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===The Mindspace Tech Park===
===The Mindspace Tech Park===
*Building - 1 - [[Accenture]].
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*Building - 2 - , [[Knoah Solutions]], [[GE]], ZenQ, [[Patni Computer Systems]], [[Bank of America]], Sumtotal systems, Redpine Signals, INC, TECS, IT EYE TV, Beryl Consulting
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*Building - 3 - [[IBM]].
*Building - 3 - [[IBM]].

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See also: Software industry in Telangana

Hyderabad Information Technology and Engineering Consultancy City
Native name
హైటెక్ సిటీ ہائیٹیک سٹی
IndustryInformation Technology
Headquarters
Hyderabad, Telangana
,
India
Websitewww.ltinfocity.com

The Hyderabad Information Technology and Engineering Consultancy City, abbreviated as HITEC City, is an Information Technology, Engineering, Health informatics, and Bioinformatics campus located in Hyderabad, India. HITEC City is spread across 151 acres (61 ha) of land under suburbs of Madhapur, Gachibowli, Kondapur, Manikonda, and Nanakramguda, the technology township is also known as Cyberabad, and is within two kilometers of the residential and commercial suburb of Jubilee Hills. It was commissioned initially with L&T ECC and was named L&T INFOCITY. The Project is being developed by Larsen and Toubro Limited through its Special Purpose Vehicle, L&T Hitech City Limited, a joint venture company of L&T Infocity Limited and Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation Limited. HITEC City has emerged as the symbolic heart of cosmopolitan Hyderabad.[1]

The land was envisaged to develop 11,000,000 sq ft (1,000,000 m2) of IT space and 4,500,000 sq ft (420,000 m2) of residential space in a phased manner. The Project houses multi-tenanted as well as Built-to-suit (BTS) facilities. The first IT block, "MEDHA", was inaugurated by K. Rosaiah, then Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, on 28 January 2010.[2][3]

The project was initiated by APIIC with participation of private infrastructure companies like L&T, Raheja corporation, Ascendas IT Park, Vanenburg Corporation, Peepul Capital (successor to iLabs Venture Capital Fund), SP, RMZ corporation, Divyasree infrastructure, Lancohills technology park, DLF, Emaar MGF and others. The area comprises IT parks such as L&T Infocity, Hitech City2 SEZ, Vanenburg IT Park or The V, Mindspace Cyberabad SEZ, DLF IT SEZ, Tech Mahindra IT SEZ, TCS Synergy park IT SEZ, SEZs of Infosys, Wipro and APIIC, built to suit campuses of several major technology companies.

Gachibowli IT suburb

Key landmarks

Cyber Towers

Cyber Towers, HITEC City, Phase I Hyderabad
Cyber Towers
Broadridge Campus, HITEC City

Cyber Towers is the second phase of HITEC City and was inaugurated by Sri A. B. Vajpayee (Prime Minister of India) in November 1998 in the presence of Mr. Nara Chandrababu Naidu(The Chief Minister of united Andhra Pradesh then). This was the first tower to be built for promotion of Information Technology (IT) and it was initially maketed by both the officials of APIIC and L&T Infocity Ltd (the public and private sector partner). Once Microsoft decided to set up base in India, at Hyderabad in Cyber Towers, there was a rush for the space at tower by other companies. Now companies like Orbees Business Solutions, Knowledge Matrix India Pvt Ltd., 7 Hills Business Solutions, AppLabs, NTT DATA, Microsoft, Patni Computer Systems, Oracle Corporation, GE Capital, WHISHWORKS, Prithvi Information Solutions, Naia Software Solutions India Pvt Ltd., Four Soft operate and call centers operate from this four-quadrant, 10-story building. The Cyber Towers building is divided into four quadrants with a large fountain in the middle of the quadrants.

Laxmi Cyber City

Laxmi Cyber City, built in 2007 consists of three blocks. A block- HSBC GLT B block- E&Y, Inventiv, etc. C block- ADP

The property is close to 1 Million sft. and shares its heritage with Laxmi Cyber Centre (Banjara Hills), Laxmi CentrePoint (Begumpet GE), Laxmi Cyber Point, Laxmi Cyber Towers SEZ etc.

