Advantage INDIA

The Indian IT services industry landscape is being fundamentally reshaped by changes in customer and competitor behaviour, and the emergence of new opportunities along service lines, verticals and geographies.

The majority of IT outsourcing contracts is moving to India, despite the fact that countries like China or Russia are offering better rates. The main reason is the availability of a large pool of IT and engineering talent and a huge skilled workforce at very competitive costs. Listed below are some of the prevalent factors:

Talent Pool

The country has a vast pool of IT professionals backed by an educational system that places strong emphasis on mathematics and science, resulting in a large number of science and engineering graduates. Mastery over quantitative concepts coupled with English proficiency has resulted in a skill set that meets the international demand of IT outsourcing.

Infrastructure

Infrastructure that is of import in the IT industry includes telecommunications, electricity, access to computers, number of Internet hosts, number of ISP's and available bandwidth and broadband access. India has advanced in the arena of communication and connectivity solutions to cater to the need of global clients who wish to engage vendors in India.

Quality

In the past few years, the Indian IT industry has pursued the goal of attaining the highest international standards of quality. Various studies conducted to discuss Indian software strategies has concluded that more and more vendors in the US prefer to get their software developed undertaken in India for its quality and cost advantage.