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IBM Chief Says Company Will Triple Investment in India to $6 Billion in Three Years

NEW DELHI (AP) — IBM Corp. said Tuesday it would triple its investment in India to $6 billion over the next three years as the South Asian country becomes a cornerstone in the global network of the world’s largest computer services company.

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Chairman and Chief Executive Sam Palmisano said the investment will be used to build service delivery centers in Bangalore, India’s technology hub, and create a telecommunications research and innovation center for IBM clients around the world.

Palmisano also said IBM would increase the number of its employees in Bangalore, without elaborating.

In the past three years, the company has invested more than $2 billion, and hired more than 30,000 people in India, taking its staff in the country from 9,000 to 42,000 today.

“India and other emerging economies are increasingly (becoming) important part of IBM’s global success,” Palmisano told some 10,000 IBM employees and investment analysts at the company’s facility in Bangalore. Indian President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam was also present.

Palmisano was to meet later Tuesday with the analysts to brief them on IBM’s work in India and its global plans for next year, an annual talk ordinarily held in New York.

The new investment “will ensure we make the most of the opportunities to grow this marketplace while it enables IBM to fulfill its vision to become a globally integrated company,” Palmisano said.

“If you are not here in India making the right investment … then you won’t be able combine the skills and the expertise here with skills and expertise around the world in ways that can help our clients be successful,” he said. “I am here today to say that IBM is not going to miss this opportunity.”

IBM’s announcement follows similar plans unveiled by other technology companies this past year.

Microsoft Corp. said last December that it would double its work force in India with an investment of $1.7 billion in four years. Around the same time, Intel Corp. announced a $1-billion India investment plan, weeks after a group of expatriate Indians said they would spend $3 billion to build a chip-making facility with technology from AMD Corp. — Intel’s rival. Cisco Systems Inc also plans to invest $1.1 billion in India over the next three years.

Although IBM began its India operations in the early 1990s, the real momentum came after 2003 when it began making India a key base to support services for clients around the globe.

The expansion in India — where it already has five software development centers and a center to provide consulting services worldwide — has not only helped IBM cut costs by tapping low cost labor, but provided new revenues.

The Armonk, New York-based company’s revenues from India has averaged an annual growth about 50 percent over the past two years. That, in part, has helped IBM’s efforts to improve its bottom line despite tepid revenue growth in other parts of the world.

IBM’s profit had teetered from $8.1 billion in 2000 to $3.6 billion in 2002 before rising to $7.9 billion last year.

In India, the company is taking advantage of low cost talent by increasingly shifting work on high-value services to Bangalore, such as supply chain management and financial services solutions.

IBM, long known as a computer maker, has increasingly become a services company and last year sold off its personal computer business to Chinese firm Lenovo Group Ltd., which has become the world’s No. 3 personal computer maker.