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After BoB, Gartner Group targets more PSU banks
Geeta Nair
Pune: The Gartner Group is looking at making inroads into the solutions market for the public sector banks in India. After bagging the Bank of Baroda deal for providing end-to-end business strategy solutions, Gartner is in line to land similar contracts for two more large banks in the country, says Partha Iyengar, country manager, Gartner India. For Gartner the Bank of Baroda contract was one of the largest deals in the Asia-Pacific region recently, says Mr Iyengar. The BoB assignment involving business strategy formulation, identifying vendors and implementation starts from April 2001 and will be a two year contract. Meanwhile Gartner is beefing up its consultancy presence in India and is in the process of recruiting more consultants and analysts. There are also plans to recruit in India for Gartner's Worldwide operations, says Mr Iyengar. As of now consultancy roughly accounts for 20 per cent of Gartner's business in India but it is expected to go up to 50 per cent in two years' time. It was just about ayear ago that Gartner India starting looking seriously at the consultancy business in India. The company has now received queries from international insurance players coming to India. "They are looking at us to decide on the right IT strategy for India. It helps is that we are already dealing with many of these insurance companies globally and would be charting out their IT strategy for India," says Mr Iyengar.Copyright © 2001 Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd.
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