Lenovo Launches Innovation Centre in India

Laptop manufacturer, Lenovo has announced the launch of its first 'Innovation Centre' in India. The Innovation Center, set up at Andheri (Mumbai), is aimed at large enterprise and mid-market customers, business partners, solution providers and independent software vendors to collaborate on new personal computing solutions. This is Lenovo's third Innovation Center after Research Triangle Park, United States and Beijing, China.

Deepak Advani, Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, Lenovo said, "With our third Innovation Center in India, we aim to accelerate innovation for diverse client challenges and developing markets. By collaborating with our partners, we will focus on solving customer IT problems with an emphasis on the end user. The India Innovation Center will serve as a collaboration venue for fully integrated solutions along with our alliance partners."

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Lenovo has partnered with Intel, Microsoft, LANDesk, IBM and Cisco, to showcase new PC solutions in areas such as hardware platform and application integration, active management technology, network connectivity and power management. The center will deploy globally developed solutions to specific customer requirements in India.

Hitendra Chaturvedi, Sr. Director, Microsoft India said, "The Innovation Center will be an ideal platform for the customers in India to experience the power of integrating applications, tools, technologies and services. It provides the ideal opportunity for organizations to identify, test a secure client infrastructure, and thereby adopt the right solutions that best suit their business needs and we at Microsoft India are very excited to be part of the solution set."

Lenovo says the center will reflect a customer-centric model for innovation, with a focus on ways to engage in innovation, across geographical boundaries and enabling a shorter cycle time between development and implementation.