Beijing, Sept 03: Tata Consultancy Services, one of the world's largest software and services consulting firm, will use china as a global sourcing base for this part of the world and expand its reach to Japan and South Korea from here, a senior company executive said. "For us, China is a strategic move. It is not like opening in country A or B. We are going to use China as a global sourcing base for this part of the world," regional director for TCS in the Asia Pacific, Girija Pande said here in an interview. "We have now the English-speaking world out of India and the Mandarin-speaking world out of China," Pande, who is also chairman of Tata Information Technology (Shanghai), a wholly owned subsidiary of Tata Sons Ltd, which was launched in June last year as part of a strategic plan to bolster its presence in the Asia Pacific region.
Explaining the company's first year of operations in China, Pande said he is satisfied by the initial breakthroughs and the exposure it got and the active support from the Chinese government at various levels here. "Today, we have offices in Shanghai and Beijing as well as a software development centre in Hangzhou. TCS currently employs 120 it professionals, 80 per cent of whom are Chinese," he said.
Pande said that TCS has made inroads into various market segments in China, including manufacturing, telecommunications and the financial services industries by forming marketing alliances with local companies. Bureau Report