Gateway at CeBIT 2006 |
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Article translated from the daily paper
“Hannoversche Allgemeine Wirtshaft”, 15 March
2006: “Schneller, besser, preiswerter” -
Selbstbewusste Aussteller aus Indien auf der
CeBIT
- by Dirk Stelzl |
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| "Faster, better, cheaper"– Confident
Exhibitors from India at CeBIT |
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| Certainly, Andreas
Schmitt must have been a good host. Already for
three years, the citizen of Lehrte hosted CeBIT
fairgoers from India. Coming from the software
company Gateway TechnoLabs in Ahmedabad to the
CeBIT computer exhibition, they were so impressed
by Mr. Schmidt that they selected him as their
representative for Germany. Now, the engineer is
presenting together with 4 Indians at a small
Gateway exhibition in hall 8, advertising services
of the company, which has yet comparatively small
client base in Germany. “The quality of Indian
software developers is good”, says Schmidt. The
Indians operate with state of the art technology,
work 6 days a week and are much cheaper compared
to German competitors.” The company, employing 400
people, is very satisfied with this year’s CeBIT:
“The response we get exceeds our
expectations.” |
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Indian
Exhibitors at CeBIT:
IT experts from this
ambitious country have a good reputation
worldwide |
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Numerous representatives from
other companies, who want to save costs for
software developments, came to their exhibition,
have shown great interest. Initially Schmidt and
his colleagues worried that they might have not
much to do at CeBIT, says Schmidt. But the
opposite was true: “So far, I did not even have
time to walk around the CeBIT.”
Gateway
TechnoLabs is one of 53 Indian exhibitors at the
CeBIT, occupying in total an area of 725 square
meters. Not only in the growing economy of India,
the Indian IT sector gained much importance. It
furthermore enjoys a good reputation throughout
the world. Western companies are progressively
shifting their programming and software developing
to India, where year after year well skilled
programmers and highly motivated engineers
graduate from Universities. For example in the
south Indian IT centre Bangalore, not only Indian
IT model enterprises like Infosys and Wipro have
their head quarters. At CeBIT, Indian exhibitors
experience great interest. “We receive more
questions and responses than in the last year”,
explains Ganseh Jivani, head of Matrix Telecom
Solutions from Vadodara in India happily. His
company offers telecommunication systems and
exhibits in hall 12 at CeBIT. A greater response
than in the last year experiences also Jayanthra
Jayachandran, employee from Angler Technologies in
Coimbatore, India. His company mainly aims at
successfully out competing Eastern European
competitors at the European market.
Confidently he states: “We are faster, better,
cheaper”. |
| During this year’s Hannover
exhibition from 24-28 April, the growth of the
Indian economy will be a special topic. India is
the partner country of this industrial exhibition.
Therefore, up to 300 Indian exhibitors are
expected to participate. |
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