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Akzo Nobel sets up technology centre in India
Circuit EC / Bangalore
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| Floris Zwarteveen |
Netherlands-based Akzo Nobel Car Refinishes has set up a competency centre
in Bangalore that will focus on software engineering and development for the
company’s internal consumption. The Bangalore centre is Akzo’s first
centre outside of The Netherlands. It will work in close co-ordination with
the company’s existing centre in The Netherlands that’s responsible
for the development of IT bodyshop systems such as Carinfo, Sikkens e-benchmarking
and Mixit. Software development will take place on Java and .NET and nearly
50 percent of Akzo Nobel’s software development work will be done from
it’s Indian centre.
The centre will start with eight engineers and scale up to 25 engineers by 2006.
Akzo Nobel plans to delegate the management of its complete IT infrastructure
to its competency centre in Bangalore in the future. Floris Zwarteveen, global
ICT competence centre manager, Akzo Nobel Car Refinishes, says, “We will
set up a test lab in India for process testing and [for creating] tools to support
software development.”
Akzo Nobel Car Refinishes supplies paints, services, decals and software for
car repair, commercial vehicles and transportation. It also caters to automotive
plastic interiors and exterior component customers. Akzo employs about 6,500
people and has 350 operations in over 80 countries worldwide.
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