CA opens product development center in India
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CA opened a $30-million product development center in Hyderabad in south India on&#160;Wednesday.The center has 1,600 employees, but can be expanded to house more staff, a spokesman for the company said.The company already had its product development operations elsewhere in Hyderabad. CA president and CEO John Swainson inaugurated the new center.The center is CA&#39;s largest product development center outside the United States, the spokesman said. More than 30 percent of the company&#39;s global R&amp;D staff are now based in India, the company said.Besides product development, the team at the center will work closely with a number of India&#39;s top-tier systems integrators to help them with in-house IT needs and those of private and public-sector customers worldwide, CA said.A number of multinational technology companies are expanding in India, despite rising staff salaries and a shortage of skilled employees in the country.
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(InfoWorld) - Lenovo Group has moved worldwide marketing services such as creative development to a new hub it has established in Bangalore, India with marketing communications firm Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide. The new center offers these services to all of Lenovo's operations outside China, said Rahul Agarwal, vice president for marketing at Lenovo India, in a telephone interview on Tuesday. Agarwal heads the new operation. The center in Bangalore is involved in developing marketing materials, print, Web, and TV advertising, direct mailers, catalogs, point-of-sale displays, and outdoor advertising, Agarwal said. Down the line, Lenovo may move some of its global product marketing functions to India as well, Agarwal added. The staff at the center, currently numbering about 70, has teams from both Lenovo and Ogilvy & Mather (O&M) working together. While the O&M staff focuses on the creative development, Lenovo staff at the center coordinate the work with Lenovo's country managers in various countries. The center has dedicated teams for each geography, Agarwal said. Lenovo decided to establish this operation in India because of the availability of high quality marketing talent in India, Agarwal said. Expertise in consumer marketing is going to be particularly important as Lenovo gets into the consumer market, he added. Lenovo announced in April that it is setting up a consumer division to replicate worldwide its success in the Chinese consumer market. Cost savings is a "healthy by-product" of having the operations in India, but was not the key driver, Agarwal said. O&M has been associated with Lenovo worldwide, and understands the company's brand, Agarwal added.
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Wipro Ltd., one of the biggest IT firms in India, is finishing up plans to build a 1,000-employee development center in Atlanta -- the first of four such facilities planned for the U.S.
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Computer Associates (CA) has introduced a usage-based pricing and licensing model for its mainframe management products. The model bases licensing costs on measured system usage rather than total potential
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Accenture has opened its 10th delivery center in India, as part of its strategy to locate its services delivery facilities close to where there is good quality staff in the country.
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One of Japan's biggest consumer-technology showcases, the Ceatec trade show presents a wide range of new and developing products.
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BANGALORE, INDIA -- Dell Inc. is setting up a third customer contact center in India, in the Chandigarh metro area in the north of the country, the company announced Wednesday. Operations at the center are likely to begin by March next year with about 300 employees.
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Dell Inc. DELL.O said on Thursday it   would locate its first Indian manufacturing facility in the   state of Tamil Nadu, following a memorandum of understanding   between the firm and state officials.
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Microsoft Corp. will expand its software development operations in India , according to the companyâs statement. Microsoft&#39;s chief executive Steve Ballmer has formally opened the first building of the campus near Hyderabad .
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KUALA LUMPUR: Computer Associates International Inc (www.ca.com) has announced a new technology model that aligns security management with business needs.
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CA's move to focus all its product names around a single "CA" master brand and a clear product descriptor is being driven by the company's ongoing strategy to more tightly integrate its software, according to a CA executive.
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Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has teamed with Videsh Sanchar Nigam (VSNL), a leading Indian telecommunications and internet services company, to market its Personal Internet Communicator (PIC) to consumers in India.
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(InfoWorld) - DellÂ has selected Chennai, the capital city of Tamil Nadu in southern India, as the location for its first PC manufacturing plant in the country. It plans to begin manufacturing in India in the first half of next year, with an initial focus on the production of desktop computers, it said on Thursday. Desktops account for about 70 percent of Dell's business in India. The computer maker said in January that it would set up a manufacturing facility in India but hadn't picked a location at the time. The plant is intended to serve the domestic market, although the company may consider exporting some of the computers in the future, said Rajan Anandan, Dell's vice president of India sales. The facility will be able to produce close to 400,000 PCs a year when it opens, increasing to 1 million units a year depending on the growth of Dell's business in India, he said. Having a manufacturing facility in India will enable Dell to deliver products to customers there more quickly, and also reduce its freight costs and import duties. Those savings would translate into lower prices for customers, he added The cost of manufacturing in India is comparable to that in China or Malaysia, Anandan said. Dell's shipments in India increased 82 percent in its most recent quarter, ended in August, while revenue grew 63 percent. However, the company still trailed behind rivals Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo Group, and local vendor HCL Infosystems, according to IDC (India). As in other areas where it has set up manufacturing plants, the company expects the new facility to create an ecosystem of suppliers around Chennai to provide components and other parts required for computer manufacture, Anandan said. "We will move quickly to making our other products, including servers, notebooks, and monitors, in India," he added. Chennai is the home constituency of India's communications and information technology minister, Dayanidhi Maran. Several big technology companies have set up manufacturing facilities there, including mobile phone makers Nokia and Motorola. Tamil Nadu offers Dell access to a highly skilled workforce and a large base of customers, the company said. Dell has other manufacturing facilities in Asia, in Penang, Malaysia, and Xiamen, China. Some of its competitors, such as Lenovo, already have computer assembly operations in India. Â
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(InfoWorld) - DellÂ inaugurated Thursday a new research and development (R&D) facility in Bangalore, India, that can house up to 1,000 staff. The new facility is in line with Dell's plans toÂ make India a hubÂ for the development of enterprise products such as servers, storage, and software. Dell already has 600 engineers working in Bangalore on systems software, hardware design, and validation and testing for its enterprise products. The Bangalore facility is the company's largest R&D center outside the U.S. for enterprise products, Brad Anderson, senior vice president of Dell's business product group, said Thursday. Other Dell R&D centers in Asia are in Shanghai, Taipei, and Singapore. While the Shanghai center focuses on desktop design, the Taipei center does notebook design, and the center in Singapore works on Dell's printing and imaging products. Starting with software development in 2001, Dell has set up groups in Bangalore specialized in systems software, hardware design, and testing. The aim is to do end-to-end product development in India, said Vivek Mansingh, country manager and head of the R&D center. A dual-socket server is currently being designed entirely from India. Dell did not however disclose when the 1,000 staff would arrive at its new 200,000 square feet facility. The company has so far invested $150 million in setting up its R&D operations in India. Besides its R&D operations, Dell also runs call centers from various locations in India to support its customers worldwide. Its manufacturing plant in Chennai in south India is scheduled to start production in July.
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BANGALORE, India  - Multinationals have trimmed  the fat for years by shifting low-value work to India. Now,  slim Silicon Valley start-ups are leading a new outsourcing  wave, moving cutting-edge product development to Bangalore and  beyond.
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Busting the myth that agile processes will keep development jobs in the United States, Primavera has sent product development to India.
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Satyam Computer Services Ltd., a globally active Indian consulting and IT services company, is setting up a new 'near-shore' development center in Budapest that will initially employ 55, a source close to the ...