BL/TIS/02/05 2nd February 2005

New employees at TATA Interactive Systems 

Increasing demand for its products and services in the UK and Europe, combined with an expansion in the range of these products and services, has prompted TATA Interactive Systems (TIS) to continue to increase its UK-based workforce. The latest batch of recruits for this global leader in e-learning includes:

· (Ms) Anubhuti Kashyap, who has joined TIS as programme manager, with responsibility for its clients in the education sector.
· (Mr) Ilango Nadar, who has taken up the newly created post of TIS’s business support manager.
· Nick Hogg, who is an instructional design specialist, formerly employed by Apex Interactive, and
· Angus Turpin, formerly of human capital management specialists Saba, who is joining TIS’s channel sales team.

Sambit Mohapatra, head of TIS in the UK and Europe, commented: “TIS has ambitious plans to grow its turnover and customer base in the escalating marketplace for e-learning materials and related services. 

“We expect to continue to grow, both in terms of business and employee numbers throughout 2005. We can provide, on request, detailed job descriptions for the new career opportunities with TIS,” he continued.

“Anyone who is interested in these vacancies should send their CV to us at TIS, with a note of their current salary and employment details.” 

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Notes for Editors:

About Tata Interactive Systems (TIS)
Tata Interactive Systems (TIS) has one of the world’s largest teams for the design and development of custom-built e-learning solutions. It is part of the Tata group, India’s largest business house, employing over 330,000 people and accounting for some two per cent of India’s gross domestic product (GDP).
TIS’s services include: building corporate e-learning solutions, creating learning portals; courseware conversion, and developing education products. It focuses on developing high quality products, using mature systems and processes. 

TIS, established in 1990 and fully operational within the UK since 1998, is an offshoot of Tata’s involvement in the IT sector. TIS now employs over 700 people – most of whom are based in India – who work with many of the UK’s largest companies, along with commercial publishers of e-learning materials. 

TIS clients include blue chip corporations and publishing companies including Abbey National, Barclays Bank, Transco (British Gas), CGNU, BP-Amoco, the Chartered Institute for Personnel Development (CIPD), Quisic.com, SkillSoft Inc and Unilever.

TIS offers a personalised service to its clients, providing professional project management, strong instructional design, along with expert graphic and technical know-how. Its multi-disciplinary team of over 700 people comprises project managers, content developers, 3-D animators and modellers, software engineers and instructional designers from India's finest universities—backed up by local expertise in the UK, USA and Europe. TIS’s many years experience of producing high quality programmes, along with the size of its operation helps to reassure clients that it can provide anything and everything that they want from e-learning materials effectively and efficiently.

TIS’s processes are assessed at Level 5 in both SEI CMM and SEI P-CMM by KPMG — making TIS the only e-learning company in the world with this distinction. The Capability Maturity Model (CMM) is the process quality framework of Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute. The People Capability Maturity Model (P-CMM) measures the maturity of an organisation's people practices. Level 5, the highest rating possible, guarantees a culture of excellence, with the highest productivity, the lowest possible defects and the best cycle times. This, coupled with TIS’s ISO 9001 and TickIT certifications, ensures that clients get what they are promised — and more.

About Tata Group
The Tata Group was established nearly 100 years ago by Jamsetji Tata to help build India’s industrial infrastructure. Tata established India’s steel, chemical and automobile engineering industries. It founded Air India and was instrumental in establishing the information technology (IT) industry in India. 
It is now India’s largest business house, employing over 330,000 people. The Tata group accounts for some 2.4 per cent of India’s gross domestic product (GDP) and some six per cent of India’s exports.

Currently, there are 86 companies within the Tata group, which continues its original practice of distributing a proportion of its profits to charity – including funding India’s largest cancer hospital.

Within the IT sector, the Tata group employs some 25,000 consultants working across the globe – some 900 of them in the UK servicing 100 or so clients. 

Further information from:
Sambit Mohapatra, Tata Interactive Systems, 020 7235 8281
Bob Little, Bob Little Press & PR, 01727 860405

www.tatainteractivesystems