Big Indian Players Answer the Call to be Closer to US Clients
December 9th, 2009Coinciding with a turnaround in business sentiments in its largest market, top-tier IT companies such as Infosys, Wipro and HCL Technologies appear to be aggressively ramping up North America-based delivery capabilities.
While Infosys Technologies has bought McCamish Systems based in Atlanta, Georgia, HCL Technologies has completed the acquisition and upgradation of a data centre in Parsippany, New Jersey. In the last four months, Cognizant has announced the expansion of two of its delivery centres in Phoenix (Arizona) and more recently in Toronto, Canada.
Market watchers are of the opinion that industry seems to be carrying on from where it left-off when global financial crisis put a spanner on client IT spends.
“The slowdown hit demand visibility, as customers held back purchase decisions or pruned their budgets. During that period, we saw IT services companies focus on internal costs and efficiencies. But now that the bad news has subsided, the IT industry is hopeful …
