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Alumni-Bahwan CyberTek Twenty20 Cup
January 26th 2012 - Chennai, India

Alumni Club - Anna University is partnering with Bahwan CyberTek to conduct the Alumni-Bahwan CyberTek Twenty20 tournament for premier clubs in Chennai. Alumni Club has been conducting the annual inter-club cricket tournament from 1996.

Alumni Club will be joined in this tournament by premier city clubs like Madras Gymkhana Club, Madras Cricket Club, Madras Club, Indira Nagar Club, Presidency Club, The Mylapore Club, T Nagar Social Club and Gandhi Nagar Club.

The captains of the various clubs participated in the captains meet held in the Alumni Club on 23rd January. Mr. Mike Muralidaran COO & Mr ShyamSundar, EVP, of Bahwan CyberTek presided over the function.

The tournament will be played in the T-20 format. Nine clubs will play in three zones of 3 teams each in a league format with the top teams from each zone playing the next rounds culminating in a grand final. The matches will be played on weekends starting from 28th January.

Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam inaugurates AU–BCT Kalam Centre of Excellence in Anna University
January 09, 2012 - Chennai

The AU-BCT Kalam Centre of Excellence set up by Bahwan CyberTek in collaboration with the Ramanujan Computing Centre (RCC), Anna University, was inaugurated by the former President of India, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam in the University’s Guindy Campus today. Also present at the inauguration were Mr. Mannar Jawahar, Vice-chancellor of Anna University, Ms. Hind Bahwan, Chairperson, Bahwan CyberTek Group, Mr. Durgaprasad, Director and CEO Bahwan CyberTek Group and Mr. Rhymend Uthariaraj, Director of RCC.

Bahwan CyberTek has set up the 40-seat state-of-the-art Centre of Excellence (CoE) with Bahwan CyberTek’s Cuecent BPMS Software Suite. Through the COE, Bahwan CyberTek will provide an opportunity to enhance the professional skills of the students and faculty of Anna University in BPM, SOA and emerging technologies. Bahwan CyberTek will also provide project sponsorships, research options and paper publications support to the students and faculty of the University.

Prof. P. Mannar Jawahar, Vice Chancellor – Anna University, said “The CoE that has been established at RCC is a world-class, shared-use educational and R&D facility serving the student and industry community. Bahwan CyberTek will conduct certification courses and aid in providing projects and consulting work for the faculty and students of Anna University. This collaboration holds tremendous potential for innovation and offers far-reaching benefits for students. The technologies created by the partnership of RCC-AU and Bahwan CyberTek not only will enable and enhance further technology development and research, it will positively impact the knowledge of students of Anna University”.

Ms Hind Suhail Bahwan, Chairperson, Bahwan CyberTek Group said “With innovation being the corporate philosophy, and with our strong commitment to contribute to the society we operate in, we have set up this CoE to serve the students and faculty of this esteemed university and also be a platform for ongoing innovations in IT.”

Mr S Durgaprasad, Director & CEO, Bahwan CyberTek Group said “My association with my alma mater is a special one and I firmly believe that this coming together of the Industry and the Academia marks a true collaboration and commitment to bring about far-reaching technological innovations.”

About Ramanujan Computing Centre

Ramanujan Computing Centre (RCC) located in Anna University (AU), Chennai, Ramanujan Computing Centre is functioning as a technology provider to students, researchers and teaching community to fulfill their computational, technological and internet requirements. The centre directly renders academic service to more than 7000 students ranging from UG, PG and research scholars at both M.S. and Ph. D. levels by the way of providing systems with necessary software. RCC is rendering computational and data centric services to the academicians and the administration of the University. The centre is truly state-of-art with the sophisticated Wi-Fi connectivity, Video Streaming Server to render Video Conference/Video-on-demand facility.

RCC undertakes the entrance examinations and admission processing of all the courses of Anna University. It develops software for Engineering admissions on behalf of Tamil Nadu Government, and to handle the academic and administrative work of the University. The centre conducts short term training programmes under continuing Education Programmes.

Ms. Hind Bahwan receives the prestigious ‘ASIAN BUSINESS LEADERSHIP FORUM (ABLF) WOMAN OF POWER AWARD’
October 6, 2011

Ms. Hind Bahwan, Chairperson of Bahwan CyberTek and Director of the Suhail Bahwan Group, has been conferred the prestigious ‘ABLF WOMAN OF POWER AWARD’ by the Asian Business Leadership Forum – a platform backed by a think-tank of prominent leaders, policy-makers, academicians, media and opinion leaders of core industries across Asia.

