IT Park/IT SEZ Project Hyderabad

[rizwan3]

Originally Posted by hyd

Are they building it in kokapet sez?

Donno dude even am exited to know..

it must be in kokapet..not sure/...fingers crosed.. X

[kdlara007]

Some more new IT units approved for App labs, Conjoin solutions,DQ entertainment international, Trendy works technologies in DLF and NSL SEZs and approval is also granted to Accenture for their expansion in TSI business park.

Source:http://www.hyd.stpi.in/sez/uac_minutes/uacm31.pdf

[rizwan3]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/c...ow/6932376.cms

ICICI mega regional hub to come up in Hyderabad

MUMBAI/HYDERABAD: When the country's largest captive office building, and perhaps one of the largest in the world, opens its doors for business some time around March next year, it won't be amchi Mumbai or saddi Dilli that it will call home. Private banking major ICICI Bank's upcoming landmark building, which is well on its way to setting and breaking several world records, will be housed right here in mana Hyderabad .

For starters, ICICI Bank's regional hub, coming up at an investment of about Rs 1,000 crore, will be housed in a dense building which is the first of its kind in Asia and perhaps the world as well.

Papers available with TOI show that at a built-up area of 4 million square feet, the green concrete building is tipped to be India's largest captive office building and the 18th largest in the world in terms of floor area in a single building. Believe it or not, at a whopping 5.5 lakh tonne, the 70-metre high building will outweigh the iconic, 110-storied World Trade Center that weighed 5 lakh tonne before it was felled in the 9/11 attacks.

At 18,500 tonne of structural steel, it will guzzle two and a half times more steel than the 7,300 tonne that went into erecting the iconic Eiffel Tower. It will also have enough electrical cables and wires (6,000 kilometres) to go halfway around the middle of the earth, which will power the building. And at 342 metre in length and 88 metre in breadth, the building can easily accommodate four Airbus A380 aircraft parked side by side.

To put it into perspective, especially for cricket fans, space available in each floor of the building would equal Kolkata's famous Eden Gardens cricket ground, thanks to a floor plate of 1.5 lakh square feet. This bank hub will also sport the country's single longest escalator with a length of 14.4 metres in its cavernous 20-metre high atrium.

If that's not all, apart from enough office space to accommodate 22,000 employees, the building will also have a huge parking space into which 4,500 two wheelers, 1,500 four wheelers and 11 buses can drive in. In addition to this, there will be 80 elevators and 60 escalators to take care of in-house transportation apart from food courts, restaurants and other support services.

This 20-storey building, being touted as Hyderabad's second tallest, will tower over its other neighbours like Franklin Templeton, Cognizant, Flagstone Underwriting Support Services, IRDA and IIRM in the APIIC (Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation) financial district coming up adjacent to the IT hub of Gachibowli.

Interestingly, if this ICICI Bank building was built about eight years ago, at 4 million square feet it would have alone equalled the total office space that was available in Hyderabad then. Independent estimates put the total office space available in Hyderabad currently at about 30 million square feet.

While sources in AP government confirmed some of the specifications about the building, ICICI Bank spokespersons were not available for comment on this. Anshuman Magazine, of CB Richard Ellis, the company that is the consultant for the project, was also not available for comment.

[Ron7]

In March this year when Andhra Pradesh was still struggling to do a reboot after the violent T-stir,it did not deter popular social networking site Facebook from making the city of pearls its face in Asia.Neither did it stop financial services giant JP Morgan from betting big on Hyderabad as a global service hub.

Business-oriented social networking site LinkedIn too may soon be following suit and is already understood to have zeroed in on the city as its first global development hub in Asia.

If those who thought the storm kicked up by the T-stir would mean the end of Brand Hyderabads reign as a global IT/ITeS hub,the agitation has been no better than the proverbial storm in the tea cup.For the vote of confidence that Brand Hyderabad has got from some big names like Facebook has served as a magnet to attract new investments into the city.


Estimates of the state IT department suggest that nearly 7 lakh sq ft space has been booked so far in the current financial year by new IT companies in SEZs across Hyderabad alone,with a commitment to create nearly 7,000 new jobs.This is more than figures notched in fiscal 2009-10. Across the state,around 10 lakh sq ft SEZ space has been booked with nearly 10,000 estimated new jobs.


