Linc Software to double staff in India

BANGALORE: Linc Software, offering specialist services on the IBM mid-range iSeries (formerly AS/400) unveiled plans of staffing up by 50 percent. The company will be adding more than 100 professionals by the end of this financial year, taking its headcount from last year's 180 to about 280. The spurt in recruitment is a direct consequence of some new Fortune 500 global accounts that the company has added to its customer list in recent months. A substantial portion of the company's revenues — close to 70 percent -- is derived from the enterprise space, primarily in the Manufacturing & Distribution domain.

Speaking on the event of Linc Software's 16^th anniversary celebrations, the Chairman & Managing Director, Chandra Kumar said, "With successful large client acquisitions and two years of healthy profits, we are now gearing for a faster pace of growth to reach our next immediate financial target of Rs. 100 crores."

The company already has its presence in the US, UK, Switzerland and Singapore. It has also acquired additional office space at Koramanagala, Bangalore to supplement its existing development center and corporate office, spread over 40,000 sq. ft.

Other plans on the anvil include establishing a SAP practice to complement its existing ERP division that includes services on packages such as of BPCS and JD Edwards. The Internet services group has been growing steadily and has been successful in creating business critical enterprise transaction portals for its global clients primarily working on the J2EE, WebSphere and WebSphere MQ technologies. Another distinction that the company achieved was the conferring of 'Business Partner of the Year" award by LANSA, Australia, with whom it has a decade long association. The company offers a host of services on the LANSA environment that include web-enablement and portal development. Also, as part of this alliance, Linc has exclusive distribution rights in India on the LANSA suite of products.

Funded by ICF and Infinity Venture Capital companies, Linc is looking for organic and inorganic means of reaching Rs 100 crores in the medium term. The company has recently upgraded its ISO 9001 certification from 1994 to 2000 standards and is actively pursuing plans to add other world-class certifications to its Quality Management System.