Intelligroup alliance? Peachy Keane!

Representatives of Keane Inc., a business process and information technology services firm, today announced their firm’s alliance with Intelligroup, a provider of consulting, business process optimization and outsourcing services.

The Keane strategy is to buttress its enterprise application services to help clients gain maximum value from enterprise application investments. Keane PR alongside the announcement’s release makes prominent mention of Gartner forecasters’ figures showing an expected 15.9 percent growth in this market between 2005 and 2008, to ultimately total US $36.3 billion in 2008.

Keane sees the alliance with Intelligroup as broadening Keane’s services portfolio with expanded capabilities for enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, supply chain management, business intelligence, financials and human resource management implementation and support. As an alliance Keane / Intelligroup now has five SEI CMM Level 5 certified Advanced Development Centers in India at its disposal.

Keane and Intelligroup will deliver EAS for SAP and Oracle, including PeopleSoft and Siebel product areas. Services in enterprise application lifecycles include package evaluation and implementation, to upgrades and migration, through support and maintenance, integration, and enhancements.