The queue of new players waiting to log into Hyderabad is only growing longer,points out Ratna Prabha,principal secretary,department of IT and Communications,AP.In spite of the Telangana issue,we are getting enquiries from new players to set up shop in the city.Many new players have set up base here and even existing players are expanding,she says adding that most big projects are almost sold out with very little room to spare in their IT parks, she says.According to her,existing players like Infosys,TCS,IBM,Cognizant,Virtusa,Accenture and Google,among others,too are expanding their presence at a furious pace.


Andhra Pradesh STPI director P Venugopal,too echoes the bullish sentiment.Though Telangana issue has been in the news for quite a while,on the ground we are seeing no impact of it.There is no dip in business.On the contrary,there is a month on month increase in new units coming to AP,particularly Hyderabad, he explains.


According to STPI estimates,IT/ITeS investment and software exports numbers in the city and state have already surpassed those of last fiscal even with yet another quarter to go before the current fiscal ends.While nearly 25 new SEZ units set up shop in the state in fiscal year 2009-10,upto September 2010 alone the number of new SEZ units had crossed 30.


The state has also already notched up 75% of the exports registered in the entire fiscal 2009-10 thanks to the entry of new players with a good projection for manpower addition,points out Venugopal.In 2008-09,IT/ITeS accounted for nearly 2.52 lakh jobs in the state and exports of over Rs 32,500 crore.


Even apex IT/ITeS industry body Nasscom,which had taken a tough stand against the disruption of business due to T-turmoil,is now quite relieved and pleased at the way things have eventually worked out.Despite being caught unawares on the first few days,the state government tackled the issue quite maturely by providing necessary protection and declaring the sector as an essential service.

We were also able to convince investors that it was just an aberration, says Nasscom president Som Mittal,who had been so alarmed at the turn of events during the peak of the T-agitation in December last year that he had personally spoken to chief minister K Rosaiah about it.
However,Mittal is still worried that a repeat of last years violent agitation after the submission of the Srikrishna committee report on December 31 this year may undo all the good work done.Let us not kill the golden goose.



People should realise that companies bringing their business to AP have many other choices in todays competitive world.Any perception that a city or state is not safe for travel or business,triggered by repeat incidents of violence,would render all the good work done by the state in terms of building world class infrastructure and credibility useless, he adds.


Even IT and ITeS Industry Association of AP (ITsAP),formerly HYSEA,is gungho about the upswing in the fortunes of the sector despite the minor blips.There was a very marginal impact of Telangana issue as the industry was very antsy in the early part of the year after the violent incidents.But the sentiment in the subsequent quarters has not given any reason for us to believe that the issue has any more impact on the sector, explains ITsAP secretary Bipin Pendyala.


In fact,Pendyala,who is also vice president and site manager for CA Technologies India Technology Centre,points out how an unfazed CA Technologies has gone on to expand its campus in the city this year.Of course,he admits that this years numbers may be a bit rosy because in 2008 and 2009 the world was busy fending off the global meltdown that had put the brakes on the IT/ITeS sector.


Which could perhaps explain the enthusiastic expansion of presence by existing players in the city this year.Growth in 2008-09 was flat with no hiring but with the global recession being blown away there was a huge fillip despite the T dampener and he have not heard of any one winding up their business in Hyderabad due to Telangana issue, he says,adding that unless there is a major catastrophe,I dont think companies will move out of Hyderabad.


However,homegrown IT czar and promoter of Infotech Enterprises BVR Mohan Reddy feels it was the lead taken by the industry in sensitising not just the government but also all political parties about the perils of disrupting business that actually saved the day for Brand Hyderabad.
Irrespective of Telangana or no Telangana,finally all political parties have realised that industry is the backbone that keeps the economy going and creates jobs and there is no point shooting oneself in the leg.We have enough reassurance from all political parties that they will not disturb industry in any way even as the government has reassured us that vandalism wont be tolerated, he says.

[Ron7]

Originally Posted by rizwan3

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/c...ow/6932376.cms

ICICI mega regional hub to come up in Hyderabad

MUMBAI/HYDERABAD: When the country's largest captive office building, and perhaps one of the largest in the world, opens its doors for business some time around March next year, it won't be amchi Mumbai or saddi Dilli that it will call home. Private banking major ICICI Bank's upcoming landmark building, which is well on its way to setting and breaking several world records, will be housed right here in mana Hyderabad .

