Pitney Bowes Software To Ramp Up India R&D Centre

Pitney Bowes Software, encompassing Pitney Bowes MapInfo and Pitney Bowes Group 1 Software, is expanding its India development centre with a threefold increase in planned investment. Leveraging its global business successes, the company has created aggressive expansion plans for the India centre.

To meet growing customer needs, Pitney Bowes Software plans to triple its investment level over the next three years. It has also drawn up aggressive expansion plans to more than triple its headcount at the Noida centre during the next 18 months.

“We are delighted with our India team,” said Manish Choudhary, managing director, Pitney Bowes MapInfo India. “With an engineering and professional services team already in place, our focus is to ramp-up the delivery capabilities of our Centre to meet strategic business growth goals. We have just moved to new premises, a 28,000 square foot facility in an eco-friendly ‘green’ building, and by the end of the next calendar year, we will see a three-fold increase in headcount from current engineering staff strength.” According to Choudhary, the company will benefit from a substantial pool of software engineering and R&D talent in the country.

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Pitney Bowes Software is recruiting engineers, consultants and analysts in four key business domains viz. location and business intelligence (MapInfo product lines), document management and data quality/integration (Group 1 product lines), as well as enterprise print-management. This expansion also spans functional areas viz. software product development, quality assurance, location-intelligence data, customer and technical support activities, as well as professional services to enable near-shoring projects.

Since it was established, just over 18 months ago, the India Development Centre of Pitney Bowes Software has focused on R&D for the location intelligence domain and acted as a regional hub, helping to drive global R&D efforts. The Centre recently shifted to a state-of-the-art facility in Noida where the company is investing in data centre technology, expanded test laboratories and infrastructure for global collaborative development, linking the Noida Centre to its half-dozen global development centres, across four continents – in particular Troy (NY, USA), Boulder (CO, USA), Windsor (UK), Chatham (UK), and Toronto (Canada).

“The India Development Centre plays a key role in our global business strategy,” said Mike Hickey, president, Pitney Bowes Software. “We plan for it to become our centre of excellence in R&D, with focus on innovation, value creation and enhancing our intellectual property.”