Software Development Outsourcing - Destination India

Software Development has assumed extremehigh quality of the solutions outsourced from India as
significance in the light of the global demand for new ITwell as popularity of custom software development
solutions and IT-enabled services. Appropriateinvolving emergence of creative and innovative
software development gives the right amount ofsolutions,have made companies from developed
impetus to the functioning of the web sites and thecountries look to India as a viable ,dependable
quality of services they render. This in itself is aoutsourcing destination.
daunting task, requiring thousands of skilledThe strongest factor in favor of outsourcing to India , is
professionals to put in hours of research,the fact that the Indian Government is strongly
experimentation, testing and trials.Skilled manpower,committed to IT development with IT being one of the
technology and infrastructure are essential, apart fromtop five priorities of the government. This unequivocal
the demand from the IT industry. It is here thatstance on the part of the government , has instilled
offshore outsourcing plays a major role. Theconfidence into the minds of the overseas companies
developed companies making rapid strides in the fieldwho flock in droves for offshore outsourcing to India.
of information technology have always been finding itThe Software Technology Parks of India offer
difficult to find the right amount of manpower needed.world-class infrastructure and various incentives and
On the other hand, developing countries, especiallyconcessions to encourage foreign investment and
Asian countries like India and China, have beenpromote software development in India. The fact that
following an IT policy that has resulted in the generationIndia has a stable government with a stable
of enormously skilled manpower and a really welldemocratic process and a peace-loving population has
developed IT infrastructure. This has led to a realmade it one of the world's ten fastest growing
boom outsourcing with the destination being India.economies. The timely privatization of the infrastructure
India, by choice rather than by destiny, has become thesegment has led to creation of convergence , a major
ideal zone for offshore software development. Thefocal point of IT development today, by integrating the
early 1990's saw the rapid opening of India's economyISP, Telecom, VSAT, Cellular and networking sectors.
to the world, focusing on being market-oriented. ThisIndia's large business houses and public sector
major tilt in the Indian economic policy, saw the rapidundertakings are working towards creating greater
inflow of foreign direct investment and foreign businessbandwidth availability.
interest to India. The availability of highly skilled andOutsourcing has progressed from the rudimentary
talented software programmers and well developed ITspecific application development to the whole gamut
infrastructure attracted the companies from developedof designing and developing the entire requirements of
countries to India, like moth to the flame.India boastedcustom software needs and is spreading to new
of the highest number of CMM Level 5 certifieduncharted territories. The new areas include E
companies and the presence of several Indian ITgovernance, Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals, financial
companies listed on the NYSE and NASDAQ which inservices, transcription services and retail services. The
turn attracted a large number of Fortune 500fast disappearing geographical boundaries and the
companies that outsource their software needs toconvergence of the world towards IT enablement, has
India.made India's role as the leading offshore outsourcing
With the offshore outsourcing business to Indiaservices provider with special emphasis on software
touching new highs, Indian outsourcing partners aredevelopment, is undisputed . With a superabundance all
growing in confidence and moving up the ladder topositive factors and conducive climate, it is not really
offer more and more complex and specializedsurprising that most of the leading technology giants of
services. Moving away from the bits and piecesthe world like Microsoft, Sun, Oracle, SAP, IBM , Dell,
outsourcing, Indian companies have today specialised inApple-Macintosh and many more, have opened
developing complete softwares and developmentfull-fledged offices in India, looking to take advantage of
packages for global clients. The softwarethe excellent software development services provided
development process has several stages like needby Indian outsourcing and BPO giants like Infosys,
analysis, defining requirements, establishing a softwareWipro, Satyam and so many more companies.
specification, designing the software with greatThe future outlook for outsourcing from India, is
application and dedication, writing the software, codingcertainly bright. Having established its' credentials
it and successfully testing it.beyond any doubt, India is poised for growth on all
Through years of successful offshore outsourcing,frontiers, be it quality solutions, quality infrastructure or
Indian companies have behind them rich experience inquality manpower. Backed by such strong
not only documenting software but providing supportfundamentals like quality assurance and timely
thought out. Indian software companies are constantlydeliveries, India has emerged as the number one
improving their development standards by enhancingdestination for software development outsourcing,
their skilled manpower base and their developmentoutpacing China and other fast-growing Asian
facilities. These Indian companies have todaycountries.
progressed into customized solutions development.The