Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), India's biggest information-technology outsourcing company, aims to expand its network of 'global delivery centres' on the mainland to meet growing domestic and international demand.
'We're looking to add one or two more [global delivery centres] in the next few years,' TCS chief executive and managing director Natarajan Chandrasekaran said.
Chandrasekaran pioneered the creation of TCS' global network delivery system, with multiple centres and round-the-clock operation, across five continents.
The model allows large corporate customers to choose a software outsourcing strategy that best suits their needs and business location. TCS says this set-up guarantees delivery of custom, quality software faster and in compliance with regulatory requirements and cultural preferences.
'In mainland China, we're present in five different locations with reasonable scale,' Chandrasekaran said. 'We have centres in Hangzhou, Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin and Shenzhen.'
Potential locations for the global delivery centres included Chengdu, Dalian and Chongqing.
Chandrasekaran said TCS, a unit of Indian conglomerate Tata Group, was 'growing nicely [on the mainland], but we need to move faster'. He declined to provide a breakdown of TCS' annual revenues on the mainland, where the software-outsourcing firm has been operating for 10 years.
