 Mumbai:
IT
major Datamatics Ltd has joined the elite club by winning
the prestigious CMM 5 Level awards for both software
processes and people''s management. It is the only third
IT company in the world to have accomplished the twin
goals as a whole entity.
KPMG
today awarded the P-CMM (People''s Capability Measurement
Model) Version 2.0 to Datamatics after thoroughly reviewing
the human resources practices at the company.
Says
KPMG lead assessor Arvinda Prabhu: "We are satisfied
with the practices at Datamatics to make the company
eligible for the award. I was particularly impressed
by the climate to encourage innovation, competency-based
programmes and alignment mechanism at various levels
at Datamatics."
Datamatics,
as a whole, employs about 1,600 people and has launched
a major recruitment drive with an immediate target of
employing 300 software professionals. Founded in 1975
by Indian IT pioneer L S Kanodia, Datamatics has so
far executed 1,100 projects in 58 countries across the
world.
The
P-CMM is a maturity framework developed by the Software
Engineering Institute (SEI) of Carnegie Mellon University,
USA, and it focuses on continuously improving the management
and development of human assets of a software or information
systems organisation.
Says
Datamatics chairman L S Kanodia: "Our people are
the only major asset that we have and I am glad that
Team Datamatics has done us proud. Our work is not yet
over. We need to continuously strive to keep up the
levels of performance and competence."
Kanodia
congratulated Datamatics HR head Chandra Mauli Dwivedi
and his team for burning the midnight oil to accomplish
the unique record. Datamatics employees had to answer
some 500 parameters as part of the KPMG assessment.
Says
Dwivedi: "It will immensely help the company in
delivering a much greater value to the customer since
the competency levels of the employees will rise. P-CMM
Level 5 will result in Datamatics attracting and retaining
talent pool."
Earlier,
Datamatics was awarded the SWCMM Level 5 in January
2003. The company crossed several milestones by winning
the HR excellence award in January 2002 from India HRD
Congress and Lakshya Award from NITIE earlier this month.
The Regional HR Conference to be held at Pune on 3 October
has already announced an HR Excellence award to Datamatics.
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