Hitachi Solutions to nurture workforce from Chennai universities

Chennai:

Hitachi Solutions America, a leading provider of global industry solutions and services based on Microsoft Dynamics AX and Microsoft Dynamics CRM, has opened a new subsidiary in India and is planning to nurture a workforce in its two proposed Global Development Centres by tying up with universities and engineering institutes in the city.

Addressing a press conference here, chief executive of Hitachi Solutions India Ananth Subramanian and director of finance and company secretary K A Gopalakrishnan said that the company is planning a global delivery centers in Hyderabad and Chennai and would be recruiting 500 people in the next three to five years.

The global delivery centers will be catering to the projects outsourced from United Kingdom, United States besides far eastern countries.

Although the information technology sector is going through turbulent times, Subramanian says that services based on Microsoft Dynamics AX and Microsoft Dynamics CRM is doing well, he said.

Subramanian says that Hitachi Solutions will soon be signing up a memorandum of understanding with two universities. “We will be providing training to the students through couple of trainers in the institutes,” he said.

India and other Southeast Asian countries are currently experiencing high business growth mainly because Japanese and Western multinationals are locating manufacturing and distribution facilities in the region, he said.