The Forum endeavors to encourage, showcase and celebrate visionary business leadership across Asia, to raise the benchmarks of performance and excellence for companies and to promote sustainable business initiatives that reflect corporate and individual responsibility and showcase exemplary business enterprise in dynamic business sectors of Industry, Infrastructure and Energy. The Awards bring together powerful Asian nations to celebrate the rise of Asia in the global consciousness.

Ms. Hind Bahwan was elected for this award through the opinion of people; iconic business, media and other opinion commentators across India, South-East Asia and the Gulf. She received the Award at the inaugural showcase of the ABLF Awards that took place on October 3rd, 2011 at the Taj Palace Hotel in New Delhi, India. The evening witnessed a coming together of the powerful dignitaries, business stalwarts from the Gulf, India and South-East Asia and several world personalities. The Awards were presented by Hon. Minister Shri Kamal Nath, Union Cabinet Minister of Urban Development, Govt. Of India and Hon. Minister Shri Kapil Sibal, Union Cabinet Minister of Human Resource Development, Communications and Information Technology, Govt. Of India.

As the ‘ABLF Woman of Power’, Ms. Hind effortlessly straddles a traditional and conventional social environment and a cutting edge modern business world, is commanding, influential and embodies the culture and values of Asia. She is committed to excellence, innovation and healthy interpersonal relationships within her business environment. Above all, she is an achiever who cherishes family and community values and balances her work and home; she is held as a role model for women achievers around the world.

Ms. Hind Bahwan is recognized in the Middle East as an enterprising and dynamic businesswoman. She founded Bahwan CyberTek in 1999 which is now a leading provider of IT products and Services with 1450+ professionals in its workforce rendering products and services in 20 countries across 4 continents. Bahwan Cybertek has its centre of excellence in Chennai, India and presence in the USA, Dubai, Egypt, Brunei, besides India. As Chairperson, she has steered the company to its current position and has formed joint ventures with DHL and Govt of Oman to state a few. As one of the Directors of the Multi National conglomerate the Suhail Bahwan Group, Ms. Hind plays a key role in working with the government and other leading commercial enterprises in pursuit of creating a digital society in Oman.

Delivering her acceptance speech after receiving the Award, Ms Hind Bahwan said “This Award is very special to me because I have grown-up in a family that has great ties and links with India. My special thanks to the Government of India for welcoming our investments in India and providing necessary support.”

Bahwan CyberTek inks Joint venture Agreement with Telekom Brunei
October 9th 2011 - Muscat

Sultanate’s vision to strengthen its bilateral economic co-operation with Brunei Darussalam took a huge leap yesterday when Bahwan CyberTek, a leading IT products and services company from Sultanate signed a pact to set up a Joint Venture entity with Negara Brunei Darussalam’s largest telecom player Telekom Brunei Berhad’s. The company would be set up in Brunei Darussalam to implement and manage a state of the art Hosted Contact centre, implementation of software applications for the Telco and Government verticals. The joint entity will leverage on the state of the art Cuecent technologies developed by Bahwan Cybertek and the deep domain expertise of Telbru to jointly create and market products for the Telco and Government vertical. Being first of its kind in the local market to address Contact centre business, would not only target local business but would also address the needs of the BIMP-EAGA region (Brunei Darussalam-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines). The business model has been developed in such a manner so as to provide maximum employment and benefit to the local citizens by way of specialized training on latest technology provided by Bahwan CyberTek.

The event was organized at The Chedi and was attended by several dignitaries including H.E Dato Seri Setia Dr. Haji Awang Besar Bin Hj Abu Bakar, The Ambassador of Brunei to Oman, Ms. Hind Bahwan, Chairperson of Bahwan CyberTek group, Mr. DurgaPrasad Director and CEO, Bahwan CyberTek group, S.Vishwanathan, Asociate Vice President, Bahwan Cybertek along with high profile delegation from Telekom Brunei - YM Awang Haji Zakaria bin Hj Serudin- Member, Telbru Board of Directors, and YM Sahralidin Abdul Momin- CTO- B-One, General Manager- Sipadu systems & Network systems- Telbru.

Ms. Hind Bahwan, chairperson, Bahwan Cybertek group in a press note said "Bahwan CyberTek has been working closely with Telekom Brunei for over a year now to develop the roadmap and strategy for jointly addressing the market needs of Brunei Darussalam by leveraging on the vast experience Bahwan CyberTek has in IT and ITES business. We are very pleased to get into this agreement with Telekom Brunei, who have been very supportive in this engagement and have worked closely with our teams to synergise the efforts."

