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HP e-speak support centre in India

Our Bureau

BANGALORE, March 30

HEWLETT-PACKARD Company on Thursday announced that it would establish a worldwide e-speak support centre at its India Software Operation (ISO) facility in Bangalore.

Addressing a press conference on the sidelines of the two-day developers conference, Mr. Rajiv Gupta, HP's Worldwide General Manager of E-Speak Operations, said: ``HP is positioning India as the worldwide e-services incubation hub for Internet Chapter Tw o because this is the intellectual capital for software development.''

``We believe that HP needs to lead in mining the tremendous potential that is present here and help promote and facilitate the creation of the next eBay or Amazon.com for the global market,'' said Mr. Gupta, also the chief architect of E-Speak.

The e-speak engine is a software that performs the primary functions of discovery, negotiation and composition. E-speak is the universal language of the Internet and will form the basis for all e-services, he said.

The HP E-Speak support centre will provide end-to-end, online and cost-free support services to developers worldwide who are working on e-speak based applications. It also acts as a strategic single point of contact to HP for all e-speak developers and u sers in the Asia-Pacific, Europe and the Americas including several IT consulting companies as well as service providers (ASPs and ISPs).

It will provide tight coupling with e-speak R&D at HP-ISO and HP Product R&D Labs, Cupertino, for seamless problem resolution. It will provide developers working on e-speak with end-to-end support for product, R&D and field applications.

Mr. John Fogarasi, Director (E-Services and Marketing), HP Enterprise and Commercial Business for South Asia, said the setting up of e-speak support centre brings the total investment value of HP-ISO to $30 millions.

Mr. Ganesh Ayyar, President HP India, who hosted the Bangalore conference, said: ``HP plans to continue the process of sharing its technologies and the experience of its partners with the development community in India.''

The developer's conference on e-services, in Bangalore is the first in the series of six such conferences, being organised by HP in the region. The conference has attracted over 350 software developers and technical architects from leading software compa nies in the country.

Mobile e-services bazaar

HEWLETT-PACKARD announced that it would set up a Mobile E-Services Bazaar (MEB) in Bangalore to promote the development of e-speak-enabled and WAP (Wireless Application Protocol) solutions for the global market and to provide incubation facilities for st art-up companies with mobile solutions.

This is the third bazaar to be announced in HP's worldwide MEB programme.

Mr. John Fogarasi, Director (E-Services and Marketing) said: ``The Bangalore MEB, to be established by July 2000, will provide mobile application developers in India with instant access to the worldwide mobile e-services community, as well as the facilit ies, technology and business infrastructure to allow them to create applications and take these to the global market in Internet time.''

The MEB is targeted at wireless operators, service providers, enterprise application providers, technology partners and other players in the mobile e-services industry who can take advantage of the incubation facilities provided by the bazaar.

``We view the Bangalore MEB as a strategic resource in nurturing mobile e-commerce startups in India and in making this country an international m-commerce hub. The Bangalore MEB will be instrumental to fueling the development of wireless applications in Asia, in which mobile communication devices of all kinds will connect to a dynamic marketplace of e-services,'' said Mr. Fogarasi.