Aircel partners NEC for cloud solutions

Aircel has partnered with NEC for Software as a Service (SaaS), where NEC will provide the Cloud Aggregation Platform along with a portfolio of Cloud offerings to Aircel.

Aircel will be responsible for managing the end-to-end customer relationships, including presales and sales engagements, delivery and support, and billing and contractual relationships.

Aircel and NEC will start with a software applications portfolio, which could then subsequently extend to other Cloud offerings.  The focus will be on enterprise grade offerings, such as Collaboration, CRM, ERP, HRMS, Business Suite, Video Conferencing, etc.  The software services can be adapted to suit a wide variety of business roles, from sales and support, to internal workgroups providing increased efficiencies and greater workforce productivity. NEC has built up a carrier grade cloud aggregation platform through its engagements with multiple service providers across the globe. 

'Cloud Services by the name of ' Business Unplugged' from Aircel will help businesses grow by providing flexibility to scale-up quickly and seamlessly according to the changing business environment and demands. According to IT research and advisory firm Gartner, the cloud services market in India is projected to grow 32.4 per cent in2012 to total (US$326.2 million (about Rs 1,665 crore) while Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is the largest segment and is forecast to grow to (US$115.6 million in 2012', said Ravinder Jain, Chief Business officer – Enterprise, Aircel Limited.