Microsoft will hire more staff at Indian facility
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Microsoft Corp. is hiring hundreds of new staff for its operations in Hyderabad over the next 12 months, the company&#39;s chief executive officer, Steve Ballmer told reporters Monday in Bangalore, India.
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Software maker plans to move leaders in its Windows, Windows Live, and Windows Mobile units. Executives leaving the company include two prominent outside hires.
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Microsoft Corporation is further expanding its presence in India with plans to open a research centre in Bangalore. The latest Microsoft research campus will open in January 2005, the Redmond, Washington-based software giant said.
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BOSTON/VANCOUVER, British Columbia  - Microsoft  Corp.  said on Thursday it will open a software  development center in Vancouver, giving it a place to employ  skilled workers snagged by U.S. immigration quotas.
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Microsoft has named India as the next market for its stripped-down version of XP, with shipping expected to begin early next year.
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Indian PC users can expect to see a localized, stripped-down version of Microsoft&#39;s XP operating system early next year. Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft plans to ship the low cost version of its PC operating
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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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LONDON Reuters, the news agency and financial-data company, said Thursday that it would triple its number of employees in India by the end of next year, as the company tries to meet stringent cost-cutting targets.
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DÃSSELDORF, GERMANY - Siemens AG plans to hire an additional 1,000 software engineers in India this year in an ongoing effort to expand its research and development (R&D) activities in growth markets.
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HYDERABAD: Microsoft will hire several hundred new staff at its new campus here in the next year, its chief executive said on Monday -- a move aimed at strengthening its presence in the country.
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Microsoft is making big news in India this week by expanding its Hyderabad campus and signing two lucrative deals in Asiaâs fourth largest economy.
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Search giant is looking to hire engineers and other workers at facilities in Bangalore and Hyderabad.
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(InfoWorld) - Indian outsourcer Infosys TechnologiesÂ is expanding its facility in Brno in the Czech Republic, to boost its ability to deliver services to its European customers. The expanded facility will have a capacity of 350 seats by January, Infosys of Bangalore said on Wednesday. Infosys has about 130 staff in Brno, who deliver business process outsourcing (BPO) services such as sales order management, finance and accounts, market research and underwriting for clients in 16 European countries. Over 80 percent of the staff at Brno are hired locally, and operations are run in 13 different languages including German, French, and Spanish, Infosys said. The company is planning to also deliver IT services such as infrastructure management and package implementations such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) from Brno once the expanded facility is in operation. A number of Indian outsourcing companies including Wipro and HCL Technologies have set up operations in Europe or acquired companies there with an eye to the European market. Currently, the U.S. and U.K. account for most of the revenue of Indian outsourcing companies. Although companies in the U.K. outsource software development and business processes to India, the rest of Europe has been comparatively slower in outsourcing to India. Continental Europe accounts for only about 12 to 13 percent of India's outsourcing revenues, according to India's National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom). Infosys' revenue from Europe has grown by 60 percent year-on-year for the last three years. Europe accounted for about 25 percent of the revenue of Infosys in the last quarter, but most of that came from the U.K., according to a spokeswoman for Infosys. Besides expanding in Brno, Infosys is also setting up a development facility in Swindon in the U.K. The company also has a development center in Germany, and a center in Mauritius that is designed to address European customers because the population in Mauritius is multilingual, the spokeswoman said. Having centers in Europe helps Infosys build up capabilities in the specific European languages required by customers, and also comply with European Union regulations on data protection and privacy, which require that certain types of data should not be sent for processing outside the E.U., the spokeswoman added.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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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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Microsoft is also preparing to begin construction of a second building on the campus, spokeswoman Tami Begasse said yesterday. But the company hasn&#39;t yet decided whether it will proceed with the third and final building on the 42-acre Hyderabad site.
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New Delhi, Nov. 16: Microsoft chief Steve Ballmer today asked the Indian government to spend more on information technology (IT) while showcasing the software giantâs efforts to promote technology in the country.
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IBM plans to continue hiring global services delivery staff in India by the thousands, adding to the 73,000 it already has in its global services and other operations in the country.A large number of Indian outsourcers and multinational services companies have set up services delivery operations from India. Their competition for the best staff is&#160;driving up salaries. Companies are however introducing quality systems that enable them to weed out low performers. IBM, for example, sacked about 200 staff earlier this month, after a staff appraisal. Indian outsourcer Tata Consultancy Services said a day later it had terminated 500 staff after a similar staff appraisal.Staff attrition in IBM&#39;s global services delivery operation in India is within 0.2 percent from the attrition rate at IBM&#39;s global services operations in the U.S., said Diane Gherson, vice president of human resources (HR) for IBM&#39;s Global Business Services.&quot;Our business model is based on that range of attrition, and we don&#39;t mind some attrition because it helps us get fresh talent, and offer growth to people in the organization,&quot; she said Wednesday.Although staff salaries are rising in India higher than in most other countries, IBM has been able to recover the increased cost from clients by offering staff with higher skills, Gherson said. Salary increases will however eventually become a problem for India if the amount staff are charging cannot be recovered from clients, she added.Even as some research firms have warned of&#160;reduced growth in IT budgets&#160;in the U.S. this year, IBM is not feeling the impact yet in its services business. &quot;They will talk themselves into a recession if they are not careful,&quot; Gherson said. Besides, over 65 per cent of IBM&#39;s revenue comes from outside the U.S., she added.Forrester, for example, forecast on Monday&#160;slowing growth this year for purchases of IT products and services&#160;in the U.S., based on the assumption that a mild recession will hit the U.S. economy in the second or third quarter.IBM&#39;s services delivery strategy has been to set up delivery operations in a large number of countries to tap talent in these countries, and also to deliver to the customer a variety of skills and services, including language skills, and services delivered in the same time zone as the customer, said Rajesh Nambiar, Head of IBM&#39;s global delivery business in India.India is IBM&#39;s second largest location outside the U.S. for global services delivery, and will likely hold this position at least for the next five years, Gherson said. India is also an important market for IBM, Nambiar said. The company earned revenue of about $1 billion from the Indian market last year.