Infosys BPO in pact with HVS International

Infosys BPO, the business process outsourcing subsidiary of Infosys Technologies, and HVS International, a New York-based consultancy offering valuation and other services to the hotel, restaurant, shared ownership, gaming, and leisure industries, have announced a strategic alliance to offer outsourcing solutions in the hospitality industry.

The Infosys BPO-HVS global alliance will leverage HVS consulting expertise and market reach in the hospitality industry and the process outsourcing capabilities of Infosys BPO to develop and execute domain-specific and process centric solutions for companies in the global hospitality industry.

According to an official of Infosys BPO, HVS will bring in the clients and Infosys BPO will execute the process outsourcing services based on a revenue sharing agreement.

"The alliance with HVS augments Infosys BPO's capabilities in the hospitality industry by enhancing our insights into the industry and enabling us to reach a wider audience," said Amitabh Chaudhry, CEO and managing director, Infosys BPO.

"Infosys BPO has a strong portfolio of horizontal process outsourcing capabilities and these are customised for specific industry verticals to provide domain specific and company specific solutions. With this alliance, we have a compelling value proposition for the hospitality industry."

Infosys BPO provides finance and accounting, order management, procurement, HR, research and analytics, and customer support services to the banking and capital markets.

Tie-up with US universities

IT major Infosys plans to tie up with leading universities in the US to upgrade the domain knowledge of its faculty at the Global Education Centre (GEC) in Mysore campus.

Professors and doctoral students from US varsities like Cornell, MIT and Carnegie Mellon will be on a visit to Mysore for 45 days to train Infosys' GEC faculty on developments in various domains of IT.

The intention is to make sure that all the employees, especially the technical staff, are updated on the developments.