Cognizant to Set Up New Center in India
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Software service provider Cognizant Technology Solutions plans to build a new center in India that will employ nearly 4,000 engineers.
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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.
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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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Go east, young man. Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) Chief Executive Craig Barrett is traversing India. The CEO&#39;s two-day trek will include a review of the chipmaker&#39;s design center in bustling Bangalore
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(InfoWorld) - IBM Corp. has set up a new application services facility in India's north-eastern state of West Bengal, in a city that has emerged as one of the country's key software and services hubs. The new facility is in Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal, and is equipped to have about 3,000 staff, a spokeswoman for IBM India said. She could not give a timeframe for the expansion. Kolkata has emerged as a center for IT services because of the surprisingly business-friendly policies of West Bengal's communist government. A number of multinational companies and Indian outsourcers, with bases in Bangalore, Mumbai or Delhi, have expanded to Kolkata in a bid to tap new pools of talent. IBM already has three other delivery centers in the city, and it's home to IBMâs second-largest pool of employees in India after Bangalore. The Armonk, New York, company announced in June that it isÂ investing $6 billion in IndiaÂ over the next three years. It's part of IBM's strategy to grow its presence inÂ emerging markets such as China and Brazil, because they offer vast pools of staff and also because they are attractive markets themselves. IBM had about 43,000 staff in India as of June. It has hired more staff since then for its software and business process outsourcing (BPO) operations in India, according to industry sources.
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Cisco Systems plans to have one-fifth of its top executives in India by 2012, in line with its plan to make India the hub for the development of technologies and new business models for emerging markets.
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Satyam Computer Services Ltd., India's fourth-largest software company, on Thursday began construction of a major development center, its largest outside India and first campus-style facility in China.
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Cities across the country are building new convention centers, or adding to old ones, with an eye for distinctive designs and amenities.
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The Indian government is planning legislation to modernise the country's banking sector.
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The Bangalore center will focus on building SOA competency within HP, delivering SOA services to HP's customers and also host customers who want to run proof-of-concepts for their SOA implementations.
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Google Inc. founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin said Wednesday that some new features on the world's top search engine and other services will come from its research center in the southern Indian city of Bangalore, where they are on a hiring spree.
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(InfoWorld) - Indiaâs largest outsourcer Tata Consultancy ServicesÂ (TCS) has set up a global delivery center in Guadalajara, Mexico, with plans to hire up to 5,000 staff there over the next five years. Having a center in Mexico helps TCS, of Mumbai, as it will be closer to U.S. customers and on a similar time zone, said Pradipta Bagchi, a spokesman for TCS said on Thursday. The South American market also provides a significant opportunity for TCS because of a large number of regional companies investing in information technology and related services, Bagchi said. TCS currently has about 5,000 employees in South America, which service over 150 clients there. It operates global delivery centers in Brazil, Mexico, and Uruguay, besides a business process outsourcing (BPO) services center in Chile. Indian outsourcing companies are grappling with the appreciation of the Indian rupee against the U.S. dollar, andÂ rising labor costs. Indiaâs National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) has said that the 8 to 9 percent appreciation of the rupee over the last three months is worrisome. The U.S. is the largest market for Indian outsourcers. TCSâ expansion in Mexico led to speculation that the company may be looking for alternative locations to India. Staff in India is still cheaper than in Mexico, and the company has no plans to scale down its operations in India, Bagchi said. A number of Indian companies have set up operations in South America and Eastern Europe to offer a near-shore option to their customers in the U.S. and Europe. Indian companies are also expanding in other countries to look for new talent pools, as it gets tougher to hire staff in large numbers in India. Satyam Computer Services, an outsourcer in Hyderabad, said last year it wasÂ expanding in China, Malaysia, and other locations to tap regional markets and supplement its Indian operations. TCS and Indiaâs second largest outsourcer, Infosys Technologies, have alsoÂ set up operations in China. China has, however, fallen short of expectations as an offshore location, according to Forrester Research. Two years ago, China was viewed as a key challenger to India because of its large number of engineering graduates and the support of the Chinese government to establish it as a key offshore location, Forrester said. But after an initial burst of momentum, there has been relatively little evidence of the countryâs success, the research firm added. TCSâs new center at Mexico will primarily offer software development, Bagchi said. The center will serve clients in Mexico and in the U.S., he 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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BANGALORE: Google Bangalore, the first R&amp;D centre outside the US of the number one internet search engine, is to be an âideasâ centre, said the fab-two who set up the company six years ago.
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(InfoWorld) - Nortel Networks has set up a network management center in Delhi, India to service its customers worldwide. The center is to provide network management, technology transformation, and hosted application services for multivendor, multitechnology telecommunications networks serving both local and multinational companies, Nortel said Monday. Nortel already runs similar centers in London and Raleigh, North Carolina. The companyâs decision to locate a center in India was based on the easy availability of low cost talent in India, said Ravi Chauhan, Nortelâs managing director for India. Having a center in India will also enable Nortel to better offer round-the-clock support to global customers, he added. Indiaâs telecommunications market is also booming, as over 6 million new mobile phone subscribers are being added each month. One of Indiaâs leading service providers, Bharti Airtel already uses hosted contact center services and an interactive voice response (IVR) technology from Nortel to provide customers with a virtual, multilingual storefront for ordering new services and completing routine transactions. Nortel hopes to sign up more customers in India soon, Chauhan said. A number of telecommunications companies including Nokia haveÂ set up network operations centers in India.
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News and information provider Reuters says it plans to make Bangalore its biggest information-gathering centre, basing 10% of its workforce there.
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HYDERABAD: Microsoft Corporation will hire several hundred new staff at its new Indian campus in the next year, its chief executive said yesterday, in a move aimed at strengthening its presence in Asia&#39;s fourth-biggest economy.