Coimbatore IT Updates - கோவை தகவல் தொழில் நுட்பம் [Archive]

satishanu

January 29th, 2010, 09:26 PM

IT services major Cognizant is well on course to make Coimbatore a key constituent in its success story. It is on a major recruiting drive from engineering colleges in and around the city and has already filled up half the seats in its newly opened techno-campus inside a private IT-SEZ here.

Described as one of the largest CTS facilities in a tier-II city, the techno-campus built at a cost of Rs 180 crore has seven floors with a capacity to employ 6000 professionals.

The company also has plans to expand the facility and the second phase is expected to add 6500 seats. "We are aggressively increasing our strength at the new facility. In the last few months, we have added hundreds of people and at present, we have 3500 employees ," Cognizant VP and centre head, Coimbatore Vishnu Potty told ET.

"It is a big facility and one of the fastest growing delivery centres in the country. So we want to hire people as quickly as possible," he said, adding the training academy with 20 class rooms inside the new campus is buzzing with activity now.

On the reported delay in sending call letters to last year’s campus placed students, Mr Potty said all of them would come on board by March 2010. CTS has started its next round of campus recruitments and so far around 1900 students have been picked up from selected engineering colleges in and around the city. It is said colleges in this region contribute to 10% of the company’s annual campus hiring.

"We have selected students mainly from Amrita College of Engineering (550), PSG College of Technology (400), Kumaraguru College of Technology
(300), Bannari Amman Institute of Technology (150) and Kongu Engineering College (150)," he said.

Further, he said, the company is selecting students from all engineering streams and not restricting to the core
circuit branches like computing, electronic, electrical and instrumentation.

"We were looking for diversified profiles and recruited people from offbeat verticals like polymer technology, leather technology and textile engineering," he said. He added, such candidates will understand life sciences better and can be very helpful in developing software related to those fields.

The region has around 118 engineering colleges affiliated to Anna University, Coimbatore. On the employability of students, GRD College director KK Ramachandran told ET that there is a huge chunk of students available here, but nearly 50% of them lack communication and language skills.

On campus placements, he said they have turned slightly better from December 2009. "Until November, there was no recovery signs from industry, but now, it is vibrant and picking up. We get lot of enquiries from MNCs like JP Morgan Chase and C H Robinson. Visits by IT companies like TCS and HCL are also in the pipeline," he said.

Source: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Infotech/ITeS/Cognizant-keen-to-develop-its-Coimbatore-facility/articleshow/5514040.cms?curpg=2

ChennaiIndian

January 30th, 2010, 05:47 AM

Mods - I am not sure if this has been posted; if yes, then you can remove this.

http://coimbatorelive.blogspot.com/

There is more to Coimbatore than just being the ‘Manchester of South India' with its burgeoning textile and engineering industries. This third largest city in Tamil Nadu and home to the Formula 3 circuit has, over the years, emerged as one of the top destinations for the IT-BPO industry.

In fact, according to a recent study by Cyber Media's Global Services and investment advisory firm Tholons, Coimbatore has been ranked in the 17th position in the list of the top 50 Emerging Global Outsourcing cities. Industry associations have been making concerted efforts to turn this industrial hub into another Silicon Valley. The Coimbatore zone of the CII has been, for nearly a decade now, promoting this industrial hub as an ‘ideal IT destination' for engineering process outsourcing (EPO), among others. :cheers: The region has carved a niche for itself in engineering, auto components and machine tools space.

Industry experts say the locational advantage that the city enjoys, its proximity to Chennai and Bangalore, the huge talent pool and its entrepreneurial culture differentiates Coimbatore from other destinations. A number of companies across the gamut of outsourcing (from EPO to legal and medical transcription) have started their operations to capitalise on the rich pool of talent and resources readily available here. :cheers:

Statistics reveal that there are over 27 engineering colleges, 70+ arts and science colleges and 18 polytechnics in and around here, making it an ideal recruitment destination as well. Retention of talent pool has been a strong point for most of the players establishing a presence here.

IT major Cognizant, for instance, was one of the first major players to start a development centre here and has since expanded rapidly. Its Vice-President and Head, Vishnu Potty, admits to Coimbatore being a strong sourcing base for its operations across India. Cognizant's Coimbatore centre focuses on financial services, healthcare, manufacturing and retail, media and entertainment.The city is set to emerge as the ‘Medical Transcription Outsourcing Capital of India', say leaders in the medical transcription space.

Players such as CBay Systems and Spheris have expanded their operations here rapidly. CBay, for instance, has its largest facility here in an area of about 20,000 sq.ft. The company has, in the last eight months, opened up two centres, initiated tie-ups with local colleges to rope in students. A few others are exploring opportunities across the landscape as this (medical transcription) industry is predominantly South-based.

Being the chosen hub for MT, the city also has a number of people travelling from smaller towns such as Salem, Erode, Pollachi and Udhagamandalam attracted towards this steadily growing industry.

“The availability of quality manpower, large talent pool of almost 28,000 non-graduate engineers passing out every year from the 260-odd institutions has made Coimbatore an attractive destination for us,” says Suresh Nair, CEO and Managing Director, Spheris.

Industry leaders believe that with requisite training, the prospective candidates could be groomed to become world class medical transcriptionists to cater to the $200-billion healthcare outsourcing business world-wide.

chidambaram_mech04

January 30th, 2010, 05:51 AM

கோவையில் புதிய தொழிற்சாலைகள்

கோவை : ""தொழில்துறை மந்தநிலை நீங்கி வருவதால், கோவையில் புதிய தொழிற்சாலைகள் உருவாகும்,'' என, கொடீசியா தலைவர் இளங்கோ பேசினார். கோவை- பொள்ளாச்சி ரோட்டிலுள்ள ரத்தினம் கலை அறிவியல் கல்லூரி கம்ப்யூட்டர் துறை சார்பில், ஐ.டி., கண்காட்சி துவக்க விழா நடந்தது.
விழாவில், "கொடீசியா' தலைவர் இளங்கோ பேசியதாவது: நிகழ்கால கல்வியில், கண்காட்சியை போன்ற செயல்வடிவம் மூலம் கற்று கொடுக்கப்படும் கல்வியே மாணவர்களுக்கு பயன்படும். மாணவ, மாணவியர் தாங்கள் பணிபுரிய செல்லும் தொழிற்சாலைகளில் புதிய கண்டுபிடிப்புகளை உருவாக்கும் திறனை கண்காட்சி ஏற்படுத்தி கொடுக்கும். தற்போது, தொழில்துறையில் ஏற்பட்டுள்ள மந்தநிலை நீங்கி வருகிறது. வரும் 2011ல் கோவை மாவட்டத்தில் புதிய தொழிற்சாலைகள் உருவாக உள்ளன. லட்சக்கணக்கான வேலைவாய்ப்புகள் மாணவ, மாணவிகளுக்கு காத்திருக்கின்றன. இதற்கு ஏற்ப, மாணவர்கள் தங்களை தயார் படுத்தி கொள்ள வேண்டும். இவ்வாறு, இளங்கோ பேசினார்.
கண்காட்சியில், ஐ.டி., துறை வளர்ச்சி, பயன்பாடு மற்றும் கோவை ஐ.டி., துறை வளர்ச்சி ஆகிய தலைப்புகளில் 160 கண்டுபிடிப்புகள் பார்வைக்கு வைக்கப்பட்டிருந்தன. வடசித்தூர், செட்டிபாளையம், மலுமிச்சம்பட்டி, ஒத்தக்கால் மண்டபம், வெள்ளலூர் பகுதிகளை சேர்ந்த அரசு உயர்நிலை பள்ளி மாணவ, மாணவிகள் கண்காட்சியை பார்வையிட்டனர். ஐ.டி., துறை சம்பந்தப்பட்ட கேள்விகளுக்கு, கல்லூரி பேராசிரியர்கள் விளக்கம் அளித்தனர்.

http://www.dinamalar.com/district_main.asp?ncat=Coimbatore#298260

Information Technology Exhibhition in Ratnam Collage Eachanari. In the Exhibhition 160 Inventions about IT Growth, Usage and IT Growth in Coimbatore were exhibhited. Students from nearby Government Schools viewd these inventions.

ChennaiIndian

January 30th, 2010, 05:54 AM

Have a look at the PDF...

http://www.coimbatoreit.com/images/rathinam.pdf

ChennaiIndian

January 30th, 2010, 05:55 AM

Have a look at the PDF...

http://www.coimbatoreit.com/images/it.pdf

ChennaiIndian

January 30th, 2010, 06:03 AM

http://www.tidelparkcoimbatore.in/images/FloorPlan.jpg

Built-up Area 1.713 Million S.ft.
Floor Plate 2,02,665 Sq.ft.
Location IT-SEZ Villankurichi,
Coimbatore.
Airport 3 Kms. (Coimbatore)
Railway Station 7 Kms. (Coimbatore Junction)
City-Bus Terminus 7 Kms. (Coimbatore Central)
Sea Port 190 Kms. (Cochin)
Located on the National Highway - 47
Plot Area 9.5 acres
Project Cost Rs.370 Crores
Project Completion September 2009
Employment 12,000 (IT Professionals)

ChennaiIndian

January 30th, 2010, 06:12 AM

ChennaiIndian

January 30th, 2010, 06:15 AM

Could anyone post latest pics for the same?

http://www.picoolio.com/photos/large/13572-dc7r4.jpg

ChennaiIndian

January 30th, 2010, 06:24 AM

These look cool! :banana:

http://www.kgisl.com/images/chil/95.gif

http://www.kgisl.com/images/chil/96.gif

http://www.kgisl.com/images/chil/99.gif

http://www.kgisl.com/images/chil/98.gif

http://www.kgisl.com/images/chil/97.gif

senthilnatha

February 1st, 2010, 06:29 PM

I am posting here to consolidate things into one thread...the sides of the building are looking like TNHB flats :lol: ...why can't they make it good :bash:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/09/Bosch_Coimbatore.jpg

The above is BOSCH old rented building in KGISL campus. Their new building in CHIL-SEZ is gud and modern.

http://img686.imageshack.us/img686/2296/img1153a.jpg (http://img686.imageshack.us/i/img1153a.jpg/)

senthilnatha

February 1st, 2010, 06:39 PM

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/1641/img1148ea.jpg (http://img24.imageshack.us/i/img1148ea.jpg/)

http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/8517/img1149i.jpg (http://img24.imageshack.us/i/img1149i.jpg/)

http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/2013/img1146sk.jpg (http://img38.imageshack.us/i/img1146sk.jpg/)

ChennaiIndian

February 1st, 2010, 09:23 PM

^^ Thanks for the pics :cheers:

The above pic with Cognizant shows that there's another big SIPCOT Siruseri complex in the making :banana:

senthilnatha

February 12th, 2010, 04:00 PM

http://www.zeenews.com/news603619.html

Tamil Nadu has become a model state for others in the Information Technology
sector as it brought in an IT policy way back in 1997, enabling software exports to touch Rs 36,680 crore in 2008-09, Chief Minister M Karunanidhi said here on Friday.

Addressing about 10,000 students from across the state, participating in an 'animation' (computer drawing) contest, through video conferencing from Chennai, he said software exports, which were about Rs 14,400 crore in 2005-06, had reached a record due to the impetus given by the Government to the IT sector.

After Tidel Park was set up in Chennai, the government has initiated steps to set up such parks in Tier II cities like Coimbatore, Madurai, Tiruchirapalli, Tirunelveli, Salem and Hosur, he said, adding that the Coimbatore Park would become functional shortly.

The Chief Minister said the government wanted the younger generation to become experts and hence decided to conduct the 'animation' test through Internet Conference for the students, as part of the World Tamil Classical Conference scheduled at Coimbatore from June 23.

chidambaram_mech04

February 13th, 2010, 03:14 AM

Coimbatore IT Park to be opened shortly

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An Information Technology Park in Coimbatore will shortly be inaugurated, Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi said on Friday.

http://www.hindu.com/2010/02/13/stor...1352440600.htm

georgenadar

February 13th, 2010, 06:38 AM

super updates... TN is developing infrastructure well..

senthilnatha

February 14th, 2010, 05:36 AM

KCT Tech Park - Update

As of now three Companies Occupied KCT Tech Park (Tech Park's Front Board also updated)

Firstsource
Ford

Cordys
http://www.cordys.com/cordyscms_com/our_offices.php
Cordys India - Coimbatore
4th Floor, Westwing,KCT Tech Park
KCT Campus, Chinnvedampatti
Coimbatore 641006
India
phone: +91 422 6475878
email: info-asia@cordys.com

senthilnatha

February 14th, 2010, 03:45 PM

http://www.hindu.com/2010/02/13/stories/2010021352410500.htm

Expert says IT sector will continue to thrive

‘The $ 64 billion target in 2010 will increase to $ 225 billion in 2020’

http://www.hindu.com/2010/02/13/images/2010021352410501.jpg
MOTIVATING STUDENTS: S. Lakshminarayanan, Vice-Chairman, Cognizant Technology Solutions, speaking at the conference on Intelligent Computing organised by the Coimbatore Chapter of the Computer Society of India at PSG College of Technology in Coimbatore on Friday.

COIMBATORE: “The long-term sustainability of the IT sector has been clearly established and has proved that it will continue to thrive. National Association of Software and Services’ Companies (NASSCOM) has predicted that the $ 64 billion target in 2010 will increase to $ 225 billion in 2020. Hence, the strength and vitality of the industry is there for everyone to participate,” S. Lakshminarayanan, Vice-Chairman, Cognizant Technology Solutions, said here on Friday.

Speaking at the inauguration of the national conference on Intelligent Computing organised by the Coimbatore Chapter of the Computer Society of India (CSI) and CSI Division III at the PSG College of Technology, he called for application of technology in solving societal problems.

Quoting the examples of IBM’s efforts in solving the traffic congestion problem in London and the Unique ID project of the Indian Government, Mr. Lakshminarayanan said such efforts went to prove that the power of computing and the human creative mind could come together for problem solving at the macro level.

Speaking about the ICT Academy of Tamil Nadu, he said it aimed at providing training and other development inputs to nearly 5,000 faculty who in turn would train the college students. This would address the issue of lack of collaboration between the industry and academia, he added.

P. Thrimurthy, President-elect, CSI, said the Society had created a knowledge portal that was on a trial run. Sponsored by the Tata Consultancy Services, the portal was expected to attract more student members to the Society.

The portal would be formally inaugurated by the Minister of State for Communications and IT, Sachin Pilot, on February 16.

“CSI is looking at bringing in more students into its fold. At present, there are 387 student branches and 66 chapters in the country. But, the membership is only about 50 per cent. The portal is expected to change this.

The Society is also looking at developing teachers as managers and vice-versa. This is going to be the slogan of the Society,” Mr. Thrimurthy said.

S. Ramanathan, Regional Vice-President, VII CSI, and former office-bearers of the Society, spoke.

ChennaiIndian

February 14th, 2010, 07:07 PM

Sampathkumar

February 16th, 2010, 03:43 AM

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Sampathkumar

February 28th, 2010, 01:45 AM

கோவை, பிப்.27: "ஐடி' நிறுவனங்களின் தலைநகராக கோவை உருவெடுக்கும் என, கோவை ஆட்சியர் பி.உமாநாத் கூறினார்.

÷கோவையில் இயங்கும் ஐடி நிறுவனங்கள் இணைந்து "கோயம்புத்தூர் ஐடி ஃபோரம்' என்ற கூட்டமைப்பை உருவாக்கியுள்ளன. இந்தக் கூட்டமைப்பின் துவக்கவிழா ரெசிடென்சி ஹோட்டலில் சனிக்கிழமை நடைபெற்றது. விழாவில் சிறப்பு விருந்தினராகப் பங்கேற்று, ஐடி போரத்தின் புதிய இணையதளத்தை ஆட்சியர் துவங்கி வைத்தார். விழாவில் அவர் பேசியது:

÷கோவையில் உலகத் தமிழ்ச் செம்மொழி மாநாடு நடைபெற உள்ளது. இந்த மாநாட்டில் பங்கேற்பதற்காக 48 நாடுகளில் இருந்து கோவைக்கு தமிழ் அறிஞர்கள் வருகை தர உள்ளனர். இந்த மாநாட்டால், உலக அரங்கில் கோவை நகரின் புகழ் உச்சத்தை அடையும்.

÷சமீபகாலமாக, புணே போலவே கோவையும் ஐடி துறையில் சிறப்பான வளர்ச்சி கண்டுவருகிறது. மும்பை அருகே புணே இருப்பது, அந்நகரின் "ஐடி' துறை வளர்ச்சிக்கு உறுதுணையாக உள்ளது. ஆனால், கோவையின் வளர்ச்சிக்கு வேறெந்த பெரிய நகரும் துணைபுரிவதில்லை.

