VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

The CK Birla Group has announced the appointment of Anjan Lahiri as the Chief Executive Officer of its global IT services firm Birlasoft. Passionate about driving an organization’s vision and culture change, Anjan Lahiri is a globally recognized information services expert and one of the co-founders of Mindtree. Lahiri will be based at the company’s headquarter in Noida UP, will lead a global workforce of over 4,000 employees to steer Birlasoft in its phase of growth. He will also be responsible to bolster the company’s capabilities in the emerging areas of Cloud and Analytics, and to drive synergies with the global clientele across banking and financial services, insurance, manufacturing, and healthcare sectors. Amita Birla Chairman, Birlasoft said, “Birlasoft is going through an interesting growth phase, and Anjan’s appointment comes at the right time. He brings with him a rich experience of growing organizations. His ability to lead high performing teams to the next level of ...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   The IT services arm of the  CK Birla group  and a global Information Technology Services provider present across US, UK, Europe and APAC, Birlasoft has announced acquisition of  EnablePath . With this acquisition Birlasoft aims to drive specialized expertise in strategic high-end business consulting, cloud transition, implementation, integration and app exchange services developed on the Salesforce.com platform to provide full suite of solutions around sales, service, marketing and related cloud environments value chain, in the  enterprise and commercial mid-market  segments. This  acquisition is a part of larger strategy of Birlasoft to leverage the shift in enterprises from “build model” to business process led “consume model” and a focus on "IT outcome" to "business outcome" based services  enabled  by  technology disruptions like cloud, analytics and mobility. Preeti Das, CEO, Birl...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Birlasoft has announced its Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) strategy designed to help businesses become more agile, gain greater visibility into their data, and balance business risk and responsiveness. "Impending regulations, client and internal pressures are driving securities firms to enhance and restructure their compliance and regulatory infrastructure. This will remain a top priority for securities firms for the next few years and drive investments in areas such as OTC Derivatives, market surveillance and risk management," said Dushyant Shahrawat, CFA, Senior Research Director, TowerGroup. "At Birlasoft, we have developed a comprehensive and flexible framework to respond to both market dynamics as well as individual organization's requirements. We can work with our clients to transform risk management challenges into a value changing capability. The right level of risk management capability can position the co...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Birlasoft has appointed William B. Aimetti as the Strategic Advisor to the Birlasoft Americas Advisory Board. Bill Aimetti was formerly the President, Chief Operating Officer and Board Member of Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) and is an acknowledged leader in the Banking & Financial Services (BFS) industry as well as in Capital Markets. In his capacity as Strategic Advisor, he will guide and assist in the formulation and implementation of Birlasoft's overall BFS and Capital Markets' strategy. Speaking on the occasion, William B Aimetti said, "Capital Market firms are wrestling with significant challenges, regulatory reforms and sweeping changes, while meeting aggressive expectations of customers and shareholders. Our Industry is looking for solutions that deliver customer centricity, manage risk and compliance as well as offer efficiencies (both Business and IT). In this milieu, Birlasoft offers market-lea...