Exasol Tech Hub in India boosts analytics growth

adesso India & Exasol : Global Capability Center

The Strategic Vision

Exasol, a leader in analytics technology, set out to accelerate its product roadmap in response to growing market expectations around scalability, continuous innovation, and sustained competitive advantage. As customer demands evolved rapidly, the need to deliver high-performance solutions faster became increasingly critical.

However, with its core engineering talent concentrated in Europe and America, Exasol faced limitations in scaling development capacity at the desired pace. To overcome this, the company explored strategic expansion into offshoring regions such as India—known for its vast and skilled talent pool. This move aimed to boost engineering strength, enable 24/7 development, reduce costs, and accelerate global innovation and growth.
This strategic expansion underscores our focus on innovation and excellence.The India Tech Hub will significantly strengthen our core development capabilities. By integrating AI deeper into the Exasol Analytics Engine, we’ll deliver simpler, faster paths from raw data to high-impact insights.”
- Jörg Tewes, CEO of Exasol
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We are excited to support Exasol in establishing its Global Capability Center in India. This initiative is more than setting up operations it’s about creating an innovation hub that unites Exasol’s leading analytics technology with the global delivery expertise of adesso. Together, we are building AI-enabled analytics foundations that will deliver lasting value to enterprises worldwide.”
- Mark Lohweber is CEO of adesso SE.
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Hurdles to Overcome

Time-to-Market Pressure

Need to accelerate product delivery to stay competitive and meet evolving customer demands.

Quality Assurance Demands

Maintaining high-quality standards while scaling speed and efficiency.

Cost Optimization Challenges

Balancing faster development with the need to control and reduce operational costs

Limited Engineering Presence

Insufficient engineering hubs in key regions slowed down innovation and rapid product development.

The Winning Approach

Exasol partnered with adesso to build a strategic Global Capability Center in Chennai, transforming an offshore team into an innovation hub. Using the SmartShore GCC Engine, adesso aligned the hub with Exasol’s governance and culture, rapidly assembled skilled teams, and developed AI-native analytics functions, cloud-native deployment, and ecosystem integrations. The result was a high-performance, scalable, and strategically aligned extension of Exasol’s European headquarters.

Transformative Impact

The GCC strengthens Exasol's engineering capabilities, accelerates innovative product development, fosters collaboration among top tech minds, and maintains its competitive edge in analytics.

It positions Exasol to deliver reliable solutions and lead the market effectively.

Scaling Intelligence, Driving Results

The Exasol Tech Hub has delivered measurable and strategic impact across product, business, and global expansion goals:

Insights

Accelerated AI-Driven Analytics

Enterprises using the enhanced Analytics Engine can generate insights faster, leverage AI for data preparation, and deploy semantic search and unstructured data processing at scale.

Savings

Operational Efficiency and Cost Savings

Cloud-native architecture and ARM portability enabled elastic scaling while maintaining lower operating costs, allowing Exasol to reinvest in innovation.

Integration

Seamless Ecosystem Integration

Full compatibility with modern data stack tools ensures enterprises can embed Exasol analytics into end-to-end workflows without friction.

Growth

Strengthened Global R&D Footprint

The Chennai hub provides a sustainable pipeline of world-class engineering talent, reducing dependence on regional constraints and accelerating product delivery.

Collaboration

Cultural and Strategic Synergy

By aligning teams across continents, adesso created a collaborative environment where innovation is embedded in every stage of development, from AI feature design to deployment.

Through this partnership, Exasol transformed its Analytics Engine into an AI-ready, cloud-native platform, empowering organizations to make smarter, faster, and more scalable data-driven decisions while establishing a replicable model for global innovation.

About Exasol

Exasol is the world’s most powerful analytics engine, an in-memory database purpose-built to handle the most demanding data workloads with an unmatched price/performance ratio.

Trusted by global enterprises across diverse industries, Exasol delivers exceptional reliability and performance. With in-memory computing, massively parallel processing (MPP), self-tuning functionality, and advanced AI capabilities, Exasol simplifies complex analytics. This enables organizations to extract maximum value from their data while maintaining operational cost efficiency.

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