
BSNL has awarded a Rs 2.4 billion system integration contract to HCL Infosystems. The seven-year contract entails rollout of over 60,000 enterprise resource planning (ERP) licences, including configuration, business process re-engineering, hardware, networking, operations and maintenance customisation, as well as training BSNL employees. As a part of the business transformation programme, HCL will migrate BSNL’s finance, commissioning and operations functions onto a single ERP system. The project rollout includes setting up of a main data centre at Hyderabad and a disaster recovery data centre at Kolkata.