Torry Harris to up staff

BANGALORE: Torry Harris Business Solutions, a company involved in distributed e-enterprise computing, will add around 60 software professionals to its development base in Bangalore by the end of the year. According to Torry Harris India COO Ashwin Krishna, the company will also be putting in place a sales and marketing team in the same time period.

“We have been in Bangalore since 1998. We started out with 15 people. Now we have around 120 people in the center here alone,” said Krishna.

With its primary development center in Bangalore, the company has several products to its name including DotFlow, an embeddable Java-based workflow engine, DotSuite a lightweight Java/XML-based BPM solution, Aspizer which is a framework for ASPs, corporate intranet or extranet and WebOBlocks for rapid assembly of web applications.

“Around 40 percent of our total development time goes into IP. The R&D is built around the objective of creating higher end skills for better solutions. Torry Harris is always open though to productising any of the bright ideas that come out of this R&D effort. We will be looking to apply for patents in the next 18 months,” said Krishna.

The company, which is part of the Torry Harris group of organizations is a services and solutions provider for mission critical distributed enterprise computing with headquarters in the US and operations in UK, Germany, Singapore, India and the Middle-East.

“We were initially US centric as far as markets go. We then shifted our focus to Europe and later to South East Asia. We set up offices in Singapore and Australia sometime in 2001. We more or less skipped India because the country was not developed as a market then. But now with the recent developments, with companies more educated and customers sitting up and taking note of their requirements, the market is opening up. That is why we are beginning a sales and marketing division here,” said Krishna. He added that there would be four people in the sales team by the end of the year and the team will be expanded based on market demand.

(CNS)