News
[BACK TO NEWS]

McLean, VA: Dec 5: Tata Infotech, one of India's largest IT companies, has won a $US 750,000 offshore contract from the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse (UW-L), Wisconsin, USA. Tata Infotech will reengineer the University's mainframe-based core business applications to a modern, open and web-enabled system. The new system will be deployed on a J2EE environment, a Windows 2000 platform, and have an Oracle 9i database. Microfocus's Object wrapper technology will be used for the project. Currently more than 600 users use the legacy system for student information, accounting and budgeting, records & registration, admissions, financial aid and human resource purposes. The revamped system will also be integrated with other internal applications of the University.

The University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, (which has more than 9000 students) is an old reputed public institution with 10 sister universities located in the US. Kiplinger and the US News and World Report have rated it one of the best universities. Using its vast technical experience and project management skills, Tata Infotech has recommended a cost-effective and a quicker solution to the University whereby it can migrate the mainframe systems as well as web-enable them at one go meeting key business requirements.

When the new system comes on board UW-L will be able to re-engineer its business processes progressively through a prioritisation of business requirements rather than vendor support requirements. Overall application management costs will be lowered, as platform costs will reduce and operational efficiency will increase.

The project will be executed out of Tata Infotech's sprawling software development centre at Mumbai, India and at the University's picturesque location in La Crosse, Wisconsin USA.

John Tillman, Chief Information Officer (CIO) Assistant Vice Chancellor for Information Technology Services said "Since 1985 the University of Wisconsin La Crosse has been developing its administrative computing systems. The administrate staff, faculty and students have been quite pleased with the functionality of our highly integrated systems although the underlying architecture was reaching the end of its lifecycle and limiting further cost effective development necessary to meet the current and future computing and communication needs of the university community. The migration to the modern architecture being completed with the help of Tata Infotech will position the university so that the best parts of the current systems can be preserved and moved forward, while a cost effective environment for the development of needed new applications for the future is being put in place. This project is crucial for the future success of the university. We reviewed a significant cross section of potential partners for this project and it was clear to me and my staff that Tata Infotech was the company that has the technical knowledge and skills coupled with a well developed model for effective project management necessary for a successful completion of this project. To this date the project is on schedule and I am very confident it will remain on schedule with a high quality completed product." This win once again reinforces the confidence of public institutions in Tata Infotech's legacy applications reengineering capabilities.