Mr. S.Durgaprasad Director and CEO of Bahwan Cybertek said “On the back of a strong bi lateral relationship between Brunei and Oman we decided to focus our attention on Brunei by making it a hub for our growth in the ASEAN region. Today we service large clients like Ministry of Primary Resources, Ministry of Home Affairs, Shell Brunei amongst others. Our relationship with Telbru has been for over a year and with the signing of this JV we expect it to grow from strength to strength. We see a lot of synergies between the 2 organisations and this  will be a wonderful platform for our growth in the region”

BCT Achieves 6 OPN Specializations!
June 2011

BCT, an Oracle Platinum Partner, has achieved Specialization in Service Oriented Architecture, Database, Performance Tuning, E-Business Suite Supply Chain Management, Business Intelligence Foundation, and Solaris.

Oracle Service Oriented Architecture Specialization

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) specialization provides insight to Oracle's newly released SOA 11g platform, a foundation for innovation. This platform is composed of many products like Adapters, B2B, ODI, OSB, BPEL, HWF, Rules, CEP, BAM and Governance, which work together to provide the benefits of SOA.

Oracle E-Business Suite Supply Chain Management (SCM) Specialization

The Oracle E-Business Suite Core Supply Chain Management (SCM) Specialization recognizes partner organizations that are proficient in selling, implementing and/or developing Core Supply Chain modules.

Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation Specialization

This OPN Specialization focuses on Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation technology. Specifically, it focuses on the features of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition. The Specialization recognizes partners that have demonstrated through testing their firm’s ability to:

• Identify Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation technology sales opportunities
• Position Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation technology with their customers
• Demo relevant Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation technology solutions
• Implement solutions using Oracle Business Intelligence Foundation technology that will drive their customers’ organizations to make better decisions, take informed actions, and run more-efficient business processes

Oracle Database Specialization

This specialization focuses on the new features in Release 1 and Release 2 of Oracle Database 11g.

Oracle Database Performance Tuning Specialization

This specialization focuses on the new features in Release 1 and Release 2 of Oracle Database 11g Performance Tuning

Oracle Solaris Specialization

This Specialization focuses on the Oracle Solaris 10 Operating System, a proven enterprise platform for running everything from mission-critical enterprise databases to high performance Web farms. Its cross-platform capabilities along with built-in features for virtualization, high availability, advanced security, and industry-leading performance allows partners to help customers lower costs, simplify system administration, and maintain high service levels.

Bahwan CyberTek (BCT) and Aditya Birla Minacs enter into the highest level of partnership
Dubai, May 2011

Bahwan CyberTek (BCT) and Aditya Birla Minacs, a global business solutions company (subsidiary of Aditya Birla Nuvo), entered into the highest level of partnership with BCT for its “Cuecent Solution”. Under this partnership, Minacs will sell, implement and support BCT’s Cuecent range of products, solutions and services.

BCT’s Cuecent Business Process Management Suite (BPMS) is a comprehensive Business Process Management (BPM) suite designed to automate and optimize complex system, document and human centric business processes engaging people, technology and processes across the value chain. Minacs would be involved in the Business Development, Sales and Marketing, Implementation and Support for the Cuecent range of products, solutions and services in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and South Asia. Commenting on the partnership program, Mr. Durgaprasad, Director and Global CEO, Bahwan CyberTek said “BCT ’s partner program is aimed at building a strong network of high quality value added partners committed to the same objective as BCT – providing world class application software, services and support, driven by thought leadership and value creation. We are proud to be associated with Aditya Birla Minacs as our Solution Partner.”

About Bahwan CyberTek

Bahwan CyberTek (BCT) is an associate company of the multi-billion dollar Suhail Bahwan group. Established in 1999, BCT is a global IT provider of innovative software products and services. As a CMMi Level-5 organization, BCT is committed to delivering world-class solutions for its customers. BCT’s 1350 professionals excel in engineering and product development, middleware and integration solutions, business process management, banking, government, oil & gas and supply chain management solutions, business intelligence, business process outsourcing, and infrastructure management solutions. BCT has delivered solutions in twenty countries across North America, Middle East, Africa and Asia. BCT’s offering spans across Product Development, Systems Integration, Outsourced Application Development, Migration and Customization, Training and Consulting Services.

Visit www.bahwancybertek.com for more information.

