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Saturday, Jan 22, 2005

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iGate opens second centre in Chennai

By Our Staff Correspondent

CHENNAI, JAN. 21. iGate Global Solutions opened its new 35,000 sq. ft. development centre at Guindy. The facility was inaugurated here yesterday by Vivek Harinarain, Information Secretary to the Government of Tamil Nadu. iGate already has a 65,000 sq.ft. facility here.

Addressing the inaugural function, the Chief Delivery Officer, iGate Global Solutions, Mohan Sekhar, said the company was planning to make its Chennai operation as a `Centre of Excellence' for J2EE and .Net, which would focus on developing cutting edge applications for the manufacturing verticals. As part of its plans to ramp up its operations, the company has opened the new centre. He said iGate had invested Rs. 7.50 crores in the new facility, bringing its total investment in Chennai to Rs. 15 crores.

The Chief Executive Officer of the company, Phaneesh Murthy, said the company's strategy had always been to move towards a value-added intellectual property intensive model. As a result, it had set up this `Centre of Excellence' model. Apart from Chennai, iGate had operations in Bangalore, Hyderabad and Nodia.

The company at present was in the process of completing Phase II of its expansion at its 14-acre integrated technology and operations campus in Bangalore.

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