Lenovo opens India innovation centre

29 Dec 2006

Mumbai: Lenovo has opened an innovation centre in India, the company's first in the country and has announced plans to expand the presence of Lenovo products in multi-branded and exclusive retail outlets.

The company at present has 60 exclusive retail outlets to which it plans to add another 40 by March 2007. Its two other innovation centres are located in US and Beijing.

This is the company's third innovation centre globally and the company ascribes the Indian market as one of its fastest-growing markets comprising of unique, large enterprise and mid-market customers.

The centre will deploy globally developed solutions to specific customer requirements in India and also be capable of developing solutions when required by customers here.

Intel, Microsoft, LANDesk, IBM and Cisco will partner the innovation centre to showcase new enterprise level PC solutions in areas such as hardware platform and application integration, active management technology, network connectivity and power