Birlasoft is a Global

Global

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 Information Technology

Information technology

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 Services provider founded in 1995 and headquartered in India

India

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, with global workforce of over 4000 employees and footprints in 5 continents and delivery centers in Australia

Australia

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, India

India

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 and USA. The company provides software and consultancy to the banking, financial

FINANCIAL

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 services, insurance

Insurance

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 and manufacturing

Manufacturing

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 industries.

The company is part of the CK Birla Group, headquartered in Noida

Noida

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, with offices in the USA, Switzerland

Switzerland

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, UK, Germany, Australia

Australia

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, Singapore

Singapore

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, Malaysia.

History

The CK Birla Group was established in 1861 by B.M. Birla, son of the late G.P. Birla. The CK Birla Group works in major industries including automobile, bearings, earthmoving and power transmission equipment, paper, cement, building products and electrical products and information technology

Information technology

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The CK Birla group entered the information technology business in 1995. Initially, the company Birla Horizons International concentrated on professional services with offices in New Delhi, New Jersey and California.In 1998, the company was rejuvenated and renamed Birlasoft Inc. when GE Capital joined the company as a strategic investor.The company now has several offices across multiple global locations with dedicated software centres, and invests heavily in R & D on third generation technologies like SOA

SOA

-Computers, Science, engineering and information technology:* Service-oriented architecture, type of software architecture for creating and using business processes, packaged as services...

, SaaS

Saas

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 and Cloud computing

Cloud computing

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Corporate social responsibility

Birlasoft collaborates with the global NGO Habitat for Humanity to build homes for the poor. The company also supports research against cancer through another NGO, CanSupport.

Recognition

• NeoITGlobal Services100 in 2009-10: Recognized among the Top 100 It service providers on maturity and capability to lead next wave of globalization of services.
• CMMI High Maturity Leadership Awards
• NASSCOM
  NASSCOM
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