Monday, May 19, 2003		Companyspeak

Airtel-LogicaCMG MMS

LogicaCMG announced the successful deployment of its Multimedia Messaging Service Centre (MMSC) with Airtel. The solution enabled Airtel to launch its MMS services to 3 million subscribers across India, allowing consumers to send content-rich multimedia messages with photos, audio and video clips. Based on open standards, the scalable architecture of LogicaCMG’s MMSC will allow Airtel to meet the capacity, performance, and reliability requirements necessary to support the introduction and growth of premium MMS services.

Novell’s tie-up

Onward Novell Software (I) Pvt. Ltd. announced it reached an understanding with PricewaterhouseCoopers India Pvt. Ltd. to promote Novell’s Secure Identity Management Solutions in India for new and emerging markets. PricewaterhouseCoopers announced it would implement Novell Nsure solutions for new and emerging markets as part of its Security Integration Services offerings and has named Novell as one of its go-to-market alliance vendors. In particular, Novell will provide key identity management technology, based on its industry-leading directory and metadirectory services.

Baan a ‘visionary’

Baan, an enterprise application provider for industrial enterprises, has been listed in the ‘Visionary’ quadrant for organisation in the March 2003 Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Magic Quadrant study prepared by Gartner, a leading technology research and advisory firm.According to Gartner, visionaries are vendors that understand where the market is going or have a vision of changing the market rules, but can still improve in terms of optimising service delivery (as defined in Defining the PLM Magic Quadrant by Criteria and Use).