What is the total number of GCCs currently in operation as of the end of 2020
retire that, allowing us to simplify the delivery of IP on a global basis, reduce costs and increase our speed to market. Second, we'll implement a hybrid cloud infrastructure to create economies of scale around computing and intellectual property distribution. Our on-premise infrastructure currently operates at high levels of efficiency and the additional use of public cloud helps us to optimize our computing capabilities. This approach has already allowed us to power key international opportunities in countries such as India and Chile, as well as to provide the spine for our Media vertical, which I'll talk about in more detail shortly.
Third, we will leverage the growing arsenal of innovative cloud-based tools to enable faster product development. Examples include new compliance tools, analytics stacks, model training, machine learning and other cutting-edge technologies. We have delivered the first set of foundational cloud services to our development teams and expect the first deployments into production in the second half of this year. Given our focus on talent and building continuity for the long term, we continue to embrace up-skilling our workforce. In this regard, we've made considerable progress in training our internal teams with 80% having completed or currently enrolled in cloud training including hundreds receiving full AWS certification in addition to the new hires that we brought on this past year.
We believe developing our internal talent will make our company cloud native just like our technology. This will allow us to continuously evolve and stay nimble in the future. Beyond these very attractive marketplace benefits, we expect Project Rise to deliver between $20 million and $30 million per year of operating expense reductions beginning in the year '23. Project Rise represents a critical evolution of our technology strategy and enables significant long-term opportunities and efficiencies for TransUnion. Global operations provides another way to deliver efficiencies and facilitate commercial success through centralization, process optimization, and automation leading to a better customer experience, as well as cost savings that we will reinvest in growth projects.
Our team has identified three areas of greatest potential impact and they've made significant progress thus far. First, we expanded our disciplined procurement processes to all of our purchasing. We renegotiated our largest contracts and recently began to focus on the remaining opportunities. We've reduced costs while adding features and functionality. We also began implementing a life-cycle procure-to-pay system from Coupa, enabling complete spend visibility globally. We've already deployed the tool in the U.S., Canada, and the UK, and we'll add more of our major markets in '21. Second, we continue to expand on the success of our Global Capability Center or GCC in Chennai, India, which now employs more than 900 associates. We added another center in Pune, India in the fourth quarter of last year, focused on providing analytics services across our organization.
And this year, we opened a GCC in Johannesburg, South Africa, to provide a range of business services in order to flex capacity and to create continuity safeguards. Each GCC meets the growing needs of our customers while refining our delivery and support capabilities in eliminating concentration risk. They also allow us to cost effectively process more sophisticated and confidential work than we could using third parties. And finally, we're focused on business process refinement and automation to enhance customer experience. Most significantly, we are implementing a standardized global CRM system that when coupled with our GCCs forms an effective technology and operational fulfillment spine for transparent, high-quality customer support.
Said another way, we're creating a structure to efficiently process work, so we can focus on delivering the best experience for our customers. Together, we are confident that Global Operations will deliver significant effectiveness and cost benefits, an
retire that, allowing us to simplify the delivery of IP on a global basis, reduce costs and increase our speed to market. Second, we'll implement a hybrid cloud infrastructure to create economies of scale around computing and intellectual property distribution. Our on-premise infrastructure currently operates at high levels of efficiency and the additional use of public cloud helps us to optimize our computing capabilities. This approach has already allowed us to power key international opportunities in countries such as India and Chile, as well as to provide the spine for our Media vertical, which I'll talk about in more detail shortly.
Third, we will leverage the growing arsenal of innovative cloud-based tools to enable faster product development. Examples include new compliance tools, analytics stacks, model training, machine learning and other cutting-edge technologies. We have delivered the first set of foundational cloud services to our development teams and expect the first deployments into production in the second half of this year. Given our focus on talent and building continuity for the long term, we continue to embrace up-skilling our workforce. In this regard, we've made considerable progress in training our internal teams with 80% having completed or currently enrolled in cloud training including hundreds receiving full AWS certification in addition to the new hires that we brought on this past year.
We believe developing our internal talent will make our company cloud native just like our technology. This will allow us to continuously evolve and stay nimble in the future. Beyond these very attractive marketplace benefits, we expect Project Rise to deliver between $20 million and $30 million per year of operating expense reductions beginning in the year '23. Project Rise represents a critical evolution of our technology strategy and enables significant long-term opportunities and efficiencies for TransUnion. Global operations provides another way to deliver efficiencies and facilitate commercial success through centralization, process optimization, and automation leading to a better customer experience, as well as cost savings that we will reinvest in growth projects.
 Our team has identified three areas of greatest potential impact and they've made significant progress thus far. First, we expanded our disciplined procurement processes to all of our purchasing. We renegotiated our largest contracts and recently began to focus on the remaining opportunities. We've reduced costs while adding features and functionality. We also began implementing a life-cycle procure-to-pay system from Coupa, enabling complete spend visibility globally. We've already deployed the tool in the U.S., Canada, and the UK, and we'll add more of our major markets in '21. Second, we continue to expand on the success of our Global Capability Center or GCC in Chennai, India, which now employs more than 900 associates. We added another center in Pune, India in the fourth quarter of last year, focused on providing analytics services across our organization.
And this year, we opened a GCC in Johannesburg, South Africa, to provide a range of business services in order to flex capacity and to create continuity safeguards. Each GCC meets the growing needs of our customers while refining our delivery and support capabilities in eliminating concentration risk. They also allow us to cost effectively process more sophisticated and confidential work than we could using third parties. And finally, we're focused on business process refinement and automation to enhance customer experience. Most significantly, we are implementing a standardized global CRM system that when coupled with our GCCs forms an effective technology and operational fulfillment spine for transparent, high-quality customer support.
Said another way, we're creating a structure to efficiently process work, so we can focus on delivering the best experience for our customers. Together, we are confident that Global Operations will deliver significant effectiveness and cost benefits, an