IT and BPO Facilities

[fundraiser]

skyrise nightshot

sorry its blurry, guards are everywhere eh.

[nicko]

Present Locators:
Teletech I & II
Robinsons Dumaguete

[diehardbisdak]

...some IT companies in Cebu do not have offices in the IT Park...one of them is SYKES, becaue they are building their own facility... here's a photo of their soon-to-be-finished facility in Cebu: (pic by @markiiboi)

[Sinjin P.]

I originally thought that (aside from Skygo) Sykes was also a manufacturer of motorcycles

[rage@cebu]

[flesh_is_weak]

Originally Posted by fundraiser

skyrise nightshot

sorry its blurry, guards are everywhere eh.

what's the current occupant of the "Mababang Paaralan"?--(one-storey building adjacent to Skyrise...)

[ivanc]

e-office one?

people support, NEC, etc...

[tj_brewed]

Originally Posted by ivanc

e-office one?

people support, NEC, etc...

PeopleSupport occupies e-Office Bay One and Bay Two. It also occupies 2nd floor, 3rd floor, 4th floor, and 5th floor of SkyRise IT Building. Other locators @ e-Office are Tsuneishi, NEC, NCR, Epson, and Astra. But majority of the entire e-Office compex and Skyrise IT Building is being occupied by PeopleSupport.

[slerz]

Originally Posted by diehardbisdak

...some IT companies in Cebu do not have offices in the IT Park...one of them is SYKES, becaue they are building their own facility... here's a photo of their soon-to-be-finished facility in Cebu: (pic by @markiiboi)

Todays issue of Sun Star
Sykes expands in Cebu

ONE of the country’s major contact centers vowed to “further expand” its operations in Cebu and in the Philippines, as the company inaugurated its own building along F. Cabahug St., Cebu City.

“We will continue to look for ways to grow in Cebu and in the Philippines …and create more jobs,” said Jim Hobby, Sykes Enterprises Inc. global operations senior vice president during the inauguration of the company’s own building yesterday.

President Arroyo came as guest of honor. Mayor Tomas Osmeña and Vice Mayor Michael Rama of Cebu City also came as well as Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia.

Sykes Asia and Pacific Rim vice president and managing director Mike Hen-derson said the company’s growth in Cebu and in other areas in country has been made possible with the support of the National Government and local government officials concerned.

Henderson said the company’s operations in Cebu “is growing fast” and Sykes “looks forward to expanding the business more.”

“Sykes Cebu will have an identity of its own….The support of the government makes a very big difference,” he said in a short speech during the inauguration.

He recalled that Sykes Cebu began operations with 15 people in 2003 and now has 1,700 seats that help the company provide out-sourced customer contact management solutions and services to clients.

Pioneer

Sykes also has offices in Makati, Pasig and Quezon City. It has over 8,000 contact center seats nationwide.

According to a statement from Sykes, the company was named pioneer call center locator in Cebu in June 2006 by the Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

The new Sykes building, which is called Synergis IT (information technology) Center, houses the company’s data, telephony and security technology facilities.

Also present during the inauguration were Trade and Industry Secretary Peter Favila, Tourism Secretary Joseph “Ace” Durano, Presidential Management Staff Chief Cerge Remonde, and Reps. Raul del Mar (Cebu City, north), Antonio Cuenco (Cebu City, south), Nerissa Soon-Ruiz (Cebu, 6th district), Ramon Durano VI (Cebu, 5th), Eduardo Gullas (Cebu, 1st). (LAP)

[slerz]

Originally Posted by diehardbisdak

...some IT companies in Cebu do not have offices in the IT Park...one of them is SYKES, becaue they are building their own facility... here's a photo of their soon-to-be-finished facility in Cebu: (pic by @markiiboi)

Inagurated

In today's issue of Sun Star

Sykes expands in Cebu

ONE of the country’s major contact centers vowed to “further expand” its operations in Cebu and in the Philippines, as the company inaugurated its own building along F. Cabahug St., Cebu City.

“We will continue to look for ways to grow in Cebu and in the Philippines …and create more jobs,” said Jim Hobby, Sykes Enterprises Inc. global operations senior vice president during the inauguration of the company’s own building yesterday.

President Arroyo came as guest of honor. Mayor Tomas Osmeña and Vice Mayor Michael Rama of Cebu City also came as well as Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia.

Sykes Asia and Pacific Rim vice president and managing director Mike Hen-derson said the company’s growth in Cebu and in other areas in country has been made possible with the support of the National Government and local government officials concerned.

Henderson said the company’s operations in Cebu “is growing fast” and Sykes “looks forward to expanding the business more.”

“Sykes Cebu will have an identity of its own….The support of the government makes a very big difference,” he said in a short speech during the inauguration.

He recalled that Sykes Cebu began operations with 15 people in 2003 and now has 1,700 seats that help the company provide out-sourced customer contact management solutions and services to clients.

Pioneer

Sykes also has offices in Makati, Pasig and Quezon City. It has over 8,000 contact center seats nationwide.

