NCOMPUTING INC, a firm associated with virtual desktops, on Tuesday, November 10, announced that it has won a massive computerisation contract from the Employee State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) alongside Wipro for deploying 31,000 virtual desktops in ESIC offices and clinics across the country.
The plan is to outfit all ESIC with state of the art green IT systems. ESIC is the Indian government chartered insurance and healthcare organisation, delivering social security benefits to employed individuals and their families. It provides health insurance and delivers medical care to over 2,200 facilities across India.
ESIC and
Wipro selected
NComputing’s
virtual desktops for 'Project Panchdeep’, an e-governance project, to streamline insurance and healthcare services that ESIC provides to employers, employees and state and central government workers. The initiative includes:
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Issuing 20 million medical ID cards that can be used at any ESIC facility
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Creating one of largest medical records databases in the world
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Computerisation of 144 hospitals, 620 insurance branches, 1,388 dispensaries/clinics and 51 regional offices
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Creating a 50 million fingerprint database
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Rolling out of a Unified Information System that automates all ESIC processes for greater efficiency, transparency and accountability
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Largest cloud computing deployment in India
In March this year,
Wipro, had bagged the E-governance contract from ESIC worth Rs 1,182 crores, in a competitive tender process. It will oversee the six year BOOT (Build, Own, Operate and Transfer) project. Over the next 15 months, its IT engineers and consultants will deploy the
NComputing-based solution in pan India.
“
Wipro’s constant endeavour has been to bring innovative, efficient and cost effective solutions to its customers. The desktop platform with
NComputing devices and software deployed at ESIC hospitals, will ensure effective and optimum utilisation of resources at minimum cost,” said Ashok Tripathy, General manager,
Wipro Infotech.
“We are honoured that
NComputing has been selected for this strategic initiative, as it will vastly improve healthcare for the 12 million beneficiaries, by speeding insurance and medical services,” said Stephen Dukker, chairman and CEO,
NComputing. The company's technology enables a desktop PC to be shared by up to 30 users and a server to be shared by hundreds of users – with each user getting a full computing experience.
NComputing's solution includes both the virtualisation software (vSpace) that creates the “virtual” sessions inside a PC or Server and the thin-client devices that connect the users monitor, keyboard, and mouse to the shared computer. These are the greenest computers on earth as they use just five watts of electricity – a major benefit in India where electricity is unreliable and require expensive UPS and back up generators.
For the Panchdeep project, the company's L130 thin clients have been chosen. Over 31,000 L130s will connect to
Wipro desktop PCs, which then connect to the cloud computing environment in India at ESIC data centres.
Last year,
NComputing won the largest Indian education computing tender in Andhra Pradesh for installing 40,000 such desktops in 5,000 government schools.
