NComputing has announced that it has won a computerisation contract from Employee State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) alongside Wipro for deploying 31,000 NComputing virtual desktops in ESIC offices and clinics across the country. ESIC will use 31,000 NComputing thin-client workstations and vSpace Virtualisation Software to outfit all ESIC offices and clinics with state-of-the-art Green IT systems.

ESIC and Wipro selected NComputing’s proven virtual desktops for 'Project Panchdeep’ to streamline insurance and healthcare services that ESIC provides to employers, employees, and state and central government workers. The initiative includes the following:

* Issuance 20 million medical ID cards that can be used at any ESIC facility
* Creation of one of largest medical records databases in the world
* Computerisation of 144 hospitals, 620 insurance branches, 1,388 dispensaries/ clinics, and 51 regional offices
* Creation of a 50 million fingerprint database – the largest in India
* Roll-out of a single Unified Information System that automates all ESIC processes for greater efficiency, transparency, and accountability
* Largest Cloud Computing deployment in India

Over the next 15 months, Wipro IT engineers and consultants will deploy the NComputing-based solution pan India. "Wipro’s constant endeavor has been to bring innovative, efficient and cost effective solutions to its customers. Wipro desktop platform with NComputing devices and software deployed at ESIC hospitals will ensure effective and optimum utilisation of resources at minimum cost to ESIC beneficiaries," said Ashok Tripathy, GM, Wipro Infotech.

"We are honoured that NComputing has been selected for this strategic initiative as it will vastly improve healthcare for the 12 million beneficiaries by speeding insurance and medical services," said Stephen Dukker, chairman and CEO, NComputing. NComputing technology enables a desktop PC to be shared by up to 30 users and a server to be shared by hundreds of users – with each user getting a full computing experience. By sharing the PCs and servers, organizations can typically reduce purchase and support costs by 75 percent and electricity costs by 90 percent.