Tata Infotech of Malaysia

Tata group is the largest conglomerate in India. Like our Sime Darby in Malaysia.

India become a rising star of software and outsourcing when old economy company like Tata venturing into the new economy industry. After it has all the spillover effect, especially in human resources. Then only those company specialize in new economy slowly come up one by one.

Tata Group go through the whole "industry revolution" cycle. It started from textile industry, then move to steel industry and then automobile industry. DRB-Hicom Group is a dealer in Malaysia to market Tata motor vehicle like lorry and bus. However, unlike Samsung in Korea. Tata never venture into electrical home appliances product.

Tata venture into knowledge industry started via joint venture with US company Unisys to form a company call Tata Unisys. It then bought over Unisys shares in the company and rename the company Tata Infortech Ltd. Unisys still active in India market.

Malaysia, with it plan in Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) required a company like Tata Infortech Ltd, an old economy company that have the financial muscle to lead the business community to venture into new economy, to train local human capital, attract talent from oversea, and create a spill over effect to the whole industry.

Ideally Sime Darby should take the lead as it has a lot of in house company to outsourcing to the newly form technology company. However, Information technology is not a core business that on Sime Darby's business plan.

Unisys also has it own unit in Malaysia Unisys (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd and Unisys MSC Sdn Bhd. At the moment, Unisys Malaysia is providing outsourcing services to Maybank, AmBank and BumiputraCommerce Bank.

Maybank handles more than one quarter of Malaysia's cheques. With this agreement, Unisys would process 85 per cent of Maybank total outward cheque-clearing volume at four sites covering eight states in West Malaysia

Unisys handled 40% of the 650,000 cheques processed in Malaysia daily, via its Maybank contract. Unisys has four cheque processing centres in the country.

One of the company that likely to become Malaysia Tata Infotech is HEITECH PADU BHD .

Heitech Padu Bhd used to obtain contract from Permodalan Nasional Bhd (PNB) group of company. Surprisingly, Maybank, a company under PNB Group of company outsource it back office to Unisys, not Heitech Padu. It would be beneficial if Maybank outsource it back office to Unisys condition upon a technical transfer to Malaysian company like Heitech Padu Bhd.

Unisys country manager (Malaysia) Lalit Gupta should be on head hunter list on a lot of ambitious company in Malaysia if they want the expertise and network he acquired.

Sunway Technology Sdn Bhd, a subsidiary of Sunway Group, aggressively building up a shares service business unit but it impact on Malaysia economy is not as great as if Sime Darby do it.

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