Manmohan Singh will be the first Prime Minister after Jawaharlal Nehru to return to power after a full five-year term with the Congress having nominated him as its candidate for the top post, first time it had done in its history.

The largest election in history, involving more than 700 million voters, has resulted in the victory of India's ruling alliance, led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of the Indian National Congress. The massive vote, was held between April 16 and May 13 2009, staggered across five phases for logistical and security reasons.

Total voter turnout was approximately 60 per cent, the national election commission said, up slightly from 58 per cent in the last national vote in 2004.

The newly-constituted Congress Parliamentary Party’s (CPP) representative Manmohan Singh will be sworn in for a second term as the Prime Minister of India on 22nd May 09. Sonia Gandhi, the Congress party chief, was unanimously re-elected head of the United Progressive Alliance or UPA, the official name of the Congress-led alliance that has ruled India for five years

With a free hand, Mr. Singh is likely to open India's insurance, retail and banking sectors to greater foreign investment. The nation's pension regulator could also get proper legal standing, which would also encourage investment. And some steps might be taken to loosen labor laws.

Aequor Technologies has taken its first step towards achieving CMMi certification. It can be described as an organization’s journey towards attaining process excellence. The training formally commenced 11th May 2009, under the able guidance and supervision of Mr. Chintamani from CyberQ Consulting. CyberQ Consulting is a global provider of end-to-end Process Improvement and Information Security Solutions in the area of, IT, Banking, Telecom, Governance, FMCG and Services.
 
A GAP analysis was carried out by Mr. Chintamani to measure the variance between best practices as construed by SEI CMMI and those being pursued at Aequor. The GAP analysis would help in charting the roadmap for achieving common organization goals towards attaining CMMi Certification. The team has progressed through the initial training on the practical implementation of CMMI. A Software Engineering Process Group (SEPG)has been formed with the following members:
 
Abhishek Singh (SEPG Lead)
Shantanu Kumar
Jayant Dhingra
Akshay Mahajan
Ranjan Kumar Jha

The group is actively engaged in the following activities:

Defining Organizations QA Plans
Creation of Common Documents Repository
Detailed Project Plan for existing project buckets
Creating the organizational processes for software development, training and other processes within Aequor.

There is great enthusiasm in the team and there are vital contributions by the team members involved towards achieving our common goal. We hope to maintain steady progress on this journey and remain focused to meet the target.

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Aequor Technologies Inc partnered with SAP to become SAP certified Online Course providers.
We are an approved SAP Solutions Academy in India

SAP is a Germany based ERP Company spread across the global. They are world largest ERP Product Company with
65% of market share representing in all verticals. They are also the third largest IT Company in the world with turn
over of 14 Billion$.
 
They have 43,000 customers worldwide and have approximately 13 million SAP certified professionals working
across the global for our customers and partners. They are growing in steady speed and would be looking at
having 100,000 customers by 2010. This will straight away increase the employability and need for
certified consultants in the coming years.

Aequor Technologies in India would be going for SEI CMMI Level 3 (though we are aiming for Level 4). 
The management is keen on the process improvements that would enable us to bid for more
development projects around the globe.  Kamal made a formal announcement to this effect in Gurgaon
office during the Nielson’s visit on Fri Apr 17, 2009. 

What is CMMI
Capability Maturity Model® Integration (CMMI) is a process improvement approach that provides
organizations with the essential elements of effective processes. It can be used to guide process improvement
across a project, a division, or an entire organization. CMMI helps integrate traditionally separate organizational
functions, set process improvement goals and priorities, provide guidance for quality processes, and provide
a point of reference for appraising current processes.

CMMI Benefits
CMMI best practices enable organizations to do the following:
more explicitly link management and engineering activities to their business objectives
expand the scope of and visibility into the product lifecycle and engineering activities to ensure that
the product or service meets customer expectations incorporate lessons learned from additional
areas of best practice (e.g., measurement, risk management, and supplier management)