India: R&D Labs
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R&D Centre
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Highlights
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R&D Centre, Bangalore
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Established in 1984. The centre
started with just 20 people, now has 900 people working on VLSI and
embedded software, which goes along with a chip or into the chip.
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India Development Centre,
Bangalore, Hyderabad.
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The Bangalore centre was
established in 1994; the Hyderabad one in 1999. Oracle’s largest
development centre outside the US currently has 6,000 staff. Does work on
Oracle's database products, applications, business intelligence products
and application development tools, besides other activities.
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India Engineering Centre,
Bangalore
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Established in mid-1999 with 20
people, has scaled up to 500 people today. Does work mainly on Sun's
software which includes Solaris and Sun One.
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R&D Centre,
Bangalore and Mumbai. |
Established in 1988 with 20
people, has scaled up to 1,000 today. Drives nearly 60 percent of the
company’s global development delivery.
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Software Lab,
Bangalore, Pune. |
Established in 2001. Works on
all IBM software like WebSphere, DB2, Lotus, Tivoli and Rational. The
centre has added many new areas of activities such as middleware and
business intelligence.
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Labs India, Bangalore.
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Established in November 1998
with 100 people, the Lab swill be scaled up to 1500 by the end of 2004.
That will double 3000 staff by middle of 2006. It is the largest
single-location R&D lab for SAP outside Walldorf, Germany. Nearly 10
percent of SAP's total R&D work is carried out from the Indian lab.
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Innovation Campus, Bangalore.
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Established in 1996 with 10
people, has scaled up to 895 people today, and will be further scaled up
to 1,000 before the end of 2003. Works on developing software for Philips
products. Almost all Philips products that use software have some
contribution from this centre. It is the largest software centre for
Philips outside Holland.
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Bangalore.
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Established in 2002 with just
two people, has scaled up to 20 specialists today. Plans exist to double
its headcount by the beginning of 2004. Is totally dedicated to high-level
research on futuristic technologies, with special focus on emerging
markets.
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