÷கோவையில் துவங்கப்படும் "ஐடி' நிறுவனங்களின் எண்ணிக்கை நாளுக்கு நாள் அதிகரித்து வருகிறது. சென்னைக்கு அடுத்தப்படியாக கோவையில்தான் அதிக ஐடி நிறுவனங்கள் உள்ளன. சில ஆண்டுகளில் "ஐடி' நிறுவனங்களின் தலைநகரமாக கோவை உருவெடுக்கும். இந்த நிறுவனங்களுக்கு தேவையான உதவிகளை மாவட்ட நிர்வாகம் சார்பில் செய்து கொடுக்கப்படும்.

÷கோவையில் எல்லாக் காலத்திலும் இதமான சிதோஷ்ண நிலை நிலவுகிறது. அதனால் கோவை ஐடி நிறுவனங்களில் பணியாற்ற வரும் ஊழியர்கள், இங்கே நிரந்தரமாகத் தங்கிவிடுகின்றனர். பணியில் இருந்து ஓய்வு பெறும் பெரும்பாலான அரசு ஊழியர்கள், தங்களது ஓய்வுக் காலத்தை கோவையில் கழிக்கவே விரும்புகின்றனர், என்றார்.

÷ராபர்ட் போஸ் பொறியியல் நிறுவன பொதுமேலாளர் ஆர்.வேணுகோபால், வி.டபிள்யூ.ஆர் லேப் நிறுவன செயல் இயக்குநர் நாரா ஐயர் உள்பட பலர் பங்கேற்றனர்

http://www.dinamani.com/edition/story.aspx?SectionName=Edition-Coimbatore&artid=204220&SectionID=136&MainSectionID=136&SEO=&Title=ஐடி%20தலைநகராக%20உருவெடுக்கும்%20கோவை!

senthilnatha

February 28th, 2010, 12:49 PM

(Same above news in English)

http://coimbatoreitforum.com/index.php

http://www.hindu.com/2010/02/28/stories/2010022854130500.htm

Focus on core strengths of Coimbatore: Collector

http://www.hindu.com/2010/02/28/images/2010022854130501.jpg

New initiative: Collector P. Umanath (left) launching ‘CoimbatoreITforum.com’ website at a function in Coimbatore on Saturday. General Manager of Robert BOSCH Engineering Pvt. Ltd, Coimbatore, R. Venugopal (second left) and Chairman of Rathinam Group Madan A. Sendhil (right) are in the picture. —

COIMBATORE: Any brand building initiative for Coimbatore should be focused on the core strengths of the city, Collector P. Umanath said here on Saturday.

Launching CoimbatoreITforum.com, an initiative to brand Information Technology and IT Enabled Services in Coimbatore, he said that apart from developing physical infrastructure, such efforts would help build the image of the city. Pune and Coimbatore were remarkably similar.

Yet, Pune had the advantage of proximity to a larger city – Mumbai. “On the other hand, we do not have a bigger cousin,” he said.

Rather than trying to build what the city lacked, the inherent strengths here such as manpower, affordability, weather and peaceful environment should be highlighted. “We have a unique combination and we need to build on it,” he said.

Factor
Visibility was an important factor that helped an outsider decide to move to Coimbatore. Though Chennai was a tier-one city, it had not changed culturally.

In five years, companies would start seeing more merit in moving to Coimbatore rather than Bangalore as business and costs find their own course, he said.

General Manager of Robert Bosch Engineering, Coimbatore, R. Venugopal said the company felt the need for such an initiative two years ago when it started operations here. It was difficult to convince people to move to Coimbatore. Though the company was well-known, Coimbatore was not.

Hence, it was decided that some of the important people in the company would move over to Coimbatore and for every 100 people added, 90 were added to the facility here. “If we want to attract people to Coimbatore we should promote a multi-cultural environment.”

The website was a people’s initiative. It would have blogs and platforms for exchange of information so that those who wanted to come and work here would feel comfortable.

Madan A. Sendhil, Chairman of Rathinam Group, said Coimbatore and Pune had almost the same number of educational institutions and pitched to become IT destinations in 2001. Now, Pune had about 20 IT parks and over 500 IT companies employing nearly 30,000. Coimbatore, however, had just three or four IT parks and about 100 IT companies that employed 7000 people.

Though the two cities had all macro-level similarities, Coimbatore required branding internally and externally.

Some companies, especially the smaller ones, were really finding it difficult to relocate people to Coimbatore as many were unaware of the facilities available here. The forum was formed only to brand Coimbatore. :cheers:

The website was a front-end of the effort. Though close to a million sq.ft. of IT space was developed here, the basic ingredient was people for IT companies and they should be attracted to come here.

karthikarthik

March 18th, 2010, 05:00 AM

Any progress in Wipro construction? Is the scheme road issue settled? Wipro is on a mass recruitment mode in Chennai and this is a positive sign. If Tidel is completed soon we can see more IT companies setting shop in CBE.

Brand coimbatore

March 18th, 2010, 02:48 PM

Things are not pretty clear in Tidel-cbe too, We dont have any official or authentic list of companies occupying the tidel park.

We had some news that TCS may occupy some space?

ChennaiIndian

March 31st, 2010, 02:24 AM

http://www.hindu.com/2010/03/31/stories/2010033158620100.htm

COIMBATORE: Coimbatore, which is yet to see the anticipated growth in the Information Technology sector, needs a host of initiatives to improve the IT eco system here.

The city currently has just a handful of large-scale IT players. Though the existing companies are expanding rapidly, as they grow they face problems related to catering, transport, entertainment, etc. And, new companies that want to start operations in Coimbatore are seeking better facilities.

Software companies focus on their core business and hence outsource most of their other needs. The options in the areas of associated and house keeping services, which include laundry, transport and providing business lunch, are limited here. For the middle-level managers in IT companies, mobility is important. Hence, they need more schools with CBSE syllabus for their children, says the former chairman of the Coimbatore chapter of Confederation of Indian Industry K. Thangaraj. The IT infrastructure here is improving. But, the growth of many of these services depends on demand. The service provider looks for a critical mass to launch or scale up and the critical mass is expected to come with the Tidel Park, adds Mr. Thangaraj.

KG Information System's Vice-President for Corporate Relations Jayamurali Balagurusamy says the Government should improve the basic infrastructure related to power, water and public transport. Some of the services are expensive compared to those in Chennai and Bangalore.

Soft skills of students should be developed at schools itself to increase their employability. “It is the responsibility of all stakeholders to give the best to the city,” Mr. Balagurusamy says.

“When an IT or IT Enabled Services company looks at tier-two cities, Coimbatore is thought of. The city has visibility. What turns down people here is mainly the cost,” according to the chairman of the Rathinam Group Madan A. Sendhil.

Coimbatore should start attracting the next level of IT and ITES companies. It should also develop local leaders in the sector as on the manufacturing front. The city should start focusing on the peripheral areas. The cost has to come down, Mr. Sendhil says. It is also important to brand Coimbatore as an IT destination, he adds.

satishanu

April 3rd, 2010, 10:02 PM

The India Land KGISL Tech Park here will have seven clients occupying 3.5 lakh sq.ft in a couple of months.

S. Salai Kumaran, Director of India Land, and R. Maheswaran, General Manager of Coimbatore Hi-Tech Infrastructure (CHIL), told presspersons here on Thursday that of the proposed 1.8 million sq.ft., construction of seven lakh sq.ft was over at the park that was located at the CHIL campus in Saravanampatti.

About 3.5 lakh sq.ft was operational with two companies - Ugam Solutions and C Bay – occupying space at the park. The total investment planned for the project was Rs. 320 crore and so far Rs. 230 crore had been invested. Another 3.5 lakh sq.ft. was ready for occupation by seven clients. Construction of the remaining seven lakh sq.ft. would start after the existing space was occupied. This was a green building with energy saving during construction and in operation, they said. The park was located in a special economic zone and Information Technology, IT enabled services and hardware assembly units could start operations in the zone.

Source: http://www.hindu.com/2010/04/04/stories/2010040450670200.htm

whatever123

April 3rd, 2010, 10:07 PM

Any idea what is the annual turnover of IT companies in coimbatore ?

senthilnatha

April 4th, 2010, 05:24 AM

Any idea what is the annual turnover of IT companies in coimbatore ?

The export performance of CBE for 2008-09 is 373 Crs. Its second largest next to Chennai.

http://www.chennai.stpi.in/images/Coim-perform08-09.JPG

georgenadar

April 4th, 2010, 04:48 PM

The export performance of CBE for 2008-09 is 373 Crs. Its second largest next to Chennai.

http://www.chennai.stpi.in/images/Coim-perform08-09.JPG

really good progress...even though 2009 was recession still CBE did nice performance...:)

Brand coimbatore

April 6th, 2010, 04:05 AM

Eager to know who are the 7 clients occupying India land IT park.

Hope some biggies are among them,

senthilnatha

April 7th, 2010, 08:20 AM

In KCT Tech Park,

One more IT Company

Ford
Cordys
Firstsource
Vanenburg Business IT Ltd

karthikarthik

April 7th, 2010, 05:32 PM

In KCT Tech Park,

One more IT Company

Ford
Cordys
Firstsource
Vanenburg Business IT Ltd is Vanenburg Business IT Ltd part of Cordys?

karthikarthik

May 4th, 2010, 07:09 AM

COIMBATORE: Trioz Technologies, an embedded systems and Information Technology service provider, has started an exporting unit at Embassy Techzone, a special economic zone (SEZ), here.

According to chairman and secretary of the Rathinam Group Madan A. Sendhil, Trioz will register one million dollar exports in 2010-2011 and increase it to 2.5 million dollars in 2011-2012. It will employ 50 engineers and in two years, scale up the employment to 200. The company manufactures electronic display systems and vehicle tracking systems.

Mr. Sendhil said the Embassy Techzone was spread across 40 acres on the Pollachi Main Road. Trioz Technologies had taken 3,000 sq.ft. at the 30,000 sq.ft. incubation facility at the SEZ. Embassy Techzone was a joint venture of the Embassy Group and Rathinam Technopark. It would have an additional built-up area.

http://www.hindu.com/2010/05/04/stor...0459600200.htm

karthikarthik

May 4th, 2010, 07:13 AM

More info on Embassy Techzone

http://www.embassyindia.com/projects/sez/techzone_coimbatore/page.htm

doccbe

May 15th, 2010, 05:33 AM

http://www.hindu.com/2010/05/15/stories/2010051559390700.htm

cross posting from cbe thread

maduraithala

May 23rd, 2010, 05:20 PM

Stating that Tamil Nadu had succeeded in the software industry owing to the availability of a large pool of educated work force and progressive policies among others, Deputy Chief Minister M.K.Stalin described the State as the “growth star” of India.

Inaugurating the Global Development Centre (Information Technology Special Economic Zone) of Syntel at SIPCOT IT Park in Siruseri on Saturday, he said: “As the Minister in charge of industries, I can say with a sense of pride that Tamil Nadu today excels among Indian States in industrialisation.”

“Tamil Nadu is one of the largest recipients of domestic and foreign investments in the country and has emerged as the ‘growth star' of India,” Mr. Stalin said adding that the State government was committed to spread the IT revolution to other parts of the State to create employment opportunities for the qualified rural youth.

Additional productivity improvements and the development of Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities such as Coimbatore, Tirunelveli, Madurai, Salem, Tiruchi and Hosur as delivery centres would improve the State's advantage, he said. TIDEL Park in Coimbatore, with a floor space of 17 lakh square feet would be inaugurated next month.

He said Chief Minister M.Karunanidhi had a vision of making Tamil Nadu the software hub of South Asia and to achieve 25 per cent share of software production in the country. If this was achieved, it would give direct employment to eight lakh people and indirect employment to another 22 lakh people in Tamil Nadu, he said.

Thanking Syntel for its proposals to start SEZs in Tirunelveli and Madurai, for which Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu had handed over 25 acres in each of the cities, Mr. Stalin appealed to the company to cooperate with the State government in implementing its e-waste policy.

He also appealed to all IT companies to allocate 3 per cent of their budget for corporate social responsibility activities.

Poongothai Aladi Aruna, Minister for Information Technology, Prashant Ranade, chief executive officer and president, Syntel, Ram Singampalli, vice-president and Centre Head, Chennai, and N.N.R.Shravanan, general manager and head of administration, spoke.

karthikarthik

May 29th, 2010, 06:18 AM

The first batch of 400 people will start from August this year in Coimbatore.

http://www.dnaindia.com/money/report_aegis-plans-to-hire-11000_1389176

wellwisher

May 29th, 2010, 02:13 PM

http://www.indiainfoline.com/Markets/News/Aegis-launches-Institute-of-Customer-Experience-Management/4849853855

Brand coimbatore

June 3rd, 2010, 08:13 AM

It would be great if Aegis starts its operations in cbe as well.

senthilnatha

July 8th, 2010, 08:50 AM

http://epaper.dinamalar.com/DM/COIMBATORE/2010/07/08/Article//001/08_07_2010_001_007.jpg

Brand coimbatore

July 8th, 2010, 03:49 PM

It would be great if WIPRO re-starts its work. Fingers crossed.

Atleast in the eve of opening TIDEL park, TN govt should announce an Electronics hardware park here

chennaidesi

July 8th, 2010, 05:49 PM

After Chennai Tidel park it took 10 years for the govt to come up with another Tidel park. It should have happened at 2006. Let us be happy atleast these people wake up now.:lol:

Kewl Batty

July 8th, 2010, 07:25 PM

^^ Actually Coimbatore TIDEL Park is the 4th TIDEL Park.

2nd TIDEL in Taramani dint even get clearance coz of MRTS passing next to it. 3rd TIDEL is under construction by TRIL.

vs007

July 9th, 2010, 04:56 AM

It would be great if WIPRO re-starts its work. Fingers crossed.

Atleast in the eve of opening TIDEL park, TN govt should announce an Electronics hardware park here

Yup, how about HCL(?),TCS,Mahindra-Satyam who got the land and they are absconding. They should be requested to build or forfeit the land.

ramcbe

July 9th, 2010, 05:24 AM

Yup, how about HCL(?),TCS,Mahindra-Satyam who got the land and they are absconding. They should be requested to build or forfeit the land.

I saw news sometime back HCL had taken up 2 lakh square feet of space in Tidel park, Coimbatore. I doubt they will start construction imm'ly. Mahindra-Satyam does not have any presence in Coimbatore. They got land in Madurai only. Wipro construction is in mid-way and TCS is the only hope as they already have a small office in coimbatore. It would be good if TCS start construction work .

vinodh.sv

July 9th, 2010, 06:42 AM

Friends yesterday in dNews (local channel) they said that tidel park will be inaugurated by Aug 2nd but the companies will start operating from October 2010.
Any idea abt the companies which start their operations earlier?

senthilnatha

July 9th, 2010, 08:26 AM

http://epaper.dinamalar.com/DM/COIMBATORE/2010/07/09/photographs/018/09_07_2010_018_016_001.jpg

Arul Murugan

July 9th, 2010, 05:46 PM

Tidel park at CBE

http://tm.dinakaran.com/pdf/2010/07/09/20100709a_002101014.jpg

TM

VijayyMdu

July 9th, 2010, 07:51 PM

is Tidel park coming up @ 62 Acres !! ??????

senthilnatha

July 9th, 2010, 10:41 PM

is Tidel park coming up @ 62 Acres !! ??????

Tidel Park is @ 10 acres. ELCOT-SEZ size is 62 acres. Some press reporters of CBE still assume that Tidel Park is the only building coming up in ELCOT-SEZ. For them Wipro building also Tidel Park. Even one of my (non-IT) friend told me that he thought Tidel Park means a software company. :ohno: :ohno:

http://www.tidelparkcoimbatore.in/images/Layout.jpg

senthilnatha

July 9th, 2010, 11:08 PM

http://www.hindu.com/2010/07/10/stories/2010071050440200.htm

Tidel Park to be opened next month

About 90 per cent of construction work is over

The Park is located on a 56-acre SEZ

Coimbatore: The Tidel Park here is expected to be inaugurated next month.

According to an official of the park here, about 90 per cent of the construction work is over. Of the total built up area of 17 lakh sq.ft, the park has nine lakh sq.ft. Information Technology (IT) space. It would also have six lakh sq.ft area with a capacity to park about 1,200 cars and one lakh sq.ft of utility area.

The Tidel Park is located on a 56-acre SEZ. Apart from the Tidel, the park would have three IT companies setting up facilities at the SEZ. The SEZ also has 12 acres earmarked for social infrastructure.

IT and IT enabled services (ITES) companies can occupy minimum 5,000 sq.ft. at the park and the space is available at Rs. 30 per sq.ft. At least 35 companies are expected to set shop at the park.

Enquiries so far are encouraging, says the official. And, some companies have already booked space. Most of these are core IT and ITES companies.