For starters, ICICI Bank's regional hub, coming up at an investment of about Rs 1,000 crore, will be housed in a dense building which is the first of its kind in Asia and perhaps the world as well.

Papers available with TOI show that at a built-up area of 4 million square feet, the green concrete building is tipped to be India's largest captive office building and the 18th largest in the world in terms of floor area in a single building. Believe it or not, at a whopping 5.5 lakh tonne, the 70-metre high building will outweigh the iconic, 110-storied World Trade Center that weighed 5 lakh tonne before it was felled in the 9/11 attacks.

At 18,500 tonne of structural steel, it will guzzle two and a half times more steel than the 7,300 tonne that went into erecting the iconic Eiffel Tower. It will also have enough electrical cables and wires (6,000 kilometres) to go halfway around the middle of the earth, which will power the building. And at 342 metre in length and 88 metre in breadth, the building can easily accommodate four Airbus A380 aircraft parked side by side.

To put it into perspective, especially for cricket fans, space available in each floor of the building would equal Kolkata's famous Eden Gardens cricket ground, thanks to a floor plate of 1.5 lakh square feet. This bank hub will also sport the country's single longest escalator with a length of 14.4 metres in its cavernous 20-metre high atrium.

If that's not all, apart from enough office space to accommodate 22,000 employees, the building will also have a huge parking space into which 4,500 two wheelers, 1,500 four wheelers and 11 buses can drive in. In addition to this, there will be 80 elevators and 60 escalators to take care of in-house transportation apart from food courts, restaurants and other support services.

This 20-storey building, being touted as Hyderabad's second tallest, will tower over its other neighbours like Franklin Templeton, Cognizant, Flagstone Underwriting Support Services, IRDA and IIRM in the APIIC (Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation) financial district coming up adjacent to the IT hub of Gachibowli.

Interestingly, if this ICICI Bank building was built about eight years ago, at 4 million square feet it would have alone equalled the total office space that was available in Hyderabad then. Independent estimates put the total office space available in Hyderabad currently at about 30 million square feet.

While sources in AP government confirmed some of the specifications about the building, ICICI Bank spokespersons were not available for comment on this. Anshuman Magazine, of CB Richard Ellis, the company that is the consultant for the project, was also not available for comment.

Can anyone post pictures of upcoming ICICI building in Hyderabad. Interesting that they have constructing d site from 8 yrs & i haven't seen a single picture related to it here....

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[rockystone]

Google opens call centre in Hyderabad

Google India on Wednesday announced the launch of a new call center in Hyderabad that will provide regional language support to small medium businesses in India for its AdWords platform. The new center will offer support in Telgu, Tamil, Kannada and Malayalam and will manage both inbound and out bound calls to help small medium entrepreneurs to learn managing advertising campaigns online and grow their businesses by using Google’s advertising platform. With this new additional facility, Google India will now provide support in 6 languages which also includes Hindi and English

[chennaidesi]

Hyderabad is giving good Competition to Bgl.

[rizwan3]

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/...1952930700.htm

Globsyn to set up new offices

Kolkata: Globsyn Infotech Ltd, an IT company, will set up new offices in Singapore, Penang (Malaysia) and Hyderabad, to cater to requirements in the SAP consultancy sector. The company already has operations in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia). The Singapore and Penang offices will cater to IT needs of its clients located in the services and manufacturing industries.

[hyd]

r u kidding me. Google has R&D in Bglr, Here its back office crap. Or some marketing executive
Translation: Sir Do you need a credit caaaard saaaar..........

I know its a exaggeration, but you get the idea.

Originally Posted by chennaidesi

Hyderabad is giving good Competition to Bgl.

[dineshdb2]

Originally Posted by hyd

r u kidding me. Google has R&D in Bglr, Here its back office crap. Or some marketing executive
Translation: Sir Do you need a credit caaaard saaaar..........

I know its a exaggeration, but you get the idea.

I'm sorry this IS exaggeration. Check out for yourself both these links http://www.google.co.in/intl/en/jobs...ons/hyderabad/
http://www.google.co.in/intl/en/jobs...ons/bangalore/

In Google's context, Hyderabad is as important as Bangalore, if not more important. And I even read that Google's headcount in Hyderabad is higher.

