Lucent Technologies’ joint venture for a software development centre in Chennai, India
Lucent Technologies, which is a spin-off from AT&T and designs, builds and delivers a range of network software and micro-electronic components for the communication sector, is setting up 7,000 sq.ft software development centre in the Chennai Export Processing Zone, along with India Comnet International (Pvt.) Ltd., Chennai, a subsidiary of Comnet International, USA. The centre will be a R&D and testing bed for Lucent’s products and develop software for Lucent’s narrow-band switching platforms.
The Chennai centre is the third Lucent Development Centre (LDC) in India.. Lucent has also recently entered into a strategic partnership with two more Indian companies - Tata Consultancy Services and Wipro Infotech Ltd. - to set up LDCs in Bangalore. These Centres in India are in addition to Lucent’s wholly-owned Bell Labs Development Centre in the US.
Oki Electric of Japan sets up a joint software development centre in India
Oki Electric Industry Co., a leading telecommunication systems manufacturer in Japan, has established its first offshore software development centre for India, in association with DSQ Software, at Chennai. As part of this venture, DSQ Software will develop advanced telecommunication software for Oki on a commission basis. DSQ Software has been associated with Oki Electric for three years and establishment of the offshore development centre is a natural progression of this association. DSQ has so far executed 14 projects in telecommunications. Also there are 7 on-going projects.
DSQ Software has already two dedicated offshore development centres for Japanese customers - NEC and NSW. One more centre would be opened by the end of the year for another Japanese company.
Bradmark of US ties up with NIIT Ltd., of India for software products and services
Bradmark, a US-based data management company, and NIIT Ltd., New Delhi, have announced recently a corporate alliance to develop and expand the country’s domestic software and services market by providing state-of-the-art products to Indian enterprises.
Under the agreement, NIIT will offer Bradmark’s "DBG General" suite of products along with specialized systems integration services. DBG General is a comprehensive toolset for monitoring and tuning Oracle and Sybase database servers across distributed enterprise-network environment.
Hughes Software Systems, New Delhi, ties up with Sun Microsystems for telecom software development
Hughes Software Systems (HSS), a subsidiary of Hughes Network Systems Inc., (HNS) of US has announced a strategic alliance with Sun Microsystems for building solutions around the Solstice Enterprise
Manager (SEM) and Solstice Telecommunications Management Network (TMN) products for the telecommunications market-place in India. HSS has invested about $1.5 million in the venture and has recruited 25 people. Sun Microsystems’ investment is more through technology transfer and the intention to move some of its software development projects to developers in India. The expertise centre for this initiative will be at HSS’s headquarters and software development centre in the Electronic City, Gurgaon, near New Delhi. Another such centre will be opened in Bangalore in 1998.
NIIT Ltd., New Delhi, to set up a joint venture with CSK Corporation of Japan for software development
CSK Corporation, Japan’s largest independent software and systems integrator, and NIIT Ltd., part of HCL Corporation, New Delhi, India’s largest integrated IT group, have signed a definitive agreement to form a joint venture with a 50:50 equity ownership and a paid-up capital of Singapore $ 3 million.
The company called Japan-India Information Technology Co. (JIIT) will be incorporated in Singapore and shall address the software business worldwide. It will target specific opportunities in Japan for system integration, software development and consulting and also address business originating in Japan for software services, mainly for Japanese companies globalizing their operations. The company will operate in the $60 billion Japanese market through a wholly-owned subsidiary.
Targeting a turnover of $20 millions in the next three years, the joint venture will tap systems integration opportunities in the financial, manufacturing and government sectors in Japan, and also provide software solutions to globalizing Japanese companies.