This all-volunteer effort transcends profit and loss, and extends into the community.

In the past year, the number of RMSI employees has expanded from 570 to just below 1,200 individuals, including contractual staff.

According to Senior Vice President of Human Relations, Neerja Verma, “More important than growth in sheer numbers of employees, has been the achievement of certain employee satisfaction milestones: For example, a four-star ranking (ranking 4th through 7th) was the result when IDC-DataQuest announced the year's ‘Top 20 IT Employers of India’.”

Another human resource milestone was achieved when Ms. Gaganjyot Bhandari of RMSI won the Amity "Young HR Manager Award" for 2005. Ms. Bhandari was recognized for excellence in developing "best practice" strategies for human resource management. The award was presented at the Second International Human Resource Summit sponsored by the Centre of International Business, Amity Business College, Noida, India.

Recently the employee-centric Social Responsibility program was organized under the aegis of
“Helping Hands.” Helping Hands allows each RMSI employee the opportunity to connect with a
 social cause. The objective of the program is to foster a spirit of sharing, pride, teamwork and
 camaraderie through volunteer work.
 
”We firmly believe that a good organization is bound together by a set of values and commitment, which must be extended to create a meaningful change in nearby communities. This new program has received an overwhelming response and voluntary support by our employees,” said Ajay Lavakare, CEO, RMSI.

Examples include an eye donation camp organized in association with I-Care Hospital. A high percentage of RMSI employees supported the cause by pledging to become eye organ donors.

Helping Hands also supported various organizations such as Sruti and Shanti Kaushal Foundation in their endeavor to teach vocational activities, by purchasing items created by their students and by sponsoring
the education of underprivileged children.

A fund-raising campaign for creating AIDS awareness and prevention was successfully organized in association with a Delhi-based NGO.  RMSI employees also extended 'Helping Hands' towards Tsunami victims. Relief was rushed to the effected site in Chennai, in the form of cash as well as kerosene stoves, 
dry ration, first aid medicines. In collaboration with a partner NGO, RMSI volunteers funded and organized a picnic for the children from local slum areas.

Through the 'Helping Hands’ program, RMSI estimates that the lives of nearly 500 less-privileged Indians have been improved. Further volunteer efforts by RMSI employees are planned, such as reading to blind children, supporting their education and nutritional needs, and organizing blood donation camps.

RMSI, through its policy of "corporate social responsibility", continues to promote internal customer (i.e. staff) expectations within its corporate culture. Such human resource considerations, according to Verma, ultimately serve to fuel RMSI's traditional client-centric business model.

About RMSI

Originating in Silicon Valley in 1992, the company was founded and is managed by alumni from Stanford University. Today, RMSI's resource base comprises over 900 software, data and technology specialists. The company is part of one of the UK's largest listed companies, the Daily Mail and General Trust plc. The combination of technical, financial, and human resource strengths, coupled with domain knowledge in many vertical markets, makes RMSI a unique global solution provider.

RMSI's core competency lies in full-service GIS and spatial solutions. This is well supported by strong complementary competencies in application software services, data engineering, and spatial modeling and analytics. The ability to offer complete solutions, comprising data, software and engineering under one roof, is a key differentiator for the company. RMSI provides solutions to clients in industries ranging from telecommunications, land and property, and geology to engineering, mining and the government sector.

For more information, visit www.rmsi.com