HITEC City
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HITEC City is the Hyderabad Information Technology Engineering Consultancy City, a major technology township built in Hyderabad, India.
It is marketed and maintained by L and T Infocity Ltd., a joint venture of Indian engineering giant Larsen & Toubro Limited, which owns 89% of the venture, and the Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure * Raheja I.T. Park
- Residential area in which IT professionals may live
- Several campuses by IT majors and MNC companies
- Novotel Hyderabad [1]
- Hyderabad International Convention Center [2]
- HITEX Exhibition Center [3]
- CII - Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre [4]
Cyber Towers
The Cyber Towers is the first phase of HITEC City and opened in November 1998. Corporate names as Keane, Microsoft, Oracle Corporation, and GE Capital operate offshore development facilities or call centers in this four-quadrant 10-story tower.
The Cyber Towers building is divided into four quadrants with a large fountain residing between the quadrants. On the ground floor, there are banks, ATM's, courier services, book shops, gift shops, a snack bar, and "The NEW Windows of the World" restaurant. The ground floor becomes a break-out area in the evening for many employees. The nearest local train station is around 2 kilometres away.
With a total 8 floors, part of 7th and 6th floors are occupied by Keane.
Cyber Gateway (Phase II)
The Cyber Gateway is the phase-II of HITEC City. A giant arch in front of the building stands as a gateway to the rest of HITEC City and hence the name. It comprises over 866,000 ft² (80,500 m²) of office space across 8 acres (32,000 m²) of land with a glass façade, landscaped gardens, and waiting lounge.
The Cyber Gateway is designed for ITES and BPO services with multiple redundancies for connectivity and power. Large offshore processing operations operate out of this building. Dell, Inc., General Electric, Capitol Records, and Microsoft were the first companies to start operations at the Cyber Gateway. They were soon followed by Oracle and others. Soon the companies grew in size and operations and started to build their own campuses.
The Cyber gateway has a spacious amphitheatre located near the first block. Many IT professionals use this amphitheatre to relax after work. There are several small fountains placed at various places. A large cafeteria operates round the clock.
There are banks and ATM in first and second floor.
Cyber Pearl (An Ascendas IT Park)
Cyber Pearl, the third phase of the HITEC City project in Hyderabad was inaugurated on 13 October 2004 and has an area in excess of 0.5 million square feet (90,000 m²). Cyber Pearl is an Ascendas IT Park. Cyber Pearl is the first venture of Ascendas in Hyderabad.
Cyber Pearl would have been named Cyber Oasis, but since Hyderabad is associated with Pearls, Pearl at the end was considered more appropriate. Companies located at Cyber Pearl are
Hyderabad International Convention Center (HICC)
Hyderabad International Convention center was built by Emaar Properties[7] of Dubai. The Hyderabad International Convention center with 4,000 seating capacity is India's largest and the most technologically advanced convention facility. It is an integrated 291,000 square foot (27,000 m²) facility with a 287-room-capacity business hotel, Novotel Hyderabad, covering 15 acres (61,000 m²). This air-conditioned centre can be configured to increase seating capacity to about 6,500.
HITEX Exhibition Center
Hyderabad International Trade Expositions Limited (HITEX) [8] is a state-of-the-art venue for international exhibitions, conferences, trade shows, and corporate events in India. It was conceptualized by German architects and inaugurated on January 14, 2003 by Commerce Minister Arun Shourie, and the Trade Fair Office Building by Andhra Pradesh former Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu.
HITEX is the corporate hub of the HITEC City and is India's most modern exhibition centre. HITEX is located at Madhapur (near HITEC City). The facility is spread over nearly 100 acres (400,000 m²).
GITEX Hyderabad[9], is the annual IT&C expo organized by the Dubai World Trade Center in association with the Department of IT&C, Government of Andhra Pradesh.
