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Microsoft India Private Limited is a subsidiary of American software
company Microsoft Corporation, headquartered in Hyderabad, India. The company first
entered the Indian market in 1990 and has since worked closely with the Indian
government, the IT industry, academia and the local developer community to usher in
some of the early successes in the IT market. Microsoft currently has offices in the 13
cities
of Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipu
r, Kochi, Kolkata,Mumbai, New Delhi, and Pune. Increasingly, the company has become
a key IT partner of the Indian government and industry, supporting and fueling the
growth of the local IT industry through its partner enablement programs. Since its entry
into India, Microsoft has focused on three key objectives:
To become a key IT partner of the Indian government and the local IT industry
To support and fuel growth of the local IT industry through its partner enablement
programs
To use the Microsoft Unlimited Potential program to enhance education, jobs and
opportunities and foster innovation through relevant, affordable access to computing.
Microsoft in India employs about 5,000 people and has six business units representing
the complete Microsoft product portfolio.Bhaskar Pramanik, Chairman of Microsoft India,
announced that Microsoft intends to provide free internet connectivity acrossIndia.[2]
Business Units[edit]
Microsoft India operates the following six business units in India. [3]
1. Microsoft India Sales Marketing and Services Group (SMSG)
2. Microsoft Research India (MSR)
3. Microsoft Global Services India (MGSI)
4. Microsoft India Development Center (MSIDC)
5. Microsoft IT India (MSIT)
6. Microsoft Global Technology Support Center (GTSC)
Microsoft India Development Center[edit]
Located in Hyderabad, the Microsoft India Development Center (MSIDC) is Microsoft’s
largest software development center outside of their headquarters in Redmond,
Washington. The MSIDC teams focus on strategic and IP sensitive software product
development.[4]
Servers & Tools
Microsoft Corporation’s Server & Tools division develops and markets
Microsoft's infrastructure and developer software. The Server and Tools
Business portfolio includes Microsoft Windows Server, SQL Server, Visual
Studio, Virtualization products, System Center management products, and the
Forefront line of business security products, among others. Under the direction
of the US STB team, our engineers work on projects for diverse products as
BizTalk Server & AppFabric Caching, System Center™, and Windows Serve™.
Developer Tools
Microsoft Corporation’s Visual Studio product line simplifies the entire
development process from design to deployment. The prototyping, modeling
and design tools help unleash creativity and transform visions to working
software for individual developers and for teams. Coding is faster than ever
before as the developer can leverage existing code and skills to write
applications targeting platforms, including Windows Phone, SharePoint and
Windows Azure applications. It enables developers and testers to work better
together and save time with integrated testing and debugging tools. They can
find and fix bugs quickly to make sure their solutions meet the highest possible
quality standards. Our Developer Tools teams at MSIDC contributes to many
parts of the Visual Studio product line, including features for Windows Phone
development, manual and automated functional testing, load and performance
testing, unit testing infrastructure, Lab Management and code coverage. These
features are shipped as part of Visual Studio Ultimate, Visual Studio Premium,
Visual Studio Test Professional and Visual Studio Express for Windows Phone.
Azure App Platform
Microsoft AppFabric is a set of middleware technologies from Microsoft
Corporation that enable easy development, deployment and lifecycle
management of applications., Applications built on AppFabric are easily
scalable in an 08elastic manner and can be run both on the cloud and the server
through symmetric capabilities. Our Azure App Platform teams at MSIDC
develop AppFabric technologies for distributed cache, integration and business
agility. These technologies allow customers to build high scale applications that
can bridge disparate environments while improving visibility and agility of their
business processes.
Cloud and Datacenter Management
Microsoft Corporation’s System Center™ cloud and datacenter management
solutions empower enterprise customers with a common management toolset
for private and public cloud applications and services. System Center 2012TM
delivers flexible and cost-effective private cloud infrastructure to business units
in a self-service model, offers deep application insight and helps them deliver
predictable application-service levels. System Center helps enterprise customers
confidently deliver IT as a Service for their business. The Cloud and Datacenter
Management team at MSIDC works on data protection, disaster recovery and
application mobility capabilities for business applications as part of System
CenterTM .
