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Tech Mahindra Partners with APPSLINK to Deliver an Integrated Localized
Payroll Solution for Oracle SaaS Customers

Tech Mahindra, a leading provider of digital transformation, its proven business expertise, valuable insights, and a long track
consulting, and business re-engineering services & solutions, record of enterprise-grade Payroll implementations & managed
announced a collaboration with APPSLINK, a Global award- services. Moh’d Muwafaq Ibrahim, CEO, APPSLINK, said, “Tech
winning Oracle Partner specializing in Oracle Human Capital Mahindra’s Oracle HCM Cloud solution competency enables HR
Management (HCM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) teams with higher levels of agility, flexibility and creates a truly
implementations. This partnership is aimed at addressing ‘Employee Centric’ organization. We are proud to join forces
country-specific payroll coverage for Oracle SaaS Customers with Tech Mahindra – combining our extensive expertise and
and focusing on standardization, compliance, and statutory experience in Payroll solutions with Tech Mahindra’s Oracle cloud
requirements in payroll for organizations of every size and in capabilities, which will bring our existing and new customers
countries where Oracle payroll localization is not present. Ram unprecedented value. This partnership will be beneficial for us to
Ramachandran, Senior Vice President and Head, Middle East and reach different geographies and provide value-added results. It
Africa, Tech Mahindra, said, “We are transforming the way payroll will also help us simplify payroll process, which can be integrated
processes and information are leveraged within the enterprise. with any industry or company size or workforce.” Currently the
As part of strengthening our payroll offering, we are happy to localization is available in majority of Asian, African, European
have partnered with APPSLINK to give customers a seamless countries. Leading NGO in Africa covering over 10+ countries
technology platform and services to manage their localized run their payroll engine on Payroll7 solution implemented on
payroll. Payroll7 assures intelligent process automation, cross- Oracle HCM cloud by Tech Mahindra. This allows them to handle
border compliance, and actionable insights by centralizing payroll country-specific statutory, legal, and regulatory requirements
and treasury processes on a single cloud platform. We believe that while meeting their unique payroll needs for large workforce. The
this partnership will take Oracle HCM cloud to a newer scale and partnership will be offered as horizontal solution across industry
offer their customers an unparalleled service that they have been verticals. Tech Mahindra believes in DigitALL philosophy for
looking for.” Payroll7 is a state-of-the-art, cloud based localized comprehensive Business Transformation. Digital technologies
payroll solution that is built on a rule-based engine. Payroll7 catalyze the transformations – they humanize businesses by
can co-exists with Oracle SaaS HCM modules as an integrated helping them think, sense, connect, communicate, secure and
module. As part of the partnership, Tech Mahindra and APPSLINK act better than before. As part of NXT.NOW™ framework, which
will leverage the combined strengths and collective core aims to enhance ‘Human Centric Experience’, Tech Mahindra
competencies of the organizations to help enterprises take better focuses on investing in emerging technologies and solutions that
advantage of cloud payroll solutions. Tech Mahindra will bring its enable digital transformation and meet the evolving needs of the
extensive Saas/PaaS/IaaS capabilities while APPSLINK brings customer.

Tech Mahindra and Cisco Collaborate
to Drive 5G Modernization with
Routed Optical Networking

Tech Mahindra, a leading provider of digital transformation,
consulting, and business re-engineering services and solutions,
has announced that it has collaborated with Cisco, the worldwide
leader in technology that powers the Internet, to drive the
infrastructure modernization of optical transport networks
with the introduction of Cisco routed optical networking. The
collaboration aims to simplify the Internet transport networks
by leveraging state-of-the-art optical and routing technologies
to converge services over an IP Infrastructure enabling a high
degree of automation. The collaboration will empower service
providers to reduce their operational expenses and their total cost
of ownership. Tech Mahindra’s vast and diversified experience
in building IP based, software-driven end-to-end 5G networks
combined with the Cisco’s Routed Optical Networking solution,
will enable an end-to-end value proposition for service providers
to reduce the complexity in their networks. Manish Mangal, Global
Head of Business and 5G and Network Services, Tech Mahindra,

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