Larsen & Toubro Infotech

Infobox_Company
company_name = Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd
company_
company_type = Private
foundation = Mr Henning Holck-Larsen and Mr Soren Kristian Toubro
key_people = Mr. Sudip Banarjee , Chief Executive
location_city = Mumbai, Maharashtra
location_country = India
industry = Software services
num_employees = 10,000
homepage = [http://www.lntinfotech.com lntinfotech.com]

Larsen & Toubro Infotech Ltd (L&T Infotech) is a Indian company providing Information Technology consulting and Software Services & solutions. It is a 100% subsidiary of the one of Asia's largest organizations, Larsen & Toubro Limited. [cite web |url=http://www.lntinfotech.com/lntinfotech/aspfiles/AboutUs/I1117CorporateProfile.asp | title=Company profile |accessdate=2007-07-30 |publisher=Larsen & Toubro Infotech]

L&T Infotech is among the first few software companies in India to be awarded the ISO 9001:2000 certification. It employs standards of the Software Engineering Institute's (SEI) Capability Maturity Model (CMM) and is a certified Level 5 organization. It has been assessed at PCMM Level 5, ver-2.0 across all its centers. The Customer Competence Center (CCC), set up and managed by the SAP Practice of L&T Infotech, has received the CCC certification from SAP.

History

Originally founded as L&T Information Technology Ltd (LTITL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro Ltd (L&T), the company changed its name to L&T Infotech on 1st April, 1997 [ [http://www.alacrastore.com/storecontent/bni/24871454 Renamed L&T Infotech] ] . In 2004, it tied up with Fidelity Information Services, a division of Fidelity National Financial to provide banking solutions for the Indian banking industry [ [http://www.ciol.com/content/enterprise/2004/104052703.asp L&T, Fidelity in pact to offer banking soln] ] . In 2005, L&T Infotech was rated amongst the top 5 preferred employers for the class of 2005 by AC Nielsen.

In December 2006, L&T Infotech acquired GDA Technologies (a privately held electronic design firm based in California, USA) and all of its design centers in USA and India, for an undisclosed consideration.cite web
url=http://www.planetpowai.com/news/27082006001.html
title=L&T Infotech acquires GDA Technologies
date=2006-12-13
accessdate=2006-12-13] [ [http://www.myiris.com/newsCentre/newsPopup.php?fileR=20061213104459047&dir=2006/12/13&secID=livenews L&T Infotech acquires GDA Technologies] ]

In April 2007, The Economic Times reported that L&T Infotech Ltd. is looking to buy three to four firms with revenues of $50 million or less in the banking and financial services segment. [ [http://in.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=businessNews&storyID=2007-04-12T101432Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_India-293955-1.xml L&T Infotech looks to acquire 3-4 firms - paper] ]

In February 2008, L&T Infotech stated that it will acquire a US firm in the manufacturing vertical for about $300 million within a year. [cite news
url = http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Latest_News/LT_Infotech_eyes_US_firm_in_manufacturing_domain/articleshow/2783369.cms
title = L&T Infotech eyes US firm in manufacturing domain
work = Economic Times
publisher = The Times Group
date = 14 February 2008
accessdate = 2008-04-17]

Key industries

The company offers software solutions and consulting services in areas like:
* Domain Specific: Financial services, Telecom, Utilities, Manufacturing.
* Technical Solutions: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise System Integration,Enterprise Application Integration(EAI),Business to Business(B2B), E-Commerce Strategy Consulting and Implementation, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Mobile business Applications, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Mainframe Services.
* Other Areas: Retail and Remote-maintenance of legacy systems, Logistics and Transitioning, Health Care and Hospitality.

L&T Infotech has alliances with IBM, Microsoft, Oracle Corporation, Computer Associates, Siebel, SAP, JD Edwards, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard,webMethods and other companies.

Offices

The company's headquarters are located in Mumbai. It has 14 international offices, spread over USA, UK, Asia Pacific, Middle East and South Africa. In India, it has six software development centers at Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore, Chennai and Mysore. The company also has a Proximity Development Center in the USA. A new development centre is being built at Kochi, India.

References

External links

* [http://www.lntinfotech.com Company website]
* [http://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/ 2005 Top 11 H1B Visa Sponsors]