ATA awards major outsourcing deal to Patni Computers

Leading Indian IT and BPO service provider Patni Computer Systems has entered into a contract with the Air Transport Association of America (ATA), the foremost trade association for the major airlines in the United States, to create, execute as well as look after the ATA Aviation Marketplace’s next generation to assist the whole airline industry.

It may be noted that the ATA Aviation Marketplace is a prominent industry reserve for supplying aeronautical parts. Over 150 key suppliers as well as 60 airlines worldwide use this system that controls over 6 million records and is essential to the success of any project that eases as many as 20,000 purchase orders every month for several leading airlines across the world. The task entrusted to Patni Computers is said to be the first key upgrading of the system from the time when it was redeveloped around a decade back.

Operating in tandem, the ATA and Patni Computers have already accomplished the business prerequisites for the enhancement. And during the subsequent year, the global IT and BPO vendor will generate designs for the ATA Aviation Marketplace as well as undertake the entire coding and improvements for hosting scheduled for early 2011.

Quoting James C. May, President and CEO of ATA, a trade website reports that all airlines as well as parts suppliers depend on the Air Transport Association of America for unprejudiced data, information and support they require to maintain the optimal operation of the transportation procedure. He added that they have selected Patni Computers for the job as the global IT and BPO service provider possesses the requisite expertise, know-how and familiarity that they have been seeking to provide a topnotch system.

With its vast global IT experience spanning over a period of 40 years, Patni Computers will provide ATA make to order and inexpensive operations for the Air Transport Association of America’s important clients in an assortment of vendor segments, counting transportation as well as logistics. In addition, the global IT and BPO service provider will make use of its proficiency in executing high-tech know-how to make the operations of the ATA Aviation Marketplace more efficient as well as facilitate the concurrent updates to endorse the unplanned orders by the airlines. In addition, the project will comprise a new and more updated graphical user interface, improved data delivery aptitude as well as enhances security aspects.