Cap Gemini SA, the Paris-based consulting and software services firm, is trying to save costs by farming out more work to its centres in India and hiring freshers from colleges.Capgemini, which has software development centres in more than 10locations outside France, including smaller ones in Poland, Morocco and Vietnam, wants to make India the default offshore location, said Aruna Jayanthi, chief executive of Capgemini India Pvt. Ltd, in an interview last week.
Sanchit Vir Gogia, chief analyst and chief executive of Greyhound Research, acknowledged that Capgemini is building its capability in the engineering vertical but added that the company may face “tough competition from established Indian software services companies such as HCL Technologies Ltd, Infosys and Tech Mahindra Ltd, that already have a strong engineering practice”. “The company may also need to reduce its pricing by 25-30% to compete with Indian peers going forward,” said Gogia.
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