Steria India, a leading provider of IT enabled business services, announced today that they have been certified with the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Level 5 after having been successfully appraised and recommended for their Applications Development processes, which covers all our development centres at Noida, Chennai and Pune.

The Standard CMMI Appraisal Method for Process Improvement (SCAMPI) appraisal was completed, led by a lead appraiser from KPMG. The assessment covers development, enhancement and testing projects. Commenting on the certification, Mr K.K. Raman, Executive Director, Advisory Services, KPMG said "During the appraisal, the team found that Steria applies the defined quality processes and practices in its various aspects of project execution & delivery. It was also good to see that Steria made a special effort to ensure that processes remained effective, adopting various quality initiatives and emerging industry best practices, keeping value addition to customers as the focus."

Developed by Software Engineering Institute of Carnegie Mellon University, USA, CMMI Maturity Level 5 is the highest level of process maturity that independently verifies an organisation's capabilities to continuously enhance its processes through incremental and innovative process and technological improvements. CMMI Maturity Level 5 affirms our ability to statistically manage the sub-processes in order to achieve process and business objectives.

Francois Enaud, Steria Groupe CEO said, "The Level 5 achievement recognizes our abilities to satisfy clients, as an elite partner and deliver significant business benefits. It will help us focus on service industrialisation and will also go a long way in helping us deliver continual improvement."Quantitative process-improvement objectives for Steria are established continually and revised to reflect changing business objectives, and used as criteria in managing process improvement. The effects of deployed process improvements are measured and evaluated against the quantitative process-improvement objectives. Both the defined processes and the organization's set of standard processes are targets of measurable improvement activities.

Dr Mukesh Aghi, Steria's CEO ASia Pacific said, "It was good to see the commitment shown by all of us in application of CMMI so as to maximize benefits to our clients.  People across all levels are interested and excited about process improvements and the CMMI Level 5 achievement is a true reflection of our focus on process optimization and innovation in service delivery."

Steria India started the CMMI journey in 2009 and achieved Level 3 in February 2010 and set the focus on achieving Level 5 in December 2011.

After substantial effort in the last eighteen months, they reached the final stage of Final Appraisal (SCAMPI A). The efforts were immense, given that 744 Hours were spent on appraisal activities; 63 employees were covered in face-to-face interviews over 424 hours of interviewing about our processes and approach followed in 11 projects.CMMI level 5 is an industry benchmark and Steria stands proud and honoured to be amongst the IT service providers who have been certified.