Online Services Division
The Online Services Division at Microsoft Corporation focuses on empowering
people with knowledge by computationally understanding user intent and
matching it with software, services and advertising. Our Hyderabad and
Bangalore based teams contribute to the development of adCenter and Bing
product.
adCenter
adCenter is Microsoft Corporation’s online advertising platform. It enables
advertisers to connect with target consumers across multiple digital touch points
through both brand and direct marketing messages. The mission is to develop
software that allows advertisers to reach the right audience, at the right time
with the right message. It also aims at enabling publishers to monetize their
assets while optimizing for end user experience of the publisher medium. The
adCenter team, based at MSIDC Bangalore, is focused on engineering solutions
for search ads monetization, i.e. paid search components such as advertiser
engagement & optimization, system to manage advertiser quality & editorial
policy compliance, engineering support for international rollout and the
detection and removal of low quality ads (spam and malware) from the ad
platform.
Bing
Bing is the new decision engine from Microsoft Corporation that finds and
organizes your answers so that you can make faster, more informed decisions. It
is the only search engine that pulls in your friends’ Facebook likes – from news,
celebrities and movies to bands and brands. The Bing team at Hyderabad
contributes features and functionality across search platform and user
experiences with the key areas of focus in Local, Weather, Autos, Events,
Attractions, Finance, Recipes, Technology, Sports and Health segments.
Microsoft IT
MSIT is responsible for all activities related to running Microsoft Corporation’s
worldwide internal technologies infrastructure, corporate and product
information, product production and distribution, and maintaining key internal
systems. The MSIT team in Hyderabad is the offshore arm of the Microsoft IT
Engineering Divisions that comprise of a variety of niche technologies deployed
in developing important business applications for Microsoft Corporation.
A VISION AND STRATEGY FOR THE FUTURE
Diversity and inclusion are integral to Microsoft’s vision, strategy and business
success. We recognize that leadership in today’s global marketplace requires
that we create a corporate culture and an inclusive business environment where
the best and brightest diverse minds—employees with varied perspectives,
skills, and experiences--work together to meet global consumer demands. The
collaboration of cultures, ideas, and different perspectives is an organizational
asset and brings forth greater creativity and innovation.
Learn about our commitment to global diversity and inclusion, including
our vision, strategy, and plans for the future. Understand why at Microsoft,
global diversity and inclusion is a long term business-critical principle that is
linked to the current and future success of our company.
Microsoft is on an accelerated path of growth. We recognize that in order to
achieve our aggressive leadership goals we must leverage the intellectual power
and harness the creative energy of top, highly trained individuals from all
regions of the world, and those from a wide range of diverse backgrounds.
We actively seek to foster greater levels of diversity in our workforce by
partnering with our outreach partners which include academic institutions,
professional organizations, and national advocacy groups, offering scholarships
and youth programs to encourage the study of technology and science and work
with our senior executive leadership team to ensure that diversity and inclusive
best practices are deeply embedded throughout our work environment. We
know that these goals provide a solid foundation to creating a highly engaged
workforce with a shared purpose of achieving Microsoft’s mission.
Microsoft and tcs
Microsoft India and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) today announced a
strategic alliance between the two companies to launch a Microsoft-TCS
virtualization Center of Excellence (CoE) in Chennai. Designed to help
customers experience the right approach to applying and managing
virtualization across IT architectural layers (namely server, machine, application
and desktop) in their business environments – the CoE will leverage best of
breed Microsoft technologies (such as Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008) to showcase virtualization
scenarios to customers. The Microsoft-TCS virtualization CoE is a joint
initiative by both the companies to accelerate the adoption of virtualization
technology in India. {IslandAd} “Virtualization is one of the most disruptive
technologies in the world today. Though there is adequate knowledge on the
benefits of virtualization - only 5 percent of the world’s servers are virtualized
today. There is a clear gap between awareness and adoption of this technology –
which has emerged from the lack of guidance among customers around actual
implementation of this technology and their inability to demystify the
conceptual transition from physical to virtual environments. Through our
partnership with TCS to launch the virtualization CoE, we will address this
crucial market need and help customers land the benefits of virtualization
technology in accordance with their business requirements”, said Rajan
Anandan (Managing Director, Microsoft India).
“The Microsoft-TCS
virtualization CoE is an initiative aimed at enabling our customers rapidly
realize the advantages of this revolutionary technology. Based on robust
virtualization solutions from Microsoft – the CoE will leverage best of breed
technologies that are best suited to help our customers stay ahead in today’s
competitive market environment”, said P. R. Krishnan (Vice President & Global
Head
IT
Infrastructure
Services,
TCS).
