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Testimony to our strong technical competence and service
dedication, MDCL-Frontline beat intense competition
to clinch a five-year infrastructure management
solutions contract with Nokia, the world leader in mobile
communications.
Mocha – Frontline’s Very Own Suite of Software
MDCL-Frontline’s Mocha BPM, BSM and Mobile OA suite
of software, which provides solutions for business process
management, IT service management, enterprise portal
and office automation, wireless and mobile applications,
also continued to witness a growing demand by
corporations within the telecommunications and financial
services industries.
India
Accel Frontline has been achieving steady growth in the
Indian IT market and currently employs over 1,800 skilled
IT professionals. We have recently increased our stake in
Accel Frontline from 51.0% to 54.5%, and there are plans
to invest and increase our existing skilled human capital
intellectual resources in the near future, as this is a critical
success factor in the Software and Outsourcing industries.
Our increased stake in Accel Frontline greatly strengthens
our capability to tap the vast growth opportunities that we
foresee in India.
Forging Ahead in the Banking, Telecommunications and
Education Sectors
In FY2006, we continued to make headway in the market
with the successful development of several core products
for customers in the healthcare, education and banking
industries. New contracts with major players in the
telecommunications and banking sectors were won.
We have also successfully secured a large contract to
implement Accel Frontline’s flagship school information
system, Accel Prodigy (“Prodigy”), across 35 schools in
Dubai. Prodigy enables the automation of the entire frontand
back-end office functions of the schools, creating a
streamlined, collaborative environment for easy information
exchange between all parties of the schools. Once
successfully implemented, Prodigy will be scaled up many
fold to encompass the entire school network in Dubai.
In testimony to our strong reputation for our IT capabilities
and expertise, we also won a prestigious multi-year IT
service and management contract that spans the entire state
of Maharashtra, awarded by the Public Works Department of
Mumbai.
In the banking and financial services realm, Accel Frontline
secured a hardware infrastructure contract with the State
Bank of India, and for the sixth consecutive year, it won a
hardware infrastructure contract with the Life Insurance
Corporation of India. In addition, Trivandrum awarded an IT
infrastructure contract to Accel Frontline for the provision
of its core banking solution that will be executed over 100
locations in Kerala, India.
Moving ahead, we strive to increase our domestic and
offshore businesses, particularly in the software and
outsourcing arena.
Accel Frontline has also attained several industry
certification and accolades, including the prestigious CMMi
Level 5 certification for quality software development.
In FY2006, Accel Frontline also topped the “Three Star”
category in the DQ-IDC Best Employer Survey and is ranked
No. 4 in the DQCI Sliver Club’s (2005) list of Top Solution
Providers in India.