It Sector
It Sector
the world. IT has a major role in strengthening the economic and technical foundations of
India. Indian professionals are setting up examples of their proficiency in IT, in India as well
as abroad.
The sector can be classified into 4 broad categories - IT Services, Engineering Services,
ITES-BPO Services, E Business
IT Services can further be categorized into Information Services (IS) outsourcing, packaged
software support and installation, systems integration, processing services, hardware support
and installation and IT training and education.
IT Enabled Services are services that use telecom networks or the Internet. For example,
Remote Maintenance, Back Office Operations, Data Processing, Call Centers, Business
Process Outsourcing, etc.
E Business (electronic business) is carrying out business on the Internet; it includes buying
and selling, serving customers and collaborating with business partners.
Swot Analysis
Strengths Weaknesses
Opportunities Threats
GROWTH
he domestic IT-BPO services segment is expected to grow from $12.8 billion in FY'2009 to $16.7
billion in FY'2011, translating into a CAGR of 14 per cent, it added.
The annual growth rate of India’s software exports has been consistently over 50 percent since 1991.
Significant cost benefits to customers, availability of low cost skilled professionals and labour, ability
to effectively integrate onsite and offshore execution capabilities to deliver seamless and scalable
services and increase in depth and breadth of the services offered to customer are some of the key
factors which are responsible for the sustained growth of Indian software
Nature of competition:
India’s competitiveness in the software industry is of world class quality, cost-effectiveness, high
reliability and rapid delivery to the customer. The software industry in India has matured as
compared to earlier days. The industry has moved beyond ‘Body Shopping’ to ‘End to End delivery of
business solutions’
Labour:
the Indian software industry depends heavily on its human resources for revenue generation. The
greater number of employees provides the capability to fetch more work thus generating more
profit and growth. In other words a company’s headcount and revenue are in direct proportion.
Availability of a large pool of skilled labour in the Indian market makes it easy for software
companies to leverage the demand for IT in the global market. This business model is effective and
successful to a certain extent.
R & D:
As our IT industry has globalised, leading product vendors abroad have set up R&D operations in
India, our IT professional have acquired deeper domain knowledge and familiarity with product
development life cycles and more venture capital has become available.