Economy of Thiruvananthapuram - Information Technology

Information Technology

See also: Technopark Trivandrum and Technocity, Trivandrum

Technopark was established for the development of electronics and information technology in the State. It is India's first industrial park dedicated to electronics, software, and IT ventures. Started 1995, the campus at Thiruvananthapuram city covers an area the 330 acres (1,335,462.6 m2) campus with 4,000,000 sq ft (370,000 m2). of built-up space available currently and another 2,000,000 more sq ft of built up space coming up, is now home to over 260 companies from numerous countries. Over 35,000 IT professionals are working here. The companies include one CMMI level 5 and PCMM level 5 company, four CMM Level 5, two CMM Level 3 and several ISO 9001 certified companies. Technopark is undergoing major expansion with the development of the Technocity project.

Thiruvananthapuram was rated as the best 2nd tier metro with IT/ITES infrastructure, and second in terms of availability of human talent . The district contributes 80% of software exports from the state. Technopark also houses global majors like Oracle Corporation, Infosys, TCS, HCL, Visual Graphics Computing Services, Ernst & Young Global Shared Services Center, Allianz Cornhill, UST Global, Tata Elxsi, IBS Software Services, NeST Software, SunTec Business Solutions etc.