Microsoft India Private Limited is a subsidiary of American software
company Microsoft Corporation, headquartered in Hyderabad, India. The company first
entered the Indian market in 1990 and has since worked closely with the Indian
government, the IT industry, academia and the local developer community to usher in
some of the early successes in the IT market. Microsoft currently has offices in the 13
cities
of Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chandigarh, Chennai, Coimbatore, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipu
r, Kochi, Kolkata,Mumbai, New Delhi, and Pune. Increasingly, the company has become
a key IT partner of the Indian government and industry, supporting and fueling the
growth of the local IT industry through its partner enablement programs. Since its entry
into India, Microsoft has focused on three key objectives:
To become a key IT partner of the Indian government and the local IT industry
To support and fuel growth of the local IT industry through its partner enablement
programs
To use the Microsoft Unlimited Potential program to enhance education, jobs and
opportunities and foster innovation through relevant, affordable access to computing.
Microsoft in India employs about 5,000 people and has six business units representing
the complete Microsoft product portfolio.Bhaskar Pramanik, Chairman of Microsoft India,
announced that Microsoft intends to provide free internet connectivity acrossIndia.[2]
Business Units[edit]
Microsoft India operates the following six business units in India. [3]
1. Microsoft India Sales Marketing and Services Group (SMSG)
2. Microsoft Research India (MSR)
3. Microsoft Global Services India (MGSI)
4. Microsoft India Development Center (MSIDC)
5. Microsoft IT India (MSIT)
6. Microsoft Global Technology Support Center (GTSC)
Microsoft India Development Center[edit]
Located in Hyderabad, the Microsoft India Development Center (MSIDC) is Microsoft’s
largest software development center outside of their headquarters in Redmond,
Washington. The MSIDC teams focus on strategic and IP sensitive software product
development.[4]
Servers & Tools
Microsoft Corporation’s Server & Tools division develops and markets
Microsoft's infrastructure and developer software. The Server and Tools
Business portfolio includes Microsoft Windows Server, SQL Server, Visual
Studio, Virtualization products, System Center management products, and the
Forefront line of business security products, among others. Under the direction
of the US STB team, our engineers work on projects for diverse products as
BizTalk Server & AppFabric Caching, System Center™, and Windows Serve™.
Developer Tools
Microsoft Corporation’s Visual Studio product line simplifies the entire
development process from design to deployment. The prototyping, modeling
and design tools help unleash creativity and transform visions to working
software for individual developers and for teams. Coding is faster than ever
before as the developer can leverage existing code and skills to write
applications targeting platforms, including Windows Phone, SharePoint and
Windows Azure applications. It enables developers and testers to work better
together and save time with integrated testing and debugging tools. They can
find and fix bugs quickly to make sure their solutions meet the highest possible
quality standards. Our Developer Tools teams at MSIDC contributes to many
parts of the Visual Studio product line, including features for Windows Phone
development, manual and automated functional testing, load and performance
testing, unit testing infrastructure, Lab Management and code coverage. These
features are shipped as part of Visual Studio Ultimate, Visual Studio Premium,
Visual Studio Test Professional and Visual Studio Express for Windows Phone.
Azure App Platform
Microsoft AppFabric is a set of middleware technologies from Microsoft
Corporation that enable easy development, deployment and lifecycle
management of applications., Applications built on AppFabric are easily
scalable in an 08elastic manner and can be run both on the cloud and the server
through symmetric capabilities. Our Azure App Platform teams at MSIDC
develop AppFabric technologies for distributed cache, integration and business
agility. These technologies allow customers to build high scale applications that
can bridge disparate environments while improving visibility and agility of their
business processes.
Cloud and Datacenter Management
Microsoft Corporation’s System Center™ cloud and datacenter management
solutions empower enterprise customers with a common management toolset
for private and public cloud applications and services. System Center 2012TM
delivers flexible and cost-effective private cloud infrastructure to business units
in a self-service model, offers deep application insight and helps them deliver
predictable application-service levels. System Center helps enterprise customers
confidently deliver IT as a Service for their business. The Cloud and Datacenter
Management team at MSIDC works on data protection, disaster recovery and
application mobility capabilities for business applications as part of System
CenterTM .
