BANGALORE: Dallas-based Optimal Solutions Integration Inc. (Optimal), an enterprise technology consulting firm, has stated that starting this month its Indian subsidiary would be running the company’s APAC operations from Bangalore. The company has announced plans to invest Rs 50 crore in the Indian subsidiary called Optimal Solutions Integration Software Pvt Ltd (Optimal India).

Commenting on the Bangalore operations, Optimal's Founder and CEO Gurvendra S Suri said, "We will be investing almost Rs 50 crore in our center here and will expand to about 300 people in the next three to four years, provided the economy picks up." Optimal currently has 30 consultants in the country.

Earlier this month i2 Technologies had announced in the US that Optimal would be handling part of the development, maintenance and customer deployment of its Rapidly Optimized Interface (ROI) product suite through its ODC in Bangalore.

According to Suri, the secret to Optimal's success is the unique niche that the company occupies in the consulting world. "We focus on business and technology consulting services that require very deep subject matter expertise across ERP, SCM and EAI applications and build highly-scalable, global architectures which perform with sub one-second response times for large global companies. It is this differentiation that prevents us from getting commoditized like most high-volume body shops," he stressed.

As per the alliance made earlier, Optimal would be servicing i2’s client base in the APAC region offering them services in consultation, implementation and integration of i2’s suite of products with existing ERP applications.

Optimal India already caters to eight clients, spread across Hong Kong, China and Philippines, and is looking at tripling the number by the end of the year. In addition to driving the Asia Pacific operations, the Bangalore center would also execute turnkey and time and material projects for various Optimal clients worldwide.