Honeywell Tech to double Bangalore headcount
By siliconindia staff writer   |   Wednesday, 01 October 2003, 19:30 IST
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BANGALORE: Honeywell, the $24-billion diversified technology and manufacturing company, is rapidly increasing its engagements in allied areas such as hardware, electronics and business process services at Bangalore-based Honeywell Technology Solutions (HTSL), its wholly-owned subsidiary. In line with work expansion, headcount at this facility is expected to double from 1,600 currently to 3,000 to 3,200 by mid-2005. A sizeable portion of this increase is expected to be electronics-related work and also for the much talked of BPO segment. HTSL has already begun working on a range of captive BPO functions in the finance and human resource fields. This is viewed as an area of rapid growth for HTSL. (Is going the BPO way the next logical step for all software companies?) Krishna Mikkilleni, managing director, said HTSL is the only operations globally that interacts with multiple product divisions. Today, HTSL undertakes software product development and support, technology development and hardware engineering for the company’s aerospace and automation as well as control businesses. HTSL also supports Honeywell businesses with digital enterprise solutions and business process solutions. Honeywell has invested over $150 million in its Indian operations. It also has a small presence in US and China. The Chinese operation is used more to localise Honeywell’s products for that segment, with as much as 95 per cent of the global market’s requirement’s taken care of from India. “We are now looking to go up the value chain,” Mikkilleni said. (Source: Economic Times)

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