Capgemini to open a software hub in Kerala IT hub

The French multination IT services firm and a leading management consulting, professional services and outsourcing company Capgemini is establishing a new software development hub at the Thiruvananthapuram Technopark IT center located in Kerala, India.

A recent business news website quotes Techopark business development manager M Vasudevan as saying that the French multinational has already acquired space for the purpose at center’s the Leela Infotech campus. He added that the new 200-seater software center is currently under construction and the company hopes to make it operational within two months.

It may be noted here that headquartered in Paris, Capemini currently operates in as many as 40 nations and has over 115,000 professionals on its rolls.

On the other hand, at present, the Thiruvananthapuram Technopark IT campus houses as many as 245 information technology (IT) companies of different sizes, who provide direct employment to over 35,000 professionals, Vasudevan said.

According to Vasudevan, within two years, the IT campus is prepared to emerge as one of the foremost IT hubs in India, since IT behemoths, such as Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India’s largest IT firm in terms of software export, has begun constructing its individual campus over a plot measuring 1.2 million sq. ft. within the Thiruvananthapuram Technopark IT hub. He added that the third segment of the Technopark would be built plot measuring 90 acres within the existing hub.

Meanwhile, an earlier report says that Capgemini has augmented its emphasis on China, and the French IT major is also employing the company’s resources in neighboring India; where the IT giant has almost 33 per cent of its worldwide workforce, with a view to reinforce the Chinese operations.

At present, about 5 per cent of the company’s revenues worth approximately €8.7 billion are generated from emerging markets like India, China and Brazil, and the endeavor is to increase the proceeds from these markets to 10 per cent by 2015. China is expected to play a key role in this.

The report further quotes Capgemini China CEO Chen Bo as saying that earlier, their clients could only provide them with a small project primarily because the company’s operations in the Communist nation were of small scale. However, currently, they are at par with the other major multinational technology and consulting firms operating in China, and clients are standardizing them against the contest, he added.