Wipro Recognized as 'Gold' Employer by India Workplace Equality Index (IWEI) 2021
Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO), a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company, today announced that it has been recognized as a 'Gold' employer by the India Workplace Equality Index (IWEI) 2021.
The Keshav Suri Foundation and Pride Circle along with Stonewall UK launched India’s First Workplace Equality Index (IWEI) in February 2020. This year the index considered 72 organizations across 15 sectors. The evaluation is based on nine areas of employment policy and practice, which includes policies and benefits, employee life cycle, employee resource group, allies and role models, senior leadership, monitoring, procurement, community engagement and other initiatives companies are taking for LGBTQ+ inclusion.
This is the second time that Wipro has been included in the IWEI for having successfully embedding LGBTQ+ inclusion in its policies, hiring practices and external communication. LGBTQ+ inclusion is a key focus area under Wipro’s Inclusion & Diversity charter. In the past year, Wipro has revised policies like Group Mediclaim Insurance and Medical Assistance scheme to include same-sex partners of employees, launched a Global Policy on Prevention of LGBTQ+ Discrimination and signed as a supporter of the United Nations Standards of Conduct for Business Tackling Discrimination against LGBTI People.
“At Wipro, we are committed to creating an equitable and inclusive environment for the LGBTQ+ community. We are proud to be recognized by the India Workplace Equality Index for our efforts. As organizations, we need to make a collective effort towards building workplaces that respect everyone for who they are. It is an ongoing journey and we are dedicated towards taking conscious steps towards this end,” said Sunita Cherian, Chief Culture Officer & Senior Vice President, Corporate Human Resources, Wipro Limited.
TCS Launches Assessment and Migration Factory for AWS Mainframe Modernization
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS) announced the launch of the TCS Assessment and Migration Factory, a set of tools, accelerators, and services that enable customers to shift their mainframe workloads to the new AWS Mainframe Modernization (M2) platform
TCS worked closely with AWS in the development of AWS M2, a unique platform that helps organizations modernize and migrate their on-premises mainframe workloads to a managed runtime environment on AWS.
TCS’ new Assessment and Migration Factory for AWS M2 uses the company’s deep domain expertise in mainframe workloads migration, domain-specific reference architecture, and best practices for legacy modernization to provide customers a faster, surer, and more cost-effective transformation path.
Complementing the native toolsets of AWS M2 are TCS’ proprietary services and tools, including:
• TCS Cloud Counsel: A discovery, cloud assessment and recommendation offering to help customers
select the right cloud model and determine the migration roadmap.
• Cloud Mason: Helps define, design, and deploy an enterprise-scale cloud foundation for deploying modern digital applications using IaaS, containers, PaaS and serverless architecture on a public cloud, which can be integrated with a private cloud or on-premises data centers.
• TCS MasterCraft™ TransformPlus: An intelligent automation product that automates business logic extraction and significantly accelerates end-to-end application modernization and supports a wide range of legacy and modern programming languages.
• Modernization Propeller: Assesses enterprise maturity for modernizations, application for microservices fitment, reference architecture formulation, domain level decomposition, build and cost determination.
• Cloud Exponence: A comprehensive platform that applies a Machine First™ approach, optimizing machine-human collaboration to deliver smart managed services in hybrid cloud environments.
Working with TCS, customers across the globe will be able to seamlessly leverage these solutions on AWS and gain from better speed to market, agility, and digital transformation of their mainframe workloads.
Krishna Mohan, Global Head, AWS Business Unit, TCS, said: “TCS has been helping leading global enterprises modernize legacy applications to be more digital, agile and lean. Our partnership with AWS in the AWS M2 platform focuses on creating repeatable processes that can accelerate IT modernization, reduce risks, and enable transition to cloud. Our Assessment and Migration Factory for AWS M2 leverages our industry-specific contextual knowledge and rich experience in mainframe modernization to help our customers accelerate their journey to the cloud with certainty.”
TCS’ AWS Business Unit is a full-stack, multidisciplinary group that offers enterprise customers end-to-end services and solutions around cloud migration, application and data modernization, managed services, and industry-specific innovation leveraging AWS. TCS holds several AWS designations, including AWS Premier Consulting Partner, AWS Managed Service Provider Partner, AWS Public Sector Partner, AWS Solution Provider, and AWS Well Architected Partner. The unit represents a significant investment by TCS and builds Page 2 of 2 on the deep expertise and execution experience of its large pool of AWS certified professionals to create more value for shared customers.
