Taj Software opens development centre in Hyd

Taj Software Systems has opened a development centre in Hyderabad with an investment of about Rs 1 crore. The $4-million start-up firm, headquartered in Brooklyn in the US, has recruited 25 professionals to work at the development centre.

Javed Mirza, president and founder of Taj Software, told mediapersons that the company has implemented a data conversion project for the New York State Housing Department's data conversion project and bagged yet another project from a California-based technology firm for digitisation of their publications.

"We are planning to become a BPO (business process outsourcing) services pro-vider in the area of data conversion to DHTML and XML formats, digitisation of publishing works. We expect to do a business worth $10 million this year," he said.

Inaugurating the company's development centre at the upmarket Banjara Hills, Ajay Sawhney, secretary of the IT department, said that smaller companies performed better in the areas of new innovations.

He also pointed out the competitiveness of the IT companies working in smaller cities.

"Many companies have started operations in smaller cities in the state. I visualise a situation where the software companies will have a hub in Hyderabad and conduct operations through small development centres in the districts," he said.

With the broadband being made available at affordable rates, small towns too could witness the IT and the BPO operations, which could bring enormous prosperity to these semi-urban areas, he said.