Salesforce declared plans to expand its presence in India with a new Centre of Excellence in Hyderabad, which is located in a new building under construction in the Divyasree Orion Tech Business Park. Salesforce decides to add over 1,000 jobs in Hyderabad by 2020, tapping into the region’s biggest community of highly skilled technology experts.
Salesforce decides to enlarge its team of enterprise software engineers as well as customer success representatives in Hyderabad, establishing one of its biggest engineering and customer success centers globally. Plans involve for the new building are modern workplace designs that focus on employee wellness with dedicated spaces for collaboration, mindfulness, and social activities. Salesforce will start moving into the new Centre of Excellence by the end of 2016.
“We are thrilled to be expanding our presence and deepening our commitment to India, home to some of the best technology talents in the world,” stated Parker Harris, co-founder, Salesforce. “Salesforce Hyderabad will provide a center of excellence in the region and play a crucial role in growing our technology and product teams, as well as our customer success organization, to meet the needs of our customers worldwide.”
“As the enterprise cloud computing leader with more than 150,000 customers worldwide, Salesforce will strengthen the thriving local tech ecosystem and further draw investments into the state,” stated Jayesh Ranjan IAS, Secretary IT, Government of Telangana.
India continues to be increasing region for cloud computing, with Gartner projecting that the public cloud services market in India will expand 30 percent in 2016 to total $1.26 billion.
Salesforce in India has observed tremendous growth with leading companies like Bajaj Finserv, PayTM, Snapdeal, Inmobi and Urban Ladderusing its Customer Success Platform to connect with their customers in completely new ways.
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