IT companies invest more in Europe for business and tech talent
为开拓市场 吸引人才 印度IT公司加大在欧洲投资
Shilpa Phadnis and Avik Das | TNN
BENGALURU: With European companies outsourcing more even as Trump raises barriers in the US, large Indian and MNC IT services firms are strengthening their capabilities in Europe. A number of development centres have come up over the past year especially in Central and Eastern Europe. This is both to cater to clients in Europe, as also to tap into the pockets of engineering and tech talent in countries like Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Ireland. The talent is technically very good – though the numbers aren’t as large as in India and the US – and they bring necessary language skills.
班加罗尔：随着特朗普在美国设立壁垒，欧洲企业将更多的业务外包，大型印度和跨国信息技术服务公司正加强在欧洲的实力。过去一年里，中欧和东欧如雨后春笋般成立许多发展中心。这既是为了迎合欧洲客户的需求，也是为了挖掘波兰、罗马尼亚、保加利亚、匈牙利和爱尔兰等国的工程和技术人才。尽管人才数量不像印度和美国那么大，但从技术上讲，这些人才非常优秀，而且他们具备必要的语言技能。
Eastern Europe has traditionally been strong in engineering, science and math skills. A Medium post by Ewa Treitz, partner at Black Pearls VC, said 200,000 students graduate in engineering and sciences every year from the universities in the Central and Eastern European countries that are part of the European Union. This talent is hard to ignore when tech firms look for talent in emerging technologies like AI, big data, analytics, app development, augmented reality and virtual reality.
东欧在工程、科学和数学方面很有实力。Black Pearls VC的合伙人Ewa Treitz曾提到，欧盟成员国里中欧和东欧国家每年的工程和科学专业的大学毕业生就有20万名。当科技公司在诸如人工智能、大数据、分析、应用开发、增强现实和虚拟现实等新兴技术领域寻找人才时，这种人才很难被忽视。
In the last one year alone, at least 20 development centres have sprung up in countries like Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Austria and Ireland. Last April, Infosys added its newest facility in Karlovac in Croatia. The centre will service clients in the Nordics, but the focus would be on consolidating consulting, IT and engineering skills in power generation, and design and development of large gas and steam turbines.
仅在过去一年，波兰、罗马尼亚、保加利亚、匈牙利、奥地利和爱尔兰等国，至少涌现20个发展中心。去年4月，Infosys在克罗地亚的卡尔洛瓦茨增添了最新的设施。该中心将致力于为北欧国家的客户提供服务，中心将放在巩固咨询、信息技术和发电工程技术，并设计和开发大型燃气和蒸汽涡轮机。
Accenture set up a centre in Riga in Latvia with more than 170 professionals with expertise in Oracle technologies to serve new and exsting clients in the Nordic and Baltic region. Wipro set up a specialized automotive centre of excellence (CoE) in Timisoara, Romania, hiring engineering graduates from top universities to work across technology domains such as in-vehicle infotainment, cluster display, telematics, connected cars and advanced driver assistance systems. Wipro already has 1,200 employees in Romania servicing 30 clients in retail and healthcare.
埃森哲在拉脱维亚里加设立了一个中心，拥有170多名精通Oracle技术的专业人员，主要为北欧和波罗的海地区的新客户和现有客户提供服务。Wipro在罗马尼亚蒂米苏马拉设立了一个汽车卓越中心，聘请顶尖大学的工程专业毕业生到各个技术领域工作，如车载信息娱乐、集群显示、远程通信、联网汽车和先进的驾驶辅助系统等。Wipro在罗马尼亚员工超1200名，为30名客户提供零售和医疗服务。
Peter Bendor-Samuel, CEO of IT consulting firm Everest Group, said there has been a long-standing trend to build out IT capacity in eastern Europe. “In fact, there are many very successful European IT firms such as Epam and Luxoft who differentiate themselves through their eastern Europe operations. There are several factors driving this investment. The traditional motivations are proxmity and language skills. Both are increasingly important as the industry moves away from a factory orientation into a more intimate DevOps structure,” he said.
信息技术咨询公司Everest Group的首席执行官彼得•贝多-塞缪尔表示，在东欧建立信息技术能力的趋势由来已久。“事实上，有许多非常成功的欧洲IT公司，比如Epam和Luxoft，就是利用东欧业务脱颖而出的。推动这项投资的因素有很多。传统的动机是地缘因素和语言技能。随着行业从工厂转向更亲密的DevOps结构，两者变得越来越重要，”他表示。
DevOps is a new agile way of software development that allows for delivery of applications and the improvement of these products at high velocity. Europe’s traditional reluctance to outsourcing also appears to be changing.
DevOps是一种新的软件开发方法，可以高速交付应用程序并改进产品。欧洲传统上对外包的不情愿似乎也在发生变化。
Rahul Singh, president of financial services in HCL Technologies, which set up a centre in Ireland last year, said that in the past, European companies would not move some of the work out of the continent, and would not give these to outsourced service providers. “But now, customers trust us as transformative partners,” he said. Today, HCL has 4,500 employees in Europe. For the past several quarters, IT firms’ European business has been growing substantially faster than the US business. In the third quarter of this fiscal, Europe grew year-on-year by 5.9% and US by a mere 0.7% in constant currency for Infosys. The corresponding figures for Wipro were 7.9% and 0.6%.
HCL科技去年在爱尔兰设立了一个中心。其金融服务总裁拉胡尔•辛格表示，过去，欧洲公司不愿意将业务移出欧洲大陆，也不会将业务外包给服务提供商。他说:“但现在，客户相信我们是变革的合作伙伴。”目前，HCL在欧洲有4500名员工。在过去的几个季度里，IT公司的欧洲业务增长远远快于美国业务。在本财年第三季度，Infosys的欧洲业务同比增长5.9%，而美国业务的增长率仅为0.7%。而Wipro，相应的数据分别是7.9%和0.6%。
TCS’s growth in recent quarters has been led by Continental Europe. It grew 22.3% in the December quarter. In a recent management commentary, CEO Rajesh Gopinathan said the firm’s Europe performance is encouraging and is happening across a wide spectrum, both from a vertical industry perspective as well as from a region perspective. “If you look at the deals that we won, you will see a very good spectrum of deals in Europe. From a region perspective also, we have been strong in the Nordics and the Benelux region, and that continues to do well, Germany is performing very well for us, and even markets like France are coming back to double-digit growth now. Europe is a broad-based story,” he said.
TCS最近几个季度的增长主要是在欧洲大陆产生的。在12月当季上涨了22.3%。在最近的一篇管理评论中，首席执行官Rajesh Gopinathan说，无论是从行业角度还是从区域视角看，公司在欧洲的业绩令人鼓舞。他表示，“如果你看了我们成交的订单，你会发现欧洲市场很好。从地区来看，北欧和比荷卢地区表现强劲，德国次之，甚至像法国市场也恢复了两位数的增长。欧洲的盘子很大。”
Europe accounts for about a quarter of Indian IT firms' revenues, while the US is about 50% to 60%. This difference will narrow if the current trends persist.
欧洲市场约占印度信息技术公司收入的四分之一，美国约占为50%至60%。如果当前的趋势持续下去，这种差异将缩小。
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