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Vishwanath Kulkarni

Team to be ramped up to over 1,200

Bangalore , May 21

GE Consumer and Industrial, a business division of General Electric, plans to double its IT solutions team in India over the next one year even while expanding the team with its vendors in the country.

Mr Bharath Kalyanram, Chief Information Officer, GE Consumer and Industrial's India Innovation Centre, said the team will be ramped up to over 1,200 by the year-end. The ramp up is primarily driven by the strong business flow for new software introductions from various divisions within GE Consumer and Industrial business, he said.

The India Innovation Centre accounts for about 50 per cent of the IT workforce of GE Consumer & Industrial.

The centre has, till date, developed and implemented about 1700 applications and also maintains them. It caters to the needs of different business divisions of GE Consumer & Industrial including GE Appliances, GE Lighting, GE Supply, Industrial Systems, Plastics, Silicones, Quartz, GE-Fanuc, GE Security, GE Sensing and Equipment Services that have combined revenues of $35 billion, he said.

The company plans to set up a centre of excellence (CoE) around SAP solutions in Bangalore for which it expects to hire 90 people, he said.

"We are also doubling the team at Oracle CoE to 240 this year from the present 120," he said adding the India IT solutions team has carried out over 28 implementations each in Oracle and Siebel.

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