The Hindu Business Line : LogicaCMG to move more UK jobs to India

CMG was planning to move a major portion of its internal work, including development, maintenance and technical support from its centres in UK and Ireland to India and the Czech Republic.

Bangalore , June 27

LOGICACMG plans to increase the headcount of its India operations to about 2,500 by end-2005, up from the present 650, as the company hopes to outsource more work to its offshore services centre in Bangalore from its operations in UK and Ireland.

The company is in the process of setting up a campus in Bangalore, at an investment of close to £20 million. The first phase is scheduled to be operational by October this year, said LogicaCMG's Business Development Director for outsourcing, Mr Andrew De Cleyn.

"We expect to increase our headcount to 1,200 by the year-end and double it by end-2005," Mr De Cleyn said adding that jobs across domains such as telecom, financial services and energy and utilities were being moved to Bangalore.

According to Mr De Cleyn, LogicaCMG was planning to move a major portion of its internal work, including development, maintenance and technical support from its centres in UK and Ireland to India and the Czech Republic.

Outsourcing business accounted for 20 per cent of Logica's revenues in 2003. About 80 per cent of the outsourced business was handled from Bangalore. For the current year, Logica expects outsourcing business to account for 30 per cent of its overall revenues, he said.

Apart from handling internal work, the Bangalore centre will provide technical support to several Logica's customers. About 200 jobs relating to wireless networking products operations have already been moved to Bangalore from Logica's centres in Bristol and Ireland.

LogicaCMG also plans to strengthen its SAP practice in India. Logica is one of the largest implementation partners for SAP worldwide and, at present, has a team of 20 engineers in India to support the SAP practice.

"We are planning to increase the SAP implementation team here and provide more support services from Bangalore to our global customers," Mr De Cleyn said.

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