What is your prediction for the new center that will be opened this Tuesday? Alicante?
Our estimate for this year is about 200 people on the roster. Our first client here is Banco de Sabadell, which is kind of the seed of this project, and we already have another client. We are a company with 7,000 employees in Spain and Portugal, and 150,000 worldwide, and we aim to grow as we do at our other centers in the Peninsula. For this, we have already negotiated agreements with Miguel Hernández University and the University of Alicante to attract the necessary talent and give Alicante professionals the chance to continue to live and work here, producing technology for the most relevant companies in the country.
What kind of technologies will be developed from this center?
It is an advanced software engineering center. Two or three main things to do here are the migration of applications to new technology and the development of applications with more modern solutions, as well as the whole field of application modernization, which means application testing.
Is it a tour center?
A center with a future. Companies today are constantly trying to modernize their practices to better serve their customers, partners and employees. There is a clear need because companies need to modernize their economic models, and this is by modernizing their practices.
You commented, they come from Sabadell. What relationship unites them?
We are a long time supplier and partner of Sabadell and a few months ago they trusted us with their application conversion, modernization and testing and agreed to set up this center. It was important for them to have Sabadell’s headquarters in Alicante and here, and even though we had a very important headquarters in Valencia with around 800 people, we still didn’t have a presence. This is how this center came about, but now the goal is not just to serve Sabadell, but to serve all of our customers in Spain and Portugal.
What types of customers are part of your portfolio?
We actually cover the 200 most important companies in the country. We’re talking multinationals, Ibex companies… Keep in mind that DXC is one of the most important technological services multinationals today, and all the application modernization we’re doing will be based largely on hard work. Alicante
Alicante is trying to position itself in the Spanish digital ecosystem, how does it look from the outside?
Well, I can say that the facilities we have so far from the institutional part are extraordinary, also the possibilities we have from universities to close agreements, which is very important because technological is the raw material of technology. Service companies are people. Also, Alicante is well located and I think it’s still a pole where there aren’t many tech companies and so it’s a good place to come. And I think without a doubt it will cut a hole in itself.
How was DXC’s turnover in Spain and Portugal last year and what are your predictions for this year?
Unfortunately, as we are a multinational company, there is data we cannot provide. However, I can say that we have added more than 1,000 people to our workforce between the two countries in the last year and achieved double-digit growth. And 2023 expectations are just as high. We are in a sector that is not affected by these signs of crisis and existing geopolitical problems. Companies need to transform and are clear that investment in technology is key.
Doesn’t technology investment fall behind with inflation and uncertainty?
No, as I said, technology has become a factor that ensures the competitiveness of the business world. In other words, if a company wants to stay competitive, it has to make its business processes more efficient, be more agile, serve its customers better and be closer to their needs, which is now achieved by technology. Companies understand that technology is an area where they need to invest if they want to stay competitive. Another thing is that they invest more in some areas or others within technology.
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Business support for multinational company landing
The opening of the new DXC Technology center in Alicante garnered the support of business and Alicante institutions this Tuesday. So, among those present was Fernando Canós, Sabadell’s regional manager, who will be the firm’s main client in the state. Marián Cano, president of Avecal and vice president of CEV Alicante; Pedro Fernández, president of the Advanced Tertiary Association; or Ineca’s, Nacho Amirola. The corporate part was represented by Marian Campello, regional Secretary of Innovation; and Mari Carmen, Member of the Public Works Council in Alicante, Spain. Located in an 8,000-square-foot building in the Babel industrial area in Alicante, the multinational plans to employ around 200 people, with the prospect of expanding its workforce.