Kronos upbeat on India, signs on Satyam as alliance partner

MUMBAI: US-based workforce management solutions major, Kronos, has signed on domestic IT major, Satyam, as its alliance partner for service delivery and implementation of its solutions.

Kronos has also acquired a prestigious customer in Pune-based Bharat Forge, taking its total customer base in the country to around 20 in less than a year, including several MNCs such as Nokia.

Buoyed by the good response, Kronos, which runs its Indian operations from Bangalore, now plans to enhance its brand in the country, build more partnerships and invest in marketing and advertising.

"We started our operations here in August last and since then we have grown very well. Now we want to take our business to the next level," Kronos' Vice-President--International Business, Mick Adamson said.

Growth potential was immense, Adamson said, adding that he was "very optimistic" about Kronos' growth in the country.

"There's so much of business in the workforce management solutions space - people want to manage employee costs and usher in higher efficiencies. They want to have sophisticated products to manage data," he said.

The company presently has 80 personnel in India with a development centre at Noida which develops Kronos applications.