Wipro Technologies, the Global IT services division of Wipro Limited (NYSE:WIT), has become the first company outside the United States to be conferred the prestigious award for Software Process Achievement (SPA) by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Computer Society. The SPA award was presented to Wipro Technologies on May 7th in an International Conference on Software Engineering held at Portland, Oregon USA. The award is given for achieving a high software process capability and establishing a basis for moving to a very broad improvement program that concerns people and product, rather than just process and issues. Adding another feather to its cap, Wipro is the first Indian company ever to be nominated for this award.

The Computer Society’s Award for Software Process Achievement is given for improvement in an organization’s software process. “Process discipline is the most critical success element of offshore outsourcing,” said Dean Davison, Vice President of Meta Group. To be considered for this award, the improvement must be sustained, measured and significant. Wipro Technologies underwent a thorough evaluation process amongst nominations from different organizations across the globe. The evaluation process included initial short listing of nominees as finalists and then site visit by the evaluation committee.

The IEEE Evaluation committee consisted of Quality Guru’s like Watts Humphrey of Software Engineering Institute (SEI) USA; William Riddle, Solution Architect at TeraQuest Metrics Inc; Prof. Victor Basili, Founder & Member of International Software Engineering Research Network and Prof. Manny Lehman, of Imperial College, an authority on software engineering. The committee visited Wipro Technologies software development center at Bangalore and evaluated Wipro’s Processes and Practices following nomination of Wipro Technologies for the Award.

Complimenting Wipro on the award, the IEEE Evaluation committee said, “Wipro’s well-defined and implemented software process improvement program was appreciated and the breadth & depth of the organisation’s capability achievement and improvement program were lauded as the best that the committee had found since inception of the award nine years ago.”

“We are very excited and receiving this prestigious award is a great honour,” said Sambuddha Deb, Chief Quality Officer, Wipro Technologies. “This recognition from the IEEE Computer Society is yet another feather in Wipro’s cap and validates our vision of making quality a culture within and validates the significant strides we have taken in our quest for quality,” he added.

The committee also recognised that Wipro achieved Capability Maturity Model Level V (An international standard for quality) throughout its 10,000 plus person, international workforce unlike most other organizations reviewed who had achieved this level of capability within only part of their organization. In addition, Maturity Level V for both the P-CMM and CMMI capability maturity models were achieved very quickly, the breadth and speed of which were unprecedented.

With this award Wipro joins a select group of organizations like the Software Engineering Laboratory at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Directorate of Aircraft Management, Test Software and Industrial Automation Branches, Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center.

Veterinary science is the discipline which broadly covers the study of animal physiology, treatment and prevention of diseases among animals.

Those trained in the discipline are known as veterinary doctors or vets. However, the function of a veterinary doctor encompasses much more than merely taking care of animal health.

According to dean, College of Veterinary Sciences (CCS), Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, A P Singh, ”A veterinary doctor is trained and oriented to perform diverse activities related to animal disease treatment and prevention; animal husbandry, including animal breed improvement by ’selection breeding’ and artificial insemination; vaccination against economically-important diseases; pet care; poultry management and health care; wildlife conservation; livestock insurance and rural development.”

The Major General DE Shah, GOC Bengal, comes as Chief Executive, National Institute of Management Calcutta, visited the campus NIMC this morning by The Statesman yesterday made a report on the alleged ragging a first year students mentoring students. The Major General Shah was accompanied by Colonel RC Singh, a member of the Management Committee. “I’ve warned both senior and junior and students have made it clear that ragging will not be tolerated. If someone is found in the ragging he / she is the body”, General Shah said Major At the statesman. He said: “Most Freshers here are not disciplined. Discipline is applied to a certain extent by the increase in students, have been designated to do so. Whether réprimandons Sometimes they are for the maintenance of discipline and respect the deadlines agreed. “On the issue of alleged ragging a first year student, General Commander Shah said:” I interaction with employees and students today. One student was the first to hospital for treatment, as he suffered from gastroenteritis. It was perhaps schalt some seniors as indisciplined. But we can not not call it ragging. “Monday evening, the first-year student was allegedly NIMC and was struck the wall before seeing his seniors. NIMC, an MBA from the school by the army and is on the link of the East command hospital.

Deadline for submission of application forms is set for May 15, 2007 (for students from remote areas and for international students, the deadline is May 19, 2007)

RE: The Institute invites applications for admission to post-graduate studies in disaster management.

ELIGIBILITY: Candidates must be licensed at least three years’ duration or the value-cons in every discipline, from a recognized university with a minimum average of 50 per cent of marks (40 per cent for SCs / STS). The completion of students in recent years leaving examinations of Bachelor to June 30, 2007, are also eligible.

About: The application form and information brochure may send a request in a letter to Vice-Registrar (General Administration) of the Institute, accompanied by a request for draft RS 550, in favour of Chancellor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, payable at Mumbai. You can also use the form on the site and submit it together with the RS 500, in cash or by demand, design, or download the form of cash counters by paying TISS RS 500

Santosh Desai, president of McCann Erickson, tells Sudhish Kamath, there is a lack of good progress

“ I wanted to give you a hug to listening to your presentation,”a lady came to him during his coffee break. Minutes before he and the rest of the public in space during his briefing on the changes in consumer behaviour on the fire Summit 2004, the International Convention on building fires, organized by the Confederation of Indian Industries, 17 And the February 18.

Decisions, simple and articulate, President of McCann Erickson, a product IIM, Santosh Desai, is a pleasure to listen. In an exclusive interview, he opens to talk about advertising in conjunction with training, courses in the country and meet the challenges of modern advertising.

Given that the purpose of advertising change every six months, what type of course you recommend for students in the pursuit of publicity? MBA is the answer, with advertising declines today toward marketing?

Normally, it is safe to do an MBA. It is difficult to go with him. In addition, most agencies, you will find walking unaffordable for students of the disclosure of major MBA schools. In recent years, agencies have little away from universities, as the first … Top Ten institutions, they are uncertain, what is quality. An MBA is a symbol of quality. So in these days, they are also the candidates who have made progress, which are closer to advertising and public relations and those who consider communication with a lot of discipline.

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Indian Institute of Modern Management (IIMM), Pune, which is the flagship of Sri Balaji Society, has been existence for about five years. Other educational institutions run by the society include the Indian Centre for Telecom and Management, Indian Centre for International Business, Balaji Law College and Balaji College of Arts and Commerce. At the IIMM, besides many co-curricular activities, the students go through at least 100 workshops in order to gain knowledge in the concerned discipline and to shape their personality. The college is practically run by the students with a student council, which operates as a cabinet with an annual budget of around Rs50 lakh. Majority of the students admitted into the institute are from outside Pune, who are housed in about 70 rental flats. The students are selected from 14 centres by an expert committee by following the format of interviews and group discussions and psychological testing. Girls account for 40 percent of the students.

The faculty at the institute consist of senior managers from Pune and outside, who regularly visit the institute. The annual fee per student amounts to Rs1 lakh. The institute is very strict about attendance by the students and ensures that parents are given monthly reports. So far, the Institute has attracted around 180 companies to its campus for recruitment.

THE BHARATH IDASAN Institute for the management of applications, for the reception in their homes Full-time 12-month programme PGDBM to live up to their campus in Bangalore.

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Sheet qualification is a degree of at least 50 percent of marks or control in each discipline. The selection is based on an aptitude test, group discussion and personal interview.