Mumbai:
High-tech Indian companies like Tata Consultancy Services and Wipro Technologies
are increasingly outsourcing or local talent hunting. These firms have been hiring
Americans as part of their long-term growth strategy. Officials
at TCS, India`s largest outsourcing firm, and Wipro, another major Indian technology
provider, say this has nothing to do with periodic outcries that Indians are taking
away jobs from Americans. "This
is not something new. We have had US citizens as employees for quite a number
of years," said Michael Mccabe, TCS` director corporate communications for
North America. "The
US is by far our largest single market and therefore is integral to our long-term
growth strategy," he said. The
North American market contributed $2 billion to the company`s $4.3 billion revenue
in the fiscal 2007, he noted. "All
our efforts are geared towards serving our customers in the best way possible
and ensuring that they continue to experience certainty in our ability to deliver
the results we promise," he said. "We
are likely the most diverse of the Indian IT firms. At the end of this last fiscal
year, we had close to 10 per cent non-Indian nationals as employees," Mccabe
said, noting that their number had risen from 3.5 per cent in 2005 to 6.5 per
cent in 2006. "They
play a variety of roles at the company from sales to consulting to IT services
to marketing and communications," Mccabe said, citing his own example. TCS
hires those who are fresh out of US universities as well as lateral hires, he
said. TCS, meanwhile,
announced a partnership with the department of electrical engineering, IIT Bombay,
for establishing a new initiative called ''PowerAnser Labs'' (PAL). PAL
will focus on using technology to deliver online network analysis and decision
support tools to help power utilities and grid operators access in-depth analysis
at all times, a TCS statement said. The
lab will create and maintain the network data in such a way that the end user
has to only logon online from anywhere and run various scenarios on the grid data.
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