies has brought out an eProcurement solution for such type of organisations."

    C-DAC (Noida) added, "C-DAC's data centre at Noida is equipped with the requisite latest state-of-the-art data security standards and protocols which is readily scalable and highly reliable. C-DAC infrastructure complements the multi-tenanted service model of NIIT Technologies' SaaS offering."

    Mr. Arvind Mehrotra, Sr. Vice President & Head - APAC & India, NIIT Technologies said, "Through our innovative and compelling process-based SaaS offering, we believe C-DAC, Noida is the perfect partner to extend our portfolio of on demand enterprise solutions to our targeted customers."

    Mr. Rakesh Malik, Program Head (SaaS), NIIT Technologies said, "Our partnership with C-DAC, Noida completes the operational value chain of taking to market our SaaS offering. C-DAC, Noida is the ideal hosting partner for ProcureEasy and we hope to incrementally leverage C-DAC's data centre to provide value adding enterprise application solutions to our customers. In the future, our SaaS suite is poised to include other process-centric solutions in the areas of HRM & Payroll, Financials and Sales & Distribution."

    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, and 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.

    About CDAC
    C-DAC is an autonomous society, involved in Research & Development, under the administrative purview of Department of Information Technology, Ministry of Communications & Information Technology, and Government of India.
    It's main objectives are to remain Committed to India's role as a leader in software technology, Carry out R&D with a practical impact, Provide support to the IT industry and to make a significant contribution to high quality education and training of professionals for the IT industry in India.

    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 behalf of the company.

    For media queries please contact:
    Dimpy Khanna ,
    NIIT Technologies Ltd
    +91 98183 14855
    dimpy.khanna@niit-tech.com
    Jyotsna Nanda,
    Brodeur India
    +91 98104 99625
    jnanda@brodeurindia.com
    For investor queries, please contact:
    Mohit,
    Investor Relations,
    NIIT Technologies Ltd
    +91 11 26203232
    mohit@niit-tech.com
    investors@niit-tech.com

    Mar 07 , 2008