CII - Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre
The Green Business Centre (GBC), has an area of 5 acres (20,000 m²). It is near HITEC City in Hyderabad, and the concept was launched during the then U.S. President Bill Clinton's visit to the city in March 2000. The Green Institute entered into a strategic partnership with the Confederation of Indian Industries to establish the Green Business Centre (GBC) at Hyderabad for promoting "Green Activities" in India. The GBC has become the basis of an ongoing partnership with the Phillips Eco-Enterprise Center (PEEC), a project of the Green Institute.
Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) [10] is a non-government, not-for-profit, industry led and managed organisation. Founded over 100 years ago, it is India's apex industry association with a direct membership of over 4150 companies from the private as well as public sectors and indirect membership of a large number of sectoral organisations. CII represents over 80% of India's organised industry with 30 offices in India, 9 abroad, and working relationships with 191 counterpart organisations in 92 countries. CII serves as a reference point for the Indian industry and the International business community.
Shilpakala Vedika
The Shilpakala vedika is a A.P. state-government-owned Auditorium which is located at HITEC City. This 60,000 sq ft. convention center includes an auditorium which is flexible in design and offers a variety of configuration selections.
In literal terms: "Shilpa" means sculpture, "kala" means art, and "vedika" means platform.
Mindspace IT Park
The Mindspace IT Park was envisioned by Raheja Corp, which identified the need for a world-class environment and ecosystem to foster great business ideas. This vision was translated to "Mindspace", a new-age philosophy of working and living, conceived to make corporates feel at home even while they are at work. It includes residential, recreational, entertainment, and retail spaces.
Spread across 110 acres (445,000 m²), this layout also provides about 40% open space with telecommunications and civic infrastructure, wide roads, and greenery. The district witnessed immediate success with over a million sq ft. built and occupied in just 14 months of starting the project. Some of the corporates at Mindspace Hyderabad include Bank of America, CSC, Qualcomm and Oracle.
The Mindspace IT Park comprises several buildings
- Building - 1 - Accenture
- Building - 2 - Accenture and CSC
- Building - 3 - IBM
- Building - 4 - Computer Sciences Corporation
- Building - 5 - Bank of America (Continuum Solutions)
- Building - 6 - Oracle, Amazon.com and Qualcomm
- Building - 7 - Computer Sciences Corporation
- Building - 8 - Verizon Wireless, Qualcomm, Computer Sciences Corporation
- Building - 9 - Nipuna
- Building - 10 - Computer Sciences Corporation, CFC Corporation, Verizon
The V, An Ascendas IT Park
The V is spread across 20 acres (81,000 m²) and currently has four multi-tenanted buildings with gross floor area of 1 million sft (90,000 m²) having close to 100% occupancy.
With over 10 acres (40,000 m²) of open space, it is a green township with environmentally friendly landscaped gardens. Most of the large rock formations have been left untouched, with the buildings designed around the natural landscape.
It boasts highly efficient office space, minimum lighting due to lots of open space, separate cafeteria building, and fully-equipped training class rooms.
It is about 10 km from the city center and 14 km from the airport, both being within an hour's drive. The nearest local train station is around 3 km from the campus.
The V is comprised of four buildings. The fifth building, that will have 14 floors will be ready by July 2007.
- Mariner
- Auriga
- Orion
- Capella
About 10,000 IT professionals work in the campus that hosts
- Cognizant Technology Solutions,
- Computer Associates,
- JDA Software India Pvt. Ltd.,
- C3i,
- Diebold,
- Invensys,
- Surgical Information Systems,
- Cordys,
- Infor,
- Motorola
- Capmark
- Mindspeed
- Conexant
- Market research company TNS
- Infotech Enterprises Limited
- West End Capital Management
- Icronex Technologies Pvt Ltd
The fifth building expands campus space to more than 1.67 million sq ft (120,000 m²).
RMZ Futura IT Park
RMZ FUTURA [11] is an exclusive independent/built-to-suit facility set amidst HITEC city, adjacent to Cyber Gateway. The state-of-the-art structure comprises 4 independent blocks spread across the entire site.