According to a statement from Sykes, the company was named pioneer call center locator in Cebu in June 2006 by the Cebu Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

The new Sykes building, which is called Synergis IT (information technology) Center, houses the company’s data, telephony and security technology facilities.

Also present during the inauguration were Trade and Industry Secretary Peter Favila, Tourism Secretary Joseph “Ace” Durano, Presidential Management Staff Chief Cerge Remonde, and Reps. Raul del Mar (Cebu City, north), Antonio Cuenco (Cebu City, south), Nerissa Soon-Ruiz (Cebu, 6th district), Ramon Durano VI (Cebu, 5th), Eduardo Gullas (Cebu, 1st). (LAP)

[rage@cebu]

Cebu Asiatown ITpark....

[dive-cebu]

re SYKES

maybe somebody from ssc cebu can take a pic of the newly-inaugurated sykes building...

[habagatcentral1]

Originally Posted by dive-cebu

re SYKES

maybe somebody from ssc cebu can take a pic of the newly-inaugurated sykes building...

Here's the pic when it was still u/c.

[miaka_cham]

share ko lang..Asiatown IT park @ night..


sa desktop lang po.di kasi pwede ang real pic..it's owned by CHI..

[ritche]

Dumaguete Business Park Inc., a prime development in an emerging Visayan City

Present shape...
Teletech Building 2




Teletech Building 1


The Center Island




Robinsons Dumaguete

[Sera]

Paging CDeO forumers...Any Pics of other regional ICT parks like Pueblo de Oro in CDeO kasi mag-ooperate na yung Western Watts dyan by March/May at magkakaroon ng 1700 seats ?

[zaiangelo]

anyone knows who the architect of the new sykes building is????

[FrancisXavier]

Originally Posted by Sera

Paging CDeO forumers...Any Pics of other regional ICT parks like Pueblo de Oro in CDeO kasi mag-ooperate na yung Western Watts dyan by March/May at magkakaroon ng 1700 seats ?

They're putting up their(WesternWatts) center at Ororama MegaCenter for the meantime. Not in Pueblo IT Park yet.. But definitely they'll move in there sometime soon "kuno".. I heard convergeys has also acquired the lot behind Link2Support in Pueblo IT Park.

[boju]

Eastwood cyberpark firms earn $188M in '06

03/14/2007 | 04:27 PM
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Export earnings of companies based at the Eastwood City Cyberpark in Quezon City jumped 60 percent to $188.575 million in 2006, developer Megaworld Corp. said Wednesday.

Eastwood City-based firms earned $117.6 million in 2005.

Eastwood City has 62 locators accredited by the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (Peza), most of which are call centers and back-office operations such as human resources management. There are also a number of firms involved in semiconductors, software design and animation.

Megaworld Corp. said in a statement that the company hopes the contribution to the economy of Eastwood City will be replicated by its new project, the 50-hectare McKinley Hill in Fort Bonifacio, Taguig.

Megaworld vice president Jericho Go said the P33-billion project will have as its main offerings the One World Square and the Two World Square buildings aimed at business process outsourcing (BPO) firms.

"Our first BPO building there, One World Square, is now being finished and will be operational in May. And we just broke ground on the next tower, Two World Square. This is in response to the tremendous demand for office space in an excellent location such as McKinley Hill," Go said.

He noted that the buildings will feature large floor plates, on-demand air conditioning systems, and multiple access points via elevators and wide stairwells, making it ideal for the constantly improving needs of BPO firms.

The McKinley Hilll project, which is expected to be completed in five to seven years, will also have residential spaces, commercial areas for malls, retail shops and a hotel.

Go said that like Eastwood City, the BPO buildings at McKinley Hill are key components to the project’s “live-work-play-learn" concept. -GMANews.TV

[boju]

Property developer to build IT park on old IS site

CHERYL ARCIBAL, GMANews.TV
03/14/2007 | 02:04 PM
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Private realty firm Century Properties Inc., on Wednesday said it will start developing Makati City's first ever information technology park on the former site of the International School of Manila.

Developments are set to start by the second quarter of the year.

In a statement sent to the media, Century Properties said that aside from the IT park, the project will also include residential and commercial developments, as well as a high-end motel.

Century Properties, which won the bidding for the property in June 2006, said it will build a minimum of 160,000 square meters of Grade A office space on the land.

"There's always a premium for Makati locations. This is the largest available property for development of contiguous land, and it's very rare that you can find a space that opens up like that, that you can essentially plan from scratch," Century Properties managing director Marco Antonio said.

The IT park will cater to the business process outsourcing sector, particularly the high-end BPOs, “who are willing to pay premium rates for a good location and something of this caliber," he added.

“We are currently applying for Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA) accreditation and will most likely exceed the minimum requirement of one hectare for the IT park. We feel that we are poised to deliver products by 2008 or early 2009 for the first batch of office buildings," he said.

The firm said it also plans to set up an IT school in the area.-GMANews.TV