Fujitsu Consulting, a North America-headquartered consulting and services arm of the $43.2 billion Fujitsu Group, has established an offshore development center in Noida, India. The new center is the company’s fourth offshore development center in India since 2001, and will serve the company’s clients across the globe. The center will provide a host of services such as software application development and implementation, quality assurance and sales-support services.

“With the opening of this new center, we are increasing our presence in India,” says John T. Rose, President and CEO, Fujitsu Consulting. “The purpose of our expansion in India resides on our Canadian and American clients’ demands such as the demand of top talent for their projects, technologies and solutions. Our customers are well aware of the fact that around 40,000 IT employees in the U.S. are heading to get retirements, and they also believe that the expansion in India is the key solution for this upcoming talent crunch.”

The company also declares its intensions to increase its headcount in India by 2,500 in the coming two years. With 1,500 employees in India, 800 in Costa Rica and 4,800 in Canada, Fujitsu Consulting’s total headcount presently stands at 7,100 people. The company provides IT consulting and integration services in domains such as financial services, insurance, telecom, government, aerospace, automation, insurance, health care, manufacturing, life sciences and public sectors.

In the past 28 months, Fujitsu consulting acquired eight global companies including Cendera, Rapidigm, Moxxi, GIM, Born, M3K, Greenbrier & Russel and OKERE. Its latest acquisition is the buyout of a New York-based consulting and IT-services company OKERE. The new entity within Fujitsu Consulting will focus on providing a broad range of SaaS-based consulting, implementation and management services.