The RMZ FUTURA IT Park is comprised of four buildings. Three buildings have been occupied and the other is under construction.
Other campuses around HITEC city
Several companies have opened built to suit facilities in and around HITEC city. Some of these are:
- Computer Maintenance Corporation (CMC) Campus
- Convergys Campus[12]
- DELL Campus
- CyberCity I.T. Campus[13]
- E-Park I.T. Campus (Currently leased by TCS)
- Franklin Templeton campus
- HSBC Campus
- Kanbay Campus
- Infosys Campus
- Infotech Enterprises Campus
- Microsoft Campus
- Motorola Campus
- Oracle Campus
- Polaris Campus
- Satyam Cyber Space Campus
- Sierra Atlantic Campus
- Soft Sol Campus
- SQL Star International Campus
- Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) Campus (Deccan Park)
- UBS
- ValueLabs Campus
- VSNL campus
- WIPRO Campus (Before Cyber Towers)
- WIPRO Campus (Manikonda)
ValueLabs Hyderabad Campus
ValueLabs is a software development, testing and KPO company, with multi-shore delivery capabilities. The company was setup in 1997 with a vision to help clients worldwide to unlock the potential of global delivery, by building world-class extended teams.
The ValueLabs Campus is a 175,000 sq. ft. owned facility with a provision to accommodate about 1600 personnel. The infrastructure is truly world-class in terms of the ambience that has been created, the hardware, the software, the communication backbone and the bandwidth
CMC Limited Campus
CMC was incorporated on December 26, 1975, as the Computer Maintenance Corporation Private Limited[14]. The Government of India held 100% of the equity share capital. On August 19, 1977, it was converted into a public limited company.
CMC is located in Gachibowli, around 15 km from Hyderabad. CMC Hyderabad is surrounded with many educational institutions and universities like Hyderabad Central University, International Institute of Information Technology and Indian School of Business. The R&D facility is also housed in Hyderabad campus, and develops advanced solutions in areas such as real-time systems, embedded systems, and pervasive computing.
During the 1978 when IBM wound up its operations in India, CMC took over the maintenance of IBM installations at over 800 locations around the country and, subsequently, maintenance of computers supplied by other foreign players.
CMC visualized the need for total IT system solutions in 1980, and thus aligned its focus with the government's thrust on IT development activities. 'Project Interact' (International Education and Research for Applications of Computer Technology) is a United Nations project involving design, development, and systems-engineering of real-time, computer-based systems dedicated to applications in the areas of power distribution, railway freight operations management and meteorology. It was a significant milestone in CMC transition from a hardware maintenance company to a complete end-to-end IT solutions provider in Hyderabad.
Later CMC forayed into systems integration, interfacing, installation, commissioning, software development, as well as education and training, on an ongoing basis. CMC's R&D facility was set up in 1982 at Hyderabad to undertake competency development in niche areas in the frontiers of technology.
In tune to reflect diversified business activities, CMC renamed itself to 'CMC Limited'.
Microsoft Hyderabad Campus
The Microsoft Hyderabad development center campus is spread over an area of 42¼ acres (171,000 m²) and is the corporation's biggest facility outside the U.S. and the first one in India.
The campus houses employees across its three units
- The India Development Center (IDC)[15],
- The Global Delivery Center India (GDCI) and
- The Sales and Marketing organization.
Apart from development labs, the campus also features a sports facility as a recreational area for employees.
Microsoft India Development Center (IDC) commenced its operations in 1998 and is recognized today as a strategic center for developing products critical to Microsoft. Since inception, the IDC has released several Microsoft products including Services for Unix (A key product in Microsoft's Unix Migration strategy), Visual J#.NET (A Java language development environment) for the .NET platform and MSN connector. Currently, the Windows Group in the IDC is developing technologies for Windows R2 Server and Longhorn client and server. The Developer Division Group is working on the next version of Visual Studio and Visual Studio Team System.
Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft Corporation, with Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh participated in the official inauguration ceremony of Microsoft's Hyderabad Campus on November 15, 2004:
Our India Development Center plays an important role in contributing to innovation at Microsoft. The inauguration of our new campus in Hyderabad underscores our commitment to deepening our relationship with India and partnering with Indian governments and developer communities to create new opportunities for customers and for our industry. — Steve Balmer
The Microsoft Global Delivery Center India (GDCI) started operations in 2002 and is the delivery center for developing mission critical applications that support Microsoft businesses worldwide and manage Microsoft's world wide IT infrastructure. The GDCI's service delivery involves managing Microsoft's World Wide IT infrastructure which consists of over 7000 servers and 300,000 client devices spread across 400 locations world wide and being used by 89,000 end users.
The GDCI focuses on developing applications using pre-ready-to-manufacture Microsoft products and technologies like: VB.NET, ASP.NET, SQL server, Yukon, XML web services, SOAP and BizTalk Server with continuous process improvements using six sigma and TSP/PSP.
The TCS Deccan Park Campus
The Deccan park is the largest global development centre of the Tata Consultancy Services. The facility was designed by Swiss architect Mario Botta. The Deccan Park has been set up with an estimated investment of 15 billion INR with recreation and sporting facilities, which houses more than 2,200 professionals. The centre has been set up in 11 acres (45,000 m²) of land, with a built-up area around 320,000 ft² (30,000 m²) on 9 floors. The centre works in domain areas such as telecommunications, e-governance, biological sciences, ports, and shipping and also deploy technologies including .Net, opensource billing and bioinformatics.
Future developments
Apart from the developments in Hitech city, other notable developments are planned with the area in & around just Shamshabad is expected to attract an investment of around 70 thousand Crores in next 5-10 Years. There are developments planned for Hyderabad beyond HUDA (Hyderabad Urban Development Authority) transforming into HMDA (Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority). HUDA which covered Hyderabad for about 250 km² will be replaced with HMDA that will span across at least 700 sq.km.
Some of these developments include:
- Hyderabad International Airport - will be Asia's biggest International Airport spread over an extent of at least 5500 acres (22 km²). This International Airport will also serve as an International Aviation Hub for the international air traffic of U.S, Europe and Far-East. It will operate from April 2008 onwards.
- Software Park - INFOSYS will relocate it's Head Office from Bangalore's Campus and set up a Campus at least four times in size compared to Bangalore — an area of 2000 acres (8 km²) for the development of various Software Products & Services. The Government of AP has made it mandatory for the Company to recruit two thousand employees at the facility.[16]
- Hardware Park - This will come up on an area of around 2500 acres (10 km²) for manufacturing of Silicon Chips. Land allotment has been done to setup a manufacturing & R&D base for INTEL, AMD, ZEN TECHNOLOGIES and many more reputable Semi-Conductor MNCs.
- SemIndia/Fab City - Hyderabad beat other contenders such as Mysore and Chennai to win the mandate for locating India's first semi-conductor wafer fabrication or 'Fab'—plant to be setup by SemIndia Inc., licensed from U.S based chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Inc., with an investment of around $3 Billion. SemIndia will also setup an assembly, test, mark, packing (ATMP) facility close to the Fab unit. The SemIndia plant is expected to come up on 1,200 acres at Srinagar which is close to the upcoming Hyderabad International Airport at Shamshabad.[17]
- Nanotech Park - At an area of 1100 acres, a Korean firm, Intellect Inc., with an estimated investment of 1 Billion U.S Dollars has already laid the foundation of the Company's presence. The manufacturing would commence to form this place, approximately around October, 2007. This would provide a direct employment to around 20,000 skilled personnel. It's Phase II is anticipated to be completed by 2010, thereby creating a job pool of around 100,000 people.