L&T Infocity

L&T Infocity, HITEC City Hyderabad

Infocity is the first software technology park layout in HITEC CITY which attracted major technology companies like Accenture, Microsoft, Oracle, s2Tech Technologies etc.

Hyderabad International Convention Center (HICC)

HICC

Hyderabad International Convention Center was built by Emaar MGF[4] of India. The company is part owned by Emaar of UAE. The facility is managed by Accor Hospitality. The Hyderabad International Convention Center with 5,000[5] seating capacity is India's largest and the most technologically advanced convention facility. It is an integrated 291,000 square foot (27,000 m²) facility with a 287-room-capacity business hotel, Novotel Hyderabad, covering 15 acres (6 ha). This air-conditioned center can be configured to increase seating capacity to about 6,500.

HITEX Exhibition Center

View of HITEX Exhibition Center

Hyderabad International Trade Expositions Limited (HITEX)[6] is a state-of-the-art venue for international exhibitions, conferences, trade shows, and corporate events in India. It was conceptualized by German architects and inaugurated on 14 January 2003 by Commerce Minister Arun Shourie, and the Trade Fair Office Building by Andhra Pradesh former Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu.

HITEX is the corporate hub of the HITEC City and is India's most modern exhibition centre. HITEX is located at Madhapur (near HITEC City). The facility is spread over nearly 100 acres (40 ha).

GITEX Hyderabad,[7] is the annual IT&C expo organized by the Dubai World Trade Center in association with the Department of IT&C, Government of Andhra Pradesh.

CII - Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre

File:CII Hyderabad.jpg
CII – Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre

CII-Sohrabji Godrej Green Business Centre (CII-Godrej GBC) was established in the year 2004, as CII's Developmental Institute on Green Practices & Businesses, aimed at offering world class advisory services on conservation of natural resources. The Green Business Centre in Hyderabad is housed in one of the greenest buildings in the world and through Indian Green Building Council (IGBC) is spearheading the Green Building movement in the country. The Green Business Centre was inaugurated by His Excellency Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, the then President of India on 14 July 2004.

The Services of Green Business Centre include- Energy Management, Green Buildings, Green Companies, Renewable Energy, GHG Inventorization, Green Product Certification, Waste Management and Cleaner Production Process. CII-Godrej GBC works closely with the stakeholders in facilitating India emerge as one of the global leaders in Green Business by the year 2022.

Shilpakala vedika - A Multi-purpose auditorium, HITEC City, Hyderabad

Shilpakala Vedika

Main article: Shilpakala Vedika

The Shilpakala vedika is a state-government-owned Auditorium which is located at HITEC City. This 60,000 sq ft (6,000 m2). convention center includes an auditorium which is flexible in design and offers a variety of configuration selections.

In literal terms: "Shilpa" means sculpture, "kala" means art, and "vedika" means platform.

While Shilpakala vedika is a Multi purpose auditorium, Shilparamam is a crafts village.

Mindspace IT Park

V Auriga Block
V Circular
The V overview
Mindspace IT park, HITEC City, Hyderabad
Building 20, Mindspace
The V (Mariner), HITEC City

The Mindspace IT Park includes residential, recreational, entertainment, and retail spaces. The park provides about 4,000,000 square feet (370,000 m2) of office space.

Spread across 110 acres (45 ha), this layout also provides about 40% open space with telecommunications and civic infrastructure, wide roads, and greenery. The district witnessed immediate success with over a million square feet built and occupied within just 14 months of starting the project. The park provides both multitenant and built to suit facilities. Companies such as Hyundai Mobis, IBM, Accenture, CSC, Bank of America, Facebook, Novartis and Excellence Health Inc. have built to suit facilities in the park with 10000 professionals working within them. Other companies in multitenant facilities include Broadcom, Deloitte, Qualcomm, Zensar Technologies Ltd, Satyam Computer Services, Oracle, Accenture, Amazon, GE, OpenText Corporation, Patni Computer Systems, Verizon, Thomson Reuters, Wellsfargo and Tieto. As of 2008 March, 20,000 professionals work in the park. The park is a notified SEZ and is set to accommodate about 55,000 IT professionals making it the largest of the IT parks in HITEC CITY. The park also has a Westin Hotel and Inorbit Mall which have been opened in the second half of 2009.

