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Mr Shekhar Dasgupta, MD, Oracle India, flanked by Mr Somesh Bhagat (left), Director, Marketing, and Mr Satinder Grover, Senior Director, at a press meet in Delhi on Tuesday. - - Kamal Narang

New Delhi , Oct. 5

ORACLE India, a wholly owned subsidiary of enterprise software company Oracle Corporation, has said it is likely to continue adding 250 people to its India operations, every month.

"We are consolidating at our existing India Development Centres at Bangalore and Hyderabad. Oracle in India (including sales, marketing and development) is adding 250 people per month. This has been the trend in the last few months... The possibility is that we will continue to grow are this rate in the next one year," Oracle India's Managing Director, Mr Shekhar Dasgupta, said on the sidelines of a conference here on Tuesday.

Oracle is working to extend the functionalities of its `data hub' solution such that it could be used for e-governance, Mr S.P.S. Grover, Senior Director, Oracle India, said.

"We had launched `Data Hub' about five months back. Organisations have multiple applications with various aspects of customer information. A data hub consolidates the customer information into a repository, from where various applications can utilise it. We are now planning to position it in e-governance environment as a Citizen Data hub," he said.

Citing instances where information relating to citizens resided with various Government departments and local authorities, he said that the same concept could be used in Governance for higher efficiency.

"The product is currently being showcased it our e-governance centre in Gurgaon. It is still early days and it needs a lot of concept selling. But we have been getting an encouraging response," Mr Grover added.

The company also announced that the latest version of its applications software Oracle E-Business Suite 11i.10 would be a highlight at the upcoming OpenWorld Mumbai conference, to be held on November 2-3.

With the theme `Answers to your industry, Applications for your business', the meet is targeted at in India with enterprise information management needs.

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