ITC Infotech India Limited, an SEI CMM Level 5
company, has become the first in India to set up a
Microsoft COE (Centre of Excellence) in e-commerce
technologies. ITC Infotech will now closely work with the e-commerce group in Microsoft to
provide B2B and B2C solutions on the various Microsoft technologies.
The COE programme involves workshops conducted by Microsoft Consulting Service
personnel for knowledge transfer in technology and best practices, followed by
their application on full cycle projects.
Using the MS COE framework, ITC Infotech developed a B2B e-commerce application for
the greeting cards business of I.T.C. Limited. The solution can be
scaled up to provide on-line selection, ordering and catalogue management of
greeting cards to around 500 distributors in cities and small towns across India.
Apart from gaining expertise in standard Windows 2000
technology areas, ITC Infotech has also built significant
capabilities in BizTalk Server 2000 for Enterprise Application
Integration and Commerce Server 2000 for B2B/B2C
solutions. ITC's knowledge of competing platforms will help in cross-platform
integration scenarios, especially with Biztalk.
Commenting on the alliance, A. Saravanan,
Director, Enterprise Services, Microsoft Corporation India Pvt. Ltd., said,
"ITC Infotech has made significant investments and efforts
in creating the COE on Microsoft.NET platforms and technologies,
more specifically on the platforms and tools for B2B and B2C
solutions. We, at Microsoft, are very
pleased to see the high quality architectural and
development skills that ITC Infotech has developed over the last one
year. We value the alliance with ITC Infotech and look forward to
working with them on developing and delivering
'.net' solutions to our customers".
According to Mr. Sanjay Verma, MD of ITC Infotech, "this
alliance is in line with ITC Infotech's continuous pursuit of knowledge
leadership in cutting edge technologies. This will be a focused and dominant
practice among the Company's global service offerings."
April 25, 2001
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