Keane Inc a unit of NTT Data Corporation is a U.S.-based Information Technology

Information technology

Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...

 services firm. It offers Application

Application software

Application software, also known as an application or an "app", is computer software designed to help the user to perform specific tasks. Examples include enterprise software, accounting software, office suites, graphics software and media players. Many application programs deal principally with...

 Services, as well as Infrastructure

Infrastructure

Infrastructure is basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise, or the services and facilities necessary for an economy to function...

 and Business Process Outsourcing

Business process outsourcing

Business process outsourcing is a subset of outsourcing that involves the contracting of the operations and responsibilities of specific business functions to a third-party service provider. Originally, this was associated with manufacturing firms, such as Coca Cola that outsourced large segments...

 solutions delivered through onsite, nearshore, and offshore resources.

It ranks 70 on 2010 InformationWeek

InformationWeek

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 500, a list of the top technology innovators in the U.S. Keane was recognized for advancing the practice of application management outsourcing (AMO) with its DynAMOSM solution, and was listed as an industry finalist for the Consulting

Consultant

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 & Business Services category.

Company Overview

In business since 1965, Keane is an IT services firm headquartered in the United States with approximately 12,500 employees globally.

In 2011, Keane became wholly owned subsidiary of NTT Data Corporation of Japan.

History

Keane was founded in 1965 in Boston, Massachusetts by John F. Keane. The company's initial focus was in the healthcare technology sector. The company grew to over 100 employees within ten years. By the 1990s Keane had become a publicly traded company and expanded into software engineering, application maintenance, program management and consulting services.

February 7, 2007 - Caritor acquired Keane, Inc. The combined entity retained the name of Keane. The corporate headquarters was relocated to San Francisco, CA and then to Boston, MA.

January 3, 2011 - Keane became a wholly owned subsidiary of NTT Data Corporation - Japan, and came to be known as Keane, an NTT Data Company

Indian branches

Keane has five Advanced Development Centres in India located at Bangalore

Bangalore

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, Chennai

Chennai

Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...

, Hyderabad, Gurgaon

Gurgaon

Gurgaon is the second largest city in the Indian state of Haryana. Gurgaon is the industrial and financial center of Haryana. It is located 30 km south of national capital New Delhi, about 10 kilometers from Dwarka Sub City and 268 km south of Chandigarh, the state capital...

 and Noida

Noida

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.

Global units

Keane has its presence across the globe in 12 countries
Australia

Australia

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, Canada

Canada

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, China

China

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, France

France

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, Germany

Germany

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, India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

, New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

, Singapore

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

, Switzerland

Switzerland

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, UAE, UK and US

Certifications

CMMI Version 1.2 Level 5 Company

PCMM

CMMI Level 5

ISO 27001:2005

ISO 9001:2000

TL9000

Initiatives

Keane Foundation donated $1.67 million as funds for the establishment of the Institute for Global Work at the Boston University School of Management.

Subsidiaries

Keane Care, Inc (part of the Healthcare Solutions Division of Keane, Inc) provides clinical and financial software information systems to the long-term care industry.

Kamco

Kamco

Kamco is the company contracted to provide the myki ticketing system for public transport in Victoria, Australia...

 (Keane Australia Micropayment Consortium)] is providing the myki

Myki

myki is the contactless smartcard ticketing system being introduced on public transport in Victoria, Australia. myki is designed to replace a number of ticket systems in Victoria, primarily the Metcard and V/Line ticketing systems...

 ticketing system for Victoria

Victoria (Australia)

Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....

, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

's Public Transport System. although the Myki roll-out has been suspended and is only available in Melbourne, Geelong, Ballarat, Latrobe Valley and Seymour

Figtree Systems is a global provider of Claims & Risk Management software solutions.

Kamco

High level discussions between Keane CEO John McCain and the Government of Victoria were held in February 2010 about the Myki implementation, a project carried out by the Kamco consortium (comprising Ascom, ERG, Keane and Giesecke & Devrient Australasia) that was significantly delayed and over budget. During those discussions, Keane committed to dedicating additional resources and software experts to set the project back on track. http://www.premier.vic.gov.au/component/content/article/9472.html

Others

Keane also has a subsidiary, Keane School of Excellence (KSE), and it has a special focus on object oriented technologies.

KSE is organized to impart training to its resources in specialised application software development. KSE also houses the CISCO Academy Training Centre for IIIT, Hyderabad, wherein it imparts training in CCNA, Network Security and Wireless LAN, curricula.