Mumbai, Aug 17:m Tata Indicom Enterprise Business Unit (TIEBU), the common customer interface for Tata group telecom firms, has clocked an incremental annualised order bookings of Rs 125 crore within three months of its inception, even as it expects to touch a Rs 550-crore mark by March 2004. "Most of the bookings came from IT and ITES segments, which together comprise about 55 per cent of the bookings, and Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd (VSNL) is the largest beneficiary with receiving over 70 per cent of the bookings," TIEBU president Ajay Pandey said here today.
In revenue terms, VSNL earned Rs 87.5 crore on an annualised mode, as the contracts are for a year, he said. Due to continued growth in Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and software industry, there has been a growth in demand for international private leaseline circuits (IPLC) and Internet bandwidth during the last four months, Pandey said, adding, TIEBU cashed in on this boom.
A sizeable part of TIEBU's incremental revenues was from companies in the manufacturing and banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) sectors, who had outsourced various infrastructure requirements to Tata Indicom, he said. "This was in terms of data centre hosting, Internet protocol-based virtual private network (IP-VPN) services and managed services like mail messaging and security," the president said.
The new orders received from the specific enterprise space within this brief timeframe, underlines the fact that the group has gained a "sizable marketshare" in the enterprise telecom space, Pandey said. Bureau Report