Hearing the Symphony in Bangalore

Palo Alto, Calif.-based outsourcing solutions provider Symphony Services today announced the inauguration of its second development center in Bangalore, India. The facility, to be christened the “Symphony Innovation and Excellence Center,” will be officially inaugurated by the Chief Minister of Karnataka, Mr. H. D. Kumaraswamy at a ceremony to be attended by Symphony Services senior management and staff, including CEO / president Gordon Brooks; COO / managing director Dr. Ajay Kela; and India operations president Amitava Roy.

The proposed center will have a built up area of over 2,000,000 square feet and a seating capacity of over 2,000. The new excellence center will join those extant in the Bangalore Symphony Technology Center, Pune and Mumbai; these three have seventy clients with over 240 products spread across domains such as ERP, CRM, BPM, BI and storage under management. In the announcement, Brooks said confidently, “We are at the forefront of the innovation partnership revolution in India and are a name to reckon with…” Dr. Kela stated that the point was to garner as much Indian talent as quickly as possible.

“Symphony Services has seen exceptional growth every year since inception. … The new development center allows us to comfortably grow and is a testament to our continued commitment to promoting India as a software destination.” Symphony Services provides collaborative global outsourcing solutions for commercial-grade software and embedded product engineering lifecycle and analytics. Symphony is headquartered in Palo Alto and has offices in Waltham, Mass., Dallas, Texas, Nashville Tenn., Harrow, U.K., and delivery centers in Bangalore, Mumbai and Pune, India.

In 2005, Symphony Services broke the $100 million revenue run rate mark and registered a three-year compounded growth rate of 170% at the end of 2005. Symphony Services clientele includes Autodesk, BMC Software, Hyperion, IRI, Siebel/Oracle, Yahoo!, Mimosa and Kazeon.