Teradata plans global centre in Pune

Enterprise data warehousing leader Teradata, a division of NCR Corporation, today announced plans to open a global consulting centre (GCC) in Pune. This will be its second GCC in India, the first being located in Mumbai.

The Pune GCC will have similar competencies as its Mumbai GCC, specialising in Business Intelligence (BI) and data warehousing integration solutions for its clients in North America, US, Canada, South Asia (Australia and New Zealand) besides the domestic markets. It will also act as disaster recovery centre for its Mumbai operations.

"The consulting center team in Pune will have upwards of 200 people by December 2007 and depending on its success we could expand our capacities here," David Klumb, VP, Teradata Global Professional Services, said.

"The company is also looking at places in Eastern Europe and Southern America for setting up of GCCc," he added.

Besides India, the company also has GCCs in Pakistan and China. "The GCCs in these three countries, India, Pakistan and China constitute 30-40% of our consulting workforce," Klumb said while refusing to share the country-wise breakup and total number of resources hired by the company.

However, he admitted that India had the largest GCC and the company plans to grow its competencies here as it matures.

"We currently are offering integration, testing and life cycle support in India and we plan to add model and design here as we grow," Klumb said.