SplashBI has opened a new Hyderabad GCC in the city’s Financial District and announced plans to invest more than $100 million in India over the next five to seven years, strengthening the city’s position as a base for artificial intelligence, data science and enterprise product development.
The US-based enterprise data intelligence platform’s 20,000-square-foot global capability centre was opened on Monday by Telangana IT and Industries Minister D Sridhar Babu. The facility can accommodate 275 professionals and will focus on product engineering, AI, data science and global customer delivery.
SplashBI has also earmarked $4 million for an AI data centre as part of its expansion. The company said the investment will increase its AI infrastructure from an eight-GPU facility to a 32-GPU cluster. The planned spending over the next five to seven years will cover infrastructure, technology and talent in India.
The Hyderabad centre will support development of SplashBI’s platform, which connects data from functions including human resources, finance, sales, operations and supply chains. The platform is designed to help companies create shared business definitions and use connected information for reporting, analytics and AI applications.
The company said bringing engineering and customer teams closer together in Hyderabad would help product development respond to enterprise deployment requirements. This work will include the development of SplashAI capabilities, while the centre’s teams will also contribute to platform engineering and global customer delivery.
Sridhar Babu said Hyderabad is home to more than 515 GCCs employing over three lakh professionals. He said more than 70 new GCCs began operations in the city last year, which he described as the highest number for any Indian city. The state government is targeting another 100 GCCs in Hyderabad over the next year.
The minister said the government wanted GCCs to move beyond conventional service delivery and become hubs for global product development, research and technological innovation. He identified artificial intelligence, data analytics, cybersecurity and product engineering as areas where the state is encouraging GCCs to expand their role.
SplashBI co-founder and CEO Naveen Miglani said the Hyderabad centre would strengthen the company’s engineering and customer expertise, helping enterprises improve their data foundations and adopt AI. President and co-founder Kiran Reddy Pasham said Hyderabad offered a combination of data architecture and business process expertise that would support the development of platform capabilities and domain content.
The announced investment and facility expansion add to the city’s growing concentration of technology-led capability centres. The immediate milestones are the operation of the new 275-seat centre and the planned expansion of SplashBI’s AI infrastructure to a 32-GPU cluster.
