Birlasoft Pioneers With Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Offering

EDISON, New Jersey, August 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

Address Global Public and Private Sector Challenges Across Industry Segment

Birlasoft, the global IT services arm of the multi-billion dollar C K Birla Group, today announced its Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) strategy designed to help businesses become more agile, gain greater visibility into their data, and balance business risk and responsiveness. Since the law was published in 2010, Birlasoft has setup a domain led competency to carry out comprehensive research and thought leadership for organizations grappling to understand and respond to the law's still evolving technology requirements.

"Impending regulations, client and internal pressures are driving securities firms to enhance and restructure their compliance and regulatory infrastructure. This will remain a top priority for securities firms for the next few years and drive investments in areas such as OTC Derivatives, market surveillance and risk management," said Dushyant Shahrawat, CFA, Senior Research Director, TowerGroup.

The new GRC solution is developed on Birlasoft's deep expertise and experience on wide-reaching compliance requirements for different vertical industries. While grouping all governance, risk and compliance solutions under an integrated GRC framework, Birlasoft has developed solutions around Dodd Frank Act, to Basel II, to Solvency II, to data privacy compliance and beyond. Birlasoft's GRC strategic consulting offering will give another tool to IT Leaders and their business counterparts to prepare in advance, enabling higher levels of regulatory requirements, effectively utilizing their resources - allocating budgets to meet their compliance obligations.

"At Birlasoft we have developed a comprehensive and flexible framework to respond to both market dynamics as well as individual organization's requirements. We can work with our clients to transform risk management challenges into a value-changing capability. The right level of risk management capability can position the company for better economic returns, lower risk, improved value and increased confidence of the stakeholder and hence we are proud to have a pioneering offering in this space which can yield that edge," said Mr. Basu Dutta, Vice President - Banking & Financial Services (Practice), Birlasoft.

To read more on our GRC offering:
http://www.birlasoft.com/Industries/BankingFinancialServices/ConsultingServices/GRCSolutions.aspx

About Birlasoft

Birlasoft, part of 150 year old multi-billion dollar CK Birla Group, enables clients in Banking & Financial Services, Insurance and Manufacturing industry, to become competitive in their business by providing value-based information technology services, in onshore, offshore and near-shore models.