Zensar to set up facilities in Pune, Hyderabad

Pune: Zensar Technologies is setting up facilities, each with 300 seats, one at the EON SEZ (special economic zone) in Pune and another in Hyderabad. The company is also planning to focus in areas across the world that have traditionally not been tapped.

Dr Ganesh Natarajan, Deputy Chairman and Managing Director, Zensar, said a 300-seater facility is being set up at EON, an SEZ for IT and ITeS in Kharadi, and is expected to be ready by August this year.

EON is an SEZ spread over 45 acres and has four blocks, of which two are functional. The facility in Hyderabad is expected to be operational by February 2009.

Both the 300-seater facilities would initially start with IT services and may extend them to its BPO services later.

Dr Ganesh said the company is also increasing its focus in Eastern Europe, including countries such as Romania, Hungary and Poland. He said the Eastern and Western European market would be serviced from its development centre in Poland.

He said the non-traditional geographies currently contributed to about 35 per cent of its turnover while the US and UK markets contributed 65 per cent. The ideal mix, according to him, was about 55 per cent from the US, 25 per cent from the UK and the remaining from the rest of the world.

Dr Ganesh said it is also introducing a software to entice Kiranas (small shops) to utilise the services of information technology.

The software is in the process of being developed and is expected to be ready within three months. He said all it required for the Kiranas was a computer and an internet connection.