Birlasoft Achieves Platinum Level Status in the Oracle Partner Network

NOIDA, India and EDISON, N.J., Sept. 8 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Birlasoft, the global IT services business of the 150-year-old multi-billion dollar CK Birla Group, announced today that it has attained Oracle(R) PartnerNetwork (OPN) Platinum status, an elite level of Oracle partnership. The deep engagement will strengthen Birlasoft's strategy for long-term growth through collaborative development plans and broadening of specialization areas on Oracle technologies.

Ravi Kathuria, SVP Global Marketing & Alliances, Birlasoft said: "We are proud to have attained this elite level of membership in the Oracle PartnerNetwork. The achievement sets us apart as a company with a competitive advantage that can provide our customers extended capabilities, and market, functional, or industry expertise through deployment of Oracle solutions in their businesses. By embracing new technologies and leveraging Oracle's reliability, security, and innovation, we can more effectively address the needs of our customers with specialized solutions that can be integrated with a range of next generation services and resources."

Birlasoft has, and continues to invest heavily in strengthening customer reference base and Centers of Excellence around Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle PeopleSoft, Oracle Siebel and Oracle CRM OnDemand solutions. Over 400 consultants have gone through the OPN certifications across areas of specialization and the target is to achieve more than 750 certifications by December 2010.

Sanjay Gupta, Global Head of Delivery, Birlasoft, recognizes the team's contribution in getting this level of partnership and comments, "As a company, we are committed to reducing the business complexities of our customers. We have been continuously enhancing our knowledge of Oracle products and the know-how to address challenges that our joint clients face. Oracle's acknowledgement of our investments in and commitment to providing customers with Oracle services, as well as our delivery team's in-depth expertise across a breadth of Oracle's products helped us achieve OPN Platinum Partner status. We look forward to getting Oracle's direct and continuous support towards increasing customer satisfaction by shortening the development and implementation cycles and offering a new and enhanced way of support by broadening our specialization areas."

"The achievement of Platinum membership means that Birlasoft can distinguish its competencies and refine its solutions within specialization categories around Oracle applications and technology. This enables prospects and clients to easily identify the partners who best align with their business objectives," said Cherian Varghese, Senior Director, Alliances & Channels, India, Oracle.

Birlasoft endeavors to help its existing customers with industry leading, scalable and open-standards based Oracle solutions while at the same time seek new opportunities for the business. Access to Oracle's online Support knowledge base will help bring better solutions, advanced Customer Services & development benefits.

Birlasoft is participating at Oracle Open World 2010 in San Francisco, the world's largest and the most important conference for Oracle technologists, business users, and partners. The company will have a strong presence in the event through its key executive leadership and sales staff. Birlasoft would also be showcasing its solutions at the booth 3701, Moscone West.

Most recently, Birlasoft announced the acquisition of the Engineering Design Services team of Hindustan Motors & AVTEC as part of its strategic move to build scale in chosen domains and enhance capability in onsite consulting and offshore development services. It also announced the launch of two Global Delivery Centers in China & Mexico. http://www.birlasoft.com/newsroom/newsroom.html

About Birlasoft

Birlasoft focuses exclusively on serving clients in Banking & Financial Services, Insurance and Manufacturing industries become competitive in their business by providing value-based information technology services in onshore, offshore and near-shore models.

Birlasoft has focused Centers of Excellence in CRM, ERP, and BI/DW specializing in Oracle, Siebel, SAP, and Peoplesoft technologies. In addition, Birlasoft's portfolio of services includes industry-specific application development & management, QA, and managed infrastructure services. Birlasoft's robust delivery processes embrace digitized project management methodologies, embedded within proven practices of Six Sigma, SEI CMMI Level 5 on Continuous Representation and a secure services framework.

Headquartered at Delhi NCR region in India, Birlasoft has presence across Americas, Europe, Australia, ASEAN and India.

For further information, go to http://www.birlasoft.com

About Oracle PartnerNetwork

Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Specialized is the latest version of Oracle's partner program that provides partners with tools to better develop, sell and implement Oracle solutions. OPN Specialized offers resources to train and support specialized knowledge of Oracle products and solutions and has evolved to recognize Oracle's growing product portfolio, partner base and business opportunity. Key to the latest enhancements to OPN is the ability for partners to differentiate through Specializations. Specializations are achieved through competency development, business results, expertise and proven success. To find out more visit http://www.oracle.com/partners .

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     Sangeeta Iyer
     VP Marketing, Birlasoft
     Tel:   +91-120-6629011
     Email: sangeeta.iyer @birlasoft.com

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