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HP to move product software development, R&D to India
Prachi Verma / New Delhi
Amidst the backlash issues spurred by outsourcing to countries like India, the
$71.3 billion technology products and
solutions provider—Hewlett-Packard—is moving its software development
work for its two software products called OpenView and OpenCall to India from
the US and Europe.
The company is betting in a big way on India for software and products and plans
to scale up its software and research
& development operations through its Bangalore centre. Over the next three
years, HP intends to double the headcount in R&D and software development
in India from its current count of 300.
“Software development for both OpenCall and OpenView is moving to India
from the US and Europe development centres. India is gaining importance as far
as HP is concerned, both as a base for software development/R&D and as a
market,” HP India’s software global business unit country sales manager
Amit Chatterjee said. He however declined to provide details.
According to a senior company official, around 20 percent of the company’s
R&D already takes place out of India.
OpenView is a managebility software while OpenCall software is a telecom middleware
also called intelligent network software.
The company is also identifying the product gaps within its current offering.
“As we have an engineering team in India, we can fill the product gaps
in the Indian market. These products could be generated from India rather than
US or Europe,” he said.
The company sees telecom as a likely vertical with product
gaps. “Within the telecom vertical, there are products in the space of
performance management, inventory and configuration that are currently sourced
from partners,” Chatterjee said. Telecom contributes 60 percent to the
company’s total software revenues in India, followed by the financial sector
and manufacturing.
HP is working on ramping up its ISV (independent software vendors) programme
for OpenCall and increasing the focus of channel partners on small and medium
enterprises (SMEs).
—The Financial Express
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