Exensys launches R&D centre at Madhapur       
June 27, 2008
Source:  PTI

HYDERABAD: Exensys Software Solutions Limited, a software product company engaged in the enterprise space, IT consulting and telecom solutions, launched its second Research and Development Centre at Madhapur here. 

The Research and Development (R&D) Centre was inaugurated by Mohammad Shams Qamar, CEO and Managing Director. 

"Exensys has always considered its people as its first customers and its most valuable assets. The ability of the team members to master emerging and cutting edge technologies and the understanding of best practices and pains of various industry verticals have resulted in producing world class product suite that has made it's mark in the most competitive space-The Enterprise Applications Market", Qamar said. 

The R&D Centre will house 500 engineers working on emerging and cutting edge technologies. 

Exensys already has a Development Centre at Kondapur near here. Exensys has a global strength of 1,500 employees and has plans to increase the headcount to 2,000 by the beginning of 2009.

Infosys announces Research Tie-up with IIIT, Hyderabad      
June 27, 2008 
SOURCE: PTI

BANGALORE: Infosys Technologies company and the International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad (IIIT-H) has signed an agreement to undertake joint research. 

Under this agreement, Infosys will sponsor research in unstructured data analytics, inference and diagnostics tools and the development of next-generation business intelligence tools at IIIT, Hyderabad and Subu Goparaju, VP and Head, SETLabs, Infosys Technologies. 

The objective of this collaboration is to improve the functionality provided in Health Information Management Infrastructure (HIMI) solutions, a release said.

HCL Info bags $23-m Pan-Africa e-network project      
June 27, 2008 
SOURCE: BL

HCL Infosystems has bagged the mandate to implement IT infrastructure in a Pan-Africa project that aims to connect 53 African countries into one network, providing electronic and knowledge connectivity to the nations.

An initiative by Indian Government to share its expertise in the fields of education and medicine, the network would benefit the African nations by providing tele-education, tele-medicine, video-conferencing and VoIP services. The size of the project that HCL would implement stands at about $23 million.

Facilitating education and knowledge sharing, the network will connect 7 universities from India with 5 universities from Africa; the African centres will further be linked to one centre in each of 53 countries within the continent. The network will also connect 12 super specialty hospitals from India with 5 from Africa. These hospitals in Africa will further be linked to one remote hospital (patient-end locations) in each of the 53 countries as part of the project to extend healthcare services to rural Africa,” an HCL release said here.

The project will support the growth and development of African countries, it added.

According to Mr George Paul, Executive Vice-President of the company, “With three decades of experience in enabling technology and offering integrated ICT solutions for vast urban and sub-urban tracts in India, HCL Infosystems has taken IT to the remotest part of India. HCL understands the challenges complex markets like India and Africa face and works towards enabling IT as a means for development. 

This Pan-Africa e-network project is a significant step towards allowing this expertise to benefit African countries in their developmental efforts.