HP to Expand Workforce With Cyberjaya Campus

By Izwan Ismail

HEWLETT-Packard Co will be expanding its skilled workforce base in Malaysia with the setting up of its Cyberjaya campus.

The 63-acre HP campus is expected to create 4,000 job opportunities for knowledge workers over the next 10 years, and this includes 1,000 software engineers for the company’s internal global application development centre, 1,000 business analysts for the internal global support centre, and 2,000 more for the enterprise call centre.

HP’s executive vice president and chief information officer Randy Mott said the skills required will be in the areas of SAP, PeopleSoft, Oracle eBiz applications, Java 2 Platform Enterprise Edition, .Net and DBA.

“HP already employs 3,000 skilled workers in Malaysia and is looking at employing 4,000 more. In some areas, we may bring in skills from other parts of the world, but that will be only on the basis of developing the campus. The ongoing move will be all Malaysian employees for the campus,” he said, adding that HP is working closely with Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) to build the skilled workforce and local universities to develop the curriculum.

Planned for opening in January 2010, the new campus will host several core functions for HP, including a next-generation data centre for outsourcing service customers, internal global support centre, enterprise call centre, and internal global application development centre.

“The campus will pull together a number of our business areas, especially the global data centre. This will be a great opportunity for us and Malaysia in becoming a hub for outsourcing activities,” Mott said.

The new data centre is expected to enhance HP’s capability in offering outsourcing services running companies’ internal IT and business applications.

“We hope to attract businesses from across the industry to use the data centre,” Mott said.

The HP Cyberjaya campus also will be used as an internal global support centre and internal global application development centre where the company will develop systems to support its business partners around the world, for internal use.

It will also feature two rooms, with HP’s Halo telepresence solutions to allow a lifelike, real-time video collaboration environment. It is designed by HP in partnership with DreamWorks Animation to provide a network of precisely designed solutions to boost business performance and reduce carbon emissions by substantially cutting travelling costs and allowing colleagues on opposite sides of the globe to meet as if they were right across the table.

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