HYDERABAD: Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) will be ramping up its operations
in Hyderabad, and will be adding over 2000 software professionals to its rolls
at its Hyderabad center. "We are going in for some expansion in manpower at
this center to meet our demands. We are building our own center in Madhapur near
the Hi-Tech city and the focus would be on bioinformatics. The center will be
located on 11 acres of land and the building is expected to be ready within two
years," said, TCS executive vice president S Mahalingam.
A division of Tata sons, TCS, currently has 1,020 software engineers working
at three different offices in the city. "After the development center is in
place we are going to move all our professionals to our center in Madhapur. We
are going to invest between Rs 70 to Rs 100 crore for our development center in
Madhapur," he added.
TCS Hyderabad is involved in the telecom, banking, government and healthcare
industry practice. The company is now eyeing the bioinformatics space in the AP
region. "We are going to focus on bioinformatics, computer security and
telecom for our operations in Hyderabad," he explained.