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| Zensar Announces Launch of GDP Zensar Technologies has launched its Global Delivery Platform (GDP) to support businesses looking to design, develop, implement and maintain business applications. The major elements of GDP are: identifying and laying down the business process, designing the platform agnostic solution, manufacturing the application, and testing and enabling the users to manage the entire solution-building process in a collaborative manner. It has been designed to enable people collaborating on the solution to be based anywhere in the world, and bringing together the best skills wherever they may be. Zensar, which recently opened its new European headquarters in Slough, has already enjoyed considerable success in the UK. Zensar employs over 3.400 people globally with nearly 200 people based in the UK and Europe. It has a robust customer base, and has formed strong partnerships with Fujitsu, Sun Microsystems and Oracle. Its customers include Marks & Spencer, National Grid, Cisco Systems, and Electronic Arts. Zensar's GDP is the realisation of a wider concept called Global-On-Demand (G.O.D), which enables collaboration of a company's business and technology team seamlessly in a secure, monitored environment to achieve distributed design, project management using a common set of tools, techniques and process to define and deliver world-class solution from wherever they are in the world. This framework enables even business users to participate in the solution building process. GDP will be rolled out to academic institutions, software entrepreneurs and major clients worldwide in stages. As part of the UK GDP academic initiative, Zensar has teamed up with the School of Entrepreneurship and Business at the University of Essex, where a Centre of Excellence, with 20 seats to start with, is being set up to utilize the GDP. A stream of students will learn to use the system as part of their studies and will take the knowledge with them out into the business world. The University of Essex programme is the first in Europe, after Zensar's programme with University of Sydney, Australia and colleges and universities in India. As part of the programme with SEB, Zensar will be sponsoring PhD research studentship on technology based entrepreneurship over a period of three years at the SEB, University of Essex. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |