Frontline Consulting lines up $20 million for Hyd

Frontline Consulting Services (Private) Limited, the research and delivery arm of US-based IT solutions and products provider FCS Inc, is planning to invest $20 million (approximately Rs 90 crore) in Hyderabad in the next three years, according to FCS country head Sreenivasa Hosamane.

“We have been allotted land in the Kokapet Empire Site special economic zone, where we plan to develop an integrated campus to accommodate about 1,500 employees, which is targeted for 2013,” he said.

FCS has grown aggressively in Hyderabad since it began operations in 2008 with over 300 employees working from its Hitec City office. It has invested $5 million (Rs 22.5 crore) in purchasing and developing its own office facility. The new facility, expanded to 20,000-sft, was inaugurated by Assembly speaker N Kiran Kumar Reddy on Sunday.

“We have strategically aligned ourselves with Oracle Corporation partnering at various levels as Oracle platinum partner, business intelligence pillar initiative partner, development alliance partner and also Oracle on-demand partner. This has resulted in innovative product solutions like Demand Signal Repository (www.retailsignal.com), manufacturing analytics for the retail and manufacturing sector,” Vikas Handa, chief executive of FCS stated in a press release.