TCS Helps AGL Embrace New AI-powered Operating Model to Transform Customer Experience
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a leading global IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, has helped AGL, one of the largest integrated multiproduct energy retailers in Australia, transform the customer experience for its consumers.
With more than 4.2 million gas, electricity and telecommunications services provided to customers across Australia, AGL teamed up with TCS, its strategic partner for more than a decade, to enhance its customer experience in a hyper-competitive retail market. To provide a smoother, more intuitive, and personalized experience across all touch points throughout the customer journey, TCS helped AGL transform its endto-end retail business operations, across the front office, back office, and IT infrastructure.
At the center of this transformation is a digitally-powered data-driven integrated operating model that leverages TCS Cognix™, an AI-driven human-machine collaboration suite, that uses machine learning algorithms, advanced analytics, natural language processing, and automation technologies.
This transformation is helping the utility provider harness hidden insights from the large amount of customer data—over 45 million annual digital interactions, 50 million daily smart meter reads and 800,000 data points per second across physical assets—that AGL has at its disposal. TCS helped the utility provider create a sophisticated analytics solution that takes in information from multiple data sources and provides actionable insights. For instance, AGL can now more quickly and easily identify instances where customers are not receiving services to its high standards and address the issues at speed.
The new analytics solution has helped AGL improve its service quality levels and enhance its net promoter score
Glenn Waterson, General Manager, Customer Market Operations, AGL, said: “We’re continuing to embrace innovation to evolve as an organization, drive transformation in the industry and respond to customer demand. We want to help our customers manage their essential services and energy use, ensuring they experience simple, digital-led services across all of our products. TCS’ expertise and cognitive solutions have made it a key strategic partner in our journey.
Ashok Pai, Global Head, Cognitive Business Operations, TCS, said: “We are honored to partner with AGL to help realize its vision to provide ever superior experience for customers. Together, we have built futureready cognitive operations while setting a new gold standard for the modern customer experience. This showcases how an AI-powered and insight-driven approach can help companies reimagine experience and better address customer needs.”
This transformational project recently earned AGL the 2021 IDC Future Enterprise Award in the Best in Future of Intelligence category for synthesizing information from raw data, learning from these insights and leveraging them at scale across the entire enterprise. The award program recognizes companies for “their discernible and measurable excellence in their digital transformation efforts and significant efforts to transform or disrupt the market.”
NIIT’s subsidiary, RPS Consulting appoints Francis Jacob as President and Business Head
RPS Consulting announced the appointment of Francis Jacob as its President and Business Head
RPS Consulting is a leading provider of training programs on emerging digital technologies for experienced technology professionals, specifically addressing the needs of Global Systems Integrators and Capability Centers of large multinational companies.
Francis is a senior leader with over two decades of experience in the technology sector. During these years he has performed leadership roles in global organisations such as Wipro, HP, IBM and Avaya. He has extensive experience and expertise in scaling technology and training business in India and the Asia Pacific region. In his most recent role, Francis was the Director for Oracle University for the Asia Pacific region
Speaking on the appointment Sapnesh Lalla, CEO and Executive Director, NIIT Ltd. said “I heartily congratulate Francis and welcome him to the NIIT family and am confident that, together we will charter a great success story with RPS. Francis’s track record and depth of experience makes him an ideal leader to build on the great work done by the RPS team.”
Commenting on the development, Prasad Balakrishnan, CEO and Executive Director, RPS Consulting Pvt. Ltd. said "Both NIIT and RPS Consulting are leading names in the technology training industry. Francis brings immense thrust to our Customer Relationship Management strategy while advancing our Business Excellence Goals and help in Organisational Transformation.”
Speaking on joining the NIIT family as President and Business Head, RPS Consulting, Francis Jacob said, "I am excited to join RPS and the NIIT family at a time when there is war for quality technical talent in the market. With this need for continuous learning and skill development, we look forward to working with our Technology Partners to expand our footprint among the GSIs and GCC in India.”
NIIT Limited recently acquired 70% stake in RPS Consulting Private Limited (RPS Consulting). This acquisition creates new opportunities for NIIT and RPS Consulting to deliver innovative learning solutions in emerging digital technologies including Software Architecting and Engineering, Data Science, Cloud, Automation and DevOps, for both working professionals and new hires. The acquisition will also help NIIT expand its Managed Training Services portfolio to include technology training as a Managed Service for its global customers.
LUPIN
Global pharma major Lupin Limited (Lupin) announced today the launch of Sclflix, an educational mobile adaptable website for medical students who are pursuing post-graduation with chest specialization. Curated by Lupin for clinical enhancement, Sciflix Is a comprehensive learning platform in pulmonology where all scientific needs of post graduate students will be addressed by a multisource library under one roof.
