IBM Corp. is setting up development centers in Beijing and Pune, India that will focus on developing industry-specific SOA (service-oriented architecture) services to be reused across various customers.
While the SOA Solutions Center in Pune will focus on the insurance and healthcare industries, its counterpart in Beijing will develop SOA services for the banking industry and government, Jeby Cherian, head of IBM's Global Business Solutions Center in Bangalore, India, told reporters Tuesday in Bangalore. The Beijing and Pune centers will have about 500 staff each.
