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India will be our APAC & global hub - Christoph Kollatz

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India will be our APAC & global hub - Christoph Kollatz

Christoph Kollatz, Group President, Siemens IT Solutions (SIS), has been involved in the final integration of Siemens Business Services into the division he heads. Kollatz was in Mumbai recently and met Business Today’s Anusha Subramanian to talk about the company and its plans in India.
Print Edition: Mar 09, 2008

Christoph Kollatz, Group President, Siemens IT Solutions (SIS)
Christoph Kollatz
Christoph Kollatz, Group President, Siemens IT Solutions (SIS), has been involved in the final integration of Siemens Business Services into the division he heads. Kollatz was in Mumbai recently and met Business Today’s Anusha Subramanian to talk about the company and its plans in India. Excerpts:

Why is Siemens restructuring itself globally?
IT know-how is one of the keys to Siemens’ success. That’s why we have taken the various units that were scattered throughout the company and made them into one new, powerful group, SIS, with comprehensive IT and software expertise in order to consolidate our global IT expertise. SIS has 43,000 employees and sales of about m5 billion (Rs 29,000 crore).

Where does India fit into this global plan?
We want to explore the Indian domestic market as we see lots of opportunities in the infrastructure, telecom and media sectors; and secondly, we wish to leverage Indian expertise and utilise it in our global market for SAP and for specific verticals such as airports, telecom and media.

What are your specific plans for this country?
We are trying to build a leading market position in India and the Asia Pacific region using India as a global hub. We are looking specifically to strengthen our vertical expertise as well as our operations outsourcing business.

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