HITEC City

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Hyderabad Information Technology & Engineering Consultancy City
Industry Information Technology
Financial District
Biotechnology
Founded 1998
Founder N. Chandrababu Naidu
Headquarters Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Area served
 Madhapur
Gachibowli
Kondapur,
Manikonda,
Nanakramguda

The Hyderabad Information Technology and Engineering Consultancy City, abbreviated as HITEC City (Telugu: హైటెక్ సిటీ), (Urdu حیدرآباد انفارمیشن ٹیکنالوجی اور انجینرنگ کی مشاورتی شہر) is a major High tech business district, which is one of the leading Information Technology, Engineering, Health informatics, and Bioinformatics hubs of India.

HITEC City was founded by N. Chandrababu Naidu adjoining his brainchild "Cyberabad" to Hyderabad city and was inaugurated by then Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee on 22 November 1998 [1]. HITEC City is spread across 81 hectares (200 acres) of land under suburbs of Madhapur, Gachibowli, Kondapur, Manikonda, and Nanakramguda, the combined technology townships is also known as Cyberabad with a radius of 56.48 km(35.09 mi) surrounding approximate area of 15000 acres. HITEC City is within 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) of the residential and commercial suburb of Jubilee Hills.

History

HITEC City was commissioned 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 erstwhile Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation.

The project is spread over 120 hectares (300 acres) of land and was envisaged to develop 1,000,000 m2 (11,000,000 sq ft). of IT space and 420,000 m2 (4,500,000 sq ft). of residential space in a phased manner. The Project offers multitenanted as well as Built-to-suit (BTS) facilities. It caters to all segments of the IT Industry including small & medium enterprises, with office areas starting from as small as 230 m2 (2,500 sq ft).

Cityscape

Gachibowli IT suburb

Foundation of Hitec City

Cyber Towers, HITEC City, Phase I Hyderabad
Cyber Towers

Cyber Towers was the first tower to be built for promotion of Information Technology (IT) within 14 months and the attractive unique design was selected by N. Chandrababu Naidu in 1997 [2] to stand as a Monument in city of Hyderabad and as architectural masterpiece in the center of Cyberabad with transforming the City of Pearls, Hyderabad as the City of Destiny for IT and Pharmaceutical companies while also set up a separate Cyberabad Metropolitan Police Commissionerate and totally revamped the way of policing under safety and surveillance accomplishing HITEC City has emerged as the symbolic heart of cosmopolitan Hyderabad and it was initially marketed by both the officials of APIIC and L&T Infocity Ltd (the public and private sector partner). Companies such as Orbees Business Solutions, Knowledge Matrix India Pvt Ltd., 7 Hills Business Solutions, AppLabs, Keane Inc 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.

Cyber Gateway, HITEC City, Hyderabad
iLabs center and The Oval

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.

Broadridge Campus, HITEC City

Hyderabad International Convention Center (HICC)

HICC

Hyderabad International Convention Center was built by Emaar MGF[3] 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[4] 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

Hyderabad International Trade Expositions Limited (HITEX)[5] 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,[6] 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

The centre is housed in a green building which received the coveted LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Platinum rating in 2003. This was the first platinum rated Green Building outside of the U.S. and also the first in India. The Centre was inaugurated by H.E Shri A P J Abdul Kalam, the then President of India, on 14 July 2004.

The Green Business Centre, has an area of 5 acres (2 ha). It is near HITEC City in Hyderabad, and the concept was launched during the then U.S. President Bill Clinton's visit to the city in March 2000. The Green Institute entered into a strategic partnership with the Confederation of Indian Industries to establish the Green Business Centre (GBC) at Hyderabad for promoting "Green Activities" in India. The GBC has become the basis of an ongoing partnership with the Phillips Eco-Enterprise Center (PEEC), a project of the Green Institute.

Shilpakala Vedika

Main article: Shilpakala vedika

Shilpakala Vedika, constructed under the government of N. Chandrababu Naidu, is located in a 60,000 sq ft (5,600 m2) plot, on a 5 acres (20,000 m2) land, with a seating capacity of 2,500. 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. It is a state-of-the-art facility comprising a press room, cafeteria, modern multi-media projection system, luxurious green rooms, good acoustics and exquisite ethnic decor. This auditorium is given for lease by the Government to M/S Sanpra Group and M/S Alif Group

Mindspace IT Park

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

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 IBM, Accenture, CSC, Bank of America, Facebook and Novartis 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

RMZ FUTURA[7] 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).[8]

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[9]
  • 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 :

• Winshuttle Software (India) Pvt. Ltd.

  • TNS INDIA PVT. LTD.
  • Sitel India Ltd
  • GE
  • Innopark
  • UMC
  • NTT DATA
  • Tech Mahindra
  • Salesforce dotcom
  • MarketTools Research Pvt Ltd[10]
  • RSA/Valyd Software[11]
  • SD Softech
  • Smartplay Technologies
  • ZenQ
  • Bank of Baroda - DR Site

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

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.

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 under the request from N. Chandrababu Naidu then chief minister 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.

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

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.[12] 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.[13]

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

  • Hardware Park, Hyderabad
  • Fab City, Hyderabad
  • Aerospace Special Economic Zone, Hyderabad
  • Medical Device - SEZ, Hyderabad

See also

References

  1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06sfGFCfUVM | CYBER TOWERS HITECH CITY INAUGURATION BY AB, VAJPAYEE CHANDRABABU Naidu
  2. ↑ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/city-life-hyderabad-cyber-towers-where-the-young-hope-to-be-hi-tech-maharajahs-1122852.html
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  7. ↑ RMZ FUTURA Archived 26 June 2005 at the Wayback Machine
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  12. ↑ Facebook’s Hyderabad Office Inaugurated – Google vs Facebook Battle Comes To India
  13. ↑ [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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