Satyam Computer to make Malaysia largest software hub outside India
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Satyam Computer, a top global consulting and IT services provider, will make Malaysia its largest software hub outside India with at least 2,000 employees by 2010, a report said Tuesday.
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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 in China.
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Infineon Technologies AG today said it would build a new front-end production plant in Kulim High Tech Park, Malaysia, at a cost of $1 billion.
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By the end of the year, the computing giant plans to have its biggest headcount since 1991.
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BANGALORE, INDIA -- IBM Corp. has partnered with a computing and an educational institution in India to promote the development of open-source software in the region, the company said Thursday.
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This fourth priority&#39;s main focus has been improving or obtaining CRM and ERP software for the past year and a half. India&#39;s software exports are on track to grow by 30 percent in the 2004-2005 fiscal year
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InfoWorld - India&#8217;s business providing software and services to companies outside its borders will grow a healthy 26 to 29 percent this year, the country&#39;s main trade association for that sector said Monday.
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Microsoft has expanded its initiative to provide a low-cost distribution of Windows in Asia. Although the program was originally directed exclusively toward social welfare programs in Thailand and Indonesia, it will now be expanded to Malaysia. The software will be available in all three countries by October.
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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 ...
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Microsoft Corp. said Monday that it will continue to expand its software development operations in India as it opened a new campus near Hyderabad.
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Indian outsourcer Satyam Computer ServicesÂ is setting up another development facility in China, its largest outside India. The new 2,500 seat facility will be located in the Nanjing Software Park, and will be operational in the next year, the company said Thursday.
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[Business India]: Hyderabad, Nov 15 : Software major Microsoft Corp&#39;s sprawling India campus that will eventually house 3,200 engineers opened Monday in this Andhra Pradesh capital.
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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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Indian outsourcing companies should expand their operations to other low-cost countries if they want to maintain their edge, experts said Thursday at an international software conference.
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In a strategic move to strengthen its presence in the growing economy, Microsoft, the world&#39;s largest software company inaugurated its new campus at Manikonda, on the outskirts of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.
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(InfoWorld) - Indian outsourcer Satyam Computer Services is setting up a 2,000-seat software development facility in Malaysia that will service its customers worldwide. The move is in line with the company's strategy to have services centers in multiple countries, both to address regional markets and to draw on local talent. Although staff costs in Malaysia are higher than in India, capital costs are far lower because of the country's better infrastructure, Virender Aggarwal, director and senior vice president of Satyamâs operations in the Asia Pacific and Middle East, said on Thursday. âWe donât have to invest in captive power generation for exampleâ, he said, referring to Indiaâs chronic power problems. The center is in Cyberjaya, about 50 kilometers south of Kuala Lumpur, and will have 2,000 staff over the next four years, Satyam said. The company already has a delivery center in Kuala Lumpur with 150 staff. âWe have done large-scale hiring here, and we found the quality of staff to be very good,â Aggarwal said. As the cost of engineers and staff attrition rates in India go up, Satyamâs customers are keen on the company setting up operations in new locations, according to Aggarwal. Satyam can pick the best staff in Malaysia because few other companies have services operations there, he said. The company has enough of land in Cyberjaya to expand to a 5,000 seat facility, he added. Satyam, of Hyderabad, announced last month that it isÂ expanding its services operations in ChinaÂ to about 3,000 staff by 2008, from about 400 staff today. Besides addressing local and neighborhood markets like Japan and Hong Kong, the centers in China will service clients in North America. Other Indian outsourcing companies, like Infosys Technologies and Wipro, are alsoÂ setting up operations in other countries, particularly China and Eastern Europe, with an eye to the local and neighboring markets. Satyam is positioning China as an alternative offshore location to India, as its staff requirements go up, Raghavendra Tripathi, Satyamâs country head for China, said last month. Satyam had about 35,000 staff at the end of September, and most of these are based in India.ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.
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By Izwan Ismail  THE setting up of the Malaysia Internet Exchange or MyIX is expected to pave the way for a more thriving Internet industry and place the country on a stronger footing to become a global telecommunications hub.