CA opens ITC in Hyderabad

CMN Bureau

HYDERABAD, INDIA: CA (formerly Computer Associates) has announced the official opening of its India Technology Center (ITC) in Hyderabad.

The campus, which cost $30 million to build, reflects the substantial investment CA has made in staffing the ITC’s research and development operations and sales departments. CA’s engineering workforce in India now exceeds 1,600 out of 5800 engineers worldwide. The ITC team will take a lead role in advancing CA’s Enterprise IT Management (EITM) vision of unifying and simplifying IT management.

Inaugurating the facility, CA President and CEO John Swainson, said, “The ITC underscores CA’s commitment to India, both as a source of an exceptionally high-quality workforce with expertise across the full range of leading-edge IT disciplines and as a rapidly growing and dynamic IT market. India is now home to nearly 30 percent of our global R&D staff – further demonstrating the importance of our operations here in our overall business strategy.”

Led by senior vice president and general manager Lokesh Jindal, ITC software engineers will work on multiple high-profile CA product lines that will help customers govern, manage and secure IT more effectively and cost-efficiently – enabling them to adapt dynamically to changing business demands and optimize returns on their technology investments.

The ITC team will also work closely with a number of India’s top-tier systems integrators to help them with both their in-house IT needs and those of private and public sector customers around the world.

Jindal, who is also a member of CA’s global Senior Leadership Team, is responsible for strategic leadership of the ITC and oversight of all major business functions, including product development and management, human resources facilities and finance.

Before taking on the role, Jindal was CA’s Product Management and Strategy Vice President for Business Service Optimization.

Speaking on the development of products in India, Sridhar Parimi, VP- Development said that the company has developed two products in India. “CA Cohesion ACM and CA Mobile device management applications has completely developed in India”, he said.

The company is looking at India center for building future applications, which can bring more revenues for the company in the future.