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EDM Group unveils strategic partnership with India based Digitization services leader - CMC Limited

The EDM Group, the UK’s leading document management solutions provider, has announced a strategic partnership with CMC Limited, an India based leading end to end Digitization services provider. CMC is a subsidiary of the US$4 Billion TATA Consultancy services and the TATA Group – India’s largest private sector business group. The strategic relationship will see the two companies explore joint business development opportunities in the UK market.

The EDM Group delivers the full range of document services to some of the UK’s largest blue chip companies, including document conversion, online document hosting and document management systems. CMC, the IT software solution specialist within the TATA Group, will provide back-office technology support services to the EDM Group from its base in India, ultimately improving efficiency of the service and reducing costs for customers. 
 
Sam Ferguson, the EDM Group’s chief executive, commented: “Document management is one significant area where companies can reap the cost-benefits from off-shoring without moving crucial customer contact centres abroad – which in many cases has proved to be a failure.  We believe this will be a huge area of growth for the EDM Group and we are very pleased to be working in collaboration with an organisation that has the reputation and established credibility of the TATA Group.”

R. Ramanan, Managing Director and CEO of CMC Limited added: “ We see significant opportunity in the end to end Document management and Digitization services market in the UK. The synergies between EDM and CMC leveraging a unique global delivery model will bring considerable value and significant cost savings to our customers”

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The TATA Group

The TATA Group comprises 96 operating companies in seven business sectors: information systems and communications; engineering; materials; services; energy; consumer products; and chemicals. The TATA Group is one of India's largest and most respected business conglomerates. The Group's 28 publicly listed enterprises — among them stand out names such as TATA steel, TATA Consultancy Services, TATA Motors and TATA Tea — have a combined market capitalisation that is one of the highest among Indian business houses in the private sector, and a shareholder base of over 2 million. The TATA Group has operations in more than 54 countries across six continents, and its companies export products and services to 120 nations. For more information visit: www.tata.com.

CMC Ltd

Incorporated in 1975, CMC is one of the premier Information Technology solutions providers in India and is a subsidiary of TATA Consultancy Services Limited, Asia's largest software Company. CMC had a consolidated turnover of USD 272 million for 2006-07. Operating out of 18 offices and 180 service locations in the country, CMC employs over 3500 people and has a wholly owned subsidiary in USA called CMC Americas, Inc.

CMC's vision is to operate globally and bring the benefit of Information Technology to improve the productivity of its customers and the quality of its customer's products and services. CMC combines horizontal expertise in Information Technology with its vertical experience developed by working in a wide range of Industries. For more information visit us at: www.cmcltd.com.

The EDM Group

EDM is the UK's leading document management solutions provider, scanning over 50 million documents per month and providing value-added document services to every corner of the UK from 5 offices in the North, Midlands, South East and South West. The company’s strength is built on industry-leading technology capability, including many years experience in the development and deployment of electronic document management systems, both as in-house solutions and as hosted services. Sectors covered include financial services, healthcare, logistics, professional services and government. For more information see www.theedmgroup.co.uk