BlackBerry opens largest CoE for IoT engineering & innovation outside Canada in Hyderabad | India Business News – Times of India

HYDERABAD: Canadian software player BlackBerry Limited has opened its largest centre of excellence, engineering and innovation for its IoT (internet of things) division outside Canada in Hyderabad with a capacity to accommodate 180-200 techies. The CoE will serve as the Asia Pacific hub for BlackBerry QNX global developer network. The CoE, designed to advance mission-critical embedded software development for IoT industries, has opened with a 60-member team with plans to double its headcount over the next one year, BlackBerry IoT president Mattias Eriksson said here on Wednesday. Globally, the BlackBerry IoT has about 850 employees. Set up to help scale up operations to meet the growing industry demand for BlackBerry’s embedded software solutions and services, teams at the CoE will focus on building the next generation of software-defined-vehicles (SDVs) and advancing innovation in medical, industrial control systems and robotics, Eriksson said. “India is an important market for our customers in automotive and other IoT sectors, and widely recognized as a nation of talented software engineers with a thriving innovation ecosystem. The Hyderabad CoE will enhance product and service delivery for our customers and partners and create opportunities for India’s talented software engineers in an increasingly complex and software-defined era for embedded IoT development,” Eriksson said. He said the company decided to set up the facility in Hyderabad because of the good availability of skilled talent, progressive government policies that have driven a fast development of a thriving ecosystem that houses many of its customers and tech giants. The Hyderabad CoE will house teams of embedded software engineers across a range of technology positions and skill sets, including senior management, technical project management, product engineering, cloud software development, integration, and service delivery. These teams are now actively working with the company’s BlackBerry QNX software that is embedded in over 235 million vehicles on the road globally