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GIANTS 2004 |
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: India: Sleeping IP Giant
While increasingly more patents are being filed out of India, MNCs continue to dominate this area |
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GIANTS 2004 |
TRAINING & EDUCATION: The Year of Emerging Opportunities!
As the training business continued to slide, companies' strategies of overseas markets, vendor certification programs, and university tie-ups helped. Areas like BPO, biotech, and content could turn their fortunes around |
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GIANTS 2004 |
STORAGE: There's More in Store
Storage saw rapid growth as BFSI and telecom expansion continued unabated. Storage consolidation and regulatory compliance also helped keep demand high |
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GIANTS 2004 |
SECURITY: Services Market Comes of Age
There has been a gradual acceptance by enterprises that security has now become mainstream, and a key growth parameter |
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GIANTS 2004 |
HUMAN RESOURCES: On the Ascent
As hiring shoots up, entry-level people get more opportunities, and third-party recruitment services move in. Attrition also goes up |
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GIANTS 2004 |
SOFTWARE PRODUCTS: Coming into Their Own
The good news for the Indian software products industry continues with a phenomenal increase in revenues. And, though the Big 5 companies dominated as usual, many small companies made their play for a place under the sun |
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GIANTS 2004 |
DISTRIBUTION: Getting Bigger
While the overall domestic IT industry grew by about 18%, distributors' business registered over 25% growth. And distributors' hunger for growth continues as they take up new product areas |
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GIANTS 2004 |
The Middle Order Challenge
Mid-sized and small SIs are also moving up the value chain with own products and newer services
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GIANTS 2004 |
NETWORKING: The Networking Worked!
Renewed thrust from telecom and banking customers saw the industry register a healthy 17% growth rate, to reach Rs 2,978 crore in 2003-04 |
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GIANTS 2004 |
VISION 2010: The Future of Information
Organizations that fail to become info-centric will fade away |
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GIANTS 2004 |
BPO: Growth All the Way, Despite the Backlash
Though India became public enemy No. 1 for the US and UK anti-outsourcing brigade, the Indian BPO industry still clocked a healthy growth of 45% |
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GIANTS 2004 |
SERVICES: Taking Shape, Gathering Pace
Major outsourcing deals drew all the attention. Managed services, packaged software implementation and application integration gathered critical mass. Turnkey projects provided the fuel, domestic BPO the flame. The IT services segment is maturing and getting ready for more |
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