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NIIT in $10 mn pact with Thrivent
June 04, 2003 14:55 IST
India's biggest computer training firm, NIIT Ltd, said on Wednesday that it had signed an agreement to provide application development and maintenance services to U.S.-based Thrivent Financial for Lutherans for about $10 million.
New Delhi-based NIIT's shares rallied about five per cent to the day's high of Rs 127.80 at the Bombay Stock Exchange after the five-year deal was announced.
"NIIT will maintain all the insurance back-office applications," Arvind Thakur, president of NIIT's software business told a news conference in New Delhi.
Thrivent, a financial services company, manages about $57 billion in assets and had a revenue on $4.19 billion in 2002.
NIIT's software business contributes about 55 per cent of its global revenue, with the remaining coming from computer education.
The software business had a pending order book of $108 million as of March, Thakur said.
He said NIIT planned to expand its software services facilities either through partnerships or organic growth.
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