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Global technology and consultancy giant Accenture on Monday said it is going to add around 8,000 people in India by the end of next year taking its total employee base in the country to 50,000.

“We are 42,000 right now and we imagine we will be about 50,000 by the end of 2010,” Accenture Chairman and Chief Executive Officer William D Green said on the sidelines of the India Economic Summit.

Indicating a recovery from the global downturn, Green said the company will continue to focus in India, specially in the areas of analytics.  Accenture’s focus in India is going to be the analytics space, which will help the clients convert information into insights for better yields.

Green added, “We believe that analytics is going to be an important trend that our customers are going to demand from us. We think India is going to be a great place for us. we have some core centres of excellence in the analytics space in the country.”

Accenture, which has annual revenue of $21.58 billion for fiscal 2009, will strengthen its focus on clients in pharmaceutical, telecommunications and energy in the country.

Infosys BPO to hire 1500-2000
New Delhi: Infosys BPO, the back-office unit of IT firm Infosys Technologies, on Monday said it would hire 1500-2000 people by the end of the current fiscal.

We plan to hire 2000 people in the next four-five months or by the end of this fiscal. Currently we are 16,000 people in India,” Infosys BPO CEO Amitabh Chaudhry told reporters on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum.

The 300-million Infosys subsidiary recently signed an agreement with the Andhra Pradesh government to set up rural BPO centres in 22 districts of the state. Infosys BPO, gets significant part of its business from North America and Europe. To bag more clients, it is said to be looking at aligning with Finacle, the banking solution business of its parent.

Infosys BPO is also reportedly planning to set up a new delivery centre in the United States before the end of this financial year.

The back-office services wing of Infosys has eight delivery centres across the globe, including in Mexico, but it did not have a centre in the US so far.

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