Zensar to teach Chinese geeks communication skills

Following the demand from Chinese software professionals for communication courses, Pune-based Zensar Technologies, a joint venture between the RPG Group and Fujitsu Services of the UK, would start taking classes for software pros based in Shenzhen.

The Rs 300 crore Zensar and the mayor of Shenzhen city in China had signed a memorandum of understanding on Wednesday. Following this, 1,000 software professionals would be trained by Zensar in China and India for three months.

Zensar, which has recently formed a joint venture with a Chinese software firm, Broadengate Systems Inc, which would hold a 49 per cent stake in Zensar (Shenzhen), is also aiming at training software professionals based in other Chinese cities.

Ganesh Natrajan, deputy chairman and managing director, Zensar said, "We had started working at Shenzhen with the setting up of a software development centre around eight months back. Around 40 people, including locals, are working there for a fashion retailer based in the US. To start with, 1,000 software professionals working in various positions in China would undergo the project training with Zensar. We will start the first batch during March-April this year."

Natrajan said Chinese software professionals would also attend the classrooms of Zensar in Pune.

"While we will help them to improve their interactive, communication and negotiation skills, the programme also consists of training them on Oracle and SAP. The programme would be partly funded by the Chinese government and the rest would be taken care of by the local IT industry. We are also looking to enter into other major cities in China, while our next destination would be Japan," he said.

Zensar would be earning revenues of around Rs 22.50 crore from the first programme.

Natrajan said: "We have executed a project for a US-based retail major and another significant customer has been a China-based telecom manufacturer. We are looking for broadening our business in that country."