IBM opens Shanghai IT center

By Andy McCue, Special to ZDNet Asia
Wednesday, March 29, 2006 10:45 AM

IBM has opened a new IT services center in China to support customers from Europe, Japan and the United States.

The Shanghai center will offer IT services for software development, maintenance and testing. It will also support the main business application packages from SAP, Oracle and Oracle-owned Siebel Systems.

The site with 700 customer service representatives consolidates IBM's existing IT services centers in Shanghai into a single location in the Waigaoqiao free trade zone and joins IBM's other Chinese IT services centers in Dalian and Shenzhen.

Languages supported at the new Shanghai center include English, German, Japanese and Mandarin.

Takashi Shimizu, vice president of IBM China Global Delivery, said in a statement: "These skill sets, along with our multilingual staff and IBM's advanced global delivery methodologies will allow us to accelerate the development of innovative technology solutions for our clients across the globe."

Other western tech companies are also rushing to expand their operations in China, with Unisys being the most recent to open a 1,000-employee software development facility in Shanghai.

Andy McCue of Silicon.com reported from London.


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I belive that China will have his own 'IBM'.Though China now doesn't has so development technic .This is now a good news.
Posted by sun moon on Friday, June 16 2006 09:57 PM


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