Ortigas Center

Kanati Inc. is in Ortigas Center, at the Orient Square Building on F. Ortigas Jr. Road in Pasig City, Philippines. This is a business district that is fast becoming the base of other Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) companies, as well Offshoring companies. Major call centers, software developers, business consultancy providers and other global corporations (from large-scaled down to the micro business ventures) are thriving here, and more businesses setting up their own shops. Ortigas Center is one of the most important business and commercial districts in the Philippines. It comes second only to the Makati City.

Makati City is the major commercial, economic and financial hub in the entire country. It is also considered as the Philippines' major global competitor in Southeast Asia. The city has always been a fixture in the business world.

Ortigas first boom

However, Ortigas Center is relatively young, its economic boom started only at the later part of the 1980s. It also has less area space as compared to the business district of Makati City itself. Yet, it is attracting the attention of foreign investors and local business owners because of its strategic location.

Ortigas Center is in Pasig City. To be more accurate, it lies at the boundaries of Mandaluyong City, Pasig City and Quezon City. Its land area covers only about 100 hectares of land, but the skyscrapers within can be spectacular.

Governed by the sanctions and provisions of the Ortigas Center Association Inc., Ortigas Center is now a business and commercial hub. It is surrounded by scores of banks, clubs, hotels, malls, restaurants, schools and universities. It also serves as the permanent homes of large corporations such as Asian Development Bank, the Philippine branch of HSBC and San Miguel Corporation.

Ortigas has the second largest mall in the Philippines

SM Megamall, which is the second largest mall in the Philippines can also be found at the Ortigas Center. There are also growing numbers of residential buildings in the area, offering attractive places to stay for the equally growing numbers of Filipino and foreign employees and employers in the district.

These days, Ortigas Center is quickly turning cosmopolitan ? especially now that clubs, hotels and malls are flourishing to accommodate residents, workers and expatriates alike.

Ortigas upgraded

Due to the daily influx of workers, visitors and shoppers to the area, Ortigas Center has had to upgrade its transportation infrastructure to meet competitive standards. Ortigas Center is surrounded by 4 major highways: EDSA to the west, Meralco Avenue to the east, Ortigas Avenue to the north and Shaw Boulevard to the south.

After the upgrading of the roads and highways, the district became the homes of other medium-scale, small-scale and micro business ventures: advertising companies, cell phone retailers, electronic gadget traders, etc.

The growing demands of Ortigas Center?s businesses paved the way for communication lines and telecommunication services to be upgraded too, especially now that major call centers have established themselves within the district's business circle.

IT and software development companies such as Kanati Inc. is using full advantage of this sudden glut in transportation and telecommunication improvement, setting up their business at the Ortigas Center on January 31, 2005.