ADC to invest $25 m in India

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.