Ontrack to participate in FT-NASSCOM IT Summit in London

Ontrack Systems, as a member of 50-member NASSCOM delegation, will participate in the forthcoming IT Summit on ‘Outsourcing to India-The Next Steps’ scheduled to be held in London on November 25. The third international ‘Outsourcing’ event is focused to assess the dynamics of the vendor-client relationship, taking an in-depth look at best practices and emerging models of outsourcing. With its expanding as well as diversifying business in the UK market, Ontrack’s participation in the Summit assumes great significance. Mr. Praveen Siddannavar will represent OSL in the NASSCOM delegation. During the Summit, Mr. Siddannavar is likely to have one-to-one sessions with some selected representatives from continental European businesses.

The Summit to be held at Renaissance Chancery Court Hotel, is being organised by NASSCOM in partnership with Financial Times popularly known as FT, the UK-based leading international financial Daily. Europe represents India’s second largest software export destination and a market that is increasingly becoming attractive for the Indian software and services industry to expand its presence.

To Ontrack, the importance of the UK IT market could be gauged by the fact that it had set up a wholly owned subsidiary – Ontrack Systems (UK) Limited - two years back. IT Services being offered by Ontrack UK include Software Development, SAP Solutions, Networking, Consultancy and Managed Services. With its offshore model, Ontrack UK addresses the increasing pressure of delivering services on a 24 x 7 support through its Managed Service Centre in Maidenhead and the Offshore Development Centres in Kolkata and Fujairah. Ontrack’s managed services offer integrated cost-effective IT management solutions with significant improvement in service quality. Its service offerings include remote monitoring and reporting services for servers, networks and applications; managing IS Infrastructure, Desktop, SAP ProMon & Administration and Remote Service Desk.

The company is currently concentrating on relationship building with various multinational organisations to its IT service offerings. Ontrack’s participation in the London Summit assumes greater significance as one of its major highlights would be building up relationships with the European IT companies through one-to-one sessions.

The Summit will address the challenges of implementing outsourcing operations in the subcontinent. Case studies from leading global players will emphasize the key issues, both legal and commercial, which facilitate successful negotiation and management of the outsourcing agreement. A highlight of this year's event will be presentations from a select group of continental European businesses as they share their experiences and lessons learned on entering the Indian outsourcing market. Leading speakers from international firms include HSBC Holdings Plc, British Airways, Friends Provident, ABN Amro, Linklaters, Dekabank Deutsche Girozentrale and etc.

SMS Xprez, a new product on SMS technology for GSM mobile phones launched by Ontrack, has bagged two awards - Best Value for Money and Best Product Launch - in the COMPASS 2003 - one of the largest IT exhibition in India.

17^th October 2002

Kolkata-based Ontrack Systems Limited, a leading IT services provider, has decided to significantly step up its operations in the UK. According to Ontrack Systems Managing Director, B Hari, the company's long-term vision is to head all international operations from its UK office.
"The UK has a number of advantages. Apart from being strategically placed for business with Europe, we have found the UK a fair country to work in," said Hari explaining the company's preference for the UK. "Besides," he added, "the UK market requires companies like Ontrack to provide high-end solutions."

20^th September 2002

Leveraging Offshore Services
IT directors have the skills to deal directly with offshore companies, so use your influence.
The current economic climate and budget reductions that we face clearly mean we as IT leaders need to get more out of our investments and deliver better services with fewer resources. Moreover, recent events have reduced demand on offshore services, creating an opportunity whereby we can leverage costs and services.

Many of us are familiar with the offshore service model and have a range of experiences, good and bad, most likely following Y2K compliance or internet-based development. However, few of us have really exploited the opportunities that exist from working with offshore software companies. We still tend to use the larger, local IT service companies that, in turn, subcontract offshore.