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Follow UsBANGALORE: Systems design and software services company, Spectrum Software,
based in Atlanta and Tata Infotech Ltd. have forged an alliance.
According to the agreements, signed between the two Tata Infotech will be the
marketing partner for Spectrum's platform portable, web enabled, full-featured
source configuration management tool - SpectrumSCM in India and in addressing
the Telecommunications market space in the US. It will also be providing product
support and training for SpectrumSCM as part of this agreement.
Further both companies would work together to pursue telecom service
opportunities and execution of projects either onsite or offshore, from Tata
Infotech's facilities in India. Both parties agreed to leverage their respective
strengths in this area to establish a competitive market advantage for the US
market.
Spectrum Software president, Sarathi Srinivasan, said, "We have in Tata
Infotech a reputed company with market credibility, resources and the
capabilities to understand and market our product. We are confident that through
the efforts of Tata Infotech and Spectrum’s strength globally, we will be able
to achieve our target for deployment of 100,000 licenses of Spectrum SCM by year
2005. We also found that Tata Infotech has a well-established Telecom services
practice that has executed several projects in this areas which are of interest
to us and we would like to leverage these capabilities jointly.
Tata Infotech Ltd., managing director, Dr. Nirmal Jain, said, "We found
SpectrumSCM to be an attractive alternative to the expensive high-ended SCM
systems that are currently in the market place. Spectrum has good domain
expertise and customer contact base in the Telecommunication market-space. With
our expertise we could offer synergy in this area. Tata Infotech could leverage
its offshore development and global delivery capability in delivering custom
built applications to Telecom customers. Spectrum is also looking into some of
the telecom products developed by us for marketing in the US".