Patni Computer Systems Ltd. (Patni) (BSE: 532517, NSE:
PATNI, NYSE: PTI), a leading global IT and BPO services
provider, today announced that the company has achieved Silver
Partner status in the OneShield Dragon Development Partner
Certification Program. OneShield announced the program in September
of this year.
OneShield, Inc. is the developer of OneShield Dragon®, an
innovatively modern, rules- and tools-based, metadata-driven policy
management solution. The partner certification program aims to
ensure development partners, including systems integrators and
individual contributors, maintain consistent standards for
successfully implementing, extending and maintaining the Dragon
application and toolset.
Patni has worked with OneShield for several years, providing IT
services for the company and its customers. Patni is partnering
with OneShield to provide more strategic services on OneShield
initiatives.
“We are proud to welcome Patni as a Silver Partner in our new
certification program,” said OneShield’s director of insurance
strategy and alliances, Steve Forte. “Patni has proven itself
as a skilled, high-quality partner, providing exemplary service.
Solid partnerships like ours with Patni allow OneShield to
concentrate on our core mission of providing quality enterprise
software to our customers.”
“This is a great honor,” said Ganesh Iyer, senior vice
president and global head, Banking Financial Services and Insurance
at Patni. “OneShield has opened many doors for Patni in the
Policy and Compliance (P&C) insurance sector, and we look
forward to working closely with OneShield and its customers for
many years.”
OneShield’s Dragon Development Partner Certification Program has
four certification levels: Silver, Gold, Platinum and Diamond.
About Patni
Patni Computer Systems Limited (Patni) (BSE: 532517, NSE:
PATNI, NYSE: PTI) is a global provider of IT services and
business solutions, servicing global 2000 clients. Patni services
its clients through its micro-vertical focus in banking, financial
services (BFS) and insurance (I); manufacturing, retail and
distribution (MRD); life sciences; communications, media and
utilities (CMU).
With an employee strength of over 16,000; multiple global
delivery centers spread across 16 cities worldwide; 30
international offices across the Americas, Europe- Middle
East-Africa (EMEA), and Asia-Pacific; Patni has registered revenues
of US$ 656 million for the year 2009.
Patni’s service offerings include application development and
maintenance, enterprise software & systems integration
services, business and technology consulting, product engineering
services, infrastructure management services, customer interaction
services & business process outsourcing, quality assurance and
engineering services.
Committed to quality, Patni adds value to its clients’
businesses through well-established and structured methodologies,
tools and techniques. Patni is an ISO 9001: 2008 certified and
SEI-CMMI-Dev Level 5 (V 1.2) organization. In keeping with its
focus on continuous process improvements, Patni adopts Six Sigma
practices as an integral part of its quality and process
frameworks.
Patni leverages its vast experience spanning three decades; deep
domain expertise; full-spectrum services; and suites of IP-led
solutions, methodologies and frameworks; in being an effective
business transformation partner to its clients.
For more information on Patni, visit
www.patni.com.
About OneShield
OneShield provides browser-based solutions to automate the sales
and service of insurance and bond products for insurance carriers,
major brokers, and managing general agents. Its flagship product,
OneShield Dragon®, is a tools-based, data-driven insurance
underwriting, policy administration, rating and workflow engine.
Dragon provides configurable and modifiable options to meet today’s
goals and to adapt to future demands. OneShield has offices in
Westborough, MA, Glastonbury, CT and Gurgaon, India.
For additional information, visit www.oneshield.com
Safe Harbor:
Certain statements in this release concerning our future growth
prospects are forward-looking statements, which involve a number of
risks, and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ
materially from those in such forward-looking statements. The risks
and uncertainties relating to these statements include, but are not
limited to, risks and uncertainties regarding fluctuations in
earnings, our ability to manage growth, intense competition in IT
services including those factors which may affect our cost
advantage, wage increases in India, our ability to attract and
retain highly skilled professionals, time and cost overruns on
fixed-price, fixed-time frame contracts, client concentration,
restrictions on immigration, our ability to manage our
international operations, reduced demand for technology in our key
focus areas, disruptions in telecommunication networks, liability
for damages on our service contracts, the success of the companies
in which Patni has made strategic investments, withdrawal of
governmental fiscal incentives, political instability, legal
restrictions on raising capital or acquiring companies outside
India, and unauthorized use of our intellectual property and
general economic conditions affecting our industry. The
company does not undertake to update any forward-looking statement
that may be made from time to time by or on behalf of the
Company.