1.
Ramco bags HCM and Payroll implementation business for
Brunei's largest bank
Ramco will implement its ERP solution across BIBD’s branches
and 900+ employees spread in Brunei’s four districts.
Brunei’s
largest bank and flagship Islamic financial institution, Bank Islam Brunei
Darussalam Berhad (BIBD) will integrate its business processes across the HR
and enterprise resource planning functions with Ramco Systems’ Enterprise
Resource Planning (ERP) integrated with full suite Human Capital Management
(HCM) and Global Payroll.
This
will be Ramco’s first contract in Brunei, mark its entry into the country. The
company hopes to strengthen its presence in South East Asia with this deal.
Ramco
will implement its ERP solution across BIBD’s branches and 900+ employees
spread in Brunei’s four districts. The scope of engagement includes finance
& accounting, inventory and procurement, as well as core HR functions, time
& attendance, payroll, training and recruitment.
Tahir
Muzaffar, head of IT, Bank Islam Brunei Darussalam, says, “This transformative
project will support our push into digitising our back office operations. This
is part of our overall business strategy to streamline our services and
processes for our customers, partners and employees.”
2.
Shell to move about 400 jobs from Glasgow to India and
Malaysia
The staff of the oil company were told that the office would
be closed and they were facing ‘involuntary severance’.
The oil company,
Shell, recently announced its plan to shift nearly 400 jobs overseas as it
looks to shore up its finances against persistently low oil prices, by hiring
cheaper workers in the developing world.
The Anglo-Dutch
company told 380 staff at its finance operations in Glasgow that the office
would be closed and they were facing ‘involuntary severance’. The jobs will be
moved over a 15-month period to locations such as Shell’s offices in Chennai in
India and Kuala Lumpur, in Malaysia.
The overall effect on
Shell’s headcount will be negligible, although the firm has announced 12,500
job cuts since last year. The staff at the Bothwell Street office was informed
about this decision by the senior managers at a meeting this month.
The company said
that, this difficult decision was being taken in order to remain competitive
and to improve efficiency and value for money across all its businesses and
functions. Shell had in fact, signalled earlier this year that more staff could
be affected, in an attempt to trim costs as rock-bottom oil prices continue to
dent profits.
3.
Microsoft to train over a lakh professionals on cloud
Microsoft tied-up with Simplilearn, to build a talent pool of
over one lakh next generation cloud professionals by 2020.
In what is being seen
as a huge skilling initiative, Microsoft recently tied-up with Simplilearn, a
professional training company, to build a talent pool of over one lakh next
generation cloud professionals by 2020. Simplilearn has been appointed as
Microsoft’s silver learning partner for its suite of Microsoft Azure
certification courses and will train IT professionals on Azure as cloud based
applications are becoming more prevalent in today’s digital workplace.
As per forecast by
Goldman Sachs, the cloud platform and infrastructure market roughly generates
$21 billion in revenues and is expected to grow by 20 percent year after year
to $43 billion by 2018. This rapid growth is paving tremendous demand globally
for IT professionals with specialized cloud skills. The certification courses
on Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions, Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure
and Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions, are intended to equip learners with
relevant skills through Simplilearn’s flexible online instructor-led training,
e-learning and industry projects.
“In today’s digitally
driven economy, there is a need for talent to own relevant and most updated
skill-sets to be relevant in the work space. By partnering with Simplilearn, we
are assured of talent in India that is skilled and up to date on cloud
capabilities. Through this partnership, going forward, we will also implement
similar upskilling programs for other Microsoft technology products in India”,
said Manohar Hotchandani, Director – Business Development, Microsoft India.
Speaking on the partnership
with Microsoft, Krishna Kumar, Founder & CEO, Simplilearn said, “We want to
be instrumental in empowering professionals adapt to the changing digital
technologies. We are excited about providing our learners with the best of
training through comprehensive learning paths recommended by Microsoft.
Together, we are confident about setting an ambitious mission of creating a
large talent pool of one lakh Microsoft cloud professionals by 2020.”
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