148 Infosys professionals get TOGAF certification

Infosys Technologies Ltd today announced that 148 of its professionals have achieved certification for ‘The Open Group Architecture Framework’ (TOGAF 8), resulting in the largest number of professionals with this accreditation at any one company in the world.

The Open Group is a vendor and technology neutral consortium focused on open standards and global interoperability within and between enterprises.

Sohel Aziz, EMEA head for technology consulting at Infosys, said, “TOGAF is the most important and well adopted standard for developing and implementing enterprise architecture activities. Our commitment to The Open Group’s TOGAF standards ensures we have the skills, capabilities and processes to enable our customers to execute and govern enterprise architecture to derive tangible business value.”

Allen Brown, CEO, The Open Group, said, “TOGAF has gained momentum over the past two years through the contributions of over 120 companies – all working together to develop best practices in enterprise architecture for the industry at large. Infosys is an active contributor to the architecture forum and reinforces the importance of this standard with its 148 certified architects, the largest amount of TOGAF certified practitioners at any single practice in the world.”

As businesses demand increased alignment from IT to enable the organization to adapt rapidly to the changing environment, TOGAF has emerged as the industry standard architecture framework for companies wishing to develop enterprise architecture within their own organization. TOGAF Certification is an assurance program providing multiple classes of certification for architecture service providers, tool vendors and individual enterprise architects.

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CII and Infosys on an Initiative to build billion dollar Indian MNCs

"Towards 100 Indian `Billion $' MNCs,'' a joint programme of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Infosys, was formally launched at the National conference on globalisation — emerging Indian MNCs, here on Friday.

The programme is aimed at creating an `ecosystem' that will enable aspiring Indian companies in the next ten years to accelerate their growth as successful next-generation billion dollar MNCs.

Union Minister for Commerce and Industry Kamal Nath, while welcoming the CII's initiative in nurturing Indian MNCs, said, "The changing scenario in India is the result of the growing global competitiveness and demographics.''

Mr. Kamal Nath said the WTO involved not only trade issues but also investment issues. Rules and regulations needed to be chalked out for cross-border investments and synergies built in to increase outward investments. "Countries like India will have far more spenders and savers compared to many European countries,'' he said.

The Minister said aspiring MNCs also needed to prepare the Indian Government for future investments and business and observed that a platform like the CII Plan was a step in the right direction.

S. D. Shibulal, co-founder and member of the board of Infosys Technologies, said there were 37 companies in India with a turnover of over $1 billion. The programme aimed to explore the potential of leveraging their experience. The successful companies would help in `mentoring' the aspiring 100 `billion dollar' companies.

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