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TCS plans software centre in Japan

Savio G Pinto

Software major Tata Consultancy Services, in line with its strategy of scaling up its network of global development centres, is to open its next software development centre in Yokohama, Japan.

Girija Pande, regional director, Asia-Pacific, TCS, said, "We had decided to have three development centres in Asia Pacific outside of India. We have already opened development centres in Melbourne, Australia and in China. The development centre in Japan is the next one to be started."

The development centre in Japan will initially have a manpower strength comprising 35 software engineers who are in the process of being recruited.

Although, TCS has a marketing presence in Japan , the needs of the Japanese market demanded a Japanese language script and TCS decided to develop its programmes and software in this script for this market, said Pande.

The opening of the Japanese development centre is a continuation of TCS' policy of reducing the country risk perception in the minds of its clients, since clients are weighing delivery capabilities closely before tying up large orders.

As part of the new trend in evaluation, companies are looking at whether software developers and integrators have centres closer to the clients location.

TCS has taken a conscious decision to broadbase its development centres across the globe since business continuity had become a vital consideration while pitching for foreign contracts.

Cultural considerations are also playing a role in the broadbasing of development centres since customers from certain countries have preferences on where to outsource their work, said Pande.

"In fact the Chinese centre of TCS would be catering to a large Japanese customer base since they would rather outsource work to China than India, language being one of the key determining factors."

The opening of the Japanese centre comes close on the heels of TCS starting its Chinese operations and after it opened a development centre in Guildford, United Kingdom in June, another development centre in Uruguay in May and a centre in Melbourne Australia and Hungary a few months back.

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