Hitachi Ltd. will open outsourcing offices in India to provide software development and systems maintenance services for corporate clients, company sources said.
The major manufacturer of electrical machinery will tie up with Satyam, an IT business based in the south central Indian city of Secunderabad, and Intelligroup, an Indian-owned US company.

It will open offices in Bangalore and Hyderabad, where the Indian partners operate, with a combined staff of 200, hoping to expand to 1,000 employees in two years.

The Indian bases will mainly target Japanese companies operating in the US and Europe. In addition to developing software, they will send engineers to clients to provide systems maintenance and other services.
Hitachi aims to expand its outsourcing operations as a strategic step for its overseas business. The company hopes to boost revenue from foreign operations to 40 per cent of its information and communications business by 2007.