The total project cost of the park, coming up at the Special Economic Zone at Peelamedu here, is estimated to be Rs. 380 crore. More than Rs. 250 crore has been invested so far.

georgenadar

July 10th, 2010, 04:45 PM

good news...:cheers:

senthilnatha

July 12th, 2010, 08:41 AM

http://dkn.dinakaran.com/pdf/2010/07/12/20100712c_013105003.jpg

mkm23

July 16th, 2010, 06:47 PM

Do anybody have any idea of sqft area difference between chennai tidel park and coimbatore tidel park. How big cbe tidel is??

Kathir

July 16th, 2010, 09:29 PM

Chennai Tidel Park - 1.28 million sq.ft.
Coimbatore Tidel Park - 1.713 million sq.ft.

Arasu

July 16th, 2010, 10:00 PM

Great! They have a bigger TIDEL PARK in CBE than Chennai.

Let us hope this would be another success story.

ChennaiIndian

July 16th, 2010, 10:33 PM

^^ Super pa. Aana idhu podhadhu. Namma Kovai matha Tier-2 cities-a yellam thooki saapadanum. :)

Kathir

July 17th, 2010, 09:51 AM

Hope your wish comes true..:cheers:

I will move to Kovai for sure when the right opportunity comes, that I hope will happen soon.:)

Arasu

July 18th, 2010, 07:59 PM

Kovai has all the ingredients to be a big success. In addition to being a leader in many areas such as textiles and engineering, the city also has a salubrious weather throughout the year. The entrpreuneurial spirit of the denizens of the city is quite well known. If adequate support is provided by the governments, Kovail can rise and live up to its true potential.

karthikarthik

July 19th, 2010, 04:46 AM

Hope your wish comes true..:cheers:

I will move to Kovai for sure when the right opportunity comes, that I hope will happen soon.:)

+1.

Kathir

July 22nd, 2010, 08:09 PM

Tidel Park Inauguration on Aug 2nd. http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=60739611&postcount=8734

mkm23

July 23rd, 2010, 06:40 AM

senthilnatha

July 23rd, 2010, 09:28 AM

Is our cbe tidel worth 380 crore? Looks too big amount for one building?
Because I saw in madurai thread that two tidel parks coming up at 16 crores each.
Any idea on this guys? Why Cbe tidel is costly? Is it the sheer size 1.713 Million Sq Ft??
(pl dont mistake me, my intention is not comparing).

Also i have read thro some tamil newspaper articles, will it give employment for 12000 people. i.e can we take it as 12000 computer engineers??

The cost is not only for the building, it also includes the cost of infra inside the building, netwrok, UG parking, landscape etc...

CTS building is CHIL-SEZ is bit smaller than Tidel but they have spent 250+ crs.

http://www.tidelparkcoimbatore.in/FloorPlan.htm

http://www.tidelparkcoimbatore.in/images/FloorPlan.jpg

Level No. of Floors Area (each floor) Usage
Basement 3 2,16,572 Sq.ft. Vehicle Parking
Ground Floor G 2,02,665 Sq.ft. Commercial, IT & ITES
Upper Floors 4 2,02,665 Sq.ft. IT & ITES

saysenthil

July 23rd, 2010, 02:27 PM

Brand coimbatore

July 23rd, 2010, 03:44 PM

We have to wait n see. Once the Tidel park, CHIL-SEZ becomes fully operational, we'll come to know.

senthilnatha

July 24th, 2010, 02:00 PM

Just out of curiosty, I am asking this question..... If it gets developed bigger than aticipated, has it got any realistic chance of taking over the IT export from Cochin area (approx 1000 to 1500 crs.) If thats the case, then its bound to capture the BEST TIER 2 city.

I remember that Kerala's software export is around 1500 crs not Kochi alone. Once entire CHIL-SEZ, Tidel and Wipro starts their operations then CBE will be crossing 1000 crs. Also 2009-10 software export details are not yet released.

greatchennai

July 26th, 2010, 04:36 PM

We have to wait n see. Once the Tidel park, CHIL-SEZ becomes fully operational, we'll come to know.

We have to check/ inspiration from Pune ( 2nd city in MH) where the IT exports in excess of 32000 Crores....

R2IChennai

July 27th, 2010, 01:41 AM

I remember that Kerala's software export is around 1500 crs not Kochi alone. Once entire CHIL-SEZ, Tidel and Wipro starts their operations then CBE will be crossing 1000 crs. Also 2009-10 software export details are not yet released.

I think kerala exports is around 3k crores more or less from Trvandrum tech park.

Step

July 27th, 2010, 03:42 AM

We have to check/ inspiration from Pune ( 2nd city in MH) where the IT exports in excess of 32000 Crores....

We need to attract MNC IT companies to sustain the buzz created by the TIDEL park. It is quiet possible to acheive it in next five years if state govt is really sincere and makes aggresive,additional efforts. State govt should not rest saying they fulfilled the promise made to the people of CBE.

mkm23

July 27th, 2010, 07:39 AM

Any info on RR IT park and ETL IT park?
When they will get completed? I couldn't find a website for RR.

What about Bannari techzone SEZ? Has the project started?

If they also add, that will boost IT Production in CBE.

Cbeian

July 27th, 2010, 10:24 AM

Any news on what all companies coming in Tidel Park?

saysenthil

July 27th, 2010, 10:44 AM

Deputy Chief Minister M.K. Stalin will inaugurate the Tidel Park here on August 2.

An official of the park told The Hindu that booking of space was on for the 17 lakh-sq.ft., park, which was located on a 56-acre special economic zone (SEZ) at Peelamedu here. The Tidel facility had nine lakh sq.ft. of IT space and six lakh sq.ft. car parking area.

IT and ITES companies were likely to start operations by October. The park, established at a cost of Rs.380 crore, was expected to have some big companies setting up facilities in it.

The minimum area of occupancy at the park by any IT or ITES firm would be 5,000 sq.ft. At least 35 companies were expected to set up shop, generating employment for about 12,000.

About 20 additional facilities would be available at the park. This would include food courts.

http://www.hindu.com/2010/07/27/stories/2010072754530400.htm

Subra

August 2nd, 2010, 10:26 PM

http://ibnlive.in.com/generalnewsfeed/news/cm-credits-murasoli-maran-with-it-revolution-in-tn/195260.html

Coimbatore, Aug 2 (PTI): Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi today credited late union minister Murasoli Maran with being responsible for the IT revolution in the state and said he had asked him to frame an IT policy in the budget as far back as 1988-89. "Murasoli Maran persuaded me through letters and phone calls to evolve an IT policy. That is why we now see Tamil Nadu is in the forefront in the sector, with increase in software exports every year," he said after inaugurating the Rs 380 crore TIDEL Park here, the second after the one in Chennai. He recalled that former Prime Minister A B Vajpayee had inaugurated the Tidel park in Chennai in 2000, since which the IT sector had registered growth. Union IT and Communication minister A Raja,who spoke, said a Rs 50 crore IT Research Academy would be set up at Udhagamandalam in Tamil Nadu, which would be ready in a year. Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister M K Stalin said software exports from Tamil Nadu had increased from 10.2 million dollars in 2001-02 to 73.9 million dollars this fiscal. The park, he said,would provide employment to 12,000 directly and more than 2,000 people indirectly. Tamil Nadu IT minister Dr Poongothai said six more IT SEZs would come up in the state at an estimated cost of Rs 675 crore in Hosur, Tiruchirapalli, Madurai,Tirunelveli and Salem. Omkar Rai, Managing Director, Software Technology Park of India (STPI), said STPI, with 51 centres in India, was closely working with Tamil Nadu for development of IT sector.

ecotourindia

August 24th, 2010, 05:33 PM

http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/8240/491823353dscf83000.jpg

Park Techno Park

ecotourindia

August 24th, 2010, 05:35 PM

http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/6586/68514533dsc01135.jpg

Rathinam Tech Park

ecotourindia

August 24th, 2010, 05:35 PM

http://img829.imageshack.us/img829/6586/68514533dsc01135.jpg

Rathinam tech park

ecotourindia

August 24th, 2010, 05:44 PM

park college deleted

karthikarthik

August 25th, 2010, 05:02 AM

http://www.bobsguide.com/guide/news/2010/Aug/24/KGFSL%E2%80%99s_Dolphin_emerges_as_preferred_back_office_solution_for_institutional_broking_firms_in_India.html

Dolphin, KG Financial Software’s flagship back office software solution, has been chosen to satisfy the complex and growing requirements of their capital market operations in India.

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With India emerging as one of the most important investment destinations in the world, leading investment banks have always felt a strong need for a proven back office solution that would support their growth plans. After a detailed and exhaustive evaluation of various competing solutions in the market, they have chosen KGFSL’s Dolphin software suite, a comprehensive back office solution for the Institutional segment of the capital market. Dolphin has excelled in its flexibility and performance scalability and has established a proven track record with investment bankers operating in India and other global markets.

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senthilnatha

August 29th, 2010, 09:51 AM

Tidel Park - Update

http://www.dailythanthi.com/article.asp?NewsID=590377&disdate=8/29/2010&advt=2

vs007

August 29th, 2010, 07:53 PM

Tidel Park - Update

http://www.dailythanthi.com/article.asp?NewsID=590377&disdate=8/29/2010&advt=2

Google warning about malaware in this site, what does the news say? Translation of one line pls.

vs007

August 29th, 2010, 07:54 PM

Tidel Park - Update

http://www.dailythanthi.com/article.asp?NewsID=590377&disdate=8/29/2010&advt=2

Google warning about malaware in this site, what did the news say? Translation of one line pls.

mkm23

August 30th, 2010, 01:16 PM

RR IT Park in Madurai construction has restared. Read in MDU thread.
Any news about RR IT Park in cbe. If so pls update

Arun87

September 7th, 2010, 08:25 AM

Dear friends! Any news about IT services provider Keane Inc, i read in the news that it has planned to open a campus in CBE with the capacity of 5000..pretty old news though.:ohno: http://www.mydigitalfc.com/2008/keane-plans-expansion-chennai-coimbatore

Arun87

September 12th, 2010, 06:41 PM

http://indiaeducationdiary.in/Shownews.asp?newsid=4091

"With the phenomenal growth of the ICT sector, Chennai is all set to become the IT capital of India. The ICT growth has transformed Tamil Nadu as a modern economy – thanks to the presence of a large number of IT parks, the image of Chennai too has changed, from that of a coffee-loving conservative city into "the San Jose of India", said Dr M K Stalin, Deputy Chief Minister, Government of Tamil Nadu.

Delivering the Valedictory Address at Connect 2010, organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), here today, Dr Stalin said that the software exports from the State have increased from Rs 161 crore in 1996-97 to over Rs 36,600 crore in 2008-09. The software exports from Coimbatore, a tier-2 city, have risen to Rs 374 crore in 2008-09 from Rs 54 crore in 2004-05. The State has about 1700 registered IT and ITeS companies – for every two days, one software company is being setup in the State.

He said that the State Government is keen to promote physical infrastructure across the State – out of 29 notified IT SEZs in the State, 19 are already functional, employing to 46,000 people. It will act fast in and remove infrastructure bottlenecks in the State.

On the contributions of IT to the Indian economy, Dr Stalin said that the IT industry has made India a global power to reckon with. India is already the fourth largest IT market in Asia Pacific. The industry is expected to create a revenue of US$ 73.1 billion in 2009-2010, as against US$ 69.4 billion in 2008-09, marking a 5% growth.

In her address, Dr Poongothai Aladi Aruna, Minister for Information Technology, Government of Tamil Nadu, said that Tamil Nadu has the highest number of IT SEZs in India and the ICT industry collectively provides direct employment to about 3.24 lakh people. "The time has come for the broader and deeper integration of IT with the State's strong base of auto, healthcare, entertainment industries," she said and urged the industry to go to tier-2 and tier-3 cities to create a level playing field across the State.

In his Opening Remarks, Mr S Gopalakrishnan, Chairman, CII-Southern Region & Chief Executive Officer & MD, Infosys Technologies, said that the industry in Tamil Nadu has done very well and there has been tremendous support from the State government and various local administrations, apart from academia, for the development of ICT industry.

Summing up the deliberations of the event, Mr S Mahalingam, Chairman, Connect 2010, and ED & CFO, Tata Consultancy Services, said that some of the key ideas mooted in Connect 2010 include: the need for creating a strong intellectual property foundation in the State, striving for comprehensive legislation and policies for the promotion of IT in healthcare, setting up of skill development centres and vocational institutes across the State, and creating a world class technology university in Chennai for developing a conducive eco-system.

Earlier, the Deputy Chief Minister presented CII-ICICI Venture Connect Entrepreneur Award to Mr Madhava Reddy, Founder, President & CEO, HTC Global Services ( Entrepreneur of the Year Award) and Mr R Ramaraj, Senior Advisor, Sequoia Capital India & Co-founder & CEO, Sify Pvt Ltd (Lifetime Achievement Award).

Introducing the awardees, Mr Gopal Srinivasan, CMD, TVS Capital Funds, said that CII has instituted the entrepreneur award along with ICICI Ventures to recognise the contribution being made by IT entrepreneurs to the State's economy, employment generation and social development.

karthikarthik

September 13th, 2010, 05:03 AM

Visited the recently held Connect 2010 event @ Chennai. There was a separate stall for Tidel Park CBE and I received a mini CD from them. I have uploaded the pdf document from that CD.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/37316994/TIDEL-Park-Coimbatore-Ltd

ChennaiIndian

September 13th, 2010, 06:29 AM

Arun87

September 13th, 2010, 10:45 PM

http://www.hindu.com/2010/09/14/stories/2010091450870500.htm

COIMBATORE: The Coimbatore Tidel Park that was inaugurated by Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi here on August 2 is expected to become operational before next January.

Some companies have booked space at the park and a couple of large-scale companies are also expected to occupy space at the Tidel, according to an official here. The Government has reduced the rent from Rs. 30 a sq ft to Rs. 25 a sq ft and has also brought down the advance amount for rental to six months. The minimum area to be occupied by a company at the park is also flexible though the Government has fixed it at 5,000 sq ft, the official said.

The park is located in a 56-acre special economic zone and has a total built up area of 17 lakh sq ft.:banana::banana::banana:

satishanu

November 9th, 2010, 10:40 PM

http://www.hindu.com/2010/11/10/images/2010111051350501.jpg

Coimbatore Tidel Park, for which Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi laid the foundation in February 2007 and inaugurated on August 2 this year, is expected to take about a couple of months to become operational.

An official of the park told The Hindu on Tuesday that it had nine lakh sq ft IT space and would generate 10,000 IT jobs and about 2,000 indirect jobs when fully operational. The rate for occupancy of space at the park was revised to Rs. 25 a sq ft from Rs. 30 a sq ft and a company should occupy minimum 5,000 sq ft.

The official said talks were on with a couple of large-scale companies and also with smaller IT and IT- Enabled Services companies. Efforts were also on to bring in companies focusing on research and development and those in the incubation stage.

The IT industry was yet to revive completely from the impact of the economic slowdown and this could be one of the reasons for the IT companies to be reluctant to expand. With the State Government having developed world-class infrastructure here, IT companies in other cities were looking at Coimbatore as on option now for expansion, the official added. The Rs. 380-crore park was spread over 10 acres of a 56-acre special economic zone here.

SRC: http://www.hindu.com/2010/11/10/stories/2010111051350500.htm

Naveenmech

November 10th, 2010, 02:46 AM

Hi guys does anyone knows..What is the software export from CBE for the year 2009-2010?...

chennaidesi

November 11th, 2010, 01:33 AM

Exports have jumped from 445 crores to 900 crores(2009-2010) in Tier 2 cities in TN. If i remember correctly CBE share should be about 80-85 % so about 750 Crores.

Naveenmech

November 11th, 2010, 03:07 AM

^^ So CBE's share become double while comparing previous year (2008-2009) its, around 345 crores....good results..we're having once the IT park is operating fully,its share will increase...

senthilnatha

November 20th, 2010, 09:10 PM

http://www.hindu.com/2010/11/21/stories/2010112154070500.htm

Software company to expand operations in Coimbatore

ViSolve joins hands with Porter Consultancy

COIMBATORE: ViSolve, an IT consulting and support services firm, hopes to expand its research and development operations in the city.

Sena Palanisami, Chief Executive Officer, says the software company hopes to scale up its revenue and manpower in a few years. He was in the city recently to celebrate ViSolve's 15 years of operations.

“ViSolve is looking to grow 300 per cent in terms of resources and revenue in the next couple of years. The India-US head count will go up from 60 to over 200, and revenue will cross millions of dollars.”

The company offers IT consultancy, software product development, customisation and migration of IT support services, has expertise in Open Source Integrated Stack, health care IT, data centre implementation, migration, system security, etc.

The company will go public by 2013, says Mr. Sena, who has worked with Hewlett Packard for over 20 years.

In keeping with the expansion plans, ViSolve has joined hands with Porter Consultancy to form a new entity, Radiatus.

The objective of Radiatus will be to establish its supremacy in Linux, Windows and Unix migrations for enterprise applications and database, become a provider of migration expertise with leading independent infrastructure resellers and solution integrators, build migration tools, custom applications and open source vertical packages, and support customers to deploy private cloud environments and convergence infrastructure.