- Gems and Jewellery Park - an area of 200 acres, land allotment to Geentajali Jewellers would create job opportunities for two thousand people by the end of 2008. Several MNC Jewellers especially from Dubai, Singapore, Hong Kong, and other countries will follow suit. [18]
- Textiles Park - Five hundred acres of land has been allotted to SARODE HYCOT TESTILES. This will be the largest Textile Park ever setup by the Central Government and will create job opportunities for at least 100,000 people by establishing close to 2000 Powerloom Units between 2008 and 2010. [19]
- Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), has announced that launch of its third campus in India at Hyderabad. The BITS campus at Hyderabad is spread over 200 acres of land at Jawaharnagar near Shamirpet in Rangareddy district.
- Seven star hotel and golf course - EMAAR Group of Dubai to build a 7 Star Hotel within the proximity of Hyderabad International Airport on a land area of around 700 acres which will also contain a large Golf Course.
- Reliance will acquire 25,000 acres (110 km²) of Land around the Vijayawada Highway at Ibrahimpatnam to setup its LPG Gas Plant. An Eight-Lane direct road will link the Reliance Plant area to Shamshabad ring road.
- Aero Park - which would cater to the Aerospace and Aeronautics requirements, is proposed to be established near the Hyderabad International Airport under the aegis of the Federation of Andhra Pradesh Small Industries Associations. This would consume around 200 acres of Land. Hyderabad has emerged as a major centre during last couple of years in production of various Aerospace & Aeronautical components & sub-systems. In total, there are currently around 60 Units manufactured with an annual turnover of 150 Crores. This will be augmented at Aero Park by an investment of 250-300 Crores annually leading to production of at least 100 Units. [20]
- The Outer-Ring-Road - the biggest of its kind in the country, it would stretch to at least 170 km around Hyderabad, with exit points. Work has already commenced and will be like a belt-way without any traffic signals and 8-track roads plus two service lines.
- India's biggest/longest fly-over - a fly-over from Masab Tank would link up to a road close by Hyderabad International Airport at Shamshabad. The Project has been allotted 800 Crore rupees and stipulated timelines. This will be one of very few longest bridges of the world and unique in India.
- Trade Center tower - will be either a single 60 Storey trade-tower — the first to reach such heights in India — or more than two towers of 30-40 floors each. The Towers will be near Manchirevula village and cater to IT industry, other businesses, and a stock market. The government selected Manchirevula because of its proximity to the Hyderabad International Airport at Shamshabad and the out ring road passing by the village. The Government has issued GO Ms No. 269 handing over the project to APIIC. The Ranga Reddy district have handed over 100 acres of land, in survey numbers 283 and 311, to the corporation to prepare the groundwork. A Bangalore based construction firm along with a Malaysian firm are working on this Project. [21]
- Knowledge Corridor - The Dubai Government is interested in partnering with AP to develop the Hyderabad Knowledge Corridor. The Project – the Hyderabad Knowledge Corridor is aimed at being the hub for all IT activities from animation to financial software. Dr. J.C. Mohanty, principal secretary to the IT and communications Dept for AP said that this Project will laid down across 20,000 acres (80 km²) of Land stretching from Kanamet to Kollur covering about 34 Revenue Villages. [22]
- Agha Khan International University - to be built on at least 100 acres of land.
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- ^ Novotel Hyderabad
- ^ Hyderabad International Convention center
- ^ HITEX Exhibition Center
- ^ Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre
- ^ MAQ Software
- ^ MarketTools Research Pvt Ltd
- ^ Emaar Properties
- ^ Hyderabad International Trade Expositions Limited (HITEX)
- ^ GITEX Hyderabad
- ^ Confederation of Indian Industry
- ^ RMZ FUTURA
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergys
- ^ CyberCity I.T. Campus
- ^ Computer Maintenance Corporation Private Limited
- ^ India Development Center
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