BEA s R&D Bangalore Facility

outsourcing">Bangalore, India s fatal allure continues to reel them in, as in the news BEA Systems, an enterprise infrastructure software company head-quartered in San Jose, California and with a turn-over of $1.08-billion in the last financial year, sets up a Research & Development (R&D) centre in Bangalore, only its biggest in the world. Alfred Chuang, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BEA, sees India as a high-growth market for its new AquaLogic brand of service oriented architecture (SOA) software, which was launched in July of last year.
Affirming there has been a tremendous growth in India for his company s SOA, which has not only gained momentum, it has seen sales in India grow by 50%, next only to China s 54% in the Asia Pacific region. It is the simply huge growth opportunities in the sub-continent that is the main reason behind BEA opening a new facility in Bangalore that can house 545-people.
The company is set to cross $3-billion mark in revenues by 2008 and a major share of this is expected to come from AquaLogic and WebLogic product line. At present, 2% of the revenues are from licensing of AquaLogic software, he said.
Without divulging details about the investment, Chuang says BEA has entered into a strategic partnership with India s Tata Consultancy Services to develop SOA solutions based on BEA AquaLogic and WebLogic platforms. He adds this is just the beginning with his company already assessing ways to increase its investment in India.
The R&D centre supports BEA s long-term expansion plans in the Indian sub-continent and the Asia Pacific region, as BEA plans to set up a solutions centre in Bangalore, as well. Apart from this, it intends to showcase new solutions and technologies in line with emerging domains such as SOA.
Currently, housing 360-professionals at the Bangalore Centre, 270 of whom are software developers; BEA Systems provides its services to LIC, Tata Teleservices, National Stock Exchange, Indian Railways and ICICI, according to Sanjeev Kumar, Head of BEA R&D Bangalore centre.
From BPO to R&D to the whole gamut of works, India s cost effective though high quality talents are much in demand. The Indian reverence for education has paid off and how! First, the brain drain to the West show-cased and brought to the fore Indian intellectual brilliance and capacity for hard work. Now, as the brain drain reverses and Indians return gradually to the fold, it brings the West to Indian shores attempting to exploit the country once again after the savage rape of the land and its people.
However, this time it is on Indian terms, the sub-continental firms may offer low cost high quality solutions, but they do so by giving employment to Indian youth, by giving them the economic freedom to dream their dreams and fulfil their aspirations, they are freeing India from the tag of developing, Third World country. Slowly shaking off the British induced poverty and brown sahib complex, both relics of the British Raj, India and Indians are standing tall, walking tall, as Indian potential unleashes, erasing the British Raj inflicted psychological scars. Once again, there is pride in being Indian and in all things Indian, from their ancient heritage, to their culture, to their religion to their uniqueness, to their diversity in unity. India is a land apart, there is none like it, and as Indian myth has it, home to the Gods and the Goddesses of the Hindu Pantheon, residing as they do on the majestic peaks of the Himalayan Mountains. This then is India Rising!
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