The Mindspace Tech Park

The V, an Ascendas IT Park

The V is spread across 20 acres (8 ha) and has five multi-tenant buildings with a gross floor area of 1.65 million sq ft (90,000 m²) having close to 100% occupancy.

With over 10 acres (4 ha) of open space, it is a green township with landscaped gardens. Most of the large rock formations have been left untouched, with the buildings designed around the natural landscape. The V is the first IT park which is completely operational. It accommodates about 15,000 IT professionals.

It is about 10 km from the city center and 14 km from the airport, both being within an hour's drive. The nearest local train station is around 3 km from the campus.

The V is composed of five buildings.

  • Mariner
  • Auriga
  • Orion
  • Capella
  • Vega

RMZ Futura IT Park

Deloitte & Touche Region 10 Office(RMZ FUTURA), HITEC City

RMZ FUTURA[8] is an exclusive independent/built-to-suit facility set amidst HITEC city, adjacent to Cyber Gateway. The state-of-the-art structure comprises four independent blocks spread across the entire site.

The RMZ FUTURA IT Park is composed of four buildings. All four buildings have been occupied.

  • CGI on the fourth floor; other floors constitute Deloitte Block A
  • Deloitte Block B
  • Deloitte Block C
  • Deloitte Block D

Hitec City-2 SEZ

Hitec City-2 is a milestone project of Phoenix Infocity Pvt. Ltd. This is a venture by Phoenix Group, India. Hitec City-2 is an IT/ITeS Special Economic Zone (SEZ), and it is being promoted as an extension of Hitec City. The project has received formal approval as an IT/ITeS SEZ from the Ministry of Commerce, Government of India. On an overall builtup area of about 3,000,000 sq ft (280,000 m2), nine IT buildings are proposed with a mix of multi-tenant and customise-built to suit options to be developed in phases. The SEZ design allows about 28,000 IT workers to work in an area of 3,000,000 sq ft (280,000 m2).[9]

It has accommodated MNCs like

  • UBS (the Indian operations of which were recently acquired by Cognizant)
  • CUBIC Transportation Systems INDIA Private Limited
  • ValueMomentum
  • MAQ Software[10]
  • HCL
  • ValueLabs Inc
  • Object Technologies
  • IGATE

Cyber Pearl (an Ascendas IT park)

Cyber Pearl would have been named Cyber Oasis, but since Hyderabad is associated with pearls, "Pearl" was considered more appropriate. The park accommodates over 5000 IT workers with 5,000,000 square feet (460,000 m2) of office space. Companies located at Cyber Pearl are :

Other campuses around HITEC city

Oracle Campus, HITEC City
Microsoft R&D Campus in Gachibowli, Hyderabad.

Several companies have opened built to suit facilities in and around HITEC city. Some of these are:

Tech Mahindra Campuses

Tech Mahindra Technology Development Center at Bhadurpally in Hyderabad

Tech Mahindra is the largest IT employer of Hyderabad with its 3 campuses:

ValueLabs Hyderabad Campus

ValueLabs

Value Labs is an offshore software product development, QA/Testing and KPO Services Company based in Hyderabad, India. The company started its operations in 1997 with a remote execution model and has since been offering services to startup and multibillion-dollar companies across the globe. Astro, MakeMyTrip, Maxis, SHPS, Snapfish, SpiceJet, TIBCO, Nielsen Mobile are some of the clients of the company.

OMICS International Campus

OMICS International Building 20, Mindspace

OMICS International is an online publisher and conferences organizer in Science, Technology and Medicine. The company operating with 1500 employees working for digital media and KPO Services from Hyderabad, India.[13] The company started its operations in 2007 and got best ITES Award in 2015.[14]The company got sector specific IT/ITeSSpecial economic zone developer status in 2017 from Ministry of Commerce and Industry (India).[15][16]

Microsoft Hyderabad Campus

Microsoft India Development Center, Hyderabad

The Microsoft Hyderabad development center campus is spread over an area of 56 acres (22 ha) and is the corporation's biggest facility outside the U.S. and the first one in India.

