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Hyderabad. The city with a glorious past and a glittering future. |
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 IT Services : Hyderabad is already home to several IT services companies with more than 140,000 software professionals working for companies like Satyam, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, Computer Associates, Computer Sciences Corporation, TCS, Infosys, HCL, Wipro, G.E, Motorola, Cognizant Technology Solutions, Nokia, Siemens, Infotech Enterprises, ADP, Kanbay, iGate, Unisys, Keane India, Polaris, Honeywell, Sierra Atlantic, Patni Computers to name a few. |
| IT Enabled Services: Hyderabad is also home to several IT enable services companies with more than 70,000 professionals employed by companies like GENPACT, DELL, Accenture, Convergys, HSBC, Deloitte, Franklin Templeton, Bank of America, United Bank of Switzerland, Google, 24/7 Customer.com, EXL Services, ICICI Bank, Bharti, Novartis, Paraxel, GSS America, Amazon.com, Data Monitor etc. |
| Fastest Growing IT City: Hyderabad has registered the highest growth rate of more than 50% in IT/ITES exports for the last 4 consecutive years in the country, achieving over $ 4.5 billion US against all India average of 30%. |
| Large Pool of Skilled Talent: Every fourth IT professional in Silicon Valley is an Indian and every fourth Indian IT professional in Silicon Valley belongs to Andhra Pradesh. Hyderabad today employs more than 210,000 IT/ITES professionals and is adding more than 70,000 professionals with each passing year. |
| Large no.of Institutions of Excellence : Hyderabad houses some of the finest institutes of excellence, educational centers and Research & Development establishments namely ISB, IIIT, BITS, NIT, ICRISAT, IICT, CCMB, National Institute of Nutrition, NIC, DRDO, DRDL, NGRI, NRSA, CDFD, Genome Valley etc. IIT, XLRI, University of Georgia are also setting up their campuses very shortly. |
| Abundant Raw Talent: Andhra Pradesh has 10 universities offering quality education and churns out half a million graduates every year including 90,000 engineering graduates. |
| IT friendly/Proactive State Government: A very proactive state government with its ICT policy 2005-10 provides best possible support and incentives to the IT industry. |
| Locational Advantage: Hyderabad is also called as North of South India and South of North India, as it is centrally located and well connected with all major metropolitan cities in India and provides a very cosmopolitan culture attracting a large migrant population from all parts of India. |
| Cost Advantage: Hyderabad offers cost advantage mainly on account of low cost of power and lower man power attrition rates besides lower cost of living and cost of man power. Thus, contributing to the lowest cost of operations amongst all Tier-I cities in India. |
| City Infrastructure: Hyderabad already has the best city infrastructure among all Tier-I cities in the country and it is further gearing up to have a world class city infrastructure with a 160 KM long, 125 Meter wide, 8 lane Outer Ring Road Project, an International Airport to be operational by March 2008 and a Metro rail project to be in place by 2010. |
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