Online Services Division
The Online Services Division at Microsoft Corporation focuses on empowering
people with knowledge by computationally understanding user intent and
matching it with software, services and advertising. Our Hyderabad and
Bangalore based teams contribute to the development of adCenter and Bing
product.
adCenter
adCenter is Microsoft Corporation’s online advertising platform. It enables
advertisers to connect with target consumers across multiple digital touch points
through both brand and direct marketing messages. The mission is to develop
software that allows advertisers to reach the right audience, at the right time
with the right message. It also aims at enabling publishers to monetize their
assets while optimizing for end user experience of the publisher medium. The
adCenter team, based at MSIDC Bangalore, is focused on engineering solutions
for search ads monetization, i.e. paid search components such as advertiser
engagement & optimization, system to manage advertiser quality & editorial
policy compliance, engineering support for international rollout and the
detection and removal of low quality ads (spam and malware) from the ad
platform.
Bing
Bing is the new decision engine from Microsoft Corporation that finds and
organizes your answers so that you can make faster, more informed decisions. It
is the only search engine that pulls in your friends’ Facebook likes – from news,
celebrities and movies to bands and brands. The Bing team at Hyderabad
contributes features and functionality across search platform and user
experiences with the key areas of focus in Local, Weather, Autos, Events,
Attractions, Finance, Recipes, Technology, Sports and Health segments.
Microsoft IT
MSIT is responsible for all activities related to running Microsoft Corporation’s
worldwide internal technologies infrastructure, corporate and product
information, product production and distribution, and maintaining key internal
systems. The MSIT team in Hyderabad is the offshore arm of the Microsoft IT
Engineering Divisions that comprise of a variety of niche technologies deployed
in developing important business applications for Microsoft Corporation.
A VISION AND STRATEGY FOR THE FUTURE
Diversity and inclusion are integral to Microsoft’s vision, strategy and business
success. We recognize that leadership in today’s global marketplace requires
that we create a corporate culture and an inclusive business environment where
the best and brightest diverse minds—employees with varied perspectives,
skills, and experiences--work together to meet global consumer demands. The
collaboration of cultures, ideas, and different perspectives is an organizational
asset and brings forth greater creativity and innovation.
Learn about our commitment to global diversity and inclusion, including
our vision, strategy, and plans for the future. Understand why at Microsoft,
global diversity and inclusion is a long term business-critical principle that is
linked to the current and future success of our company.
Microsoft is on an accelerated path of growth. We recognize that in order to
achieve our aggressive leadership goals we must leverage the intellectual power
and harness the creative energy of top, highly trained individuals from all
regions of the world, and those from a wide range of diverse backgrounds.
We actively seek to foster greater levels of diversity in our workforce by
partnering with our outreach partners which include academic institutions,
professional organizations, and national advocacy groups, offering scholarships
and youth programs to encourage the study of technology and science and work
with our senior executive leadership team to ensure that diversity and inclusive
best practices are deeply embedded throughout our work environment. We
know that these goals provide a solid foundation to creating a highly engaged
workforce with a shared purpose of achieving Microsoft’s mission.
Microsoft and tcs
Microsoft India and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) today announced a
strategic alliance between the two companies to launch a Microsoft-TCS
virtualization Center of Excellence (CoE) in Chennai. Designed to help
customers experience the right approach to applying and managing
virtualization across IT architectural layers (namely server, machine, application
and desktop) in their business environments – the CoE will leverage best of
breed Microsoft technologies (such as Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and
System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008) to showcase virtualization
scenarios to customers. The Microsoft-TCS virtualization CoE is a joint
initiative by both the companies to accelerate the adoption of virtualization
technology in India. {IslandAd} “Virtualization is one of the most disruptive
technologies in the world today. Though there is adequate knowledge on the
benefits of virtualization - only 5 percent of the world’s servers are virtualized
today. There is a clear gap between awareness and adoption of this technology –
which has emerged from the lack of guidance among customers around actual
implementation of this technology and their inability to demystify the
conceptual transition from physical to virtual environments. Through our
partnership with TCS to launch the virtualization CoE, we will address this
crucial market need and help customers land the benefits of virtualization
technology in accordance with their business requirements”, said Rajan
Anandan (Managing Director, Microsoft India).
“The Microsoft-TCS
virtualization CoE is an initiative aimed at enabling our customers rapidly
realize the advantages of this revolutionary technology. Based on robust
virtualization solutions from Microsoft – the CoE will leverage best of breed
technologies that are best suited to help our customers stay ahead in today’s
competitive market environment”, said P. R. Krishnan (Vice President & Global
Head
IT
Infrastructure
Services,
TCS).
