KUALA LUMPUR, March 17, 2015:

Around 850 jobs could be at stake at Shell offices in Cyberjaya as the Anglo-Dutch oil major consolidates its IT functions at a new base in Bangalore, India.

While no decision has yet been made, a senior officer dropped this bombshell during a town hall meeting with staff in Cyberjaya late last month, said sources.

The Bangalore move could also affect some 1,000 third party contractors if they are unable to relocate to India, the sources said.

The Shell Technology Centre Bangalore (STCB) is to be one of the three global hubs for technology, after Houston and Amsterdam for the energy group.

“By the end of 2010, STCB employed around 700 professionals and has plans to grow to about 1,500 in the near future. Recruitment at STCB is currently focused on graduates in India and experienced Indian professionals,” Shell Global said at its website.

Given this focus, chances are staff now employed at Cyberjaya may find it difficult to be relocated to India, said the sources, and will probably have to look for new jobs here.

A Shell company spokesperson here said: “Shell recently announced the strategic intention to create an in-house global information technology centre in Bangalore. India.

“This is part of a review of the company’s global IT projects and selected operations support capability that places greater emphasis on delivering projects in-house.”

Asked about the possible job losses at Cyberjaya, the spokesperson said: “We anticipate no direct impact to Shell staff in Malaysia during 2015 as a result of this proposed change. The project is at an early stage of development.

“Given our strategic intent, however, it is expected that there is likely to be staff impact as a result of this activity. We do not yet know the extent of this impact.

“We will share details when they become available with staff and their representative bodies, where appropriate.”

The spokesperson added: “Shell has been in Malaysia for over 100 years and we believe there are still many opportunities for Shell in Malaysia.

“Shell has no plan to close our Cyberjaya business operations centre. IT is just one of the functions based there.

“The centre also provides valuable human resources, finance, distribution, communications production services, global commercial and contracting and procurement support to Shell’s global operations.

“We continue to look for ways to migrate higher value work to our Cyberjaya Business Operations centre from our global operations.”



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So, the end of high paying O&G jobs are here?
I heard BP retrenched a lot people in their bangsar south office also right?

How about Petronas, Petron and Esso Mobil? Any bad news so far?

Should be. Mostly affected is the SAP folks there. Used to be high paid SAP consultants, now become jobless SAP consultants. This will further drop the SAP market rates.

Just back from breakfast with some old friends in the industry who has gone to management role.
Apparently some of the MNC top management are talking about moving to cloud. Their ultimate goal is to have the Analyst sit in NL or UK, and the application+infra is supported and maintained by someone else (currently india). don't be surprise 5 yrs later they announce closure of the india center and outsource everything back to SAP germany, to be hosted on the cloud. i am talking about 2 O&G company here (insider news so i cannot reveal much)

No, there were concerns with the Quality. They wont simply outsource just because it is cheap, the management have thought of all factors. Apparently India is only an interim transition, while waiting for SAP to finalize on the Cloud hosting infra and agreement. The contract for the India center is only 10 years I heard.

please enlighten us on HANA Enterprise Cloud. I thought currently already have the SAP Cloud ERP?

Hmm. my ex-company using SAP Business Bydesign. It was the SAP Cloud ERP which they recently migrated to HANA. I think all new bydesign will be default on HANA already. What is the different between bydesign and HEC?

hmm. my ex-company is an MNC so i dont think bydesign is for SME and is not related to business one.
the cloud version of business one is called business one cloud

dont think discontinued because my ex company actively using it.

further read
if u dont mind joining a sinking ship, by all means go ahead.
if u are still young, u may try
if u like to job hop, its definitely a good place because 1 year later definitely u need to find new job again
jobs which can outsourced to india means that what u doing now are no different with the india ppl can do, easily replaceable.

elaborate more pls

yes but i don't feel the things u told me before. so i am curious

heh. u might as well dont need to say anything.

apart from SAP, what ERP does shell uses?

what company they bought?

i highly suspect u are shell staff. u should be grateful u got to work with the best employer in msia.

u must be working in shell b4

millionaire SAP contractor spotted

well, the things u mention are totally irrelevant.
do u know whenever we see any resume from shell we will just KIV? reason because shell people are too focus on 1 single repetitive task. for example the finance person that i interviewed from shell only know accounts receivable ! she dont know heck about P&L or BS. And yet they are demanding high salary? I could easily hire at cheaper (or i would be more willing to pay higher pay) to those from chinaman company because this finance girl i hired knows almost everything in finance ! since then i never have prejudice towards small company anymore. mind u i am in a german MNC.

don't believe what i said? go ask other MNC whether they would hire shell staff or not. try those companies near you in cyberjaya (not T-system or HP). My excolleague from here who went to AIG practise the same idea as well.

i agree with u with regards to their incompetency.
but i still do not agree about the racism practised by shell or any MNC.