IGSI recognised as Distinguished IT Exporter 2002-03 by MAIT

Mumbai: IBM Global Services India (IGSI) has been recognised as the ''Distinguished Information Technology Exporter'' for technical services by Manufacturer''s Association of Information Technology (MAIT) in its recently announced awards for Excellence in Business & Exports for Year 2002-03. This is the second year in succession that IGSI has been recognised by MAIT for its achievements.

Says IGSI Exports director Amitabh Ray: "We thank MAIT for the encouragement and recognition its has extended to IGSI. This recognition is a testimony to the growing interest in customers to leverage the best of IBM capabilities and competencies through our global delivery centres, like India. The past year saw IGSI expanding capabilities with the addition of a fourth global delivery centre in Kolkata which is a centre for excellence for e-business, SAP R/3, Oracle applications and data warehousing.

"We continued with our focus on strengthening our mature delivery processes and methodologies further. IGSI also became one of the few organisations worldwide to be assessed at PCMM Level 5, Version 2 across all our centres. IGSI will continue to leverage the best of Indian talent, IBM global delivery framework and knowledge pool to bring increasing value to our customers business."

MAIT's recognition for excellence in business and exports are aimed at reinforcing its commitment to India's export-led growth, encouraging exports from Indian IT companies and strengthening MAIT's commitment towards developing a truly global Indian IT Industry. Companies were recognised based on their export performance, company track record, quality and best business practices, focus on human resources and skill-set development.

IGSI Exports draws on the proven expertise, methodologies, processes and solutions that IBM uses world over and combines it with the resource and quality advantage that India has to offer to provide 'best-of-breed' solutions and services to IBM customers and labs globally. IGSI Exports quality focus is driven by ISO 9001:2000 guidelines. It also conforms to Level 5 of the SEI Capability Maturity Model (CMM) and has recently become one of the few organisations worldwide to be successfully assessed for People Capability Maturity Model, Level 5, Version 2.

IGSI has been recognised as the Top MNC Software Services Exporter and Top Foreign Equity Company in Karnataka for Year 2001-02 by Software Technology Parks of India (STPI), Bangalore chapter. IGSI has also been also recognised as Distinguished IT Exporter for 2001-02 by MAIT. Dataquest, India's leading trade magazine, has rated IGSI as the Top MNC Software Services Exporter for Year 2001-02.