Hyderabad: US-based enterprise data intelligence platform SplashBI opened its global capability centre (GCC) in Hyderabad’s Financial District on Monday and announced plans to invest more than $100 million over the next five to seven years to expand infrastructure, technology and talent in India.The new 20,000-square-foot centre, opened by IT and industries minister D Sridhar Babu, can accommodate 275 professionals and will focus on product engineering, AI, data science and global customer delivery. SplashBI also said it has earmarked $4 million for an AI data centre to strengthen its AI infrastructure from an 8-GPU facility to a 32-GPU cluster.The Hyderabad GCC will support development of SplashBI’s platform, which helps companies connect data across HR, finance, sales, operations and supply chain, create shared business definitions and use the information for reporting, analytics and AI. The company said closer collaboration between engineering and customer teams will allow enterprise deployment requirements to shape product development, including SplashAI capabilities.Sridhar Babu said Hyderabad is already home to more than 515 GCCs that employ over three lakh professionals, with more than 70 new GCCs commencing operations in the city last year alone, which is the highest for any Indian city.Pointing out that the state govt is targeting another 100 GCCs in Hyderabad over the next year, the minister said govt was working to transform GCCs from conventional service delivery centres into hubs for global product development, research and technological innovation. He said govt is also encouraging GCCs to expand their role in emerging areas such as artificial intelligence, data analytics, cybersecurity and product engineering.SplashBI co-founder & CEO Naveen Miglani said enterprises need practical ways to turn existing data into trusted decisions, which the Hyderabad centre will enable by strengthening the company’s engineering and customer expertise to help customers advance data foundations and adopt AI.SplashBI president and co-founder Kiran Reddy Pasham said Hyderabad brings together data architecture and business process expertise and its teams in the city will build platform capabilities and domain content to help customers connect their data, make sense of it and use it in everyday work.
