9/15/2006

Offshore Software Development Trend

Offshore Software Development trend in the present Information Technology market is on the boom with the increased demand of the overseas service providers for high quality and cost effective services. According to the overseas IT market study, more then 53% of Silicon Valley’s Software Companies are heavily involved in the process of IT Outsourcing. The study also indicates that more then 60% of such overseas development services and job work goes to India. India is one of the best suitable destinations for cost effective Offshore Software Development Services. India has a huge class of IT Educated and English Speaking talents and plays a major role in the success of the country on global level. This makes country India as one of the best places for overseas IT services.

India has been offering overseas Information Technology and software services for more then a decade. In the initial days most of the countries used to avoid India for similar IT services. But the overseas development trend has changed in last 3 to 4 years or so and India has reached on the top of the service provider’s list. Although some other countries such as China, Philippines and Russia are also coming up well for the similar services. Though, India is leading the overseas service industry by far and has noticeable lead over the others. India captured the highest market share, while China has around 10-12% of it.

Offshore Software Development services

Though, India has done well to maintain its position as a market leader by offering the good quality and lower cost Offshore Software Development services, but now the overall competition is increasing. Service providers from India are now required to come up with some different strategies to maintain their position in the IT Outsourcing market. Rising cost of Rupees against Dollar is also making the development services from India costly and it leads to the competition in the overall market. China is the leading most competitors of India, but India’s fluency over the English speaking language keeps it ahead for Offshore Software Development services. Fluency over English language also leads to the increased demand of call-center service to India.

In India there is a huge presence of local Indian software companies along with the noticeable presence of overseas IT giants such as IBM, Wipro, Apple Soft and many others. These foreign countries are also investing very heavily in India for Offshore Software Development. Bangalore city of India is well-known at global level for its IT services and other cities of the country such as Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad are also emerging noticeably for IT Outsourcing services. The increasing demand of the IT services has also brought revolution in almost all the industries.

The world is really becoming tiny with the increased use of the Information Technology in the real life and the cost effective & high quality Offshore Software Development has boosted up the IT Industry a lot.