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Cybage in Media - 2008 |
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07-08-08 - Thursday - DNA |
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As a part of its global expansion plan, city-based infotech company Cybage has started operations in Hyderabad with a 300-seater development centre in the Special Economic Zone (SEZ). This is a first foray for the firm into an SEZ. Company officials said that the centre was already operational with over 100 software professionals before its formal launch on August 6. The headcount is expected to reach full capacity within a year.
"The overall expansion will help the national branding, give us access to the huge pool of talent available in and around Hyderabad and offer our employees geographical options to work with Cybage," said Arun Nathani, chief executive officer and managing director of Cybage. Apart from Hyderabad, the firm also has operations at Gandhinagar, along with three centers in Pune. Overseas, the company has a facility at Redmond in the US.
The expansion in Hyderabad puts Cybage in physical proximity to its key strategic customers like Microsoft, HSBC and Google, among the others. "This proximity will help in strengthening the existing relationship with these customers," said Nathani. Headquarters in Pune, Cybage offers end-to-end software services to customers globally. Currently the company has a headcount of over 2,800 professionals spread across its development centres in Pune, Hyderabad, Gandhinagar and Redmond.
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15-06-08 - Sunday – The Times of India |
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Cybage was felicitated by the State Blood Transfusion Council (SBTC) in Mumbai on the occasion of World Blood Donor Day (WBDD) on Saturday. Cybage achieved the unique distinction of collection more than 1,000 units of blood last year. Speaking to The Times of India (TOI), State Blood Transfusion Council Director, Dr Sanjay Jadhav added, “We organize this programme to encourage institutions to continue their work and motivate others to work in a similar direction.”
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29-05-08 – Thursday - DNA |
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The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP), USA, has ranked Pune-based Cybage Software among top four firms in the ‘Global Outsourcing 100 rising star’ category. Cybage scored the highest among all applications in outsourcing experience, industry recognition and employee management. IAOP was formed in 2005 by a consortium of leading companies involved in outsourcing as costumers, providers and advisors. This in second consecutive year Cybage has been selected as one of the world’s top outsourcing service providers. The results of the survey were published in the fortune 500 list early this month. “The list comprises of 100 top associations worldwide, of which 75 are big companies while 25 are rising enterprises.
Cybage has climbed from 22nd rank last year to the fourth rank,” said Arun Nathani, chief executive office of Cybage Software. Featuring the best of today’s leading outsourcing service providers and tomorrow’s rising stars, companies were judged on four critical characteristics – size and growth; customer references; organizational competencies; and management capabilities.
Cybage has a headcount of over 2700 professionals spread across its development centers in Pune, Hyderabad, Gandhinagar and Redmond in the US. “The company is expanding to become a 3,000-people organization by the year end,” Deepak Nathani, chief operating officer, Cybage Software.
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May 2008 – Fortune 500 issue of Fortune magazine |
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magazine features Cybage at no. 4 in the 2008 Global Outsourcing 100 rising
star category by the International Association of Outsourcing professionals
(IAOP), US. This is the second consecutive year that Cybage has been
selected one of the worlds top outsourcing service provider by IAOP in the
Global Outsourcing 100 list.
About IAOP
The International Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP) was formed
in early 2005 by a consortium of leading companies involved in outsourcing
as customers, providers and advisors. Today its global membership includes
organizations from around the world representing a cross-section of
industries and functional activities. With 40,000 members, this leading
member-based association is shaping the future of outsourcing as a
management practice, as a profession and as an industry, through its
establishment of professional accreditation, practice standards and industry
advocacy. IAOP brings together the world’s leading outsourcing customers,
providers and advisors in a powerful, active and growing global association
to exchange thought leadership, share best practices and network to maximize
their effectiveness at using outsourcing as a management tool.
