Saturday, November 7, 2009

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Thomson to expand Bangalore operations

Global information services provider Thomson Reuters will be looking at expanding the operations at its captive technology centre in Bangalore as it considers this unit strategic for its world-wide IT requirements.

Without getting into specifics of the expansion plan, James Powell, CTO, Thomson Reuters said, “We will grow over time and we see this (Bangalore) as strategic centre....There is going to be a positive momentum.”

Thomson Reuters has around 7,000 people in India of which around 2,000 are engaged in the technology operations. Mr Powell said that Bangalore is a strategic centre for them on par with its other large development centres in London and New York.

The Bangalore centre is engaged in wide variety of IT activity for Thomson Reuters, which include product management, quality assurance, content technologies among others. At the same time, Thomson Reuters has certain third party engagements with IT services vendors like Infosys Technologies.

However, the company does not see any change in the relationship with these vendors with their own expansion plans, as it is keen to do core IT work by themselves.

Mr Powell said, “I’m a big fan of using our own staff and we believe that we can offer some great opportunities for technologists here.”

Thomson Reuters which is still on the course of its merger process is expecting that the single unified unit will give them better visibility of attracting the right kind of talent. The CTO said, “We are confident of allocating work to any of the three global development centres and not necessarily looking at Bangalore as an offhsore destination.”

Thomson Reuters which provides information to both businesses and professionals to a wide variety of sectors is looking at addressing new segments in India.

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