Date: 25/11/2010

IBM opens 3 more offices in India

IBM has announced the opening of three regional offices in Dehradun (North India), Guwahati (Eastern India) and Raipur (Central India), with these three IBM has 18 branch offices in India.

IBM said it is currently focused on increasing its presence in smaller, rapidly developing Indian cities as part of its plan to establish a presence in 40 Indian cities by 2013 due to the company experiencing particular demand for information management, security, cloud computing and business analytics solutions as businesses and government organizations in these regions turn to IT to reduce costs and gain competitive advantage.

IBM is partnering with Indian institutes to support the growth of open source technologies, quoted example by IBM its partnership with the IIT, Guwahati.

"We recognise the role of technology and innovation in driving economic and societal development," said Dr Gautam Baruah, Director IIT Guwahati, who inaugurated IBM's Guwahati branch office. "The Indian Institute of Technology in Guwahati is committed to developing a next generation of business and technology skills which are in line with today's business requirements. IBM has been closely working with IIT and other universities across the country to improve and evolve IT skills based on open standards and we look forward to increasing our partnership especially in emerging fields such as cloud computing and business analytics."

"These are dynamic times for Indian regional development and there is tremendous market potential in these cities that we are expanding into," said Nipun Mehrotra, Vice President, General Business, Geographic Expansion, and IBM India/South Asia. "We are seeing increasing demand for advanced technologies as business and government leaders transform the way they work and look for ways to gain competitive advantage."

IBM's customers in India include in areas such as banking, education, government, energy, manufacturing, industry and IT services sectors and also Cooperative Banks.