Pitney Bowes Software Expands its India development Center
IT News Online Staff
2008-08-01
Pitney Bowes Software, which encompasses Pitney Bowes MapInfo and Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software, announced that it is expanding its India development center with a threefold increase in planned investment.
To meet growing customer needs, the company plans to triple its investment level over the next three years. It has also drawn up aggressive expansion plans to more than triple its headcount at the Noida center during the next 18 months.
"We are delighted with our India Team," said Manish Choudhary, managing director, Pitney Bowes MapInfo India. "With a world-class engineering and professional services team already in place, our focus is to ramp-up the delivery capabilities of our center to meet strategic business growth goals. We have just moved to new premises, a 28,000 sq. ft. facility in an eco-friendly 'green' building, and by the end of the next calendar year, we will see a three-fold increase in headcount from current engineering staff strength."
According to Choudhary, the company will benefit from a substantial pool of software engineering and R&D talent in the country.
Pitney Bowes Software is recruiting engineers, consultants and analysts in four key business domains viz. location and business intelligence (MapInfo product lines), document management and data quality/integration (Group 1 product lines), as well as enterprise print-management. This expansion also spans functional areas viz. software product development, quality assurance, location-intelligence data, customer and technical support activities, as well as professional services to enable near-shoring projects.
Pitney Bowes Software was formed last year, after Pitney Bowes Inc., acquired MapInfo, a provider of location intelligence solutions and merged it with a previous acquisition, Group 1 Software, a provider of enterprise data quality and data integration software. Combining the strengths of its two constituents, Pitney Bowes Software becomes a leading company in business insight software, data and services, with a focus on standardizing and enhancing customer information.
Since its establishment, around 18 months ago, the India Development Center of Pitney Bowes Software has focused on R&D for the location intelligence domain and acted as a regional hub, helping to drive global R&D efforts.
The center recently shifted to a state-of-the-art facility in Noida, where the company is investing in data center technology, expanded test laboratories and infrastructure for global collaborative development, linking the Noida Center to its half-dozen global development centers, across four continents, in particular Troy (NY, U.S.), Boulder (CO, U.S.), Windsor (UK), Chatham (UK), and Toronto (Canada).
"The India Development Center plays a key role in our global business strategy," said Mike Hickey, president, Pitney Bowes Software. "We plan for it to become our center of excellence in R&D, with focus on innovation, value creation and enhancing our intellectual property."
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