| Teradata
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Teradata, a division of NCR
Corporation, recently set up its global consulting
centre (GCC) in Mumbai for delivering data warehousing
solutions to customers in India as well as globally.
Teradata has been conducting research and development
in India for the past couple of years with Satyam
and Wipro. The new set up will now allow the Company
to offer technical services along with the earlier
R&D services.
Teradata’s chief technology officer Stephen
Brobst said, “Setting up of the centre in
India now is an indication of maturity of the
market and our growth prospects.”
The company has also introduced its business intelligence
(BI) user group community in the country, to assist
in the development of the Indian BI market and
provide the latest information on business intelligence
strategies.
Teradata’s primary
focus is on the telecommunication, banking, insurance
and manufacturing sectors. Its customers include
LIC, Bharti, Hutch, ICICI Bank, Prudential, etc.
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| Perot
to move more work to India |
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| Perot Systems,
the Texas-based IT, BPO and consulting concern,
will move more of its infrastructure services offerings
work to its Indian centres.
The Company’s Indian centres already work
on five of these service offerings and another seven
divisions will be moved to India within the next
15 months.
Peter Altabef, president and CEO of the Company
said, “India is an important part of our company’s
growth plans. Already around one-third of our workforce
is based out of the country. We are scaling up and
adding people in both our technology services and
business process services. Both of these are based
out of India. With all this activity, we definitely
expect Indian revenues as a percentage of total
revenues to grow significantly in the future.”
Perot Systems clocked revenues of $1.8 billion last
fiscal, 8.5 % of which came from India. The Company
currently has centres in Bangalore, Noida and Chennai.
While the Chennai centre works primarily in the
business process area, the other centres concentrate
on technology services.
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| Applied
Materials to step up in India |
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| Applied Materials,
the billion-dollar supplier of equipment and services
to the global semiconductor industry, is likely
to expand its India operations. The US-based engineering
company has been in India since the last three years
and has recently set up a new facility in Bangalore.
Applied Materials currently operates in 70 locations
in countries like the US, Europe, India, Israel,
Japan and China.
The Company which set up office in India with a
focus on product development, information technology
and back-office support, started with low-end technology.
The Bangalore centre however now indulges in high-end
90-nanometer technology.
| Mike
Splinter President and CEO of Applied
Materials said, “India has a significant
advantage in this area as it has a large
intellectual community, strong currency,
protection of intellectual property
and government support in the form of
duty-free zones and reduced taxes.”
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