Brad Porter, vice president – Marketing, Radiatus, says Porter Consultancy will share its expertise in marketing, training and communication services to high-tech companies. The company will also get to access experience in enterprise computer marketing and services experience, migration business, observes Al Morgan, vice president - Sales.

Mr. Porter says Radiatus will look for business across geographies in the enterprise migration area. It will focus particularly in North America and Europe, where after the economic slowdown, companies are planning upgrade software.

Mr. Morgan says there is so much up for grabs in the enterprise migration business, as corporations are looking to cut cost and improve efficiency. Open source solutions and back-up support, Radiatus will help the companies improve their bottom line.

ViSolve is also working in the healthcare sector in the U.S. where there is so much business opportunity.

Following the passage of a law in the U.S., all clinics are mandated to digitise the data at their disposal. With 2015 as the deadline and federal tax incentive in the offing, clinics are looking for ways to go about it and that is where the business opportunity is.

ViSolve-Radiatus will offer its expertise to those software companies that are developing applications for the clinics, build its own open source applications and also offer consultation. “There is so much money to be made.”

Mr. Porter complements: “There are 200,000 clinics that will have to digitise data and that's the business we are looking at.”

Sena, who has his roots in a village near Coimbatore, says the city has a good pool of talent, offers a better lifestyle compared to Bangalore, Hyderabad or other cities, and, above all, is known for innovation.

Arasu

November 21st, 2010, 12:55 AM

^^
CBE has made a start and it is my gut feeling slowly but surely it will reach its potential in IT.

Brand coimbatore

November 21st, 2010, 10:41 AM

tamil2000

November 21st, 2010, 06:26 PM

Beautiful view of the TNAU building in Coimbatore.

http://www.veethi.com/watermark.php?path=images/city-images/fullsize/Coimbatore-1788.jpg

senthilnatha

November 21st, 2010, 07:43 PM

Even I hope it makes it to the IT band wagon but I always feel bad when I see the WIPRO's unfinished building.I always wished that WIPRO would be first to occupy SEZ but unfortunately it is not.
Guys have any idea what happened to their plans, have they resorted to any settlement wid our useless Govt??

Wipro also should understand the issue of that area people. I heard that issue is resolved but not seeing any action.

I got a news from my friend that CTS will be starting shortly phase-II (another two towers) of their campus in CHIL-SEZ.

Brand coimbatore

November 22nd, 2010, 04:01 AM

Thats a cool news. India land IT park and Ascendas(hopefully they start soon) should give a push to the IT growth in the city.

senthilnatha

November 22nd, 2010, 11:20 AM

More Info About ViSolve

http://www.visolve.com/contactus.php

Kovai Solutions USA Inc. (ViSolve)
(Corporate Mailing Address)
6559, Springpath lane,
San Jose, California - 95120.
USA.
Tel: +1-408-850-2243
Fax:+1-408-323-1872

Kovai Solutions USA Inc.
(Development and QA Lab)
4010, Moorpark Avenue, #205,
San Jose,
California 95117.
USA.
Tel: +1-408-261-3662
E-mail:

Senas.Net Private Limited,
(Development and QA Lab, Extension)
No - 1, Rukmani Nagar,
Ramanathapuram,
Coimbatore, TN - 641 045.
INDIA.
Tel: +91-422- 231-4200
Fax: +91-422-231-3200
E-mail:

Brand coimbatore

November 22nd, 2010, 02:23 PM

Cool, My home is just near to this rukmani nagar.

sivarajkumar

November 26th, 2010, 08:22 PM

Hi Guys,

Any idea whether IBM comes in Tidelpark or any other private IT parks in Coimbatore..........

From the website we see that Embassy Tech zone is expanding the park coming 2011 in about 4lakh sq.ft..

Brand coimbatore

November 27th, 2010, 03:25 AM

We are really ignorant about who is gonna occupy Tidel park. But we expect TCS to come there but not sure about any other company.

senthilnatha

November 28th, 2010, 11:40 AM

We are really ignorant about who is gonna occupy Tidel park. But we expect TCS to come there but not sure about any other company.

I hope that TN CM will announce the companies to occupy Tidel Park in his 12/12 visit to CBE.

It looks three big companies will occupy 50% of IT space. TCS and IBM are strong contender and third one no idea....

karthikarthik

December 11th, 2010, 07:04 AM

CHENNAI: Stung by global recession, growth of software exports from Tamil Nadu skidded to 4.99% in the fiscal ended March 2010. According to government data, exports grew modestly this year compared to the scorching 41.6% pace it witnessed in the year ended March 2009.

Within Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore, which is emerging as the next destination for IT exports after Chennai, registered a growth of 90% with Rs 710.66 crore, compared to Rs 373.76 crore in 2008-09. Exports from Puducherry grew by 31.78%, while growth was sluggish in Madurai and Tiruchi, clocking 2.25% and 9.07% respectively.

Software exports from India grew by 5.5% for the fiscal ended March 2010. Of this, a lion's share was from Karnataka, which had exports worth around Rs 76,000 crore. However, Karnataka too felt the heat of the meltdown as exports grew only by 1.4%, compared with 23% in 2008-09.

"2009-10 was horrible for the software industry because of recession. I expected growth of around 8%. Substantial work is done in Chennai for the US and European regions, which were reeling under recession. However, things are showing a lot of promise at the ground level. Big players are expanding and we are also expanding operations in the city," Arun Jain, chairman of Polaris Software Lab, told TOI.

State's software export growth dips in 2009-10 - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/States-software-export-growth-dips-in-2009-10/articleshow/7080501.cms#ixzz17mRhmRaf

senthilnatha

December 11th, 2010, 01:38 PM

CBE-SINGAKUTTY

December 11th, 2010, 04:02 PM

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2010/12/10/stories/2010121052341900.htm

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2010/12/10/images/2010121052341901.jpg

Tier II and III cities

Exports from Tier II and III cities in Tamil Nadu more than doubled to Rs 909 crore (Rs 445 crore).

This was mainly attributed to the growth in revenue from units in Coimbatore, which is becoming a major location in Tamil Nadu after Chennai for many software companies.

State's software export growth dips in 2009-10

CHENNAI: Stung by global recession, growth of software exports from Tamil Nadu skidded to 4.99% in the fiscal ended March 2010. According to government data, exports grew modestly this year compared to the scorching 41.6% pace it witnessed in the year ended March 2009.

Within Tamil Nadu, Coimbatore, which is emerging as the next destination for IT exports after Chennai, registered a growth of 90% with Rs 710.66 crore, compared to Rs 373.76 crore in 2008-09. Exports from Puducherry grew by 31.78%, while growth was sluggish in Madurai and Tiruchi, clocking 2.25% and 9.07% respectively.

Software exports from India grew by 5.5% for the fiscal ended March 2010. Of this, a lion's share was from Karnataka, which had exports worth around Rs 76,000 crore. However, Karnataka too felt the heat of the meltdown as exports grew only by 1.4%, compared with 23% in 2008-09.

"2009-10 was horrible for the software industry because of recession. I expected growth of around 8%. Substantial work is done in Chennai for the US and European regions, which were reeling under recession. However, things are showing a lot of promise at the ground level. Big players are expanding and we are also expanding operations in the city," Arun Jain, chairman of Polaris Software Lab, told TOI.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/States-software-export-growth-dips-in-2009-10/articleshow/7080501.cms

dr_thapalathy

December 11th, 2010, 04:07 PM

I think, with the rise in IT companies in Coimbatore and Madurai, they can think of introducing AC Volvo buses in city operation.

Arul Murugan

December 20th, 2010, 03:17 PM

Govt aim to create 10,000 jobs through rural BPOs: Minister for Information Technology

Udhagamandalam, 14th Dec: Masinagudy, a small village with many tribals adjoining the Mudumalai Tiger Reserve near here on Monday became part of the State Government's efforts to take the benefits of Information Technology to the rural areas.

A Rural Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) project put together by the Coimbatore-based GRG Trust and Scope International Private Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Standard Chartered Bank (SCB), UK was inaugurated by the Minister for Information Technology, Poongothai Aladi Aruna.

Addressing the gathering, she said that such initiatives were in keeping with the aim of the Karunanidhi Government to create employment opportunities in different parts of the State and improve local economy. Pointing out that Tamil Nadu was the first to introduce Computer Science in schools and evolve a separate IT policy, she said that the measures reflected the far-sightedness of the government.

Exhorting the students to tune themselves to a computer-based future, she said that India was growing fast, thanks to its knowledge-based economy. The State Government was increasingly becoming a facilitator, she said and added that a subsidy of Rs. 7 lakh was being extended for creating 100 seats through rural BPO centres.

Three such centres would come into being in Salem shortly. “My aim is to create 10,000 jobs through rural BPOs,” Ms. Aruna said.
The Khadi Board Minister, K. Ramachandran, said that employment opportunities were less in the Nilgiris. Efforts were on to revive the ailing Hindustan Photo Films.

The BPO in Masinagudy would be of considerable help to tribal girls. The Nilgiris Collector, Archana Patnaik, hoped that similar facility would be provided in more places. The Chief Executive Officer (Asia), SCB, Jaspal Bindra said that it was the first such project of the bank in India.

He expressed the confidence that it would empower women and the local community and also had a cascading effect on other communities. The Principal Secretary, IT, Tamil Nadu, P.W.C. Davidar, said that the beneficiaries could use their skill to increase their earnings. The Managing Director, ELCOT, Santosh Babu, also spoke.

Distribution of kits with unique identity cards by Ms. Aruna marked the occasion. The Managing Trustee, GRG Trust, G. Rangaswamy, welcomed the gathering. Earlier speaking to presspersons, Ms. Aruna said that to begin with the Masinagudy unit would benefit 25 girls who had passed out of the GRG Memorial Tribal Higher Secondary School at Vazhaithottam. In future, it would help others to train themselves in basic data entry.

http://www.c2clive.com/latestnewsdetail.php?id=4213

Arul Murugan

December 20th, 2010, 03:21 PM

senthilnatha

December 20th, 2010, 05:24 PM

Senthil,

I have a doubt, whether the above outputs are for Coimbatore, Madurai/Trichy city specific or TN gvt has divided them as regions? because Salem has few BPO(Vee Technologies, Cap Gemini etc.,) and small software processing related companies with operation to Europe/US, I guess even Erode/Tiruppur too have such smaller operation. Whether they come under Coimbatore account?

No they are seperate..

http://www.chennai.stpi.in/aboutus.htm

Today STPI Chennai has spread its industry base across 14 districts of Tamil Nadu Viz., Coimbatore, Trichy, Madurai, Thirunelveli, Salem, Vellore, Tirupur, Erode, Dindgul, Sivakasi, Pollachi, Virudhunagar, Ranipet and Tanjore.

CBE - 711
MDU - 28
TCY - 26
Other - 144
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Total - 909

karthikarthik

January 3rd, 2011, 09:29 AM

Any info on the status of Tidel Park interior work and its completion date?

sivarajkumar

January 4th, 2011, 05:33 AM

I had a chance to visit the TidelPark......It seems nothing is ready except TidelPark's own office.Other works are all still going on and it will take minimum 6 more months for the operation to begin.Some companies are doing contract work themselves and some by TidelPark people..Around 600 people are working there..Also no info abt the companies going to occupy....

senthilnatha

January 5th, 2011, 12:07 AM

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2011/01/05/stories/2011010552300700.htm

Ugam Solutions plans to double headcount

Coimbatore, Jan. 4

Ugam Solutions, a provider of market research operations, is looking to double its headcount here to 400 (from 200) in the coming year, the Vice-President and Chief Talent Officer, Mr Dharmesh Mistry, said.

For finding the right talent pool, the company inked a memorandum of understanding with Coimbatore-based KG College of Arts and Science recently.

Explaining the significance of this MoU to Business Line Mr Mistry said, “Availability of skilled manpower with the necessary training in soft skills has always been a bottleneck. This MoU is expected to support our growth plans here. We will provide relevant training to the students of KG CAS in marketing decision support systems and absorb them to fuel growth”.

Stating that Coimbatore has been the growth driver for the company, he said, “Our operations over the past one year have given us the confidence to give the required growth thrust and make it sustainable. This MoU is expected to enhance the employability of the candidates. There is, however, no compulsion for them to join Ugam. But this working exposure to corporate environment would definitely give them an edge to join elsewhere.”

senthilnatha

January 10th, 2011, 12:47 AM

http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/it-companies-forming-regional-bodies-in-smaller-cities/421327/

IT companies forming regional bodies in smaller cities

Not waiting for Nasscom presence, have begun work on spurring investment, common issues and govt lobbying.

Information technology (IT) companies in smaller cities are forming regional associations to attract investments and get their demands fulfilled at the local level, as industry body Nasscom is unable to spread its wings in many such cities.

Smaller companies in places such as Bhubaneswar, Coimbatore, Madurai, Kozhikode, Ahmedabad, Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram have created regional fora to sell their locations and also lobby state governments.

Rooted in small cities, these associations believe the presence of major companies in these regions will boost growth of small and medium enterprises. When it comes to larger and national issues like the STPI scheme extension, they prefer to work with Nasscom.

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IT attraction
With major IT companies scouting for low-cost destinations in tier-II and tier-III cities to expand their operations, to minimise their cost structure, smaller towns are becoming increasingly attractive. A study by Nasscom and A T Kearney, ‘Location roadmap for IT- BPO growth’ have identified 50 major locations, including Ahmedabad, Bhubaneshwar, Coimbatore, Hubli-Dharwad, Bhopal and Goa, among others, as growth drivers for the industry.

The smaller companies in these cities feel the lack of infrastructure and guidance for start-ups are the major challenges for growth. The organisations are partnering various government administrations to overcome these challenges.

rajeshms

January 17th, 2011, 07:38 AM

sivarajkumar

January 18th, 2011, 07:10 AM

Hi Siva,
Thanks for this valuable intel. By any chance do yu know the company names which are doing the contract work??

Hi rajesh
No information on the company names...they just say that many small companies have registered.....thats it.....I do know how long we have to wait still for the complete operation of the Park.........

rajeshms

January 19th, 2011, 01:45 PM

Hi rajesh
No information on the company names...they just say that many small companies have registered.....thats it.....I do know how long we have to wait still for the complete operation of the Park.........

Hi Siva,
These are valuable info that yu've shared. Really appreciate it. How long it'll take for the operations to go at full swing?? Also I know that TCS, Wipro & HCL had booked three floors long back. But now heard that there is some sort of rift. Is it true??

senthilnatha

January 19th, 2011, 06:04 PM

Hi Siva,
These are valuable info that yu've shared. Really appreciate it. How long it'll take for the operations to go at full swing?? Also I know that TCS, Wipro & HCL had booked three floors long back. But now heard that there is some sort of rift. Is it true??

TCS, Wipro and HCL were alloted land in this SEZ not floors in Tidel Park.
To begin with TCS and HCL may start OPS in Tidel Park. There is some rift in the access road (Vilankurichi rd) and proposed ROB in the railway gate. Wipro is impacted a lot in the rift as their unfinished building stands tall for more than one year. This will not impact the allotment of companies in Tidel Park.. I heard that work is still going on in Tidel and it will take atleast 2 months to 100% completion. Also I got a news that 100% allotment is already done, I am trying to get the company names.

rajeshms

January 21st, 2011, 10:33 AM

TCS, Wipro and HCL were alloted land in this SEZ not floors in Tidel Park.
To begin with TCS and HCL may start OPS in Tidel Park. There is some rift in the access road (Vilankurichi rd) and proposed ROB in the railway gate. Wipro is impacted a lot in the rift as their unfinished building stands tall for more than one year. This will not impact the allotment of companies in Tidel Park.. I heard that work is still going on in Tidel and it will take atleast 2 months to 100% completion. Also I got a news that 100% allotment is already done, I am trying to get the company names.

Thanks Senthil. I'm desperately looking forward for operations to go at full swing soon. Try to share us the company names, so that many like me will get benefitted outta it.

karthikarthik

January 21st, 2011, 03:40 PM

rajeshms

January 24th, 2011, 06:20 AM

Its really bad to know that still wipro issue is not resolved. This also makes other allotted companies including TCS and HCL to wait. TCS has reduced it CAPEX expenditure for this year. This also may delay the construction in the SEZ.

