FirstRain to expand development team in India

MUMBAI, INDIA: FirstRain, the provider of Business Analytics for enterprise sales and marketing teams announced it plans to grow the operations in India by over 100 per cent in the next two years in order to continue to drive rapid technology innovation, deliver breakthrough mobile apps, and support the requirements of its Fortune 500 customers.

"FirstRain continues to strenghten its Gurgaon office as an R&D hub and views its investment in its India facility and employees as a critical element to further its leadership in the personalbusiness analytics market," the company said.

Penny Herscher, president and CEO, FirstRain said: "The rapid growth of the India analytics market is leading to an expansion of the talent pool by over 30-40 percent each year. The FirstRain India team is a core part of developing, enhancing and maintaining our Personal Business AnalyticsT platform and gives us a vital competitive advantage.

"Many of FirstRain's technology patents are co-authored by engineers in our Gurgaon R&D center and in our headquarters at San Mateo, California and it illustrates the incredible collaborative ethos of the two offices. While so many firms are simply outsourcing their development to India, FirstRain continues to leverage the technical expertise of our R&D leaders located in India to help create optimal personal business analytics solutions for our global Fortune 500 customers."