Sierra Atlantic to strengthen its PeopleSoft practice

Sierra Atlantic today announced the expansion of its PeopleSoft Center of Excellence (CoE) at its global development premises in Hyderabad.

To meet the growing business demand from its new and existing clients in the US, Europe and South-East Asia, Sierra Atlantic will add over 100 PeopleSoft professionals over the next two months, specialised in business application implementation, integration, portal deployment, upgrade, maintenance and support.

The expansion is in line with the strategic focus that Sierra Atlantic is taking to ensure that it will be able to meet the positive market trend and increased customer demand being seen in this space and expected to increase over the next year.

Significantly, Sierra Atlantic is already working with over 10 clients on multiple projects around PeopleSoft applications and technologies and expects the number of clients to more than double to 25 "� 30 in 2005.

Sierra Atlantic offers a full portfolio of PeopleSoft consulting expertise in the areas of financials, supply chain management, human capital management and customer relationship management through its global delivery model.

"The strengthening of our PeopleSoft team helps meet the robust demand that we are witnessing for the services in this space, while adding to our overall delivery capabilities. Our PeopleSoft practice ably complements other offerings in the Enterprise Application and Integration space,said Sanjay Khendry, vice-president of Sierra Atlantic.