Ohw!!! For the moment just keeping the fingers crossed that Tidel would get operational soon. I really don wanna wait till ascendas and the other IT park to get operational before Tidel.

cbepulikutty

February 3rd, 2011, 07:40 AM

I heard from one of my friend that the dev work within the tidel park is very slow and nobody is caring about it and it might take more than 6 months to complete it...
After the elections, if the other party comes to power which sure they would then they will show nil interest in this tidel park which was inaugurated by the present govt...
All in All not good news to cbe-it...

sivarajkumar

February 11th, 2011, 07:23 AM

Almost 7months is going to get over after Tidelpark Inaguration.Still not even a single company occupied place.Also Wipro Building is same as wht they left before a year...This gives big disappointment to IT in our Coimbatore.I see KG IT park developing rapidly in Keeranatham.Around 4 to 5 buidings are under construction....Hope they atlest give some good companies to Coimbatore.....

karthikarthik

February 14th, 2011, 06:16 AM

COIMBATORE: Coimbatore's status as a much sought after tier-II location for software services just got a boost. German technology giant Robert Bosch has signed up additional one lakh square feet space to expand its footprint in the textile city.

Traditionally known as the Manchester of the South for its textile mills, Coimbatore is now acquiring a reputation as an emerging hub for software services exports. Exports from the city witnessed a 90% growth at Rs 710.66 crore for the fiscal ended March 2010.

Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions (RBEI), the software development arm of Bosch, which employs 2,700 associates in the city, will invest Rs 80-100 crore for its second phase of expansion. The company, which invested Rs 135 crore in the first phase, will hire 1,500 more associates for the second phase in the Coimbatore Hi-Tech Infrastructure (CHIL) special economic zone, promoted by IndiaLand near the city.

The second phase would be ready for occupation in the third quarter of 2012, centre head, RBEI, Coimbatore, Venugopal R said. RBEI recently inaugurated its reliability testing centre in Coimbatore, built on an investment of around Rs 50 crore. The company, which clocked 20% growth in revenues at its Coimbatore centre, is confident of maintaining the trend in the current year.

Robert Bosch, it is learnt, will use Coimbatore as its second hub, after Bangalore. "Substantial tech work, which Bosch does in India, would be passed on to Coimbatore," sources said.

"With 181 engineering colleges across nine districts affiliated to Anna University, Coimbatore, the region produces 50,000 engineering graduates a year, which makes it very attractive. Software work done in Coimbatore is at least 20% cheaper than in Chennai and with good weather, the city is poised to become the next big destination for the software industry. The main issue which is plaguing faster growth is poor infrastructure," K Purushothaman, regional director, Nasscom, the apex body of software services exporters, said.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/Bosch-picks-up-1-lakh-sqft-space-in-Coimbatore/articleshow/7489934.cms#ixzz1DuJg7lRs

chennaidesi

February 14th, 2011, 04:47 PM

Quote "With 181 engineering colleges across nine districts affiliated to Anna University, Coimbatore, the region produces 50,000 engineering graduates a year, which makes it very attractive. Software work done in Coimbatore is at least 20% cheaper than in Chennai and with good weather, the city is poised to become the next big destination for the software industry. The main issue which is plaguing faster growth is poor infrastructure," K Purushothaman, regional director, Nasscom, the apex body of software services exporters, said.
Quoteend:

I am happy to see the news. Not only CBE is developing but Bosch which is not present in TN is now coming to State.
I wish many Bgl companies use CBE as its second hub.

kongutamizhan

February 14th, 2011, 04:55 PM

No they are seperate..

http://www.chennai.stpi.in/aboutus.htm

Today STPI Chennai has spread its industry base across 14 districts of Tamil Nadu Viz., Coimbatore, Trichy, Madurai, Thirunelveli, Salem, Vellore, Tirupur, Erode, Dindgul, Sivakasi, Pollachi, Virudhunagar, Ranipet and Tanjore.

CBE - 711
MDU - 28
TCY - 26
Other - 144
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Total - 909

Is it mainly from call-center / medical transcription operations? (I assume it is). Is there a data how much specifically from software exports?

senthilnatha

February 14th, 2011, 10:09 PM

Is it mainly from call-center / medical transcription operations? (I assume it is). Is there a data how much specifically from software exports?

IT (Software) 60% and ITES (BPO) 40%. I missed the web link for this info. I will share this once I get it.

All top IT cities have the similar break-ups.

bonoslack7

February 15th, 2011, 12:03 AM

del

Subra

February 17th, 2011, 02:30 AM

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/Dell-to-set-up-second-centre-in-Coimbatore/articleshow/7511286.cms

CHENNAI: Dell is in the process of setting up a second centre across 1,50,000 sq ft centre in Coimbatore.

The centre coming up on Dell's 7.2-acre campus in the Coimbatore Hi-Tech Infrastructure Private Limited (CHIL) Special Economic Zone (SEZ) that Dell acquired around two years ago. To begin with, it will have a seating capacity of 1,500. The company now has 600 employees.

The centre will primarily service international clients across industry verticals, and offer a full suite of operations relating to Dell's services division like application development, infrastructure management and BPO services. "The centre will go live in the second or third quarter of this year," said a Dell spokesperson.

This will be Dell's second centre in Coimbatore. The first-with 20,000 sq feet and a 300-seat capacity-is in the KGISL campus. Dell entered Coimbatore by acquiring Perot Systems.

"In view of the increasing demand, we needed to expand. The new centre is part of the first phase of the expansion. In the second phase, we will create additional towers in the same campus. Depending on future requirements, we will make further plans," said the Dell spokesperson.

kalyan_erode

February 17th, 2011, 09:05 AM

COIMBATORE & CHENNAI: Early IT birds who made Coimbatore their sanctuary are now on an expansion drive. The pleasant climate, the reasonably large talent pool and relatively cheaper realty have influenced companies like Robert Bosch, Dell, Cognizant and Wipro to expand their presence in Coimbatore.

Robert Bosch has just inked a deal to acquire one lakh square feet (sq ft) of land for a development centre. Dell is opening its second centre in June. Cognizant has announced a $500-million expansion plan, of which Coimbatore would get a chunk of the investments. Wipro's campus is nearly ready while Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is waiting for approval from Elcot, the state's nodal agency for tech investments, to set up a 29-acre campus.

Coimbatore exported software worth Rs 910 crore for the year ended in March 2010, a growth of 90% over the previous year.

"The entry of big players would make all the difference," says Ashok Bakthavathsalam, managing director, KGISL, which has leased out more than one million sq ft space to IT biggies including Cognizant. The city is a good hunting ground for talent, he says.

"With 181 engineering colleges affiliated to Anna University in Coimbatore, the city produces 50,000 engineering graduates every year, making it very attractive. Software work in Coimbatore is at least 20% cheaper than Chennai, and with good weather, the city is poised to become the next big destination for the software industry," said K Purushothaman, regional director, Nasscom.

For Cognizant, Coimbatore was a surprise. "Our growth in Coimbatore has surpassed our own expectations. Industry watchers see Cognizant's growth here as among the fastest in a tier-2 city in India," says Vishnu Potty, centre head of Cognizant in Coimbatore.

The centre focuses on four industry clusters - financial services (including banking and insurance), healthcare (including life-sciences), manufacturing and retail, and telecommunications, media and entertainment.

"Our delivery track record and our industrialised factory model approach contribute to our continued growth. The future of our Coimbatore centre looks promising and we believe that it will continue to grow at a rapid pace," says Potty.

The growth of IT in the city could be even faster. The main issue plaguing faster growth is poor infrastructure, according to Purushothaman. Another hurdle is the lack of quality mid-level talent in the city.

When companies like Robert Bosch Engineering Solutions (RBEI), which employs 2,700 people in the city, looks for lateral recruits from outside Coimbatore, it is confronted by a strange request - a job for spouse as well. "With limited options in Coimbatore, working couples are finding it difficult to relocate to the city," says Venugopal R, centre head of Robert Bosch, Coimbatore.

However, industry observers say, for the city to attract more mid-level professionals, it has to set up more CBSE schools and residential apartments. Though things have started to improve in the past one-and-a-half years, the pace has been quite slow. Support services such as housekeeping and transport should also improve, they say.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/On-the-tech-perch/articleshow/7511283.cms#ixzz1ECXmp13H

rajeshms

February 17th, 2011, 10:35 AM

Will tidel become operational atleast before the ascendas and other IT parks???

Besides does anyone know whats takin it too long to start at full flow??

Chennai_m

February 17th, 2011, 06:19 PM

When the article says that wipro's campus is nearly ready...is it still in the same state that it has been for the past year (just the brick structure) or has cladding/interior works begun?

bonoslack7

February 17th, 2011, 09:13 PM

http://www.hindu.com/2011/02/18/stories/2011021851020200.htm

Exterro, a U.S.-based IT company, will invest nearly Rs. 9 crore this year to shore up its Coimbatore facility and hit a three-digit growth in revenue.

Its President and Chief Executive Officer, Bobby Balachandran, told The Hindu here on Wednesday that the firm had plans to double its employee strength in a year. Exterro started its operations here in 1996 and employed 86 people. Its main market was the U.S. and the EU. The company aimed to increase its employee strength in the U.S. too.

Mr. Balachandran said the firm offered an IT platform called ‘Fusion', and its target clients were the global 1000 companies.

It had invested Rs. 5 crore here so far. Exterro was in talks with channel partners to offer its product in India, the U.K., Germany and Japan. This would be finalised by mid-2011, he said.

bonoslack7

February 18th, 2011, 09:24 PM

http://www.hindu.com/2011/02/19/stories/2011021952290500.htm

Coimbatore's vision to become one of the major IT destinations of the country has started turning into a reality with some of the big companies in the sector bringing the city under their expansion map.

Apart from companies such as Robert Bosch, Cognizant, Cbay and Ford that are already present here, IBM, Polaris, and Mphasis are also said to be exploring Coimbatore as an option for their operations.

Cognizant

Meanwhile, the existing companies are expanding. Cognizant's growth here is among the fastest in a tier-two city.

It started operations in Coimbatore with 400 people and has more than 5,000 now. For Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions, the phase two expansion here is expected to be completed by the end of 2012. The number of people employed will go up by 1,500 with the phase two expansion.

Enquiries for space in Coimbatore shot up during the last six months. “We have at least one enquiry a week,” says B. Jayamurali, vice-president (Corporate Relations) of KGiSL.

The Coimbatore Hi-Tech Infrastructure has about 125 acres notified as Special Economic Zone and close to 80 acres were used. It is one of the largest private SEZs in the State for IT, ITES and Hardware sectors.

At the multi-tenant facility at the SEZ, about three lakh sq.ft of the six lakh sq.ft was occupied.

In another 12 to 18 months, about 20,000 people would be working in the IT companies in Saravanampatty area, he says.

The KCT Tech Park has nearly two lakh sq.ft of IT space. It is expected to be fully occupied in a few months. The Software Technology Parks of India facility at the Kumaraguru campus (administrative block) has one lakh sq.ft. “The growth is tremendous during the last four months,” says Rajeev Kamineni, Chief Officer of Kumaraguru College of Technology. The Tidel Park, which was inaugurated by Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi in August 2010, has nine lakh sq.ft of IT space.

“There are enquiries and talks are on,” says a Tidel official here. Some of the local IT companies are also seeking space at the park. Their requirements are for smaller areas (10,000 sq.ft or less) and efforts are on to accommodate them in the non-processing zone. Thus, companies involved in business process outsourcing can also look at Tidel, the official says.

Slow take-off

Mr. Jayamurali says one of the reasons for the sector's slow take-off here is inadequate IT space earlier. In 2006, just about three lakh sq.ft was availabe. Today, it is nearly 30 lakh sq.ft. The economic slump had pulled down market sentiments then.

With the economy reviving, enquiries have risen sharply. When big companies come to a city, they occupy larger space and provide more job opportunities. This gives confidence for other players to follow.

Kad07

February 18th, 2011, 11:04 PM

COIMBATORE: Any major industrial growth leads to a surge in the demand for supporting sectors too.

For the IT sector, there is a demand for larger-scale catering, transport, facility management services, and infrastructure. And, the availability of these services is growing.

The catering service providers cook the food in a centralised kitchen and take it to the distribution centre or cook the food at the facility provided in-house.

The service is slightly different for the sector as the volume is huge, the menu is changed regularly, and there is a focus on high quality, says one of the catering service providers.

House keeping

While the IT companies have annual maintenance contract for many of their electrical installations, facility managers maintain these on a daily basis.

The generators, UPS, fire fighting devices, and plumbing installations are maintained by them. They also help in house keeping, says B. Udaya Kumar, who is with the facility management at KCT Tech Park.

http://www.hindu.com/2011/02/19/stories/2011021960890300.htm

senthilnatha

February 19th, 2011, 03:30 AM

http://www.hindu.com/2011/02/19/stories/2011021952290500.htm

Apart from companies such as Robert Bosch, Cognizant, Cbay and Ford that are already present here, IBM, Polaris, and Mphasis are also said to be exploring Coimbatore as an option for their operations.

With the economy reviving, enquiries have risen sharply. When big companies come to a city, they occupy larger space and provide more job opportunities. This gives confidence for other players to follow.

:cheers:

http://www.hindu.com/2011/02/19/images/2011021960880301.jpg

Visible growth:The Special Economic Zone for electronics hardware, and software promoted by the Coimbatore Hi-Tech Infrastructure Private Limited at Saravanampatti in Coimbatore.

senthilnatha

February 19th, 2011, 03:32 AM

http://www.hindu.com/2011/02/19/stories/2011021961000300.htm

They look to local talent

http://www.hindu.com/2011/02/19/images/2011021961000301.jpg

COIMBATORE: Computer science and information technology (IT) graduates need no longer look towards Chennai and Bangalore for jobs. Coimbatore city is soon going to open its arms to them with the entry of IT players.

With IT companies starting to set shop here, they are already on the manhunt for local talent. The trend has just begun and hopes to gain momentum with more companies joining the bandwagon.

The period from December 2010 till now has seen these companies recruit students according to their local requirement. Payoda Technologies, a Coimbatore-based IT company, has recruited 50 candidates so far, while Robert Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions has recruited more because their Coimbatore setup is being planned on a large scale.

The decision to come to Coimbatore was based on the availability of skilled manpower, graduating from the engineering colleges in the vicinity, Robert Bosch says.

The ability to attract top- quality talent has been a particular advantage in this region, according to Cognizant.

“All our IT space occupants have become our recruiters. Even if only 850 students pass out a year, there are still opportunities for 1,100”, says Rajeev Kamineni, Chief Officer of Kumaraguru College of Technology (KCT).

According to K. Senthamarai Kannan, Training and Placement Officer of KCT, this has brought in a new trend.

“Hereafter computer science and IT engineering graduates will get an opportunity to get work right in Coimbatore”.

These companies are, however, not restricting themselves to IT and computer science graduates.

They are also looking for those from streams such as electrical and communication engineering, electronics and instrumentation, mechatronics, and mechanical engineering.

This is because they are happy with the quality they are expecting for the entry-level positions.

The companies are now looking at a few top colleges for their immediate requirement.

But it is expected that once more companies come in, they will look at local talent from colleges that are situated close to the respective companies.

Since companies are viewing engineering talent of Coimbatore students on a par with that of Chennai, the prospects look bright for those who will be passing out this year and the next year.

senthilnatha

February 19th, 2011, 03:34 AM

http://www.hindu.com/2011/02/19/stories/2011021953000700.htm

Return of the natives

COIMBATORE: With more number of IT and IT Enabled Services companies opening facilities here, it has thrown open opportunities for software professionals from the city to return home.

For instance, Sanatanan Muralidharan, who works at Ugam Solutions here, decided to work in Coimbatore so that he can be closer to his family in Palakad. Having spent 10 years in Chennai, he decided to move to Coimbatore so that his two-year old son can have the experience of growing up in an extended family that resides in Palakad.

“It takes just an hour or so to drive down to Palakad. I have been in Coimbatore for the last one year and I have not regretted it,” he says.

Several software professionals like Mr. Muralidharan are willing to relocate to Coimbatore as it is their home town or they are from nearby places such as Erode, Salem or Palakkad.

Infrastructure

Coimbatore is catching up with the bigger cities in terms of social infrastructure. There are several software companies here now and so, “we will not lose out career-wise because we are here,” he adds.

For Manish K. Bafna and M. Nandakumar, who are with Exterro (which started operations here in 2006), they have worked in IT companies in Bangalore and Chennai respectively, and returning to Coimbatore was because of several factors. One reason was to be at home, with their family.

In Chennai, it takes two hours to travel to office every day. Bigger cities have problems such as pollution too. There are many software engineers from Coimbatore working in other cities. Some of them may prefer to come back, they say.

senthilnatha

February 21st, 2011, 09:15 PM

http://www.hindu.com/2011/02/22/stories/2011022257300600.htm

CII plans IT event

COIMBATORE: The Confederation of Indian Industry, Coimbatore, will look at conducting a study next year on the Information Technology industry here and come out with recommendations, according to the CII Chairman for Coimbatore J. Balamurugan.

The CII will organise ‘Connect Coimbatore 2011,' an Information and Communication Technology event, here on March 3 and 4.

According to Mr. Balamurugan, this was the 11 {+t} {+h} edition of the event and it looked at promoting entrepreneurship in IT here.

The theme for the meeting this year is “Innovative ICT for World-Class Enterprises.”

