Yorkshire Water moves IT overflow to India

Xansa has won a three-year deal with Yorkshire Water that will see some of the utility firm's software development offshored to India.

The value of the deal has not been disclosed but the work will initially be centred on billing and asset inventory re-engineering using Microsoft .Net technology. The work will be split between an on-site team in Bradford and Xansa's business process outsourcing centre in Noida just outside New Delhi.

The work is classed as application management "top-up" services and will help the water firm manage peak workloads better. Pearl Murphy, IT programme manger at Yorkshire Water, said the onshore-offshore combination was one of the factors in choosing its supplier.

"We undertook reference site visits during negotiations, and were struck by the successful examples of multiple projects being delivered from multiple sites using complex technology," he said in a statement.