Global IT and BPO services provider has been awarded a seven-year contract with Serco Learning for the development and delivery of ‘Progresso’; Serco’s new information management platform for schools.

The Progresso platform is being designed by Serco and developed by Patni and will be available at the end of 2011.

The platform is a centrally hosted management information platform that provides relevant data, tools and services directly to schools, parents and local authorities.

It will reinforce the Serco Learning position as a provider of high quality and innovative solutions in education and over time will replace ‘Facility’, the existing platform

Serco will continue to provide direct user support and market direction for both, Facility and Progresso. Patni and Serco will deliver the new Progresso platform and then optionally host it as a managed service to schools, academies and local authorities.

Patni has also won a three-year contract from Codan Group part of the insurance giant RSA Group.

The seven-figure agreement will see Patni provide managed services around some of Scandinavia’s core insurance platforms.

The Codan Group, which operates in Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, invited five leading outsourcing companies including Patni to bid for the application management contract in September 2009.

It short-listed three vendors in March 2010 and made its final decision to appoint Patni in June.