NIIT Technologies Secures Best Offshore Partner Award from ICT Subsidiary of Germany Railways

NEW DELHI, February 6, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --

Award conferred for third consecutive year

NIIT Technologies Ltd., a leading global IT solutions organization, has won the "Best Offshore Service Provider" award by DB Systel, the ICT subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn (German Railways). This is the third consecutive year that NIIT Technologies Ltd. has received this prestigious award.

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Mr. Randolf Robert, Head, Global Sourcing at DB Systel, said, "We congratulate NIIT Technologies for winning this award as the best partner for the third time in a row. This award is the hallmark of consistent high quality work and excellent customer satisfaction. NIIT Technologies has been a very reliable and committed partner to us delivering exceptional value constantly."

The award is conferred on the basis of an annual customer satisfaction survey, regular assessments and strict quality parameters. NIIT Technologies was able to once again prevail against well-known offshore partners. This time the views of DB Systel's partners were also taken into consideration for the winner assessment. The overall vendor evaluation included request behavior, commitment and the commercial aspects of the partner.  DB Systel has total 24 frame contract partners which include onshore partners and offshore partners.

Commenting on this achievement, Mr. Bhaskar Chavali, Chief Delivery Officer, NIIT Technologies Ltd., said, "Securing this award for the third consecutive year from a marquee client in Europe like DB Systel establishes our position as a preferred solutions company among our offshore peers."

About NIIT Technologies

NIIT Technologies is a leading IT solutions organization, servicing customers in Americas, Continental Europe, Asia and Australia. It offers services in Application Development and Maintenance, Infrastructure Management Services, IP Asset or Platform Solutions, and Business Process Outsourcing to organizations in the Financial Services, Travel & Transportation, Manufacturing/Distribution, and Government sectors. The Company adheres to major global benchmarks and standards, having secured the ISO 9001:2000 certifications and the ISO: 27001 Information Security Management accreditation. NIIT Technologies also follows global standards of development. It has been assessed at Level 5 of SEI CMMi version 1.2. NIIT Technologies Business Process Outsourcing conforms to the highest quality standards such as COPC and Six Sigma. Its data centre operations are assessed at the international ISO 20000 IT management standards. For more information, please visit http://www.niit-tech.com

About  DB Systel:

DB Systel GmbH based in Frankfurt and Main is one of Germany's leading ICT solution providers. As a subsidiary of the Deutsche Bahn they cover the whole life cycle of IT and telecommunications solutions - from professional analysis and strategic planning and development to operation and optimization. DB Systel supervises about 500 highly available productive IT applications. These include numerous applications developed in-house in addition to current standard software. The company has for example developed a system for interactive creation of schedules and the passenger information system. DB Systel also operates a company-wide office communication system for the DB Group with about 85,000 users and provides the software required. The specialist for voice, data and telecommunications networks offers powerful and high-quality telecommunications services. For more information please visit http://www.dbsystel.de/dbsystel-en/start-en/

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Certain statements in this release are forward-looking statements. The business involves various risks, and uncertainties that could result in the actual results to differ materially from those indicated here. All forward looking statements made herein are based on information presently available to the management of the Company and the Company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statement that may be made from time to time by or on behalf of the Company.

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