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Press Release - November 2003
Microsoft® Business Solutions sets up "Center for Excellence" Navision India, the exclusive distributor for Microsoft® Business Solutions today announced setting up of a "Centre for Excellence" at the XLRI Campus beginning 3rd week of January 2004. The center will initiate a course on 'Integrated Business Solutions', which will become a part of the XLRI curriculum. Navision India will provide an educational license to XLRI to include the course in its curriculum. Post that, XLRI students from Marketing, Operations, Finance & HR streams will be able to take 'Integrated Business Solutions' course during their summer projects. As the course will proceed, the professors will be able to utilize their knowledge and build certain add-ons or verticals on these base solutions. It's an initiative from XLRI and Navision India to ensure that the young managers that graduate from the institute are tech savy and are exposed to business solutions and the role of IT in an organization. As expressed by Mr. Yash Nagpal, MD of Navision India, "An understanding of Integrated Business Solutions, particularly from the stables of Microsoft, should start at the grass roots level and not at a late stage in a professionals life". Further the existing and future customers of Microsoft Business Solutions would benefit since the add-on solutions would have the recent management practices embedded into them. About Navision India and Microsoft Business Solutions Over 270,000 satisfied customers are using Microsoft Business Solutions around the globe. Navision India, the exclusive distributor of Microsoft® Business Solutions in India, offers a range of business applications for small and medium enterprise (SME) businesses in India. Microsoft Business Solutions' applications automate end-to-end business processes across financials, distribution, project accounting, electronic chehehommerce, human resources and payroll, manufacturing, supply chain management, business intelligence, sales and marketing management and customer service and support. About XLRI, Jamshedpur Xavier Labour Relations Institute, widely known as XLRI was born out of the vision of a Jesuit Priest, father Quinn Enright. It was founded in 1949 in the Steel city of Jamshedpur, Bihar. Since then the Jamshedpur Jesuit Society has nurtured the growth of XLRI in keeping with its commitment to "Magis" (excellence in everything). Over the last few decades, XLRI Jamshedpur has contributed its best to the professional growth and management of innumerable institutions that's serve the public especially organized industry, labour, service agencies engaged in rural development, education, health and other public systems. Besides the focus on developing managerial competence among the pupils through acquisition of specialized knowledge and skills, the Institute emphasizes the importance of developing a sense of social justice with right attitudes and values of discipline, dedication and commitment among all its members. Contributed by - |
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