Date:16/11/2006 URL: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2006/11/16/stories/2006111603600400.htm

Back CSC to expand India operations

Our Bureau

Hyderabad , Nov. 15

IT solutions provider Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) is on an expansion drive in India both at Hyderabad and Chennai and plans to add about 1,000 more people by March 2007, taking its India headcount to about 8,000 people.

The company has created four Power Centres in India and seeks to lay thrust on what it describes as Direct India Deals targeting non-Federal business from operations here.

The President and Managing Director of CSC in India, Mr Bala Mahadevan, said, "Of the $14.6 billion operations, a significant part of revenues comes from the Federal Business, which is handled out of the US. We now plan to lay focus on other commercial business of banking and financial services and insurance, telecom and healthcare out of India delivery centres. The company manages some 50 global delivery centres."

"If you take away about 40,000 of the 80,000 employees in CSC, the rest work on commercial business. Of this, about 8,000 would be working out of India, which is 10 per cent of total workforce. This is significant as the company has grown by about 75 per cent over three years and 100 per cent during the year," he explained.

Referring to CSC India expansion now under way, Mr Bala said that the company is poised to add about 1,000 people in Chennai and is in the process of creating additional facility for about 1,100 people in Hyderabad adjacent to their office in Raheja Mindspace here.

CSC recently created four Power Centres, focusing on Insurance and BPO, Remote Infrastructure Management, Enterprise Resource Planning and Migration and Business Intelligence. These go beyond centres of excellence and verticals as the accent is on business transformation. About 2,600 work on Remote Infrastructure Management.

Referring to their recently created Innovation Lab in Hyderabad, Mr Bala said this has become a interface centre for not only developers in CSC, but for universities and academia, where they would get to know the latest developments in technology.