India's second largest IT services provider Infosys Technologies has signed a deal with the largest funeral service provider of the United States to outsource its human resource operations, published media reports said.

As per the deal, Infosys would help Service Corporation International (SCI) improve human resource planning for which the company has deployed Oracle's Peoplesoft Enterprise Human Capital Management application, a company statement said.

The deployment would assist SCI to lower its operational costs by consolidating disparate HR systems, the statement said adding that the application was deployed at more than 1,500 funeral homes and 400 cemeteries in 43 states, Puerto Rico and eight Canadian provinces.

SCI boasts of a staff strength in excess of 20,000 employees with 2.2 billion dollars in revenue and Infosys has delivered an impeccable service helping us to identify opportunities to maximise our investment, SCI Managing Director (Information Technology) John Del Mixon was quoted as saying in the statemnet.

The company, which has been a client of Infosys since 2002, wanted to streamline its HR system as it was left with multiple, disparate legacy processes after the company's largest acquisition of Alderwoods Group.

They decided to consolidate systems to reduce costs from operating redundant systems and assume control of HR processes and payroll processing that had been outsourced, the statement said.