Focus

It would focus on trends in convergence, embedded systems, scaling software businesses, ERP for SMEs, enterprise applications for Cloud and emerging computing platforms.

The event will be inaugurated by PWC Davidar, Principal Secretary, Department of Information Technology. Santhosh Babu, Managing Director of Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu, Lakshmi Narayanan, vice-chairman of Cognizant Technology Solutions, and Nandini Rangaswamy, chairperson of CII-Tamil Nadu, will also be present at the inaugural.

In the Western countries, companies spend 2 per cent to 4 per cent of their turnover on Information Technology as against less than 1 per cent here.

Opportunities

Hence, companies had several opportunities to use IT as a differentiator to their business, said Ashok Bakthavathsalam, chairman of Connect Coimbatore. R. Venugopal, convenor of the ICT Panel of the CII, Coimbatore Zone, said the IT sector was also looking at opportunities in cities such as Coimbatore.

senthilnatha

February 21st, 2011, 09:21 PM

Connect Coimbatore 2011 - Brochure

http://www.coimbatoreit.com/pdf/connect2011-brochure.pdf

karthikarthik

February 23rd, 2011, 04:09 AM

Ford's operations in the country also include Global Business Services with a workforce of more than 4,700 employees, providing business services in the areas of IT, accounting and finance, financial services and automotive operations support, global analytics and engineering services. These operations serve Ford's business units and skill teams globally out of centres in Chennai and Coimbatore.

http://www.mfrtech.com/articles/10654.html

Any idea on the headcount of Ford @ CBE?

satishanu

February 25th, 2011, 04:21 AM

KG College

Tech Mahindra and Mahindra Satyam will visit KG College of Arts and Science on February 27 and 28 for recruitment.

Graduates and diploma holders from the 2009, 2010 and 2011 batches are eligible to attend. They should be from the branches of computer science, computer technology, information technology, electronics and communications, and computer applications.

Aspiring candidates should not have any arrears and should have an aggregate of 60 per cent and above from standard X to graduation.

The selection process will involve an aptitude test and English skills, technical evaluation, and HR evaluation.

KCT College

Microsoft India (GTSC Division) will visit Kumaraguru College of Technology (KCT) on February 28 and March 1 for a campus recruitment.

Students who will pass out in 2011 from KCT, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore Institute of Technology, Government College of Technology and Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham will attend the recruitment drive.

Students from Computer Science, Information Technology, and Electronics and Communication Engineering, are eligible to participate in the recruitment drive.

src: http://www.hindu.com/2011/02/25/stories/2011022562490200.htm

^^not sure if any of these companies open up shop in tidel park.

karthikarthik

March 3rd, 2011, 06:14 AM

http://www.embassyindia.com/projects/sez/techzone_coimbatore/page.htm

As per the above website, Embassy is suppose to start its 4 million sq ft SEZ in 2011. Any info whether the construction started or yet to commence(possible date)?

Any other updates on IT/ITES specific SEZ ?
Bannari Infopark SEz
span ventures
True Developers pvt ltd arasur village
Rakindo

TShyam

March 3rd, 2011, 01:20 PM

Where is it exactly? It says 25 mins from airport. 25 mins from airport and I will end up in Avinashi. btw 4 million sq.ft? Whom are they kidding?

chennaidesi

March 3rd, 2011, 01:23 PM

^^By mistake they thought they are building this sez in Bangalore.:)

Kad07

March 3rd, 2011, 04:46 PM

I think they are talking about the Rathinam Techno Park.

As a joining venture Bangalore based Embassy group, Rathinam group is establishing a large scale IT Park under SEZ scheme with in the Rathinam Techzone campus. The IT Park is 24 Lak square feet world class IT infrastructure developed to suit any top class MNC companies in the world.
More Details...

http://www.rathinamcollege.com/it-park.php

Kad07

March 3rd, 2011, 11:08 PM

Develop good ecosystem for IT growth

COIMBATORE: Industries and educational institutions should work together to develop the knowledge base on specific issues and trends for the growth of the Information Technology sector here, PWC Davidar, Principal Secretary, Department of Information Technology, said here on Thursday.

Inaugurating Connect Coimbatore, a conference on Innovative ICT for World Class Enterprises, organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), he said Coimbatore's software exports last year was over Rs. 700 crore.

The industry would be able to develop here with a good ecosystem. One aspect of the ecosystem was to develop the knowledge base. A concerted effort was needed from the industry and the institutions to have an interactive consultation on a focused topic. It should be anchored by the industry and knowledge inputs should also come from the industry.

Educational institutions should also focus on developing the communication skills of students. India was scoring over other countries in several fields. The only gap was communications skills.

Lakshmi Narayanan, Vice-Chairman of Cognizant Technology Solutions, said the ecosystem needed for any city to develop included educational infrastructure, good companies, active and vibrant industry associations, research activities, and diversity. Coimbatore was already well-known for many of these factors. Coimbatore required leadership. “The people in the city should behave like leaders in a sector for the specific industry to develop here.” Coimbatore should stake a claim and choose to be a leader in a chosen area.

For any industry to be successful in the long-term, it should invest in people, innovation, research and green initiatives and adopt the global standards on these issues. Technology helped improve productivity. It played a crucial role to make an industry competitive.

The IT companies here should look at key industrial verticals and see how technology could be used to make these sectors more productive.

Nandini Rangaswamy, Chairperson of CII-Tamil Nadu, said the IT industry here was gaining importance. Several domestic BPO companies were moving to tier-two and tier-three towns to service the domestic clients. Industry members should consider Coimbatore a preferential investment destination as it had a vast human resource pool.

Ashok Bakthavathsalam, Chairman of Connect Coimbatore, said growth of IT sector in Coimbatore had been tremendous during the last few years and the city would soon be a destination for IT companies. J. Balamurugan, Chairman of CII, Coimbatore Zone, said the CII was organising the annual IT event since 2000. R. Venugopal, Convenor of the ICT Panel, CII Coimbatore Zone, proposed a vote of thanks.

http://www.hindu.com/2011/03/04/stories/2011030462440500.htm

karthikarthik

March 4th, 2011, 03:39 AM

Where is it exactly? It says 25 mins from airport. 25 mins from airport and I will end up in Avinashi. btw 4 million sq.ft? Whom are they kidding?

From Airport if you take L&T bypass you can reach Eachanari within 25 min. The location they have mentioned in their wensite is in between Pollachi Road and Madukkarai Market road. Embassy is a renowned real estate group which hosts some leading clients. I have been to their campus at inner ring road i.e Embassy Golf Links-7,000,000 sft completed+9,000,000 sq ft(construction going on) which hosts majors like microsoft, IBM, Dell, KPMG, Netapp, ANZ Goldman Sachs, Target, yahoo and Fidelity. We cannot rule out the possibility of having 4,000,000 sq ft facility in CBE.

TShyam

March 4th, 2011, 01:16 PM

Maybe sometime in the future, currently it is too early. 4 million sq.ft means 4000 to 5000 crore exports per year from that park alone. Cbe totally exported only 1000 crores last year. So it maybe ready for a 4 million sq.ft park by say 2015/16. I am not questioning the capability of the developer but the capacity of the city to take it.

TShyam

March 4th, 2011, 01:23 PM

But if they manage to convince companies like Goldman Sachs, MS, IBM, Yahoo to expand in Cbe, it would be super cool.

kalyan_erode

March 7th, 2011, 10:18 AM

But if they manage to convince companies like Goldman Sachs, MS, IBM, Yahoo to expand in Cbe, it would be super cool.

MS is already functioning in coimbatore I believe.

karthikarthik

March 7th, 2011, 03:52 PM

MS is already functioning in coimbatore I believe.

It is just a Sales Office and not a development center.

kalyan_erode

March 8th, 2011, 12:35 PM

^^
MS has opened a development center in Coimbatore.Even my Friend has been interviewed by a HR (from Kovai Center) for a dotnet opening.I will get more details on the location.

greatshankar

March 8th, 2011, 03:05 PM

No, MS is not in TN.

satishanu

March 8th, 2011, 03:18 PM

MS must be recruiting people from CBE for their HYD operations.

sivarajkumar

March 16th, 2011, 10:04 AM

Microsoft is not in TamiNadu.....Microsoft and IBM have their sales office at Residency....I see that Buidings are being occupied as soon as they built in cities like Bangalore and Chennai....But our Tidelpark is still the same even after 8 months it got inagurated......Not even single company small or big have posted their presence there...I do know why is it taking this much time.......it really disappoints people who are planning to move to thier native.....

senthilnatha

March 16th, 2011, 02:25 PM

vs007

March 16th, 2011, 03:11 PM

Last week my friend had a discussion with a senior official in Tidel and got the double confirmation that TCS and IBM are coming-up in Tidel CBE. The interior works will be completed 1-2 months.

Hurray for IBM!! Not much for TCS, they should have constructed on their allotted 10 Acre land!

vivek2006

March 16th, 2011, 04:54 PM

greatshankar

March 16th, 2011, 05:06 PM

Oracle has a sales office in Madras, I heard recently that they are also closing down the Madras office. They have a huge presence in Blr and Hyd. Not sure why these companies are not coming to TN

Oracle Financial services has two centers in Chennai (after acquiring Iflex). They have Sales office in RK Salai, Chennai.

greatshankar

March 16th, 2011, 05:10 PM

Hurray for IBM!! Not much for TCS, they should have constructed on their allotted 10 Acre land!

Really good news for coimbatore.

kongutamizhan

March 16th, 2011, 06:31 PM

Are you folks talking about IBM development center? If that's the case it's good.

If it's sales office or some back office I don't think it'll add much value. In-fact their presence is there in CBE already from 2007 if that's the case

http://www.thehindubusinessline.in/2007/05/18/stories/2007051801762300.htm

http://www.ibm.com/in/en/2007/05/20070517_launch.html

senthilnatha

March 16th, 2011, 07:41 PM

vs007

March 16th, 2011, 08:33 PM

Sales office is in Residency. In Tidel it will be software devt.

If thats true, a dinner treat at the Afghan Grill at Residency! :)

kalyan_erode

March 17th, 2011, 12:27 PM

Last week my friend had a discussion with a senior official in Tidel and got the double confirmation that TCS and IBM are coming-up in Tidel CBE. The interior works will be completed 1-2 months.

Good news..Someone from IBM or TCS can comment on when the Tidel will be occupied.

skrajend

March 17th, 2011, 01:41 PM

sivarajkumar

March 18th, 2011, 08:59 AM

Good news..Someone from IBM or TCS can comment on when the Tidel will be occupied.

Hi Friends,
According to IBM we dosent have any information on new facility opening in Coimbatore.Recently they opened new premises in Ahmedabad and Hyderabad(Second One).When I discussed with my friend working in Sales office in Coimbatore he said that they have seen place to open Sales office only in Coimbatore and not more than that for now.When I checked with TidelPark Office they said toss is going on between Tidel and IBM but its not confirmed.......Some one from TCS can comment more abt its status...

rajeshms

March 21st, 2011, 10:48 AM

Hurray for IBM!! Not much for TCS, they should have constructed on their allotted 10 Acre land!

OMG!!! Thanks a tonne Senthil.. You just made my day.. I'm on cloud nine afta seeing this.. Thanks a tonne bro.. Really appreciate it.. Does this mean that we can expect TCS and IBM to start its operations after a couple of months???

meetvetri

March 24th, 2011, 05:20 AM

Dear Friends

Any idea about wipro at coimbatore sez.
Would like to know if any body is aware of their operations and when they are going to start. I know there is a building but it has been a long time no news.

Thankyou

Regards
Senthil

Towards end of 2010, they got approval to build another 65acre SEZ in Sarjapur road. But it will take another 2 years for the bldg to be ready. Similar is the case of building another SEZ near Devanahalli.

The internal mandate for last one year is to move out of Bangalore as there is hardly any capacity available in Bangalore to start new accounts/projects.

Currently Kolkatta, Chennai's Perungudi and Mahindra City locations are expanded vigorously.

Had the CBE TIDEL park be readied on time coupled with aggressive marketing, high chance of Wipro opening in Tidel premises itself.

With no will to resolve the railway flyover tangle and completing Tidel park on time on the government part, one can only wish that things move in right direction.

Me thinks the powers be might have hidden stakes in private SEZ developed in CBE. Hence the soft pedaling of TIDEL park completion.

bonoslack7

March 24th, 2011, 08:39 PM

http://www.mydigitalfc.com/bpo/captives-prefer-tier-ii-and-iii-cities-151

Tier II and III cities now house 103 captive centres of MNC companies. Though the growth of the IT-BPO sector has centered on Bangalore and five other cities, Tier II and III cities are gaining momentum, said a study conducted for Nasscom by Zinnov Management Consulting.

The survey was released in Hyderabad on Thursday in connection with the two day Global Captive Conclave 2011. “We have seen cities such as Chandigarh, Nagpur and Coimbatore become a preferred location for MNC companies to set up their second or third centre in India,” said Zinnov CEO Pari Natarajan.

Kolkata, Trivandrum, Ahmedabad, Visakhapatnam, Baroda, Surat, Bhubaneshwar, Jaipur, Thane and others are the other preferred locations, apart from the six preferred IT destinations of Bangalore, Mumbai, Pune, NCR, Hyderabad and Chennai.

Detailing the other findings of the study, he said the average size of a captive has grown from 375 employees to 575 employees.

During 2009-10, about 40 captives have either expanded operations or set up new centres in India. Further, the study said India accounted for 33 per cent of the total worldwide new captive announcements in 2010. Natarajan said 11 captives are planned in India with an investment of $800 million and five of them are in tier II and III cities.

“Captives prefer tier II locations for expansion and business continuity for cost benefit reasons,” he said. However, lack of infrastructure and inability to attract middle and senior level management hampered growth in these cities.

Service delivery from tier I cities in India still works out significantly lower than the competition in Asia, Eastern Europe and South America and tier II cities in India offer a further 30 per cent reduction in the operating costs, the report said.

Within the captives, the Indian BPO market accounts for 25.4 cent of the total $12.3 billion captive market size and has grown from 26 in 2000 to 113 in 2009 in number of units.

kalyan_erode

March 25th, 2011, 11:25 AM

senthilnatha

March 26th, 2011, 01:33 AM

I think these are all only in newspaper..I have never heard any Captives starting or having a unit in Coimbatore(except Robert Bosch)..

Two more captives are in CBE - Cognizant and DELL-Perot Systems

kalyan_erode

March 27th, 2011, 08:04 AM

Two more captives are in CBE - Cognizant and DELL-Perot Systems

Senthil,

Captive companies are those who do products for their own.Companies such as JP Morgan,Tesco, Target,E-bay are captives.Correct me if Iam wrong.

senthilnatha

March 27th, 2011, 02:56 PM

Senthil,

Captive companies are those who do products for their own.Companies such as JP Morgan,Tesco, Target,E-bay are captives.Correct me if Iam wrong.

http://www.bpoindia.org/companies/captive.shtml

Captive Call/Contact centers
A company which plans to send jobs to India has two options - either do it on its own (captive centre) or outsource it to the companies in India which have the relevant skills. You could consider combining the two models too.

Captive centers are those centers that are operated for servicing their own clients and not third party clients

kalyan_erode

April 7th, 2011, 04:17 PM

Chennai, April 7 (IANS) City-based Ford Business Services Center Pvt Ltd – a wholly owned business services subsidiary of global auto giant Ford Motor Company – is planning to increase head count at its Coimbatore centre.

‘Our current head count is around 4,700 and we are planning to take it to around 5,000. In Coimbatore, we plan to add around 125 people by the end of this year, take the total strength to 500. The total seating capacity our Coimbatore facility is 750,’ Joginder P. Singh, president and managing director, told IANS.

He said the company serves Ford Motor’s various global operations in terms of information technology, accounting, engineering services (vehicle design and others), business analytics, tax related work, transactional work for Ford Credit (finance arm for Ford vehicles) and others.

‘Our employees here serve Ford Motor’s operations in nine time zones. We have been able to standardise many of the operations now,’ Singh added.

Speaking about operations in Coimbatore, around 500 km from here, he said: ‘The attrition rate is certainly low there. Further, we are able to attract talent within and outside Coimbatore.’

He said the Indian subsidiary is the only captive for Ford Motor though it has hired some third-party service providers in some other geographies.

‘In India, we are growing at around 25-30 percent,’ Singh said.

http://www.inewsone.com/2011/04/07/ford-business-services-to-increase-head-count-in-india/41751

meetvetri

April 8th, 2011, 04:40 PM

senthilnatha

April 10th, 2011, 12:15 AM

I doubt whether this means IT jobs. They could be in accounting, finance related jobs.

