Capgemini to expand India headcount

NEW DELHI: Outsourcing firm Capgemini is all set to increase its India headcount with the opening of a new business information centre in Bangalore, according to a report in a business daily.

The Bangalore centre will take the company's India headcount beyond 21,000, an increase from its employee strength of 20,000 in home country France.

According to the company, the new centre in Bangalore would start with a workforce of 1,000, which would scale up to 3,000 in about 18 months.

Paul Nannetti, general manager of Capgemini's global business information service line, said, "Bangalore provides plenty of application and technical skills in information management." He added, "The company can scale-up there much more quickly than in onshore locations."

India is among the most attractive outsourcing destination for global MNCs including IBM, Accenture and Microsoft, giving tough competition to domestic players TCS, Wipro and Infosys. The country offers large pool of skilled and low-cost talent for business information management services that help companies improve their collection, use and analysis of data.

Pooja Chawla , Ahmedabad , says: Please do open a center at ahmedabad too..ahmedabad is lacking MNCs and as a city it has perfect infrastructure and manpower for any MNC to progress.
[10 Nov, 2009 | 1005 hrs IST]

Syed Arshad Ali , Bangalore , says: from when they r going hire the freshers
[4 Nov, 2009 | 0950 hrs IST]

Madhavi P , Bangalore , says: Its really nice to know about the expansion but i would like to know as a fresher what would be the openings available?As it would would be really helpful for us.. Madhavi P
[4 Nov, 2009 | 0800 hrs IST]

NEETA , hyderabad , says: THESE PEOPLE STILL DIDN'T CALL THE 2009 PASSED OUT SELECTED STUDENTS...... hope they will let us know all the campus selected guys when they will be taking.