BANGALORE: US based ADC, Inc. has decided to invest $25 million over the next
five years, in its Indian software development center, primarily on
infrastructure and human resources. It launched its Indian operations today and
expects to spend about $1 million in its first year of operations.
The newly appointed managing director of ADC India, Raj Rajkumar, said,
"The India software center will develop IP based products and lower product
development, maintenance and support cost by over 50 per cent. It will be a
support center for all the engineering units of ADC across the world and will
offer its services. In due course it will establish its own center and retain
intellectual property in the future, and enable a larger variety of software
services going forward."
In the first year of operation ADC plans to recruit 25 professionals and end
up with about 150 employees in the next three years. They have taken up a space
on Infantry Road in Bangalore.
ADC has a strategic relationship with Hughes Software and Bangalore based
Kshema Technologies. Both the companies will continue to offer its services to
ADC, while ADC in India will develop core products. ADC also plans to implement
Kshema’s capabilities in quality assurance and best practices in project
management in addition to existing technical expertise.
Kshema’s president and CEO, Anant Koppar, said, "The unique
relationship model that exists between ADC and Kshema enables the two entities
to leverage individual strength and create a "win-win" situations for
both companies. Under this model, ADC will establish a core services team for
several of its products and service units, while Kshema will provide technical
leads, programmers, test personnel and help in building a state-of-art software
development services entity in India for ADC. This would enable ADC to maintain
a stable core team in India dedicated to different business units while
leveraging Kshema’s resources during the build, test, implementation and
support phases. Besides these services, ADC intends to use Kshema’s reputed
quality assurance systems and project management methodologies for its own
unit."
ADC has outsourced services worth $1 million from Kshema in the past one
year. India is the only country in the world, where ADC has strategic partners
to outsource services.