Mr L Ravichandran, President, Tech Mahindra, said on Friday that “overlapping of operations” may cause “minimum disruption” in the merger of Mahindra Satyam and Tech Mahindra.

“ About 99 per cent of Tech Mahindra's operations are on the telecom vertical, whereas Mahindra Satyam has nearly 45 per cent operations for telecom,” Mr Ravichandran said. He was talking to the media on the sidelines of an MoU-signing ceremony between Tech Mahindra and Mahindra Satyam and Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) in Kolkata on Friday.

As differences prevail in operations of the two companies, support services such as HR, finance, legal are going to witness “certain changes,” he added.

However, according to Mr Ravichandran, the merged entity will eventually sort out all these issues. “Leaders in our management team have already started communicating with the employees,” he added.

The merger is expected to be closed in the next nine months and a brand consultancy has been hired to name the merged entity.

As part of the collaboration in “analytics for telecom vertical,” ISI will help Tech Mahindra and Mahindra Satyam in data analytics for telecom services.

According to ISI, the collaboration will focus on analysing the structured and unstructured data to provide insights into the way business operates, thereby spotting the trend in the market.

The students pursuing Masters' degree will work on the “real problems” sent by the company as part of their projects. “They will be paid some kind of incentives for solving these problems,” Prof. Bimal K. Roy, Director, ISI, said. The need of the hour is to “extract meaning” from the data available in the social domain through “mining and analysis” and partnership with ISI will play a key role in doing so, Mr Ravichandran pointed out.

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