About Aditya Birla Minacs Worldwide Ltd. (Aditya Birla Minacs)

Aditya Birla Minacs is a leading business solutions company that partners with global corporations in the manufacturing, retail, telecom, technology, media and entertainment, banking, insurance, healthcare and public sectors. We leverage years of process, domain and technology expertise to deliver superior business value to clients with our seamless Customer Lifecycle, Marketing, Finance and Accounting, Procurement and IT solutions and services. 20,000 Minacs experts across 3 continents and 35 centers spanning Canada, Germany, Hungary, India, Jamaica, Philippines, the UK and USA power our solutions through a global delivery model that helps our clients enhance revenues, profitability and customer service.

Visit http://minacs.adityabirla.com/ for more information.

Anna University & BAHWAN CYBERTEK PRIVATE LIMITED - Memorandum of Understanding
Oman - 11th January 2011.

Ramanujan Computing Centre (RCC) located in Anna University (AU), Chennai one of the premier institutes in India today signed memorandum of understanding with BAHWAN CYBERTEK PRIVATE LIMITED (BCT) to collaborate on a number of technology-focused research-and-development activities that will couple strong academia, research with powerful technology in enterprise business solution.

BCT is one of the fastest growing IT software products and services companies in India and overseas. The company's offerings cut across product development, strategy & process consulting, enterprise applications, infrastructure management and managed services. It's brand CUECENT, addressing the needs of verticals such as BFSI, Government, Energy & Utilities and SCM & Logistics. BCT has expertise in technologies such BPM, SOA, Middleware Integration, ERP, MES and Process Control.

RCC and BCT have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that outlines plans for cooperation on a variety of areas, including training, project consultancy and research. The MOU also highlights plans for BCT to set up a Centre of Excellence (CoE) with BCT's Cuecent BPMS Software Suite (Campus License), Servers and Workstations at Anna University.

Prof. P. Mannar Jawahar, Vice Chancellor - Anna University, said "The CoE to be established at RCC will be developed as a world-class, shared-use educational and R&D facility serving the student and industry community. BCT will also provide Projects / Consultancy work to the faculty of the Anna University". He also added, "This new collaboration will undoubtedly result in new research projects and endeavors with tremendous potential for innovation and far-reaching benefit. The technologies created by the partnership of RCC-AU and BCT not only will enable and enhance further enterprise solution development and research, it will positively impact the knowledge of students of Anna University to come".

Ms Hind Suhail Bahwan, Chairperson, Bahwan CyberTek Group said "An important element of our journey is to continually innovate while contributing to the society. We believe that the above initiative will serve both the purposes."

Mr S Durgaprasad, Director & CEO, Bahwan CyberTek Group said "The association with my alma mater is a special one and I firmly believe that we would be able to build innovative solutions that will have a global impact. It is needless to say this joint initiative between the Industry and the Academia would be a cornerstone in our success."

BCT does it again – for the 4th time!
Wins the prestigious Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific Award

For the fourth year in a row, BCT has won the prestigious Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific Award.

The Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific 2010 ranks the 500 public and private technology, media and telecommunications companies headquartered in Asia Pacific, that have achieved the highest rates of revenue growth over the past three years. This is a global platform for measuring, recognizing and analyzing growth of the fastest growing technology companies in the region.

Mr. S. Durgaprasad, Chief Executive Officer and Director said, “It is truly gratifying to be among the top 500 fastest growing companies in Asia Pac region for the fourth time in a row. For us, it is a indeed a great honor to be considered on par with some of the best companies in the region and be recognized as an organization that consistently drives customers’ business evolution through innovation. The award is a reflection of the excellence, innovation, passion and performance by our associates worldwide.’

Bahwan CyberTek leads through its Product Innovation (Cuecent) and Innovative Business models through Technology and offers solutions in diverse countries across USA, Oman, UAE, Africa, Far East and India.

Bahwan CyberTek (BCT) Launches e-Payment Solution for the Global Market

The Chennai based Bahwan CyberTek(BCT), a leading IT product and services organization has chalked out a plan to ensure fast growth. It has zeroed in business verticals Banking, Government, Energy & Utilities and Supply Chain.

Addressing a press conference, Mr. S. Durgaprasad, Director and CEO, said that in the last eleven years of operations, the company has successfully matured the product offerings and has been highly successful in large customer engagements. He mentioned about BCT's latest offering Cuecent 'ePay 2.0' an integrated payment gateway for addressing the needs of Government, Banks and Insurance industry verticals. ePay is built on Cuecent BPM 5.1 and Cuecent ESB 3.1 - a standards based integration centric, fault tolerant, highly scalable Business Process Management (BPM) platform.