I heard that Ford has 25% IT and 75% ITES (BPO). Most of the IT companies will venture into a new city with BPO activities and then once established IT related jobs will follow.

naser_cbe

April 22nd, 2011, 08:44 AM

Coimbatore BOSCH in Saravanampatti SEZ at night

http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/600/sezq.jpg (http://img94.imageshack.us/i/sezq.jpg/)

Naveenmech

April 22nd, 2011, 08:51 AM

Coimbatore BOSCH in Saravanampatti SEZ at night

http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/600/sezq.jpg (http://img94.imageshack.us/i/sezq.jpg/)

Superb...:cheers::cheers:

senthilnatha

April 25th, 2011, 10:47 PM

http://www.hindu.com/2011/04/26/stories/2011042655700300.htm

Challenges identified for the growth of the IT sector

COIMBATORE: Transport connectivity, vendor capabilities and cost competitiveness have been identified as some of the challenges that need to be addressed for the growth of the Information Technology (IT) sector here.

The NASSCOM (National Association of Software and Services Companies) organised a CEO Forum here on Monday on “Coimbatore – Destination of Choice for IT and BPO Companies”. The participants identified the main challenges that need to addressed for the growth of the sector here.

Summing up the discussions, Joginder P. Singh, President and Managing Director of Ford Business Services, said some of the major challenges here were the need for better roads, air and rail connectivity, talent recruitment, vendor capability for supporting services, cost competitiveness and branding Coimbatore. “We need action on these,” he said. The speed at which the sector had grown here was encouraging.

There were numerous challenges. But these were not insurmountable. The IT companies here should work together in their common areas of interest. “There is a need for collaboration.”

Coimbatore had several advantages. But, these need to be put in the public domain. Further, “Coimbatore needs to be cost competitive on a sustainable basis,” he said.

According to Ashok Bhakthavatsalam, Managing Director of KG Information Systems, Coimbatore was attractive for transaction and non voice-based service providing companies. Business Process Outsourcing as an industry was a challenge here for those in the small and medium-scale business segment. There was a need to brand Coimbatore, and achieve cost competitiveness. Talent was usually picked up by the larger companies and hence smaller companies had a problem in recruiting fresh candidates. “We need a son of the soil who will bat for Coimbatore for the IT sector to take off here,” he said.

At the interactive session, the participants said the game of the day was speed. The challenges were almost the same for Coimbatore and Chennai. In Chennai, collective representation with adequate data helped the industry. A similar effort was needed here. The common needs, innovative ideas and data should be presented to the Government jointly.

avinash2060

April 29th, 2011, 09:47 AM

Coimbatore, April 26:

‘Is Coimbatore a destination of choice for the IT-BPO companies that have established operations here or has the city emerged as the ‘ideal IT destination?'

This debate has been going on for years with the CII, Coimbatore zone, promoting the city as the ‘ideal destination', while those that have forayed here maintain that it seemed ‘destination of choice' when the costs were escalating and attrition rates – peaking in tier I cities, though not any more.

“Coimbatore is as costly or more than some of the bigger IT hubs. Land prices have soared in recent years, connectivity still remains an issue and above all, it has not been easy retaining the middle management team,” say industry insiders.

The 20-odd industry captains who converged at the 11 {+t} {+h} edition of Nasscom CEO Forum at The Residency this morning felt that a lot more needs to be done to remain on top and emerge a stronger IT- BPO destination.

Highlighting some of the hurdles in this growth journey, Mr K. Purushothaman, Regional Director, Nasscom (Tamil Nadu and Kerala) said “while the region has a lot to offer in terms of talent pool, climate, educational institutions and so on, it lacked a sponsor, brand identity to market Coimbatore. There is a need to team up within the industry, instead of voicing woes in isolation.”

He urged the industry captains to come together, unite, throw up innovative ideas and compile industry-wide facts and figures (not company data) when seeking Government's support for resolving any issue.

“The Government has multiple things to do, but we must team up within the industry while working with the Government,” he said.

Innovation

He also pointed out that companies would outgrow the present day challenges and should therefore prepare themselves to take the lead and keep the ball rolling. “Be proactive, not reactive' he said.

Summing up the proceedings, Mr Joginder P. Singh, President and Managing Director of Ford Business Service Centre, conceded that the pace of growth was good, challenges – numerous but not insurmountable.
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/todays-paper/tp-others/tp-states/article1771299.ece

sam_k

April 30th, 2011, 07:37 AM

Hi Friends,
According to IBM we dosent have any information on new facility opening in Coimbatore....
^^
I have been told by some very reliable sources that IBM has confirmed space at CBE-TIDEL and interior works would commence very shortly.Official announcement can be expected sometime in may.You could treat this as a strong rumour!

senthilnatha

April 30th, 2011, 01:34 PM

Bosch @ KGISL Campus

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_If0rW5a245k/TK394AdycMI/AAAAAAAABlk/QEG2DF2qfT8/SNC00075.jpg

Bosch @ CHIL-SEZ

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_If0rW5a245k/TK39989Xy7I/AAAAAAAABmM/3GOhHyL-pD0/SNC00087.jpg

kovaidreamz

April 30th, 2011, 04:08 PM

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/6286/05032011018.jpg (http://img20.imageshack.us/i/05032011018.jpg/)

http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/5185/05032011019.jpg (http://img20.imageshack.us/i/05032011019.jpg/)

http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/7967/05032011020.jpg (http://img231.imageshack.us/i/05032011020.jpg/)

http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/5066/05032011021.jpg (http://img717.imageshack.us/i/05032011021.jpg/)

http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/959/05032011024x.jpg (http://img600.imageshack.us/i/05032011024x.jpg/)

Ouside view... the nearby building u/c is Indialand tech park (Right Half of which is complete and left half is u/c)
http://img862.imageshack.us/img862/7991/05032011025.jpg (http://img862.imageshack.us/i/05032011025.jpg/)

Sampathkumar

April 30th, 2011, 04:15 PM

Ouside view... the nearby building u/c is Indialand tech park (Right Half of which is complete and left half is u/c)

NICE PICTURES.

Naveenmech

May 1st, 2011, 09:35 AM

All pictures are really nice....

kalyan_erode

May 1st, 2011, 05:53 PM

kalyan_erode

May 1st, 2011, 05:56 PM

senthilnatha

May 3rd, 2011, 11:24 PM

http://www.mrweb.com/drno/news13529.htm

Ugam Plans Rapid Growth in Indian Workforce May 3 2011

MR outsourcing firm Ugam is planning to increase its workforce in India by 30% in the next year, with the majority of new hires at its operation at Saravanampatty, in Coimbatore in Southern India.

Founded in 2000, Ugam serves global clients via a team of 1,000 plus based in the USA, UK and India.

The firm’s broad range of services includes multi-country and domestic project management, data collection, tabs and analysis, competitive intelligence solutions and predictive analytics.

‘We plan to add around 350 employees by the end of this year,’ confirms CEO Sunil Mirani. ‘The increase in our operational staff is to provide efficient service to our clients across the globe. Coimbatore is a good location with many educational institutions, diverse skill-sets and low attrition; as such, we think it’s the best place for growing our workforce.’ :)

senthilnatha

May 3rd, 2011, 11:30 PM

It is almost confirmed that CTS is going to start second phase (2 towers) in CHIL-SEZ

http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/cognizant-net-profit38-in-first-quarter/434421/

Cognizant net profit up 38% in first quarter

New investments

Cognizant is to invest $285 million in 2011, the bulk of it in India, said Coburn. The bulk would be on its notified techno-campuses in Special Economic Zzones.

The company has planned to add eight million sq ft, with the capacity to house 55,000 employees. Around 75 per cent of the global headcount of 111,000 is in India.

“We saw a decline in attrition during the first quarter. This number has decreased sequentially to 15.1 per cent,” he said.

The real estate development plan is to create additional software development and training facilities in regions designated as SEZs in Chennai, Pune, Coimbatore, and Kolkata.

Around 78 per cent of revenue came from clients in North America, 18.7 per cent in Europe and 3.3 per cent from the Asia Pacific, Middle Eastern and Latin American markets.

The company had a gross addition of 59 new customers during the first quarter and closed the quarter with 714 active customers, said Coburn.

senthilnatha

May 6th, 2011, 05:11 PM

It's confirmed that ascendas project in CBE is still progressing.

http://news.asiaone.com/News/Latest%2BNews/Asia/Story/A1Story20110506-277469.html

Building mini-Singapores in India

ANYONE driving into Whitefield, Bangalore's IT hub, will pause and marvel at the International Tech Park Bangalore (ITPB, above).

There was no such thing as an IT park in India when Singapore company Ascendas ventured into India in 1994 to build the ITPB. Today, it is the benchmark model for all in the industry in India.

The park, from its small beginnings, has grown. Situated on 69 acres of land, over 27,000 people work in the park today.

Ascendas' footprint across India too has grown over the years. It now has IT parks in Chennai, Hyderabad, Gurgaon and Pune with a new one under construction in Coimbatore.

"We have a total of 265 acres all over India. We are also looking to increase our portfolio by acquiring existing buildings and enhancing and improving them," says Ms Chong Siak Ching (right), president and CEO of Ascendas, a company well known as a developer and manager of business space.

....
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senthilnatha

May 15th, 2011, 02:02 AM

http://www.hindu.com/2011/05/15/stories/2011051560310100.htm

Operations off to a start at Tidel Park

A Chennai-based company is expected to start operations in a month's time

The minimum occupancy at the park by a company should be 5,000 sq.ft

COIMBATORE: Tidel Park in Coimbatore, which was inaugurated in August 2010, has taken off with a Coimbatore-based Information Technology (IT) company starting operations on its premises. An official of the Tidel told The Hindu on Friday that Payoda, a Coimbatore-based company, have taken 17,000 sq.ft. at the park and started operations this week. A Chennai-based company is expected to start operations in a month's time and would occupy about 15,000 sq.ft. The park has 1.7 million sq.ft. of built-up area and the space allotted for IT is nine lakh sq.ft.

The minimum occupancy at the park by a company should be 5,000 sq.ft. and the rent is Rs. 25 per sq.ft. With operations starting at the park, built at an investment of Rs. 380 crore, the supportive service providers are also to open shop soon. The food court has started functioning with a 50-seat capacity. Its full capacity is 650 seats. Anand Purushothaman, Chief Executive Officer of Payoda Technologies, said the company was into product development and IT services in finance, infrastructure management, technology solutions and networking verticals. It currently had 120 employees and would add another 250 in a year. “Payoda, which is a start-up firm, is also considering taking a strategic partner for one of its products,” he added.

senthilnatha

May 15th, 2011, 02:05 AM

Details about Payoda

http://www.payoda.com/contact/

U.S Office
New JerseyPayoda Inc
20 River Court, Suite 1004
Jersey City
NJ 07310
Phone : +1 (212) 400 7541, +1 (201) 604 5358
Fax : +1 (201) 829 9777

TexasPayoda Inc
12410 W Little York
Suite 312
Houston
TX 77041

India LocationPayoda Technologies Private Limited
42-A, Senguptha Street, Ramnagar
Coimbatore – 641009
Tamil Nadu
India
Phone : +91 (422) 4201800

U.K OfficePayoda Europe
219C Gloucester Terrace
London, W26HX
United Kingdom
Phone : +44 (0) 20 3137 2465

kalyan_erode

May 16th, 2011, 11:38 AM

CHENNAI, India – Ford Global Business Services has ambitious plans for expansion in the city of Coimbatore, where the company’s presence has given impetus to growth of the urban centre itself. Executive Director of Global Business Services Joginder Singh who is also convenor of National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM), Coimbatore chapter, stressed this during his recent visit to Coimbatore.

Summing up the discussions at a NASSCOM CEO forum, Singh said some of the major challenges in setting up operations in Coimbatore were the need for better roads, air and rail connectivity, talent recruitment, vendor capability for supporting services, cost competitiveness and a more effective branding strategy for Coimbatore. Citing the growth of business services including IT sectors in Coimbatore as impressive, he said though the city has some advantages, the business service and IT players should collaborate more to promote it as a destination. The meeting was co-chaired by the managing director of KG Information Systems, regional director of NASSCOM, TN and Kerala region and centre heads of Cognizant and Robert Bosch respectively.

Singh took time to visit the Ford Business Service Centre (FBSC) team in Coimbatore and was pleased to see the strides made within a very short period of time."We are absolutely thrilled by the great team spirit and camaraderie of employees here in working with the FBSC colleagues in Chennai," he said at an all-employee meet. He called this 'Coimbatore spirit' the way forward for team bonding and a great work environment. Singh celebrated the two-year anniversary of the FBSC centre in Coimbatore by cutting a cake and inaugurating 'SPREC', a periodic sports meet held by FBSC Coimbatore.

Commencing operations in February 2009, the FBSC centre in Coimbatore quickly doubled its operations to 400 and is looking to reach its assigned strength of 783 in future. Set up to provide a Business Continuity Plan (BCP) for about 250 vital functions; it has expanded its role to cover to 650 vital activities in 2010. Today, the facility, with over 20 departments operational, is a proven business continuity centre and on its way to emerging as a full-fledged business service centre.

"Coimbatore proves to be an attractive destination because of its salubrious climate, proximity to Chennai operations, lower cost of living, readily available and talented pool of college and technical graduates and higher employee retention," says Krishnan Narayan, the centre manager of Coimbatore FBSC.

Singh concluded his visit by meeting with key officials from local academic institutions to help attract future talent to Ford.

rajeshms

May 25th, 2011, 08:52 AM

cbepulikutty

June 6th, 2011, 08:28 AM

Stay where you are... This CBE TidelPark is a DeadInvestment.... IT in coimbatore will not see much progress with the exception of CHIL in Saravanampatti...

siruthai

June 6th, 2011, 10:46 AM

Stay where you are... This CBE TidelPark is a DeadInvestment.... IT in coimbatore will not see much progress with the exception of CHIL in Saravanampatti...

I dont know real situation there but hope u r proved wrong. Even iam getting bored and frustrated staying away from home in a foreign land. Even in India i dont like to settle in Chennai due to its climate and fast life which iam not sure my papa and mamma can get acquainted. If Engr and textile industry already having a gud presence here if IT also clicked then Coimbatore will be a perfect place to live a life with peacefullness of a village and facilities of a city and working culture of a metro.:cheers:

thillai_selvan

June 6th, 2011, 11:04 AM

^^ Why every one is always saying about Chennai's climate? I always feel Chennai's climate is better than south TN(Tirunelveli/Tuticorin). I can say they are even hotter than Chennai.

siruthai

June 6th, 2011, 11:23 AM

^^ Why every one is always saying about Chennai's climate? I always feel Chennai's climate is better than south TN(Tirunelveli/Tuticorin). I can say they are even hotter than Chennai.

U r absolutely correct. When comparing to Tuticorin, Chennai is ok. But still persons coming from Coimbatore, Pollachi will find Chennai very hot and humid. And i have many friends in Chennai who would love to settle themselves in Coimbatore than in mumbai or puna even if offer is relatively less.

senthilnatha

June 6th, 2011, 02:48 PM

Hi all,
Does anyone have any idea as wy none of the big companies have still come forward to occupy space @ Tidel??? A while back heard that IBM and few others had occupied space @ Tidel and interior works were carried out.. Is it just a rumour??? Also heard that talks were carried out b/w the company and ELCOT w.r.t space rent.. Whats the current status of the Tidel??

Anyone with some info could reply.. Would really appreciate it as I so badly wanna come there soon..

It looks Payoda started their operations in Tidel. Last month their website was showing Ram Nagar address.

http://www.payoda.com/contact/

India LocationPayoda Technologies Private Limited
Module No.120/2, North Block, First Floor
ELCOT SEZ, TIDEL PARK
Coimbatore-641004
Tamil Nadu, India
Phone : +91 (422) 2366100

Some Videos posted on 11th May

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crs3wAZijPk

OMG - CBE missed a big Kalyana Mandapam!!!!!!!! :lol:

rajeshms

June 6th, 2011, 03:07 PM

It looks Payoda started their operations in Tidel. Last month their website was showing Ram Nagar address.

http://www.payoda.com/contact/

India LocationPayoda Technologies Private Limited
Module No.120/2, North Block, First Floor
ELCOT SEZ, TIDEL PARK
Coimbatore-641004
Tamil Nadu, India
Phone : +91 (422) 2366100

Some Videos posted on 11th May

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crs3wAZijPk

OMG - CBE missed a big Kalyana Mandapam!!!!!!!! :lol:

An year back I seriously was dreaming that I would come back and work @ Tidel.. However now I've just woke up from the dream I guess.. What is it that we Coimbatoreans have to do so that we get what we deserve.. A pathetic world, sorry a state that we live in..

naser_cbe

June 6th, 2011, 03:33 PM

I don't understand why all the guys working outside CBE are turning only to TIDEL park for coming back to CBE. There are lot of companies in CHIL SEZ in saravanampatti. The two biggies - CTS and BOSCH are located here and they are very much in the hunt for local talent. It is not a herculean task to come back to CBE. Just join CTS or BOSCH and your dream becomes true.

