Computer Sciences to hire 1,000 for Hyd centre

It also said that the centre will move into a new 1.2 lakh-sqft facility at MindSpace in the Hi-Tec City area.

Arun Maheshwari, managing director and chief executive officer of CSC India, told newspersons that the Hyderabad centre was already operating at temporary premises in the city and would shift to the new facility in a month or two.

The Hyderabad facility, the fifth centre of CSC in India, is being set up at a cost of $10 million. CSC has three centres in Noida and one in Indore.

CSC is going in for a gradual build up of manpower at the Hyderabad facility and would hire around 100 professionals a month. At present, the company has a total manpower of over 1,600 in India.

The Hyderabad centre would focus on outsourcing and global infrastructure services. The company also has plans to set up a business process outsourcing centre at its Hyderabad facility.

"Best practices in service delivery and information security would be an integral part of the centre. Along with the Noida centre, the Hyderabad facility would form the two principal centres of CSC in India," Maheshwari said.

Explaining why the company had chosen Hyderabad for its entry into the southern region, he said that a large resource of qualified professionals, economy of operations and the state government's support had attracted the company to the city.

He said that the chief minister, Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, had assured the company's representatives that the government would continue to extend all necessary help to ensure the growth of IT sector in the state.

Stating that CSC was the first IT company to focus on domain expertise and cutting-edge technologies since its inception in India in 1996, he said that the company had been recording over a 75 per cent growth annually. Last financial year, the company had revenues of $50 million and was targeting $85 million this year.

Speaking of the parent company, Computer Sciences Corporation, he said that the global major was targeting to displace in the next few years the $25-billion EDS from the second position in offering systems integration, IT outsourcing, domain expertise etc. CSC with $15 billion revenues is at the third place, while the $100-billion IBM rules at the top.

The Hyderabad centre of CSC India will be headed by a two-member core team comprising P S Kartikeyan, director (global transformation solutions), and M V Sarma, assistant vice-president (global infrastructure services).

According to Kartikeyan, the Hyderabad centre would provide service delivery to key and strategic customers in the banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) domain.

Sarma said that the centre would also support CSC's international clients in such technical domains as storage management, enterprise management, network management, database management, Unix escalated server support and project management.