IBM eyes Bhuabneswar among other tier 2 cities
IBM, INVESTMENTS and INVESTMENT PLANS, IT June 15th. 2007, 12:22pmIBM does a lot of business with SMBs (small and medium businesses) in India. Thus it plans to expand its operation across India. Various news reports mention that it has plans to expand to 14 tier two cities. It has already started at Coimbatore and Goa, will start with Lucknow, and then follow it up with Bhopal, Nashik, Nagpur, Surat, Bhubaneswar, Jamshedpur, Jaipur, Ludhiana, Dehradun, Vizag and Madurai.
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June 15th, 2007 at 4:49 pm
I think this is just opening of a sales office for marketing their product and services than establishing development centre. Though this is good for bhubaneswar to have a sales office, what we actually need is a offshore development centre of IBM which will provide employments to many engineering graduates from bhubaneswar and also improve on the image of BBSR as an IT destination.
June 17th, 2007 at 10:20 am
The Bhubaneswar office is expected to be a part of the plan by 2010. AS per current information they are expecting to invest $10Bn in India with a employee strength of 100,000.
The Sales office is already in place in Bhubaneswar. They were earliar selling laptops, but that division has hived off into Lenovo.
The future looks bright now…
June 17th, 2007 at 10:28 am
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070615/asp/frontpage/story_7924352.asp
This link mentions that Mittal project in Jharkhand is on fast track. Due to lack of co-ordination between Jharkhand and Orissa Mittal group has the choices of going to any one of the places.
July 11th, 2007 at 1:02 pm
[…] Earlier news mentioned about IBM expanding to or eying various tier 2 cities including Bhubaneswar. Economic Times now reports that the center in Bhuabneswar will be a development center. Following are excerpts from that report. IT major IBM will soon open its third development centre in Orissa’s capital city. … […]
January 26th, 2008 at 7:19 am
Can somebody let me know whether IBM is coming up with a full-fledged delivery centre in Lucknow, or is it something else? By the way, TCS already has a 3000 seater center in the city with many more IT players planning to come and set up their shops here.