Hyderabad, Jul 22 (IANS): Keste, the US-based Oracle software solutions and development company, has doubled its headcount at India Development Centre (IDC) here during the last 12 months.

With 120 employees at the IDC located at Hitech City here, the company continues to hire the best talent and has plans to expand its footprint in India to help service the Asia pacific region.

"During the last quarter, we've seen significant growth in our business servicing the high-tech, communications, manufacturing and life sciences markets in the region. The region offers huge growth potential for us and we are confident we will be able to maintain our growth," CEO Howard Moore said in a statement released here Monday.

He said Keste was expanding its operations in India to meet the demands of customers in India and the Asia Pacific.

"This is part of our continuing effort to invest in the India market. A year ago we committed to doubling our headcount in 15 months. I'm very pleased that our growth and investment activity is significantly ahead of schedule," said Ken Judd, CFO.

Keste provides enterprise solutions in areas, including customer experience, cloud integration and mobility. With hundreds of successful implementations and experience across the full Oracle stack of applications, middleware and hardware, Keste is able to deliver solutions that bring real business value and accelerate enterprise business strategy, added the statement.