UK firm plans to set up IT campus in Hyd

Intec Group to be provided 100-acre land near Hardware Park

The UK-based The intec Group Limited (TIGL) is planning to set up a huge IT campus for both software development and research operations in Hyderabad.

Though the investment particulars are not immediately available, the company is expected to employ about 3,500 professionals in the next two years after it kick-starts operations at the campus.

The meeting of the company's chairman Walter Van West with chief minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy on Thursday has proved to be an instant success, ending a three-year long wait for a government response on the company's land requirement.

The chief minister has agreed to provide a 100-acre land near the proposed Hardware Park outside the city. The company had set up its office in Hyderabad way back in 2001, but could not impress upon the then government on its proposal for setting up of an IT campus.

The company's chairman has explained to the chief minister that, besides the software development operations, the Hyderabad campus would also engage people in research through an e-incubation process. Students and researchers of various universities would be engaged in IT related research wherein they would become part owners of the research outcome.

With both "" research and e-incubation "" being fairly new concepts to Hyderabad, intec's proposed operations would add new dimensions to the state's IT sector.

TIGL, established in 1997, offers a range of services from web design and hosting to delivery of web-based solutions and business process outsourcing (BPO) services. TIGL owns TASKManage, a web-based enterprise collaboration and communication solution. This software was developed and is managed by TIGL.

To optimise its technology infrastructure and to benefit from the skilled and cost-effective manpower pool available at its subsidiary in India, TIGL offers BPO services for back office processing, customer and product support, and web-enabled systems administration.

TIGL has presence in several countries, namely, in the US, the UK, Middle East and India. intec group (India) limited (IGIL) - a subsidiary of TIGL- was established in 2001. intec's development centre is registered as ISO 9001:2000 compliant and located at Hyderabad. intec employs highly skilled IT professionals and is a leader in providing ASP services with a range of expertise covering consulting, e-business, hosting, software development, CRM, EAI, automatic identification technology and voice identification.

IGIL had in November last year bagged a Devalayam project from the state government wherein the company would computerise 2,000 temples across the state.

The project would enable users to get information on pujas, sevas, archanas and tourist information. That apart, donors from anywhere in the world could send donations to any of these 2,000 temples.