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Hyderabad, India - October 07, 2002
Following the successful completion of one of the largest map and
data capture exercises ever undertaken in the area of property and
risk information for the UK market, Sitescope Limited and Infotech
Enterprises have announced that they are to strengthen their strategic
relationship through the creation of a Data Center of Excellence
at Infotech's facilities in India.
The center is being set up in partnership with Infotech specifically
to enable the continuous improvement in the quality of the data
and IMP assets used by Sitescope in its range of property and environmental
risk services.
Particular emphasis will be made, wherever possible, to maintaining
address and geographic data to recognized BSI and ISO standards,
and the creation of intellectual property in new property and environmental
data.
Brendan Doyle, CEO of Sitescope said, "Our market position
as the leading supplier of environmental and property risk information
in the Home buying Process has been achieved though a pursuit of
excellence in the quality of the data and IMP assets underpinning
our services. We partnered with Infotech because of their excellent
credentials in the software and data markets including certification
to SEI CMM Level 5 and ISO 9001:2000 quality standards. Infotech
as our choice of partner is wholly reflective of our commitment
to maintain and further develop our market position as the supplier
of choice."
BVR Mohan Reddy, Chairman and Managing Director, of Infotech
Enterprises commented, "We have had a very successful association
with Sitescope over the past year in terms of helping to create
an essential data resource for the property and environment markets
in the UK which involved around 160 of our engineers. We are pleased
to strengthen our partnership through a Data Center of Excellence
that will continue to deliver data products of the highest quality
and to exacting deadlines to support Sitescope's leadership position
in these markets."
About Sitescope Limited
Sitescope Limited is the leading UK provider of property and environmental
risk information to lawyers, banks, surveyors, insurance companies,
civil engineers and other property professionals. Sitescope has
invested in the highest quality e-architecture that enables it to
provide a unique and efficient service to professionals in no more
than 10-20 seconds. Sitescope's Online Electronic Map Library is
intended to provide online property and environmental risk information
in the UK. Sitescope's environmental data that reflects industrial
land use in the UK from 1840 to the present is built from information
supplied under license from the Environment Agency, the British
Geological Survey, Ordnance Survey, The Valuation Office, English
Nature, DETR (now DEFRA / DTLR) and a host of other organizations.
About Infotech
Infotech Enterprises is a ten-year old software services company
with core competencies in the areas of GIS, engineering design and
IT services. The company is a leading provider of end-to-end GIS
solutions to the utilities, telecommunications, local government
and transportation and logistics markets. Infotech helps customers
implement spatially enabled solutions across the enterprise through
fully integrated services that include GIS consultancy, data management,
application development, system implementation, training, maintenance
and support. Infotech operates one of the world's largest facilities
for data conversion and digital photogrammetry services with annual
production capacity exceeding 2 million person-hours. It specializes
in facilities mapping, landbase data capture, marine, railroad and
air navigation charts, data modeling, data migration, data maintenance
and softcopy photogrammetry services. Infotech is an SEI CMM Level
5 company and is also certified to ISO 9001:2000 quality standards.
It currently employs around 2000 software professionals at offices
worldwide. The company has its headquarters and principal development
facilities in India and serves a global customer base through subsidiaries
in the UK, Germany and USA.
For more information please contact -
Praveena Raju
Infotech Enterprises Limited
Phone: 91-040- 23351567, 23358190
Email: praveena@infotech.stph.net
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