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GE on Wednesday said it has opened its largest digital hub here, which will create an additional 1,000 tech positions.
The digital hub employs 1,500 highly skilled IT and software professionals. The India centre will deliver solutions for the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) for its customers, making it easier for industrial companies to execute a strategic digital transformation to drive internal productivity.
The Digital Hub is a center for co-creating industrial software and analytics solutions with customers and GE experts, aimed at solving complex business problems. At the center of this collaboration is Predix, GE’s distributed operating system built for the industrial world.
Demonstrating the strength of the platform, Predix helps customers harness the power of the Industrial Internet and contribute significantly to GE’s goal of achieving $1 billion in productivity by 2020, a statement from GE said.
“GE’s global Digital Hubs are at the core of our transformation into a premier digital industrial company,” said Jim Fowler, Vice-President and Chief Information Officer (CIO) of GE.
The new location is spread over 200,000 sq ft. GE Digital’s India Hub is part of the company’s network of global locations in San Ramon, California; Detroit, Michigan; New Orleans, Louisiana; Glen Allen, Virginia; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; and Budapest, Hungary.
By pairing digital technology with its domain expertise across industries like aviation, energy, healthcare and transportation, GE is transforming the industry with software-defined machines and solutions that are connected, responsive and predictive. GE’s Predix-based software and solutions are set to deliver more than $6 billion in incremental revenue this year, and GE expects to become a $15 billion software business by 2020.
“Bengaluru is one of the six key locations around the world which is focused on IT and software development in line with our business strategy,” said Anthony Thomas, Group CIO for GE.
“GE is looking to hire talent that can fit our lean and agile culture, wants to work in a unique global set up which has a start-up like feel, within a large enterprise with access to R&D, engineering and manufacturing. For people who are willing to make an impact in technology intensive industries, this 124-year old start up is the place to be.”
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