Philips IT Opens Centre In Bangalore

Bangalore: Philips IT, the technology wing of electronics major Philips, has declared the opening of its Business Application Services (P-BAS) centre in Bangalore. As part of the Philips Innovation Campus (PIC) in Bangalore, the P-BAS centre will concentrate on growth in technical and functional SAP competencies, and play a key role in IT solutions and services delivery for various Philips units worldwide. The P-BAS centre in Bangalore would have 150 employees by the end of the year. The Philips was committed to making Bangalore a global sourcing centre for business application services. The centre here will give Enterprise Resource Planning services to Philips Product Divisions and Philips partners, and support the various business lines and service lines within P-BAS centre in Eindhoven. Projects related to stages of product lifecycle development would be transferred to India to begin with. The new centre would help the campus emerge as the global hub for Philips IT and the initiative was in line with Philips developing the Bangalore centre as a SAP competency centre.