Infosys bags $10 mn Microsoft deal

$10-million BPO deal is a three-year contract for back-end support such as data processing

 

US president Barack Obama's anti-outsourcing policy has not affected Microsoft's outsourcing plans. ET has learnt that the software giant has awarded a $10-million BPO deal to Infosys. This is a three-year contract for back-end support such as data processing, said a person familiar with the development.

 

Microsoft, which has over 5,000 people on its payrolls in India, has outsourced most of its IT and development work to Bangalore-based Mindtree. It recently signed a five-year outsourcing deal with HCL Technologies.

 

Infosys BPO, a subsidiary of Infosys, is also close to bagging another deal with Alcatel-Lucent. In a contract worth over $15 million and spanning over three years, the IT firm will provide back-end support to the European telecom major. Infosys declined to comment citing it was in a silent period prior to the declaration of the first quarter numbers. The Alcatel-Lucent deal had already been awarded to Infosys BPO, but due to certain legal issues it did not materialise.

 

Source: The Economic Times