This product is the result of several man-years of R&D efforts by our highly skilled and qualified engineers of at our Cuecent Labs in Chennai and we hope to create a new benchmark in electronic payment space.

Nasscom research intelligence survey on enabling Governments worldwide has recently recognized the pioneering effort in implementing a country wide payment gateway for Govt of Egypt. This solution has enabled Egypt to collect 7 million pension payments and more than 6 million salary payments per month and 20 million tax and customs transaction annually.

The product arm of BCT is poised to grow by 100% YOY. BCT group has seen a very good YOY growth and is targeting revenue of Rs.475 crores by the end of the financial year he added.

BCT group sees most of its future growth coming from its product offerings and new practices it has launched recently as well as would look at new markets globally.

Prof. Mohanbir Sawhney, an internationally acclaimed Management Guru who has been advising BCT for the last several years and is currently on the Board as Director- Strategy, Marketing & Business Innovation said "I am very pleased with the way BCT was moving forward on all fronts and in particular in the IP creation and the leadership position in the payment space. Even in the Middle East, US and Africa, Bahwan CyberTek has become a name to reckon with in the IT and ITES fields. The many global clients we serve with our Cuecent range of products and services has given us tremendous insight has to how to reduce cost while increasing efficiency"

For further information please contact:

Ms. Kavitha, Senior Manager, BCT : M : 99520 90129
Mr. Satyan Bhatt, Prism PR : M : 98400 85411

Innovation in Government - Leveraging Technology for Smart Governance
Dubai - 29th March 2010.

A workshop conducted at the Raffles Hotel in Dubai entitled "Innovation in Government - Leveraging Technology for Smart Governance" met with an overwhelming response from eGovernment champions from across Federal and various emirates come together to hear Professor Mohanbir Sawhney, McCormick Tribune Professor of Technology and Director of Centre for Research in Technology & Innovation at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

The workshop commenced with a welcome note by H.E. Salem Khamis Al Shair, Director General of Government Information Authority, who stressed the importance of collaborating between the government and the private sector for the benefit of e-Transformation and e-Governance in the UAE.

"We are keen on having all federal government organizations attend such educative events to enhance their capacities and keep up to date with the latest developments in the fields of innovative government." Al Shair said.

Professor Sawhney who is also on the board of Bahwan CyberTek Group opened the first session with a topic "Leveraging Technology for Citizen Centric Government". He connected very well with the audience articulating the subject through simple yet powerful points like understanding Citizen-Centric Government, the need to make the shift, principles that drive this philosophy, some very interesting case studies & global best practices and actually providing steps for execution to translate vision into reality.

He stressed upon the crucial role of the Government Information Authority, to act as the facilitator and develop a single service oriented face of government while partnering with the federal ministries and eGovernment nodal agencies that represent various Emirates bringing together a common vision and framework to capitalize on the good work already done by various governmental entities in the UAE.

The Management Guru then moved on to an equally interesting and important session to touch upon "Innovation in Government" demystifying the definition of innovation, explaining the need to innovate and how to develop the culture of innovation and providing frameworks & processes to manage innovation. These were substantiated with relevant case studies and correlated with the region's culture, strengths and challenges.

The other key points that the professor touched upon were the need to foster public-private partnerships giving reference to interesting case studies like Infoline in Sultanate of Oman. He stressed the importance of developing shared services, aggregated service delivery referring to hallmark successes like Dubai eGovernment led ePay in the local context.

The session concluded with an inspiring speech by H.E. Salem Khamis Al Shair, an accomplished leader in driving eGovernment and recognized regionally for his ability to both envision and translate into execution success.

The audience were visibly thrilled that they participated in this unique event and felt that the decade old deep partnership & association between Professor Sawhney, the region and the organizers has manifested itself into this meaningful program and delivered with ease of understanding.

Bahwan CyberTek Group was represented by their Chief Operating Officer for Core Global Operations Mr. Muralidharan (Mike) and other senior management members. Bahwan CyberTek is a transnational IT Products & Solutions Company with its roots from this region and has to its credit very large and successful eGovernment initiatives. The group within a decade since inception has grown to around 1200 consultants worldwide, has created valuable Intellectual Property in IT and has leveraged innovation as means to achieve extraordinary growth for itself and business transformation for its customers

-Ends-

About GIA

The General Information Authority is a federal authority that has been assigned to the task of setting up eGovernment at the federal level in the UAE.

