Thinksoft Global signs pact with Bharathidasan

Thinksoft Global Services, an independent software testing company, has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Bharathidasan Institute of Management (BIM), to offer a course on Application Software Testing to its MBA students.

"In the 300 business schools in the country there is a dearth for faculty members except in the IIMs. Introducing new courses is a challenge and there is the problem between industry needs and what the MBA school offers. This is a classic case of mutual benefits, as Thinksoft shares with BIM industry knowledge and BIM in turn offers back students," said Director of BIM, M Shankaran.

The course is expected to teach students about the functional areas of software testing so that business needs of clients are matched with the functional areas of the application.

It will give students the skills to build domain (software testing) and management strengths which will in turn help grow as business managers or subject matter specialists.

The course content developed by Thinksoft will be offered from July 2005. Students in the second year of their MBA programme will be eligible to take up the 30 hour course as an elective and will receive a certificate after the completion of the course.

Though it is ideally suited for MBA students who have their systems stream, BIM will encourage students in the marketing and finance stream to also take up the elective.

The MoU is an extension of the already existing relationship between Thinksoft and BIM as the former has been a regular campus recruiter at BIM.

In the past two years it has hired seven students from the management institute. The MoU is a non-exclusive agreement, as this allows the students of the course to seek employment outside of Thinksoft.

Thinksoft hires 350 personnel across Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore. It offers a combination of consulting to bridge the gap between business needs, application to be developed and the user requirements.

The company is focussed on the banking and financial services space, their clients include Citi Group, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley, ABN Amro and Standard Chartered.For the year 2004-05 it ended with revenues of $5 million.