Even as some of the larger Indian ITES companies, notably Infosys and Wipro, have been passing through a very tough period, the performance of some of the Tier II companies has been surprisingly strong and their forecasts for the next year is even better. Companies like NIIT Technologies MindTree, KPIT Communis and Infotech have given upbeat forecasts for the next [...]

It is a clear sign of the changing times when the United States, by far the largest Information Technology services market in the world, starts to complain about other IT services markets being closed. This is precisely what happenned as representatives of US IT services companies told lawmakers in Washington DC last week that India was setting up a whole [...]

India’s software development skillbase is huge but its success has come in producing software for others – either through its multi-billion IT services industry or as an offshore location for multinationals like SAP, Oracle, IBM and many, many more. Its software products industry is by comparison, small and little known. Not content with this, to promote the growth of domestic [...]

India is one of the countries most affected by IT security threats. For example, RSA’s November 2012 Fraud Report ranked India as the third most targeted by phishing attacks globally. An earlier report from Symantec said that in 2011 in India the number of malicious attacks were up 81% – and that about half are hitting small and medium business enterprises [...]

At a local Analyst and Advisor Event in Frankfurt, Germany, TCS gave an update on its strategy and operations for the Central Europe (i.e. mostly German) region. Being the largest of the Indian IT service providers in Germany, with estimated revenues of €130m in FY 2011, the company has progressed significantly in building out its localization strategy for the German market. [...]

For many years now, companies have been building large data warehouses. But simply storing more and more data is pointless. To provide value from the data, its interpretation and predictive value is crucial.

As 2013 begins, the Indian IT services companies can perhaps look back with some degree of satisfaction at 2012, at least as far as the European markets are concerned. For the market leader Tata Consultancy Services, the quarter ended September 2012 was very strong and while Infosys was still suffering and churning out an under-par performance, HCL Technologies has emerged [...]

The Indian Cloud services market is growing at a significant pace, despite perceived and actual challenges such as data security, compliance (privacy laws, local laws) and worries over uptime. Moreover, the way customers are consuming high performance computing is also undergoing major change. PAC estimates that the overall cloud market in India is worth around INR 50 billion, with more [...]

Global economic pressures conditions have given rise to increased competitive and regulatory pressures on businesses. Decision making times have shrunk and time to market has shortened for most. Analytics forms an increasingly important part of every decision-making process. India has matured as the preferred outsourcing destination, and this has fortified the belief of outsourcers in high-end knowledge processing work such [...]

PAC spent time last week speaking with HCL’s senior management about its business and prospects, particularly in Europe. HCL is one of the biggest India-based IT services providers, but some way behind the “big four” (including Cognizant). What’s notable is that it’s taking share: the fastest growing IT service provider of Europe’s Top 30 over the last two years. Notably, [...]