Knowledge is an investment that pays the best dividends for the communities that we partner with. When we analysed the constant flow of pulmonology related information and the busy schedules of students pursuing medicine, It became apparent that there is an inherent need for an agile medlearning repository. Sciflix is a special Initiative by Lupin to assist future pulmonologists in staying abreast of the latest medical advances relevant to their specialty.
RaJeev Sibal, President, India Region Formulations, Lupin said "We live in a time when medical knowledge is dynamic and changing by the minute. With Scifllx, we strive to make It easier for students pu rsulng pulmonology to access to the latest research and medical innovations at the touch of their fingertips. Lupin has curated the full range of current evidence-based content to aid doctors in their clinical decision making and as a result improve patient outcomes."
The mobile compatible website can be accessed by both android and apple devices by medical students across the country for free. Here are the details for the website: www.sciflix.in
INFOSYS
Infosys Collaborates with One of Europe’s Greenest Data Centers to Accelerate Daimler’s Transition to Sustainable Mobility
• Lefdal Mine Datacenter offers one of Europe’s greenest data center ecosystems and is one of the world’s most energy efficient solutions
• Infosys provides ‘Green Data Center as a Service’, part of Infosys Cobalt to facilitate Daimler on its journey to net zero
• The offering provides a blueprint for organizations looking to accelerate decarbonization across industries
Infosys (NSE, BSE, NYSE: INFY), a global leader in nextgeneration digital services and consulting, today announced that it will transfer Daimler’s High Performance Computing (HPC) workloads used to design vehicles and automated driving technologies to one of Europe’s greenest data centers, Lefdal Mine Datacenter in Norway. The shift to Green Data Center as a Service is an important milestone in supporting Daimler deliver on its sustainability mission “Ambition 2039” to become CO2 neutral by 2039.
Data centers currently account for around 1% of total global energy use and service demand is expected to increase 60% by 2022. As next generation technologies continue to develop, engineering and other high-performance workloads that run complex algorithms such as those required for simulating sensors and journeys for autonomous vehicles will be increasingly critical to automakers’ competitiveness in the mobility industry. Yet, these workloads are extremely energy consuming and contribute considerably to the carbon footprint of enterprises worldwide.
Building on its strategic partnership with Daimler to drive hybrid cloud-powered innovation and transform IT infrastructure, Infosys offered a solution to facilitate Daimler shift HPC’s to green infrastructure using Infosys’ Data Center as a Service (DCaaS) offering in the Nordics region. Through the initiative, Infosys will manage the IT infrastructure in its entirety and Lefdal Mine Datacenter will provide the facility, a world leading sustainable and energy efficient data center
Norway is becoming a “superpower” for green data centers given that 100% of the power production in the region is renewable, and transmission loss reduced to a minimum. Lefdal Mine Datacenter offers one of Europe’s greenest data center solutions, supplying capacity that is both air-cooled and watercooled.
The data center is situated in a mine next to a deep, cold fjord with a stable and low temperature for effective cooling. Compared to air cooled data centers, Lefdal Mine Datacenter is not affected by warm days, and doesn’t require evaporative systems for cooling, with water usage effectiveness also rated zero. This system leads to a PUE ranging from 1.10 to 1.15 depending on UPS configuration and scale of capacity. The data center offers a world leading location for HPC environments.
The Green Data Center is the latest addition to Infosys Cobalt Hybrid Cloud portfolio, a blueprint consisting of a combination of Regional Private Data Centers covering all major continents, Edge Data Centers and Hyperscalers. For Daimler, partnering with Infosys to reimagine its data center operations in Lefdal Mine Datacenter will have a significant impact in delivering on its sustainability goals, and demonstrates the huge opportunity for other organizations to benefit from the industry-leading offering.
BHEL wins Cll-Exim Bank Platinum Awards for Business Excellence
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has achieved a major milestone in its journey of business excellence with four of its major units (Haridwar, Bhopal, Hyderabad & Trichy) winning accolades under the CIl-EXIM Bank Award for Business Excellence 2021. The awards were received by the units in the presence of Dr. Nalin Shinghal, Chairman & Managing Director.
The Award is based on the internationally recognised European foundation of quality management (EFQM) excellence model. While the company’s Haridwar and Bhopal units have got the Platinum recognition award, the Trichy and Hyderabad units have been awarded the Gold Plus recognition. Significantly, BHEL was the first PSU to get the CIl-EXIM Bank award in the year 2006.