Infosys opens 2nd Latin American development centre

BANGALORE: Infosys Technologies Limited on Monday opened its second Latin American Development Centre in Monterrey, Mexico, offering global, near-shore, and Latin American clients a full range of IT services including business and consulting, BPO, packaged solutions implementation, and infrastructure management.

The centre, managed by Infosys' subsidiary, Infosys Technologies S.De R.L. De CV, provides technology services for clients in industries including banking, financial services, manufacturing, retails, distribution, and insurance, the company said in a statement.

"From our first development centre opening with a few clients and a dozen employees, we now have some 30 clients and 330 professionals....," said Ashok Vemuri, Senior Vice-President and member of Executive Council, Infosys.

Both Monterrey facilities provide Infosys with dedicated resources to serve clients primarily in North America, Latin America and Europe with bilingual talent in an agreeable time zone and close proximity. Furthermore, it strengthens the company's global delivery model capabilities with such other development centres in the Czech Republic, Poland, Thailand, the Philippines, China, Australia and India.

After examining several countries in the region, Infosys chose to establish a presence in Mexico due to the broad language skills available in the region, its geographical proximity to Canada, the US and Europe. Latin America is a strong emerging market and one where many of Infosys clients have operations already, it said.