At The Forefront Of Progress

Providing comprehensive customer solutions while putting in place some much-needed measures to keep its employees satisfied has contributed to the success of Accel Frontline, which stands tall as the top service providers in South India

Accel Frontline from Chennai was the winner for the 'Best Service Provider' trophy at the third DQ Channels Excellence awards. TO Asokan, Country Manager-Services, Accel Frontline accepted the award from Mukesh Gupta, Director, AOC and said that winning this award had instilled the fire in Accel to keep bagging it every year. Accel Frontline, one of the top solution provider companies of the South is headed by NR Panicker, and in the last fiscal evolved from a systems integrator to becoming a solution provider of end-to-end IT solutions. The year went by with Accel getting many new contracts. Significant among them were the Rs 5.4 crore contract that the company bagged from the Indian Railways through CRIS to deploy about 300 ticket vending machines; and projects from the State Bank of India worth Rs 16 crore, Ericsson worth Rs 14.7 crore and Alcatel worth Rs 9 crore.

The company also deepened its presence into the ERP space last fiscal. Employing 2,615 professionals and operating from 100 locations, the company came out with its IPO in Oct 2006 and got listed on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) of India and the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). The company had a turnover of Rs 220 crore for the FY ending March 2007.

TO Asokan of Accel Frontline receiving the trophy for 'Best Service Provider' from Mukesh Gupta, Director, AOC

Accel Frontline has over the years continued to engage itself in providing comprehensive IT services for enterprises, which includes IT infrastructure manage­ment, software services, infras­tructure solutions and IT outsourcing. Accel is also an enterprise service provider for SUN products and solutions. The entire service operations are mapped to ISO 9001:2000 quality standards and service support/service delivery is aligned to ITIL framework.

Some of its latest customer acquisi­tions are MRF Tyres, Hindutan Petrochemicals, Oil and Natural Gas Commission, Punj Lloyd, Ericson, Southerland, Aricent to name a few.

Accel Frontline has around 2,000 engineers in its team, which operates from 10 regional offices, 30 area offices and covers close to 100 locations across India. One of Accel's significant achievements is that indicated a fairly high employee satisfaction score. A list of skill-sets is maintained by HR which is constantly upgraded. Doing what it does for both employees and customers, Accel is surely standing at the forefront of progress and growth.

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