Keane (company)
American IT company
Keane was a Boston-based Information Technology services unit of NTT DATA, itself a subsidiary of the Japanese national phone company, NTT (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone) Group. It offered Application Services, as well as Infrastructure and Business Process Outsourcing solutions delivered through onsite, nearshore, and offshore resources.
It ranked 70 on the 2010 InformationWeek 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 & Business Services category.
History
Keane Associates was founded on December 15, 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.
September 11, 2001 - One of the company's locations was the South Tower in New York City that collapsed because of the 9/11 terror attacks.
October 20, 2003 - Keane acquired a majority (60%) interest in Worldzen, a global Business Process Outsourcing organization. The entity worked closely with their consulting arm, Keane Consulting Group.
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