Maples to train 1,000 Japanese engineers

CHENNAI: The chennai-based Maples ESM Technologies, a remote IT infrastructure management company, with a base in the US and Japan, will train 1,000 Japanese engineers over the next 18 months.

Maples chairman N Ram Subramani said the company’s focus areas are enterprise systems management and enterprise application services. And to support these two consulting practices, it has a training division which serves as a feeder.
Maples has positioned itself as a mid-segment player and is concentrating on companies in the US and Japan.

The company will train Japanese engineers and the current visit by a Japanese delegation to the city is aimed at firming up the arrangement for an exclusive tie-up with the Kanazawa government province in Japan. It is also looking at ESM consulting business from small and medium sized companies based out of Japan.

Project director Mino Toshio, who is part of the Kanzawa delegation, said the tie-up is meant to train its engineers in the technology of tomorrow. Maples, which clocked a turnover of about $3m in ’05, is aiming to close this calendar year with a topline of $10m.