The campus houses employees across its three units

  • Microsoft India Development Center
  • The Global Delivery Center India
  • The Sales and Marketing organization

Apart from development labs, the campus also features a sports facility as a recreational area for employees.

Microsoft India Development Center (IDC) commenced its operations in 1998 and is recognized today as a strategic center for developing products critical to Microsoft. Since its inception, the IDC has released several Microsoft products including Services for Unix (A key product in Microsoft's Unix Migration strategy), Visual J#.NET (A Java language development environment) for the .NET platform and MSN connector. Currently, the Windows Group in the IDC is developing technologies for Windows R2 Server and Longhorn client and server. The Developer Division Group is working on the next version of Visual Studio and Visual Studio Team System.

Steve Ballmer, CEO, Microsoft Corporation, with Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh participated in the official inauguration ceremony of Microsoft's Hyderabad Campus on 15 November 2004.

The Microsoft Global Delivery Center India (GDCI) started operations in 2002 and is the delivery center for developing mission critical applications that support Microsoft businesses worldwide and manage Microsoft's worldwide IT infrastructure. The GDCI's service delivery involves managing Microsoft's World Wide IT infrastructure which consists of over 7000 servers and 300,000 client devices spread across 400 locations worldwide and being used by 89,000 end users.

The GDCI focuses on developing applications using pre-ready-to-manufacture Microsoft products and technologies like: VB.NET, ASP.NET, SQL Server, Yukon, XML web services, SOAP and BizTalk Server with continuous process improvements using six sigma and TSP/PSP.

Facebook, Hyderabad

Facebook, Hyderabad is world's fourth Facebook office. The company announced that its Hyderabad center would house online advertising and developer support teams and provide round-the-clock, multilingual support to the social networking site's users and advertisers globally.[17] With this, Facebook joins other giants like Google, Microsoft, Oracle, Dell, IBM and CA Technologies that have already set up shop.

Though Facebook did not specify its India investment or hiring figures, it said recruitment had already begun for a director of operations and other key positions at Hyderabad.[18]

The TCS Deccan Park Campus

The Deccan park is the largest global development centre of the Tata Consultancy Services. The facility was designed by Swiss architect Mario Botta. The Deccan Park has been set up with an estimated investment of 15 billion INR with recreation and sporting facilities, which houses more than 2,200 professionals. The centre has been set up in 11 acres (4.5 ha) of land, with a built-up area around 320,000 ft² (30,000 m²) on 9 floors. The centre works in domain areas such as telecommunications, e-governance, biological sciences, ports, and shipping and also deploy technologies including .Net, opensource billing and bioinformatics.

The iLabs Centre

iLabs center, overlooking Durgam Cheruvu

iLabs Hyderabad Technology Center Private Limited founded by Srini Raju in 2000 is an IT park spread over 5½ acres (2.2 ha) overlooking the stunning Durgam lake. iLabs Centre provides premium office space for IT/ITES companies in Hyderabad and also has an IT building in Gurgoan adjacent to the toll plaza. In the last decade, iLabs has invested in a well-diversified portfolio comprising companies such as, GE Money Servicing (GEMS), a part of GE Money, Bank of America, DQ Entertainment, Sify, NTT DATA, TV9, Megasoft, Cibernet, Mcafee and a few others. The Oval Office houses the Regus center and Ernst & Young.

Future Developments

Hospitals in Hitech City

  • MaxCure Hospitals
  • CARE Hospitals
  • Pace Hospitals
  • Hegde Hospital
  • Rainbow Children’s Clinics
  • Maxivision Super Speciality Eye Hospital
  • Praanadah Hospitals
  • Vikram Hospital

See also

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  18. ^ [1] Hyderabad, India: "At the tech epicenter of India, our Hyderabad office is where we help support the region's growing users base, advertisers, and developers."
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