[chennaidesi]

No I am serious.
As long as the State produces top talented Engineers and state govt gives push to an Industry there is lot of upward potential for growth.
Today Hyd might be third behind Bangalore and Chennai but soon it will overtake Chennai in exports because Hyd doesn't suffer from bad perception like anti-Hindi etc.
Ofcourse climate advantage is better in Bangalore but still if Hyd can give good Infra and its cost of living etc are its adv and also many top MNC has its second office in Hyd.

It can't catch in exports since bangalore exports are at least twice but the gap will come down considerably and also Chennai will be pushed to third in three years time.

One more trend I am observing the Telugu NRI's are able to push things to Hyd since there are lot of them in Onsite the class example is
JP Morgan credit card division in Delaware and United health care group in Philadelphia suburb are moving to Hyd because of NRI Andhraites here , I know about this because I live in this area.

[R2IChennai]

Originally Posted by chennaidesi

No I am serious.
As long as the State produces top talented Engineers and state govt gives push to an Industry there is lot of upward potential for growth.
Today Hyd might be third behind Bangalore and Chennai but soon it will overtake Chennai in exports because Hyd doesn't suffer from bad perception like anti-Hindi etc.
Ofcourse climate advantage is better in Bangalore but still if Hyd can give good Infra and its cost of living etc are its adv and also many top MNC has its second office in Hyd.

It can't catch in exports since bangalore exports are at least twice but the gap will come down considerably and also Chennai will be pushed to third in three years time.

One more trend I am observing the Telugu NRI's are able to push things to Hyd since there are lot of them in Onsite the class example is
JP Morgan credit card division in Delaware and United health care group in Philadelphia suburb are moving to Hyd because of NRI Andhraites here , I know about this because I live in this area.

On top of it Hyderabad is attracting lots of higher education institutes
ISB is one great example, I see telengana is the only spoiler for Hyd, otherwise Hyd is and will give tough fight to Bangalore

[ygvjs2000]

Originally Posted by chennaidesi

No I am serious.
As long as the State produces top talented Engineers and state govt gives push to an Industry there is lot of upward potential for growth.
Today Hyd might be third behind Bangalore and Chennai but soon it will overtake Chennai in exports because Hyd doesn't suffer from bad perception like anti-Hindi etc.
Ofcourse climate advantage is better in Bangalore but still if Hyd can give good Infra and its cost of living etc are its adv and also many top MNC has its second office in Hyd.

It can't catch in exports since bangalore exports are at least twice but the gap will come down considerably and also Chennai will be pushed to third in three years time.

One more trend I am observing the Telugu NRI's are able to push things to Hyd since there are lot of them in Onsite the class example is
JP Morgan credit card division in Delaware and United health care group in Philadelphia suburb are moving to Hyd because of NRI Andhraites here , I know about this because I live in this area.

No matter what politicians have to stay, this is free India and Hyderabad has attracted people migration from all India. It has proved and it is going to be like that.

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Microsemi to ramp up Hyderabad R&D centre

Microsemi Corporation, a Nasdaq-listed semiconductor technology provider, would come out with 40 and 20 nanometre (nm) embedded flash (eFlash) technology from its Hyderabad research and development centre.

“We plan to continue the technology development for 40 nm and 20 nm chips, and the evaluation work has already started at the Hyderabad R&D centre,” said Esam Elashmawi, vice-president (product development), Microsemi Corporation. The company on Tuesday launched its 65 nm eFlash technology.

With the 65 nm technology, the increase in density and improvements in power and performance allow us to target a much larger portion of industrial, medical, defence security, aerospace, avionics, communications and consumer markets," he said. Microsemi's SOCs (system-on-chips) products division, formerly known as Actel Corporation, has developed this technology.

The company’s Indian market share is higher than its global share. Its major market share in India comes from the aerospace segment, which accounts for 30-40 per cent.

Microsemi is growing at 15 per cent annually and registered revenues of close to $800 million. Actel Corporation, which the company recently acquired for $450 million, contributes around 30 per cent to the revenues.

Hyderabad R&D centre
Microsemi is planning to increase the headcount at its Hyderabad R&D centre to 130 from the current 100 engineers by next year, said Elashmawi. “We will recruit more engineers according to the requirement and expansion.”

