Infosys BPO Wins Outsourcing Excellence Award 2012

Bangalore – May 25, 2012

Infosys BPO Limited, today announced that it has won the Outsourcing Excellence Award 2012 in the "Best New Process/Application" category, recognizing the company's strong relationship with its client Rio Tinto. The Outsourcing Excellence Awards are presented by the Outsourcing Center, the premier online community specializing in thought leadership, best practices, and innovation in outsourcing.

Speaking about the award, Swami Swaminathan, CEO and MD, Infosys BPO, said, "Winning an award from a globally recognized platform such as the Outsourcing Center is a validation of our continued focus on delivering business value for our clients. This corroborates our ability to impact our clients' business metrics through transformational initiatives. The award is truly a testimony to our focus on thought leadership and driving innovation through collaboration for our clients."

This is the 16th year the Outsourcing Excellence Awards have annually recognized the world's best outsourcing arrangements. Judged by an independent panel of industry experts who evaluated numerous worldwide outsourcing relationships, winners from both the buyer and service provider presented learnings at the Best Practice Seminar and were recognized at the "Oscars-reminiscent" black tie event at the Gaylord Texan in Grapevine, Texas.

The global winning outsourcing partnerships represent a variety of business solutions that enable the buyers to support their strategic growth initiatives. Basis in-depth review of nominations, the judges select relationships that tangibly demonstrate best practices, create and sustain a competitive advantage, provide business transformation, achieve compelling value, and significantly benefit both buyer and service provider over time.

 

About Outsourcing Center's Outsourcing Excellence Awards

The Outsourcing Center, an online community specializing in thought leadership, best practices, and innovation in outsourcing, conducts the annual awards program exclusively. The Center also offers provider brand communication, go-to-market strategies & business intelligence services. The Outsourcing Excellence Awards have annually recognized the world’s best outsourcing arrangements for 16 years now. The independent panel of judges select relationships that tangibly demonstrate best practices, create and sustain a competitive advantage, provide business transformation, achieve compelling value, and significantly benefit both buyer and service provider over time.

 

About Infosys BPO

Infosys BPO Ltd. ( www.infosysbpo.com), the Business Process Outsourcing subsidiary of Infosys Limited, was set up in April 2002. Infosys BPO focuses on integrated end-to-end outsourcing and delivers transformational benefits to its clients through reduced costs, ongoing productivity improvements, and process reengineering. Infosys BPO operates in India, the Czech Republic, Poland, Mexico, Brazil, USA, China, the Philippines and Australia, and as on March 31, 2012, employed 21,421 people. It closed FY 2011-12 with revenues of $494.5 million.

 

About Infosys Ltd.

Many of the world's most successful organizations rely on the 150,000 people of Infosys to deliver measurable business value. Infosys provides business consulting, technology, engineering and outsourcing services to help clients in over 30 countries build tomorrow's enterprise.

For more information about Infosys (NASDAQ: INFY), visit www.infosys.com

 

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