Bahwan CyberTek set to cross the Rs. 475 Crore mark this fiscal
To scale up recruitment by 25 %
Chennai - 2nd March 2010.

The Chennai based Bahwan CyberTek (BCT), a leading IT Product and Services organization, announced today that it would cross the Rs. 475 Crore mark turnover, by the end of this financial year (2009 - 2010). This growth is a reflection of BCT’s ability to orchestrate and deliver a coherent value proposition to its customers. This achievement is especially noteworthy, in a year of global financial turmoil in fiscal 2009. The most significant development was that of Prof Mohanbir Sawhney coming on board of Bahwan CyberTek. This year also saw BCT move into it’s own premises in Chennai, with a Center of Excellence spread across 180,000 sq.ft area, the total investment being USD 9 million.

Addressing the media, Mr S. Durgaprasad, CEO, Bahwan CyberTek said ‘We are very pleased with our performance over the last few years. We have seen good YOY growth, and with a lot of promising deals in the pipeline and we are confident of crossing the Rs. 600 crore mark by the end of the next financial year (2010 - 2011). Bahwan CyberTek has been growing more than the industry average and this gives us tremendous confidence of achieving even greater heights in the years to come. Another noteworthy development was the signing of pact with IIM Bangalore to provide management courses in Oman. Our focus in India includes BCT’s products, Govt, BFSI, Energy and Utilities Industry verticals in addition to Enterprise application implementations for Manufacturing, Distribution and Retail segments.’

Bahwan CyberTek during the last couple of months has got excellent repeat orders from its customers like the extension it has received for 2 years in the execution of 4PL engagement in Oil & Gas sector for Petroleum Development Oman (USD 500 Million Dollar Contract). With this significant step, BCT has become a leader in the 4PL arena. BCT has widened its customer base by winning some important customers such as Dubai Municipality through its flagship Cuecent e-pay product, Union Cement Company and BHEL, to name a few.

“Within 10 yrs of operations, BCT has matured from people to project to product development and is one among the very few companies having its own standards based BPM platform with a repository of niche solutions built on it through its Cuecent suite for various Industry verticals. The company has gained leadership positions in the payment gateway space through its innovation” said Mr. R.K. Shyam Sundar Executive Vice President-Global Centre of Excellence.

According to Mr VM Muralidharan, Chief Operating Officer, “Over the last decade BCT has serviced many global clients, in the various industry verticals such as Government, BFSI, Energy and Utilities, with our Cuecent range of products & services.  We have now decided to emulate this success in the Indian operations. We expect India’s share to be around 10-15% of BCT’s total business in the next three years.”

IIM Bangalore and Bahwan CyberTek LLC explore educational partnership
Bangalore - 13th February 2010.

The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) and Bahwan CyberTek LLC announced on Saturday that they are keen to enter into a partnership to bring management education of international standards to Sultanate of Oman.

The Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) is a centre of excellence in management, recognized as one of the top 100 management schools in the world, with international standards of post-graduate and doctoral level teaching, executive education for senior and middle management, research and consulting. Set up in 1973, the sprawling 100-acre campus is a green oasis situated in south Bangalore, with excellent infrastructure, including the latest ICT and extensive library. The Institute’s proximity to some of the leading corporate houses in the country gives the added advantage of integrating classroom knowledge with practical experience.

Pankaj Chandra, Director IIMB and Abhoy K. Ojha, Chairperson, Executive Education are currently visiting Muscat, Oman and other countries in the region to explore possibilities of attracting participants to their executive education programs in Bangalore and also bringing some of their programs to the region in partnership with others in the region.

“The best part of our journey has been in translating the knowledge gained internationally to the benefit of Oman and its citizens. Over the past seven years Bahwan CyberTek has been working very closely with the Government in creation of knowledge workforce in Oman to create a positive impact on business eco system” said Ms Hind Bahwan, Chairperson of Bahwan CyberTek.

“In near term Bahwan CyberTek and IIMB are poised to launch Executive Development Programs in Sultanate of Oman. In the long term we expect this partnership to evolve into a strategic relationship and launch the Bahwan Institute of Management of international standard to cater to the management education in Middle East region” said Mr Durgaprasad, Director & CEO of Bahwan CyberTek.

“This relationship will help IIM Bangalore in realizing the shared vision to position IIMB as an international management school with a strong bias for research” said Professor Pankaj Chandra, Director, IIMB.