AgreeYa Solutions

First time CMMI Level 5 company enters Digital Bangladesh

By Shahidul K K Shuvra

AgreeYa Solutions, first time a CMMI Level 5 certified US company entered the country with mission and vision to serve Digital Bangladesh for economic prospect. IT sector of the country was lagging behind for lack of CMMI Level 5 certified company, which can only provide global standard solution. Before a few local companies have been awarded CMMI Level 3 certificate after a long endeavour.

It has been possible for the acquisition of Soltius Infotech Bangladesh that already created a field in the country to provide solution and services to those companies that are heading towards adaptation of high quality technology for enhancing performance.

Ajay Kaul, Managing Partner of AgreeYa Solutions, who came from US to unveil the operation of AgreeYa Solutions, said, " The democratic government of the country and its vow for a Digital Bangladesh inspired us a lot to come the country to introduce world class IT solution to the public and private sectors.. We are expecting a phenomenal growth and we teamed up with the local talents to help the government to fulfil the dream of Digital Bangladesh."

"According to NASSCOM we are one of the fifteen best companies in India .. But we are not like typical multination companies to grip only the businesses with international staffs to make profits. We will lay much focus on developing local experts who will get mastery over SAP, Oracle, Microsoft etc systems. To develop local experts we will open our 4^th Global Delivery Centre with a significant invest and international trainers in the country." He went on.

Madhukar Joshi, erstwhile Chairman of Soltius Bangladesh and now the Regional Head of Middle East and Asia Pacific of AgreeYa Solutions, said, "Our Bangladeshi counterpart already achieved success in enterprise solution as a SAP implementation partner. Just outsourcing is not aim of setting up the Global Delivery Centre here, our investment will create highly skilled IT experts who will also serve other countries. We are eagerly trying to make a strong IT backbone of the country like India and Mexico ."

"Working with a CMMI Level 5 certified company will jazz up local IT talents and companies to be prepared to solve the 21^st century’s cyber problems in home and abroad. It will also invite other companies to join the competition of maintaining highest standard of solution and services." He further noted.

Farooq Siddiqui, Managing Director of AgreeYa Solutions, said to The Independent exclusively, "Some years ago I came back from Europe to launch IT business with few young guys, most of them were students, now they became consultants of SAP, which is our real achievements. Currently our boys are working as experts in Dubai and soon they will go Indonesia to provide IT solutions. Besides helping the country our Global Delivery Centre will be a house to serve IT sector of other countries.

He said on Digital Bangladesh and recent proposed national budget for IT sector, "We are motivated by the budget speech of the finance Minster AMA Muhith who allocated over 500 core Taka including 100 core Taka emergency fund and 200 core Taka EEF funds to initially fuel up the country for Digital Bangladesh. However, as per the National ICT policy of the country 5 per cent ADP and 2 per cent revenue budget are supposed to be allocated for the development of ICT sector. So instead of over 500 core Taka, the allocation was supposed to be over 3000 core Taka. But compare to previous budgets the allocation is much higher and I think gradually the allocation will be increased according to the provisions of the National ICT Policy."

"We are very convinced with his comments: e-governance will be adopted by 2014 and e-commerce by 2012. The adaptation should go in accordance with the global standard. Now we are only CMMI Level 5 certified company in the country and ready to cooperate the government to establish Digital Bangladesh. We think, for developing countries, automation is a must to reduce operational costs of the ministries; to ensure transparency and accountability of every sector, and for smooth citizen services even at rural level." He finally said.

Already the company is providing solution to Bangladesh Bank, AB Bank, and Unique Group of Companies. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in the US and has global operations in Mexico , the Middle East , and India . It provide services to all major industry segments of the global economy, including distribution and logistics, energy and utility, financial services, healthcare, public sector, software and hi-tech, telecommunications, and travel. It international solutions and services customers are: Acer, Alcoa, Allergan, Daimler Chrysler, Deloitte, Fujitsu, Gap, HP, Kaiser Permanente, Lucent, Mitsubishi, Nissan, State of California, State of North Carolina, State of Washington and Verizon.

Caption- Along with Madhukar Joshi, Regional Head of Middle East and Asia Pacific and Farooq Siddiqui, Managing Director, Ajay Kaul, Managing Partner, unveiling the operation of AgreeYa Solutions.

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The Independent

26 June 2009

* Shahidul K K Shuvra

The Independent

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