Fujitsu Consulting India, a subsidiary of the $53 billion Fujitsu Consulting, the world?s fourth largest IT solutions provider, is trying to dodge the global downturn by expanding facilities in India.
On cards is a new facility in Pune with a capacity of 1,450 people and $10 million towards capacity expansion. Fujitsu already has an 11-acre campus in Pune and the new facility will come up there.
Expected to be operational by April 2009, the Pune campus will have a capacity for 2,250 people, including 1,100 existing employees. ?We will hire people keeping the growth plank in mind. Obviously, no body will like to keep an operational facility idle,? said Jitendra Tanna, vice-president, Fujitsu Consulting India.
?The past few years saw us putting in $40 million of investment in our Indian operations. This year, we plan to increase it by $10 million. Most of this will go towards building physical infrastructure,? said Mike Sinneck, president and CEO, Fujitsu Consulting, who was in India recently. The company, which operates largely in the enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), application development, among others, set up its India operations in 2001. With a total workforce of 1,800 people and three delivery centres in the country, India is the largest subsidiary of Fujitsu Consulting.
With the change in the economic situation around the world, the company is aggressively looking at servicing the booming Middle East market through India. It plans to set up a branch office of Fujitsu Consulting India in Dubai in the next couple of months. ?We plan to tap the Middle-East through India, as people there are comfortable working with Indians,? said Farhat Ali, president and CEO, Fujitsu Computer Systems Corporation.