“The Hyderabad R&D centre is the biggest product development centre for Microsemi post its Actel acquisition and is responsible for all our innovations, including the 65 nm flash technology,” he added.

Stating that the company was planning to set up a manufacturing unit the country, he said, “India is a potential market for us to set up a manufacturing base, as it's cheaper to produce here.” Microsemi currently outsources its products

[rizwan3]

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/...2551710700.htm

7Seas focuses on mobile games

Hyderabad, Nov. 24

7Seas Entertainment will invest Rs 30 crore in two years on infrastructure and people to focus on mobile games.

The company might go for fund raising for the expansion.

“Mobile gaming is going to drive growth in game development industry. With over 60 crore mobile connections and advent of 3G telephony, there is going to be a huge demand for mobile games. After developing a library of 400 online games, we now will focus on mobile games and develop IP in this segment,” Mr L. Maruti Shankar, Managing Director of 7Seas Entertainment Ltd, told Business Line.

“Nasscom estimates that Indian gaming industry is growing at a compounded annual growth rate of 49 per cent to reach Rs 4,150 crore by 2012,” he said. “Despite projections for demand for games, there was dearth of content. In the first two quarters of 2010-11, we added 23 new games,” he said. Several gaming, social networking and entertainment companies hosted games developed by the Hyderabad-based firm on their Web sites. “We are supplying them through licensing model on a non-exclusive basis both within the country and abroad. We have our own free gaming portal too,” he said. It acquired the German game portal called neodelight.com two years ago.

[ranga]

Originally Posted by chennaidesi

No I am serious.
As long as the State produces top talented Engineers and state govt gives push to an Industry there is lot of upward potential for growth.
Today Hyd might be third behind Bangalore and Chennai but soon it will overtake Chennai in exports because Hyd doesn't suffer from bad perception like anti-Hindi etc.
Ofcourse climate advantage is better in Bangalore but still if Hyd can give good Infra and its cost of living etc are its adv and also many top MNC has its second office in Hyd.

It can't catch in exports since bangalore exports are at least twice but the gap will come down considerably and also Chennai will be pushed to third in three years time.

One more trend I am observing the Telugu NRI's are able to push things to Hyd since there are lot of them in Onsite the class example is
JP Morgan credit card division in Delaware and United health care group in Philadelphia suburb are moving to Hyd because of NRI Andhraites here , I know about this because I live in this area.

Telugus from coastal Andhra,Rayalaseema and interior parts of Telengana also cannot speak or can reply in hindi but they are not anti hindi.May be they don't want to expose themselves to our hindi speaking population like the Tamilnaduians.

[ranga]

Originally Posted by R2IChennai

On top of it Hyderabad is attracting lots of higher education institutes
ISB is one great example, I see telengana is the only spoiler for Hyd, otherwise Hyd is and will give tough fight to Bangalore

But avoiding rot reading and developing analytical frame of mind is paramount need among students here in A.P.

[ranga]

Originally Posted by ygvjs2000

No matter what politicians have to stay, this is free India and Hyderabad has attracted people migration from all India. It has proved and it is going to be like that.

I am a Non telugu born in Hyderabad before A.P was formed.Our family migrated from the present TN more than a century back.Even during the rule of the Nizam Hyderabad city and Hyderabad state comprising of Telengana,Marathwada and Hyderabad Karnataka was very very cosmopolitan and people lived like one family despite speaking different languages and practicing different relegions and cultures. But today i regret to state that the telugu speaking people of telengana calling fellow telugus from andhra and rayalaseema regions as settlers and exploiters and hating even such people living here since 1956.This is spoiling the cosmopoltan fabric of Hyderabad.

[rizwan3]

Originally Posted by ranga

I am a Non telugu born in Hyderabad before A.P was formed.Our family migrated from the present TN more than a century back.Even during the rule of the Nizam Hyderabad city and Hyderabad state comprising of Telengana,Marathwada and Hyderabad Karnataka was very very cosmopolitan and people lived like one family despite speaking different languages and practicing different relegions and cultures. But today i regret to state that the telugu speaking people of telengana calling fellow telugus from andhra and rayalaseema regions as settlers and exploiters and hating even such people living here since 1956.This is spoiling the cosmopoltan fabric of Hyderabad.

Well said Sir
absolutely right