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REDWOOD CITY, CA (MARKET WIRE) 11/11/09
NComputing Inc., the global leader in
virtual desktops, today announced that it has won a massive computerization
contract from Employee State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) alongside Wipro
for deploying 31,000 NComputing virtual desktops in ESIC offices and
clinics across the country. ESIC will use 31,000 NComputing thin-client
workstations and vSpace Virtualization Software to outfit all ESIC offices
and clinics with state-of-the-art green IT systems. ESIC is the Indian
Government Chartered insurance and healthcare organization delivering
Social Security benefits to employed individuals and their families. It
provides health insurance and delivers medical care through over 2,200
facilities across India.
ESIC and Wipro selected NComputing's proven virtual desktops for 'Project
Panchdeep', the largest e-governance project in India, to streamline
insurance and healthcare services that ESIC provides to employers,
employees, and state and central government workers. The initiative
includes the following:
Issuance of 20 million medical ID cards that can be used at any ESIC
facility
Creation of one of largest medical records databases in the world
Computerization of 144 hospitals, 620 insurance branches, 1,388
dispensaries/clinics, and 51 regional offices
Creation of a 50 million fingerprint database - the largest in India
Rollout of a single Unified Information System that automates all ESIC
processes for greater efficiency, transparency, and accountability
Largest cloud computing deployment in India
In March of this year, Wipro, the global provider of IT and business
transformation services had won the largest e-governance contract from ESIC
in a competitive tender process. Wipro will oversee the six-year BOOT
(Build, Own, Operate and Transfer) project. Over the next 15 months, Wipro
IT engineers and consultants will deploy the NComputing-based
solution across India. "Wipro's constant endeavor has been to bring
innovative, efficient and cost effective solutions to its customers. The
Wipro desktop platform with NComputing virtual desktops and software
deployed at ESIC hospitals will ensure effective and optimum utilization of
resources at minimum cost to ESIC beneficiaries," said Mr. Ashok Tripathy,
General Manager, Wipro Infotech.
"We are honored that NComputing has been selected for this strategic
initiative as it will vastly improve healthcare for the 12 million
beneficiaries by speeding insurance and medical services," said Mr. Stephen
Dukker, chairman and CEO of NComputing. NComputing technology enables a
desktop PC to be shared by up to 30 users and a server to be shared by
hundreds of users with each user getting a full computing experience. By
sharing the PCs and servers, organizations can typically
reduce purchase and support costs by 75% and electricity costs by 90%.
The NComputing solution includes both the virtualization software (vSpace)
that creates the "virtual" sessions inside a PC or server, and the
thin-client devices that connect the user's monitor, keyboard, and mouse to
the shared computer. The NComputing thin clients are the greenest computers
on earth as they use just 5 watts of electricity a major benefit in
India where electricity is unreliable and require expensive UPS and back-up
generators.
For the Panchdeep project, ESIC has chosen to deploy NComputing's L130
virtual desktops. Over 31,000 L130s will connect to Wipro desktop PCs,
which then connect to the largest cloud computing environment in India at
ESIC data centers.
For the millions of ESIC beneficiaries, the e-governance initiative will
result in faster claims processing, a single ID card that is accepted in
all ESIC facilities, and the ability to use any hospital/dispensary in the
network.
Last year, NComputing won the largest Indian education computing tender in
Andhra Pradesh for installing 40,000 NComputing virtual desktops in 5,000
government schools.
About NComputing Inc.
NComputing Inc. is the fastest growing desktop virtualization company in
the world with millions of users in 140 countries. The company's
award-winning, patented technology lowers desktop computing costs, improves
manageability, and reduces both energy consumption and e-waste. It is the
perfect solution for leveraging the power and potential of PCs and cloud
computing. To learn more about NComputing, visit http://www.ncomputing.com.
About Wipro Infotech
Wipro Infotech, a division of the US$5 billion Wipro Limited, provides
enterprise customers with high value Information Technology Products,
Software Services, Solutions and Consulting Services in India and the
Middle East. Headquartered at Bangalore, Wipro Infotech serves customers in
India through a network of 22 offices and 170 service locations across the
country. It also has regional offices across the Middle East serving the
region.
About Wipro Ltd
Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT) provides comprehensive IT solutions and services,
including systems integration, information systems outsourcing, IT enabled
services, package implementation, software application development and
maintenance, and research and development services to corporations
globally. Wipro Limited is the first PCMM Level 5 and SEI CMM Level 5
certified IT Services Company globally. In the Indian market, Wipro is a
leader in providing IT solutions and services for the corporate segment in
India offering system integration, network integration, software solutions
and IT services. In the Asia Pacific and Middle East markets, Wipro
provides IT solutions and services for global corporations. Wipro also has
profitable presence in niche market segments of consumer products and
lighting. Wipro's ADSs are listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and its
equity shares are listed in India on the Stock Exchange - Mumbai, and the
National Stock Exchange. For more information, please visit our websites at
www.wipro.com, www.wiprocorporate.com, and www.wipro.in.
Wipro's forward looking and cautionary statements
Certain statements in this release concerning our future growth prospects
and our ability to successfully complete and integrate potential
acquisitions 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 our ability to integrate and manage
acquired IT professionals, our ability to integrate acquired assets in a
cost effective and timely manner, 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 Wipro has made
strategic investments, withdrawal of fiscal governmental incentives,
political instability, legal restrictions on raising capital or acquiring
companies outside India, unauthorized use of our intellectual property and
general economic conditions affecting our industry. Additional risks that
could affect our future operating results are more fully described in our
filings with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. These
filings are available at www.sec.gov. Wipro may, from time to time, make
additional written and oral forward looking statements, including
statements contained in the company's filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission and our reports to shareholders. Wipro does not
undertake to update any forward-looking statement that may be made from
time to time by or on behalf of the company.
About Employees State Insurance Company (ESIC)
Employees' State Insurance Corporation (ESIC), a statutory Corporation,
under the Ministry of Labour & Employment, Government of India (GoI)
prvides provides social security protection to over 12 million industrial
workers and their family members across the country. ESIC members represent
employers, employees, the Government of India, State Governments, medical
professionals and the Parliament. ESIC manages nearly 150 hospitals and
1400 dispensaries across the country and has 15,000 employees.
Contacts:
Cerena Hsieh
Hill & Knowlton
Email Contact
415-281-7136
David Rand
NComputing, Inc.
Email Contact
650-517-5806
Wipro Infotech
Agency Contact:
Purnima Burman
K2 Communications Pvt Ltd
Mobile: +91-9900512025
Email: Email Contact
Wipro Contact:
Sandhya Shama Rao
Mobile: +91-9741100879
Email: Email Contact
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