L&T Infotech Announces ‘Workplace by Facebook’ Partnership

Leading global IT services and solutions provider L&T Infotech announced a strategic partnership with Workplace by Facebook, an enterprise collaboration platform that redefines internal communications and changes the way work is done within an enterprise.

Workplace brings the well-known features of Facebook like News Feed, Groups, Chat, Reactions, Live, and Search to organizations helping employees stay connected in a secure environment. The platform also extends collaboration beyond the company through Multi-Company Groups that allow employees from different companies to work together.

As a Global Service Partner, LTI has built a team of dedicated Senior Digital Consultants to help organizations rollout the platform and bring its transformative potential in simplifying communications. The comprehensive services from LTI include change management strategy, adoption roadmap, setup, installation, integration, use-case development, and API extension and development.

LTI has also adopted and implemented Workplace as its own exclusive platform for communication and collaboration across the globe connecting more than 20,000 employees in 22 countries. This first-hand experience has given the company unparalleled expertise and a unique advantage to help organizations fast track their own implementation and maximize the platform’s benefits.

Announcing the partnership, Siddharth Bohra, Chief Business Officer and Head - Analytics & Digital, LTI said,“Workplace by Facebook reimagines business communications by bringing the familiar social experience to the enterprise environment. As one of the early adopters of this platform, LTI is well positioned to help companies realize the potential of this platform by enabling global collaboration, bringing about a culture change and fostering innovation”.

IT Services and Solutions Provider L&T Infotech to Acquire Pune Based AugmentIQ

Leading global IT services and solutions provider L&T Infotech announced that it will acquire Pune based AugmentIQ Data Sciences Pvt. Ltd., an innovative start-up offering IP-based, big data and analytics solutions that help enterprises derive business benefits from big data.

As a result of this acquisition, LTI will gain access to MAXIQ, the big data platform developed by AugmentIQ, which is currently servicing one of the world’s largest credit bureaus, large banks as well as regulatory agencies. Also, the proprietary identity resolution technology from AugmentIQ is among the best in its class and can be adopted to solve the emerging needs of regulatory authorities across all markets.

MAXIQ from AugmentIQ brings the power of automation and Do-it-Yourself (DIY) to big data. Its end-to-end, self-service approach enables business users to leverage big data technologies such as Hadoop & Spark easily. It connects the power of these technologies to real business outcomes in a fraction of usual time and cost. The proposed acquisition will enable LTI to build upon MAXIQ by integrating it within LTI’s MOSAIC Decision Science platform.

MOSAIC Decision Science from LTI is designed for ease of data ingestion, data discovery, and industry specific use cases for accelerated data-driven decision making. It comes pre-packaged with more than 20 industry-specific machine learning algorithms based on deep learning techniques to jump-start the analytics journey of an organization with prescriptive and predictive analytics across business functions. MOSAIC Decision Science is powered by Microsoft Azure services in a cloud-native solution.

Announcing the acquisition, Sanjay Jalona, CEO & Managing Director, LTI said, “AugmentIQ is a very synergistic acquisition for LTI. Our clients are seeking big data solutions that can be implemented quickly and scale as per their requirements. AugmentIQ offers a very versatile platform that can expand instantly and enable accelerated data monetization. I am very happy to welcome AugmentIQ clients and employees to LTI family.”

Sachin Vyas, Founder & CEO, AugmentIQ said, “During last four years, we have grown rapidly and are working with some major clients in India and globally. We are excited about joining forces with LTI and about the opportunity to partner with hundreds of new clients. The acquisition by LTI opens up a unique roadmap for our innovative offerings to grow and mature further.”