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Laser Soft, a Polaris Group Company Wins NDTV Business Leadership Awards 2009
CHENNAI, Oct 28 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --
Laser Soft Infosystems Ltd, a leading software product company
for the Banking and Financial Services sector in India & emerging countries
and a group company of Polaris Software Lab Ltd, was awarded NDTV Business
Leadership Awards 2009 under the 'Inclusion and Diversity' category. Laser
Soft competed with the leading Indian and multi-national companies and
adjudged winner in this one of its kind award category.
NDTV Profit Business Leadership Awards were announced on
October 26 in Mumbai, honoring the companies at the forefront of Indian
business and industry. The awards acknowledged the most dynamic Indian
organizations and the best business leaders who have fuelled India's journey
to the forefront of the world economy.
Suresh Kamath, Managing Director of Laser Soft received the
winner's trophy from Honorable Finance Minister Shri. Pranab Mukherjee, the
Chief Guest for the Awards ceremony.
Suresh Kamath, Founder & Managing Director, Laser Soft
Infosystems said, "An inclusive and diverse culture can be created with
complete open-mindedness and appreciation of the working capacity of diverse
teams. Laser Soft has been instrumental in hiring, training and employing
people with different abilities. More than Corporate Social Responsibility,
it is the strategic inclusion we have been able to successfully leverage."
Laser Soft hired the first differently abled person in the
year 1993. Presently, about 15% of the company's workforce is differently
abled. The company employs differently abled people including Polio affected,
speech impaired, hearing impaired, visually impaired, etc., holding various
positions ranging from Office Assistant to Assistant Vice President
(Technology). The severity of disability varies from 60% to 95%.
The company takes care of the diversity element in all aspects
of facility and operations by making the environment differently abled
friendly. The company recruits differently-abled as software trainees, trains
them and supports their career progression. Being a software product company,
they are trained in both domain and technology. The job enrichment involves
software technical skills, financial domain knowledge, travel enablement,
software skills development and managerial skills development. They are
provided equal opportunities in their career paths and progression is linked
to performance. Many of them have done extremely well and progressed rapidly
within the company.
About Laser Soft Infosystems
Laser Soft Infosystems Limited is a software product company
established in 1986 with a focus on development of products for the Banking
and Financial Service sector. The product offerings cover the entire range of
Banking Operations and include Core Banking and specialized products like
Treasury, Trade Finance, Cash Management and Recon systems. It is an ISO
9001:2000 company with 600 banking and technical experts and is a leading
player in BFSI segment. It has provided solutions in more than 50 banks in
India, Middle East and Africa. Major banks like Corporation Bank, ICICI Bank,
Axis Bank, HDFC Bank, SBI, Catholic Syrian Bank, etc., form their valuable
client base.
Laser Soft is a socially responsive company and has provided
employment to as many as 15% of its work force to differently abled persons.
It is a winner of Best Employer Award from Government of India, Government of
Tamil Nadu and Shell Hellen Keller Foundation.
About Polaris Software Lab
Polaris Software Lab (POLS.BO) is a leading Financial
Technology company, with its comprehensive portfolio of products, services
and consulting. Polaris has a talent strength of over 9,000 solution
architects, domain and technology experts. The company owns the largest set
of Intellectual Properties in the form of a comprehensive product suite,
Intellect Global Universal Banking (GUB) 10.0. IntellectTM is the first pure
play SOA based application suite for Retail, Corporate, Investment banking
and Insurance.
Polaris is headquartered in Chennai and has offices in all
global financial hubs including Tokyo, Sydney, Hong Kong, Singapore, India,
Dubai, Bahrain, Riyadh, London, Belfast, Zurich, Frankfurt, Toronto, New
York, Chicago, Fremont, Pittsburgh and Chile. For more information, please
For more information, please contact:
Shailesh Dhawla
Polaris Software Lab
Tel: +91-99620-23124
Email: shailesh.d@polaris.co.in
Source: Polaris Software Lab Ltd.
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