Datamatics sets up dev centre in China

Datamatics Ltd, an IT consulting and services company, will set up a 20,000 square-metre software development centre in Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) in China with DarwinSuzsoft, a BPO company.

The two companies have signed a memorandum of understanding in Bangalore on Monday. The centre, employing 50 engineers, will focus on developing software and enterprise technology solutions.

It will connect directly with the Datamatics' US and Mumbai centres to provide solutions, including BPO data capture/entry work.

The centre will ramp up its strength to 1,500 over the next 18 months.

"Datamatics will outsoure some of the development tasks to the centre in SIP while continuing involvement in high-end software design, custom application management and project management," said Datamatics Managing Director Rahul Kanodia.

The SIP, located close to Shanghai, is an industrial township, developed by China and Singapore.

DarwinSuzSoft works on BPO requirements of software, financial services, insurance, healthcare and telecommunications firms in the US, Europe and Asia.