Apart from these two big companies, there is also exterro, CBay, Perot, KGiSL, Pace systems, Payoda, CG-Vak, etc.

senthilnatha

June 6th, 2011, 03:34 PM

An year back I seriously was dreaming that I would come back and work @ Tidel.. However now I've just woke up from the dream I guess.. What is it that we Coimbatoreans have to do so that we get what we deserve.. A pathetic world, sorry a state that we live in..

U can try in CTS or BOSCH? Still ur dreams r alive... CHIL-SEZ is very huge than ELCOT-SEZ...

senthilnatha

June 6th, 2011, 06:17 PM

rajeshms

June 6th, 2011, 07:37 PM

I just got the news from some people in TOP MGMT that TCS will indeed start its operations @ Tidel however even that person is not sure when..

kalyan_erode

June 7th, 2011, 07:33 AM

^^
I have been told by some very reliable sources that IBM has confirmed space at CBE-TIDEL and interior works would commence very shortly.Official announcement can be expected sometime in may.You could treat this as a strong rumour!

What happened to IBM?Are they really coming to CBE.

Also can someone confirm what type of work is being done in Perot-Dell, is it only BPO kind of job?

kalyan_erode

June 7th, 2011, 07:38 AM

isham_9626

June 7th, 2011, 07:55 AM

I have heard that CTS offers very less pay when compared to their offer in Chennai or Bangalore...I believe this is the reason why people are hesitating to join CTS/Bosch..

Thats true kalyan, one of my friends got thru the interview in CTS for Infrastructre support. He attended the interview in chennai and he opted for Coimbatore location. They offerred him only 2.3 lk. For the same position in chennai they are ready to offer 2.75 lk and above.

senthilnatha

June 7th, 2011, 08:02 AM

siruthai

June 7th, 2011, 08:22 AM

Thats true kalyan, one of my friends got thru the interview in CTS for Infrastructre support. He attended the interview in chennai and he opted for Coimbatore location. They offerred him only 2.3 lk. For the same position in chennai they are ready to offer 2.75 lk and above.

That diff will be there. There is a huge Salary difference between mumbai and Chennai, Mumbai and Hydrabad that does not stop companies from operating from chennai or hydrabad because of employees prefernce for mumbai due to its higher salary.
It was for the same reason outsourcing jobs from us and europe becomes a reality. So eventualy companies will start finding the targetted manpower at the lower prize(compared to Chennai) and will start moving their significant human capital there.

senthilnatha

June 7th, 2011, 08:29 AM

Classifications of Indian cities

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_of_Indian_cities

The Status of Indian cities comprises two ranking systems used by the Government of India to allocate compensatory[disambiguation needed] allowances to the cities in the country. The list classifies cities in India based on two parameters — Compensatory City Allowance (CCA), further divided into categories A-1, A, B-1 and B-2, and House Rent Allowance (HRA), further divided into categories A-1, A, B-1, B-2 and C. This classification was initially based on the recommendations of the Fifth Pay Commission of India (1997). City statuses were later revised based on the results of the 2001 Census of India.

CCA HRA City
A-1 A-1 Chennai
B-1 B-1 Coimbatore

cbepulikutty

June 8th, 2011, 06:55 AM

Yeah.. It is True.. CTS offers them less because it has not got any competition in coimbatore (although there are other small cos).. Lot of employess in CTS Coimbatore are complaining about this compensation issue as there are less options for them right now and the management are exploiting this...

rajeshms

June 8th, 2011, 07:34 AM

cbepulikutty

June 8th, 2011, 08:27 AM

Ideally the salary structure excluding one's basic salary such as HRA, Conveyance etc will be low in a non metro city(As Mr.Senthil has mentioned). Thats the main reason why companies in a non metro city(Coimbatore) offer a comparitively lesser package than wat it offers in a metro. I think competition in a city has nothing to do with the salary structure of a company(Atleast for fresher). An experienced guy on the other hand can demend his own package anywhere provided he's so darn guud in what he does.

Ideally the experienced guy can demand. The Persons who want to return to coimbatore are to be with their families.. So the company understands that the person cannot demand as he is desperate to return and also the hikes given by the company to cbe Employees is less compared to other cities...

CBE-SINGAKUTTY

June 9th, 2011, 07:20 AM

IBM STARTED ITS OPERATIONS IN COIMBATORE:banana::banana::banana:
http://epaper.dinamalar.com/PUBLICATIONS/DM/COIMBATORE/2011/06/09/Article//011/09_06_2011_011_031.jpg

cbepulikutty

June 9th, 2011, 08:24 AM

IBM STARTED ITS OPERATIONS IN COIMBATORE:banana::banana::banana:
http://epaper.dinamalar.com/PUBLICATIONS/DM/COIMBATORE/2011/06/09/Article//011/09_06_2011_011_031.jpg

I hope they open up a Software Dev Center in Tidel park cbe... Any news about this...

kalyan_erode

June 9th, 2011, 08:46 AM

kalyan_erode

June 9th, 2011, 08:51 AM

Ideally the experienced guy can demand. The Persons who want to return to coimbatore are to be with their families.. So the company understands that the person cannot demand as he is desperate to return and also the hikes given by the company to cbe Employees is less compared to other cities...

Exactly if you said to HR that you want to be with family , then your salary will be reduced. Even they are not willing to give the pay which is being already paid in Metro.Many has come to a mindset that atleast if we get the same pay, they are willing to come to coimbatore.

sarathy

June 9th, 2011, 11:55 AM

Exactly if you said to HR that you want to be with family , then your salary will be reduced. Even they are not willing to give the pay which is being already paid in Metro.Many has come to a mindset that atleast if we get the same pay, they are willing to come to coimbatore.
These problems will be resolved if we have another couple of companies like TCS / HCL started its operations. Cognizant can utilize this chance only now, once the competitors enters the market, then we are the kings again. They have to provide us how muchever we demand.

rajeshms

June 9th, 2011, 02:29 PM

These problems will be resolved if we have another couple of companies like TCS / HCL started its operations. Cognizant can utilize this chance only now, once the competitors enters the market, then we are the kings again. They have to provide us how muchever we demand.

:banana::banana::banana:
:rock::rock::rock::rock::rock::rock::rock:

sivarajkumar

June 9th, 2011, 05:44 PM

IBM India opened a branch office here on Wednesday as part of its geographic expansion initiative in key growth centres.

Nipun Mehrotra, vice-president – General Business, Routes and Geographic Expansion of IBM India, told presspersons here on Wednesday that by opening an office here, IBM, which already had a business unit in the city, would bring here all its services and products.

It would offer hardware, software, and other services. It would also work with its clients here and link them to its research laboratories. IBM's software products included analytics, managing security and business integration.

“This is an important day for us as we recommit to the Coimbatore market,” he said. Coimbatore was known for its education institutions, and manufacturing and textile units. IBM would offer its products and services to these and the new verticals developing in this region.

The company was now present in 22 cities in the country to provide its services in the domestic market and it would expand to 25 more in a couple of years. Over 60 per cent of the market in the country was outside the four big cities.

“We need to be aligned with the market potential by being in smaller cities.” This investment in expansion would help the company drive its growth faster, he said.

Expansion

The company was expanding in China, Brazil and Africa too. “We are extremely happy with the way India is responding to our growth centres. India's expansion is faster compared to some of the other countries. India is interesting as a market than as a resource pool to us,” he said.

Some of the cities that IBM would be expanding to in the next two years would include Madurai, Tiruchi, Jamshedpur, Raipur, Surat, and Guwahati.On setting up a development centre in Coimbatore, Mr. Mehrotra said IBM was looking at different places for development. It would keep evaluating places to expand.

Speaking about the potential for IT companies, he said that according to a study covering about 2,000 mid-market customers worldwide, including 100 in India, the customers now looked at Information Technology for innovation and customer focus and not just cost reduction.

They wanted a partnering approach and not just a transactional relationship.

kongutamizhan

June 9th, 2011, 05:59 PM

cbepulikutty

June 10th, 2011, 05:54 AM

Capgemini to hire 8,000 for delivery centres this year

Mumbai, May 30:

French IT services company Capgemini will hire up to 8,000 people for its delivery operations in India this year, a top company official said.

This is in line with the company's publicly stated vision of having the Indian workforce account for 50 per cent of its overall employee base in the next 2-3 years.

As of March 31, 2011, the €8.7-billion Capgemini group had a total headcount of 1,12,127 employees.

“Last year, we grew our India headcount by around 20 per cent…this year also the HR additions should be in a similar range,” Ms Aruna Jayanthi, Chief Executive Officer of Capgemini India, told Business Line.

Ms Jayanthi is the first lady CEO to head operations of a software services company in India. She was one of the three Indian leaders who was promoted and given global roles in a restructuring exercise by Capgemini earlier this year.

In her earlier role of Global Delivery Officer for Capgemini Outsourcing, Ms Jayanthi was responsible for improving the quality, productivity and profitability of Capgemini's outsourcing operations worldwide.

In addition to recruiting heavily from engineering campuses, Ms Jayanthi said that the company is also on the look out for science graduates. It has had success by taking the ‘off campus' route to further flatten its employee pyramid.

Off-campus hiring

Off-campus hiring refers to the incremental fresher hirings done by IT companies when their need for entry level graduates exceeds the numbers they have picked up during campus recruitment drives. In such cases, IT companies conduct walk-in-interviews of fresh engineers who have not been picked up by any company during on-campus drives.

“Even the off-campus route can throw up high quality candidates if you are careful with the selection procedure. Having said that, if you select one out of four during campus drives, now you may do only one out of 10,” said Ms Jayanthi.

For the quarter ended March 31, 2011, the company has already made net additions of roughly 3,000 persons, taking its employee count to 33,510. Capgemini follows a January to December accounting calendar.

Capgemini, which has about eight delivery centres in India, is now looking to expand into smaller cities.

Its first move in that direction was made couple of years ago when it setup a centre in Salem, Tamil Nadu.

“We have used Salem for providing finance and accounting BPO services to clients and the experience so far has been very positive…the endeavour is to now take this model to other cities in South India,” said Ms Jayanthi.

Hub-and-spoke model

The company wants to operate on a hub-and-spoke model, targeting cities that are ‘just an overnight journey' from Chennai so that it does not have to invest in local management talent.\Apart from servicing overseas customers, Capgemini also works with India-based companies. In November last year, the company had bagged a workshop management system contract from the Indian Railways.

CBE PULIKUTTY

Coimbatore should be ideal as this is at an overnight distance from Chennai

Saravanakkumar

June 10th, 2011, 09:57 AM

BANGALORE: A slow demand in the IT and ITes sector has pushed down the growth of Bangalore according to a survey by Monster Employment Index. The city grew by only 4% in May compared to Coimbatore's which shot up by 31%.

Baroda grew by 25% and Mumbai by 22% according to the index while Chandigarh and Ahmedabad were slow at 11%.

Amongst industries, oil and gas generated maximum amount of interest and grew at 30% in May compared to same period last year. While the IT industry showed a 21% growth, the lowest was recorded by telecom sector at -10%.

"The Index continues to record a positive year-over-year trend, with strong pockets of demand for professionals within the IT, oil/ gas and automotive sectors," said Sanjay Modi, Managing Director (India/Middle East/ South East Asia), Monster.com. "All cities monitored by the Index have registered positive annual growth indicating substantial opportunities for workers in these key markets."

Occupations like marketing and communication showed a decline of 23% whereas purchase and logistics grew by 34%.

A slow demand in the IT and ITes sector has pushed down the growth of Bangalore according to a survey by Monster Employment Index. The city grew by only 4% in May compared to Coimbatore's, which shot up by 31%.

Baroda grew by 25% and Mumbai by 22% according to the index while Chandigarh and Ahmedabad were slow at 11%. Sunil Goel, executive director of recruitment firm Global Hunt said places like Coimbatore and Baroda are preferred because of cost-effectiveness, lower real estate prices. Even companies face lesser competition manpower wise and prefer to be present there than the major cities.

Source: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/indicators/bangalore-growth-the-slowest-according-to-monster-index/articleshow/8788991.cms

kalyan_erode

June 10th, 2011, 05:10 PM

kongutamizhan

June 10th, 2011, 05:17 PM

Source: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/indicators/bangalore-growth-the-slowest-according-to-monster-index/articleshow/8788991.cms

Good news!! Hope this development brings better (badly needed) infra

senthilnatha

June 11th, 2011, 10:10 AM

[QUOTE=sivarajkumar;79329776]On setting up a development centre in Coimbatore, Mr. Mehrotra said IBM was looking at different places for development. QUOTE]

Does this mean that IBM dont have any plans for Kovai..
Can someone check with friends (Senthilnatha Sir, I can remember ur quote that you have some friends working in Tidel) in Tidel on the companies.

As I am still in aboard, I am collecting infos from my friends in various fields. He still says that TCS & IBM are planning to set-up the centre. Let us wait for another 1-2 months...

sivarajkumar

June 11th, 2011, 10:32 AM

[QUOTE=sivarajkumar;79329776]On setting up a development centre in Coimbatore, Mr. Mehrotra said IBM was looking at different places for development. QUOTE]

Does this mean that IBM dont have any plans for Kovai..
Can someone check with friends (Senthilnatha Sir, I can remember ur quote that you have some friends working in Tidel) in Tidel on the companies.

As per the information from my friend ,they have just opened a sales office here with 22 seater capacity to serve the local clients.This was the office which was already located in Business chamber of residency.It will take another one year or more for IBM to setup a development center in Coimbatore.

cbepulikutty

June 14th, 2011, 07:15 AM

Dell plans to expand footprint in smaller cities
JAIPUR: Dell is planning to expand its footprints in smaller cities with a bouquet of hardware, software and IT services offerings primarily targeted at mid-market clients. Dell India director (medium business, csmb) Satyen Vyas told ET that the firm has targeted 22 growth cities to scale up its small and medium businesses.

"We have already set up offices in 12 cities, including Chandigarh, Jaipur, Surat, Baroda, Lucknow and Coimbatore. As part of our SMB strategy, we are reaching out to work closely with emerging businesses," he said.

The company has presence in over 200 cities through its distribution system- PartnerDirect channel programme. "Our direct presence in smaller cities will improve the worktechnology of smaller and medium enterprises.

While IT and ITeS remain our focus areas, we are targeting high potential small manufacturing units, media animation and retail segments to bring them under our technology-umbrella," added Vyas.

The company plans to enhance its reach to over 8 million SMBs in the country. "We are offering a wide range of SMB-specific technology solutions such as notebooks, enterprise products and power efficient servers.

We are also helping our clients in areas of Green IT, security, business continuity, improved collaboration and communication among others," he said. Globally, SMB contributes over 25% to Dell's revenue.

According to Gartner data, Dell had cornered a 16.7% market share for first quarter of 2011, much ahead of HP at 12.1% and Acer at 11.9%. The company's fiscal first quarter revenue improved 1% to $15 billion on the strength of its commercial enterprise business. Dell's revenue from BRIC countries grew 18%, with India revenue rising 28%.

kalyan_erode

June 15th, 2011, 01:54 PM

Coimbatore, May 25:

The long-awaited government mooted Tidel Park, despite its strategic location and proximity to the airport, has failed to lure IT companies.

This is despite the Coimbatore Hi-Tech Infrastructure Ltd (CHIL) SEZ IT park at Keeranatham Village in Saravanampatti near here and the IT park at the Kumaraguru College of Technology (KCT) campus house prominent IT companies such as Cognizant Technology Solutions, Bosch Engineering and Business Solutions and CBay Systems among others.

Occupancy level
The Tidel Park houses just one company, nine months after the formal inauguration of the project. Though sources maintain that six-seven companies had confirmed taking up space in the park, no occupant except Payoda Technologies has moved in till date. The occupancy level is pathetic. Payoda Technologies, a Coimbatore-based company, offering off-shore application development services has taken up 17,000 sq ft of space (on the first floor), out of the total built-up area of 1.7 million sq ft.

The Rs 380-cr project, a joint initiative of the Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation, Electronics Corporation of India, Software Technology Parks of India and Tidel Park, Chennai, has come up in a sprawling 9.5 acre plot on Avinashi road, adjoining the Coimbatore Medical College campus. It was probably one of the first projects that the then State Government mooted as early as 2006 to take this industrial hub and tier II destination on the IT map.

The exterior side of the structure now appears complete, but if one were to walk into the building, it can be difficult tracing your way out.

The main entrance leading to the reception area remains incomplete, forcing visitors to take one of the side doors, before following the lights that lead to the long, wide, fully air-conditioned corridor, which wears a deserted look.

Dead investment
Work is under way in the interior side of the building. With the project promoters in no hurry to either complete the task on hand or market the space, the park seems like a dead investment.

We asked a cross-section of smaller IT companies here the reason for not opting to take space in the Tidel Park, only to learn that the lease rental was costly (at Rs 40/sq ft) as compared with private SEZs. ‘Further, there is no ownership and marketing is pathetic,' an industry insider said, referring to Coimbatore Tidel Park.

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/info-tech/article2048536.ece