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It will have 150 employees by the end of the year

Bangalore April 26 Philips IT, the technology wing of electronics major Philips, has announced the opening of its Business Application Services (P-BAS) centre in Bangalore.

As part of the Philips Innovation Campus (PIC) in Bangalore, the P-BAS centre would focus on growth in technical and functional SAP competencies, and play a key role in IT solutions and services delivery for various Philips units worldwide.

The P-BAS centre in Bangalore would have 150 employees by the end of the year, Mr Sathyanarayanan Balasubramanian, Head, P-BAS, said. Further, Philips IT would continue to work with its existing vendor base, where it has some 350 people working for it.

Global sourcing centre

The P-BAS CEO, Mr Andreas Schumm, said Philips was committed to making Bangalore a global sourcing centre for business application services.

The centre here would provide Enterprise Resource Planning services to Philips Product Divisions and Philips partners, and support the various business lines and service lines within P-BAS centre in Eindhoven.

Projects related to stages of product lifecycle development would be transferred to India to begin with, he said. Mr Schumm said P-BAS employed 600 people globally and 90 per cent of its work was SAP-related.

The PIC CEO, Mr Alexius Collette, said the new centre would help the campus emerge as the global hub for Philips IT and the initiative was in line with Philips developing the Bangalore centre as a SAP competency centre.

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