The Hindu Business Line : Xansa to double headcount in India

(From right): Mr Saurabh Srivastava, Executive Chairman, Xansa India, Mr Murali Vullaganti, Managing Director, and Mr Amitabh Shrivastava, Director-Operations, after a press confernce at the company's premises in SIPCOT near Chennai. — Shaju John

Chennai , July 24

XANSA, an international business process and IT services firm, will double its manpower in India to 4,000 by the end of April 2005. The company also plans to make its Chennai centre the biggest one for Xansa anywhere in the world.

The Chennai centre currently employs about 500 software professionals, and the strength is to be doubled in the next eight months. In three years, the Chennai centre will have about 6,000 employees, said Mr Saurabh Srivastava, Executive Chairman, Xansa India. He is also on the board of Xansa plc, a Rs 3,200-crore UK-based firm. Employee strength in the company's Pune centre will be doubled to 400. The company will also have about 2,600 employees in its Noida centre, from the present 1,400, by fiscal ending April 2005, he said.

In the first phase, Xansa has invested about Rs 160 crore in its Indian development centres. In the second phase, the investment could be about Rs 4,000 per sq.ft of space. The company has an open budget for expansion in India, he told presspersons here on Saturday on the occasion of first anniversary celebrations of Xansa's Chennai centre in Siruseri, located about 25 km on the Old Mahabalipuram Road, the city's IT corridor.

According to Mr Srivasatava, when Xansa started its Indian operations in 1989, out of the company's global headcount one fourth was in this country, and the rest in the UK. During this fiscal ending, the employee strength will be the same in both the countries, with each country having about 4,000 employees. However, in the next couple of years, the Indian operations will overtake the UK, he said.

Xansa's Chennai centre is now the worldwide support centre for the $400-million Lawson, a US-based provider of enterprise resource planning solutions. Xansa's centre has the largest concentration of Lawson skills outside the US.

Mr Murali Vullaganti, Managing Director, Xansa India, said that recently the company started migrating some of BT's BPO services, including accounting and financial, to India from the UK. BT is a large European telecommunication firm. Xansa has about 350 employees working for BT in India, he said.

Under a five-year contract, BT will provide Xansa with a bespoke implementation of Agile Contact Central, part of its suite of Siebel-based Contact Central CRM solutions, and multimedia voice over Internet protocol connectivity services.

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