OREANDA-NEWS. October 11, 2011. NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE:6701) announced that NEC India Pvt. Ltd, a leading network and IT solutions provider, and Trimax IT Infrastructure & Services Limited (Trimax), an IT services and solutions provider, entered into a strategic alliance to explore opportunities in delivering "SaaS"(*1) services using an integrated application aggregation platform. As a part of this association, NEC will be leveraging Trimax's data center capabilities to provide business applications such as CRM, ERP, Human Resource Management, Inventory, Security etc to the enterprise customers.

This partnership will leverage NEC's technological expertise and Trimax's local market reach to offer SaaS applications to SMBs in India via an opex model, thus reducing their IT expenditure and total cost of ownership (TCO).

Mr. Ken Sugata, General Manager at Global Carrier Cloud division, NEC Corporation commented, "Cloud computing has paved an innovative way for enterprises to meet the ever changing business needs to deal with complex business environments. We foresee strong market interest and adoption for cloud services in India and aim to empower SMBs with end-to-end SaaS solutions and applications that help enterprises reduce their operational costs. At NEC, we offer cloud-oriented service platform solutions in conjunction with our systems integration businesses." He further added, "Our partnership with Trimax is a great opportunity to mutually extend our focus on our SaaS business capabilities in the country."

The current needs of enterprises include the coexistence of lean management under rapidly-changing and severe economic environments and the quick new business start up. NEC has configured "Cloud-oriented Service Platform Solutions" by adding cloud computing features to the achievements that have been developed via its systems integration and outsourcing businesses.

Commenting on the association, Mr. Surya Prakash Madrecha, Chairman & Managing Director of Trimax said, "NEC is a market leader and has successfully deployed Cloud application aggregation platform across the globe and their expertise would not only give credible platform to Indian market but also help in bringing right applications."

Trimax's expertise in data centre & cloud computing services across business verticals will be beneficial in expanding business opportunities.