by Shrutee K/DNS

Mumbai – Virtusa Corporation (NASDAQ GS: VRTU), a global business consulting and IT outsourcing company that accelerates business outcomes for its clients, has achieved Premier Consulting Partner status in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN). This designation recognizes Virtusa as one of the top global APN Consulting Partners that has invested significantly in its AWS practices and AWS certified technical consultants to deploy and manage customer solutions on AWS.

“As a specialized AWS migration consulting and DevOps Competency APN Partner, Virtusa is well positioned to help global enterprises with cloud adoption,” said Amit Khanna, senior vice president, Cloud Practice, Virtusa. “With our strong engineering heritage, our AWS certified team delivers comprehensive application portfolio assessments and rationalizations which form the foundation for a structured journey to the cloud followed by enterprise cloud migrations at scale. We are proud to be recognized as an APN Premier tier Consulting Partner and will continue to make investments in our AWS practice and resources to meet the cloud solution needs of our clients.”

Virtusa’s cloud offerings span a wide spectrum from assessment, migration, implementation and integration. Leveraging its proven Jumpstart for AWS, Application Portfolio Rationalization and Cloud Migration Factory offerings, Virtusa has helped several global organizations migrate their infrastructures and applications onto AWS at scale, thus helping customers find value through enterprise wide solutions and accelerate their digital transformation programs. Virtusa recently made investments in the Oracle Migration factory, in AI/ML toolkits, and in achieving AWS DevOps Competency status to help organizations build solutions to accelerate innovation.

“We are excited to recognize Virtusa as an AWS Premier Consulting Partner. This is a very exclusive group of partners and Virtusa has clearly demonstrated their ability to innovate on behalf of AWS customers and deliver high quality engagements,” said Terry Wise, vice president, Worldwide Partner Ecosystem, Amazon Web Services, Inc. “Virtusa has demonstrated success in client deployments on AWS and in helping customers optimize their use of AWS services, while leveraging its broad spectrum of cloud service offerings and AWS certified professionals to accelerate customers’ journey to the cloud.”

Virtusa has received several recognitions for its cloud services, including being positioned as a Major Contender by Everest Group’s PEAK Matrix^TM Assessment for its enterprise cloud application services. The company is also a 2017 Gold Stevie Award winner for Most Innovative Technology Company of the Year for its wide spectrum of proprietary tools, designed to spur innovation across systems development life cycle (SDLC) and DevOps to automate processes, empower employees, and augment productivity.

About Virtusa: Virtusa Corporation (NASDAQ GS: VRTU) is a global provider of information technology (IT) consulting and outsourcing services that accelerate business outcomes for Global 2000 companies and leading software vendors in banking and financial services, insurance, healthcare, telecommunications, technology, and media & entertainment.

Virtusa helps CXOs’ address the dual challenge of growing revenues while improving IT cost efficiencies. Virtusa's digital transformation & innovation (DTi) solutions enable clients to reimagine the customer experience, accelerate revenue growth and creating lasting business value. The company’s operational excellence (OE) solutions help clients reduce risk, improve operational efficiencies, and lower IT costs.

Virtusa delivers services across the IT lifecycle, including consulting, solution design, technology selection, implementation, testing, and maintenance, including infrastructure support. With a strong heritage in software engineering, Virtusa is highly qualified to both develop and maintain software, using a proven platforming methodology and advanced Agile and Accelerated Solution Design techniques to reliably deliver results on time and within budget.

Holding a proven record of success across industries, Virtusa readily understands its clients' business challenges and uses its domain expertise to deliver distinctive, differentiated and innovative applications of technology to address its client critical business challenges. Examples include building the world's largest P&C claims modernization program; one of the largest corporate customer portals for a premier global bank; an order to cash implementation for a multinational telecommunications provider; and digital transformation initiatives for media and banking companies.

Through the acquisition of a majority interest in Polaris Consulting Services Ltd. in March 2016, Virtusa has created a robust platform to provide end-to-end solutions and services in banking and financial services, strengthening its positioning as a top, global FinTech services provider. Virtusa Corporation is headquartered in Massachusetts and has 50 offices across North America, Europe and Asia.