Click2learn, a US-based 19 year-old enterprise productivity solutions provider, has decided to downsize its US operations and ramp up its Indian operations in the city.
Sources said that the company has already cut five key executives working on the quality control and development jobs at its Bellevue and New York centres in US and shifted these functions to the Indian centre.
When contacted, Abhishek Mishra, the director (operations) of Click2learn, said that currently the Hyderabad centre employs about 80 people and plans are on to increase this number to 100 in the next one to two months.
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The Indian centre is a mirror organisation for the US parent's research and development activities, focusing on the e-learning solutions, training and documentation and quick fix engineering activities, Mishra explained. The Indian operations were launched six months back.
The company has its global operations spread in US, Europe, Australia and Japan with a workforce of about 300. Founded in 1984 by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, the company has over 370 customers worldwide for Aspen platform, its flagship product.
Aspen Enterprise Productivity Suite enables organisations to improve sales force readiness, achieve and demonstrate regulatory compliance etc. It is designed to facilitate the capture, management and dissemination of corporate knowledge to improve productivity and business performance.