Birlasoft announced a global strategic cloud alliance with Microsoft to help its clients to accelerate their digital journey. With this collaboration, Birlasoft is strategically positioned to support its enterprise clients withtheir cloud transformation needs, right from infrastructure to business applications.

Birlasoft has plans to scale its current Microsoft cloud business to $100M. Building on thecurrent collaboration, Birlasoft will focus on delivering end-to-end services on Microsoft Azure,Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Dynamics 365, to its clients. Together with Microsoft, Birlasoftwill create innovative industry solutions and enable customers in focus industries to adoptMicrosoft cloud technologies and services.

The current global situation requires organizations to enhance agility and resilience, to in turnensure business continuity, deliver desired customer experiences, and accomplish theirbusiness goals. The speed of digitalization will be a primary imperative. Birlasoft has beenworking with its customers across industry segments, supporting them in their digitaltransformation journeys. Birlasoft helps customers in Manufacturing to accelerate theirIndustry 4.0 adoption; in BFSI to leverage Open APIs and automate both front-office and backofficetransformation; in Energy & Utilities sector to enhance field collaboration and real-timeservice excellence, optimize operations and improve asset performance; and in Life Sciencesvertical to innovate faster, provide rich insights to achieve commercial excellence, andautomate drug discovery and pharmacovigilance processes. The Strategic Cloud Alliance withMicrosoft will further strengthen Biralsoft's digital offerings and will allow them tocomplement their industry expertise with the power of Microsoft clouds, to accelerate theirclients' digital transformation journey.

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Minda Corporation Ltd, PNB Housing Finance Ltd, Sunteck Realty Ltd and Gujarat Alkalies & Chemicals Ltd are among the other gainers in the BSE's 'A' group today, 18 August 2020.

Birlasoft Ltd surged 17.53% to Rs 176.35 at 11:53 IST. The stock was the biggest gainer in the BSE's 'A' group. On the BSE, 6.88 lakh shares were traded on the counter so far as against the average daily volumes of 2.75 lakh shares in the past one month.

Minda Corporation Ltd soared 10.30% to Rs 81.4. The stock was the second biggest gainer in 'A' group. On the BSE, 2.7 lakh shares were traded on the counter so far as against the average daily volumes of 42858 shares in the past one month.

PNB Housing Finance Ltd spiked 9.60% to Rs 263.75. The stock was the third biggest gainer in 'A' group. On the BSE, 1.39 lakh shares were traded on the counter so far as against the average daily volumes of 73333 shares in the past one month.

Sunteck Realty Ltd exploded 9.36% to Rs 233.7. The stock was the fourth biggest gainer in 'A' group. On the BSE, 71365 shares were traded on the counter so far as against the average daily volumes of 2.44 lakh shares in the past one month.

Gujarat Alkalies & Chemicals Ltd jumped 8.06% to Rs 347.05. The stock was the fifth biggest gainer in 'A' group. On the BSE, 63138 shares were traded on the counter so far as against the average daily volumes of 11707 shares in the past one month.

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Birlasoft on 18 August announced a global strategic cloud alliance with Microsoft to help its clients to accelerate their digital journey. With this collaboration, Birlasoft is strategically positioned to support its enterprise clients with their cloud transformation needs, right from infrastructure to business applications, the IT firm said.

Birlasoft plans to scale its current Microsoft cloud business to $100 million. Building on the current collaboration, the company will focus on delivering end-to-end services on Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, and Microsoft Dynamics 365, to its clients. Together with Microsoft, it will create innovative industry solutions and enable customers in focus industries to adopt Microsoft cloud technologies and services.

Dharmender Kapoor, CEO and MD of Birlasoft, said, Birlasoft empowers our customers to harness the full power of digital by combining enterprise applications with the most modern platforms, software and digitalization processes. Through this cloud alliance with Microsoft, our customers can expect an even broader range of solutions, delivered at a continually faster pace, which will accelerate the execution of their digital transformation strategies.

Birlasoft is a multi-shore business application global IT services provider with a presence in the United States, Europe, Asia-Pacific and India. It operates development centres in the United States, China, Poland and India.

The company's consolidated net profit dropped 18.4% to Rs 56.34 crore on 0.83% rise in revenue from operations to Rs 914.63 crore in Q1 June 2020 over Q4 March 2020.

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Actifio, the pioneer of copy data management software, was chosen by Birlasoft to help its customers innovate, transform and excel with Actifio's multi-cloud copy data management software platform. With Actifio, Birlasoft can bring extensive innovation to its customers across public, private, and hybrid clouds; DevOps and test data management; instant setup and teardown of centralized data for analytics via self-service; and secure centralized control and instant access to production copies for continuous security testing for its larger enterprise customers acrossmanufacturing, BFSI, retail, healthcare, and life sciences.

Actifio's solutions fit the dynamic needs of Birlasoft's diverse customer base, as organizations can use Actifio to leverage public, private, or hybrid cloud environments. With quick data backup, reduced recovery time and minimal business disruption, Actifio's incremental-foreverbackup and patented Virtual Data Pipeline technology helps enterprises rapidly recover massive databases instantly, anywhere in the public cloud or on-premises, simultaneously reducing risk and improving RPO/RTO (Recruitment Process Outsourcing/Recovery Time Objective).

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