About The Global Outsourcing 100
The Global Outsourcing 100, produced annually by the International
Association of Outsourcing Professionals (IAOP), is devoted to featuring the
best of today's leading outsourcing service providers and tomorrow's rising
stars. Relative rankings, selection process details, and company strengths
are featured in a special advertising feature, produced by IAOP in the May
5th FORTUNE 500 issue of FORTUNE® magazine. Companies were judges on four
critical characteristics: size and growth; customer references;
organizational competencies; and management capabilities. |
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03-05-08 - Sunday – Pune Times (The Times of India)
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As part of their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), the Nathani’s have spread their CSR wings even further through village adoption. (CybageAsha-a philanthropic part of Cybage under its broad corporate social responsibility initiative works for the under privileged and needy sections of society to enhance their quality of life. CybageAsha is committed to spreading smiles through blood donation drives, de-addiction programmes, AID awareness activities and even organizing events for old age homes and orphanages. However its dream project is village adoption. CybageAsha aims at making the residents of the adopted village self-reliant through various initiatives namely; zero budget organic farming, water harvesting, hygiene, tree plantation etc) |
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24-04-08 – Thursday – The Times of India, Ahmedabad |
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Company plans to add 175 seats to the existing headcount of 125.
No sooner had it set up a development centre in Gujarat last year;
outsourced product development player Cybage is already making plans to
expand its presence in the state. The company located in Infocity
Gandhinagar has already grown to a 125-people centre and is looking at more
than doubling its headcount at Gandhinagar this fiscal.
“We have the capacity to accommodate 350 people at Infocity right now and
plan to add 175 more by the end of 2008-09,” Arun Nathani, CEO of Cybage,
told TOI. Cybage currently employs 2500 people across Pune, Hyderabad,
Gandhinagar as well as Redmond and New York in the US and is in the process
of adding a 5,000-seater facility in Pune. |
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10-01-08 - Thursday – The Times of India |
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Cybage started in Pune 13 years back with a set of intellectual properties
and a handful of professionals with lots of zeal to excel. Today Cybage is
approximately 2500 people strong global enterprise offering end-to-end
software services to crème-de-la-crème customers globally, growing
phenomenally at a CAGR that consistently surpasses the industry standards.
Cybage today has 3 world-class state-of-the-art software centers of
excellence in Pune with an upcoming center of global standards capable of
housing over 4000 professionals.
Amongst other important things, Cybage’s success is largely attributable to
its strategic presence in Pune. During inception, I had a few options where
Cybage could start from. Pune came up as a natural choice since it had an
advantage of being my wife’s hometown as well as home to a highly knowledge
intensive industry. Ever since then Cybage has never looked back. The growth
story at Cybage was magnificently supported by the location advantages which
Pune has offered. Leveraging its strong footprint in Pune, Cybage could also
open additional development centers in other parts of India and also abroad
to support its implementation of a global delivery model.
Pune offers a judicious mix of advantages for an IT organization to
incubate, grow and get matured. As compared to the other erstwhile popular
IT destinations in India, Pune offers combined advantages of a large and
small city. It houses resources and expertise which can be benchmarked
against the best in the world, at the same time remains reasonably
economical like a small city. The knowledge churning capability of Pune is
truly outstanding. From a software company standpoint, the city’s inherent
English-speaking proliferation, and presence of several engineering and
management institutes offer a huge strategic advantage, since scalability is
very important in our industry. The climatic and infrastructural quality of
life which Pune offers is extremely appealing to the knowledge workers.
It becomes interesting to visualize the growth of Pune as an IT capital of
India when we look at the state of affairs of the industry from the
macro-economic standpoint. The cities which were hitherto popular
destinations of IT companies to get stationed actually became popular
through a simple ‘follow-the-leader’ philosophy. Go where ever the
well-known in the industry go. That was further fuelled by the impetus which
the local state governments provided the bandwagon. This was good – good for
the nation and good for the overall industry as the brand-building
initiatives of our worthy seniors helped place Indian IT landscape firmly on
global roadmap. But interestingly, as our industry now enters mature phase –
the same success story of our peers has become their impediment in growth.
The disproportionate demand of the past few years have ended up surpassing
the natural capacity of these cities to support a knowledge intensive
industry. Our leading competing hubs are increasingly becoming saturated,
cost of running operations are skyrocketing, and the lack of fundamental
capabilities is apparent. On the other hand, a manageable and spread-out
growth of Pune’s IT industry, hand-in-hand with gradually evolving
infrastructural framework has placed our city in a reckonable contention for
tomorrow’s IT leader position. I firmly believe Pune holds tremendous scope
and capacity for scalable growth due to its inherent and fundamental
strength, and Cybage story is just one concrete example to uphold this
trend. As far as Cybage is concerned, we plan to stay here thick and thin,
as this city is and will continue to remain at the center stage of our
global software services business. |
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