Allied Digital bags ICICI Bank deal

Allied Digital Services has bagged a $1 million contract from the ICICI Bank group, under which the IT solutions company will provide IT infrastructure and remote client management solutions to the bank.

The company is also planning to set up a network operating centre (NOC) in the country with an estimated investment of Rs 6 crore to provide outsourced management services.

Allied Digital chairman and managing director Nitin Shah said, "this is one of the biggest IT infrastructure remote client management deal in the country as the company will deploy over 45,000 systems across 1,100 locations for the bank".

The company will implement software and hardware inventory, end-to-end security, application inventory, remote managing and controlling among others for the bank.

The deployment, which had already begun, would be conducted across all ICICI group companies, including ICICI Lombard, ICICI Prudential, ICICI Securities and ICICI Bank, he said.

Around 250 personnel of Allied Digital will be working on the project, which is slated to be completed by April 30, 2006.