IBS opens
new campus in Trivandrum
As a major step towards realising its goal of becoming
a Rs 1,000-crore company by year 2010, Thiruvananthapuram-based
IBS Software Services has kicked off operations at the
first phase of its fully-owned campus at Technopark.
The new campus was inaugurated by Kerala chief minister
V S Achuthanandan.
IBS has developed the campus under the government's
SEZ scheme as an approved co-developer.
The state-of-the-art facility, apart from accommodating
developers and engineers, will house the company's ASP
data centre from where application services will be
provided to its customers worldwide.
Speaking at the inauguration function of the campus
on Monday, VK Mathews, chairman and managing director,
IBS Group, said the facility was the first of the four
blocks in the new IBS campus, spread over 5.26 acres
of land within the Technopark.
With a built-up area of approx 4,50,000 square feet,
the campus will accommodate over 4,000 professionals.
Two multi-storey office blocks, an activity centre,
an open-air theatre, a cafeteria and a parking lot are
to be completed in the next phase.
The campus is expected to cost Rs 125 crore and will
be completely operational by 2009. IBS, a leader among
global providers of new-generation IT solutions to travel,
transportation and logistics (TTL) industry, currently
operates out of 2,00,000-sft office space in three buildings
within the Technopark and two buildings within the Kochi
Infopark.
It also has two development centres overseas -- in London
and Washington DC -- in addition to its global business
centres situated at Atlanta , Phoenix, London, Dubai
, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Melbourne, Sydney .
According to Mathews, "The also plans to set up
other campuses within Kerala in Kochi and Kozhikode.
This will be in addition to the development centres
being lined up in Bangalore and Chennai. While the Bangalore
facility is expected to come up by the end of this month,
the Chennai centre will come up by the year-end."
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