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News, Sogeti, Office SharePoint, India: Sogeti, a member of Capgemini Group, has announced that it will open a global Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Centre of Excellence in Mumbai, India. The centre will offer customers a dedicated network of expert Microsoft Office SharePoint Server engineers; this group will supplement Sogeti's current global team of 6,000 Microsoft practice engineers.
The Centre of Excellence is located in Mumbai, India and will include a team of over 200 elite Microsoft Office SharePoint Server specialists by the end of 2008 and 1,000 by the end of 2009. This team of specialists, in addition to catering to global customer needs, will work directly with Sogeti subsidiaries worldwide to enable seamless integration between onshore and offshore resources, thus improving the service provided.
Sogeti and Microsoft have developed an intensive training programme for the specialists at the centre, which focuses on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server applications with a special emphasis on Enterprise Search, Portals, Enterprise Content Management, and interfacing with line of business applications.
"Sogeti recognizes the essential business value that Microsoft Office SharePoint Server solutions can bring to our customers," said Sanjeev Agarwal, Vice President of Sogeti's Microsoft Practice. "Our new Center of Excellence will benefit our customers by providing an extensive team of highly trained, expert resources that will accelerate and seamlessly deploy global Microsoft Office SharePoint Server solutions."
Harshawardhan Tulapurkar, India Head, SBU Sogeti, comments: "The addition of the Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Center of Excellence strengthens the existing foundation of our current world-class capabilities and provides us with the opportunity to focus intensely on developing innovative solutions featuring Microsoft Office SharePoint Server applications for our global customers."
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Date: 18-19 February 2009
