Lucknow IT market along with Kanpur is the central market within the state of
Uttar Pradesh. The IT market of Lucknow is a growth-centric market wherein fresh
demands are settling up from various segments of the city like government
offices, educational institutions, financial institutions, hospitals, other
private institutions, etc.
“In the server and storage area, Lucknow has some really good projects coming
up,” said Hetal Shah of Redington.
The IT solutions market in Lucknow is thriving for betterment as major
institutions are planning their upgradation. Pankaj Kapoor of Computer Shack
said, “Opportunities on the solutions front are increasing with time. For
example Lucknow University is looking forward to its complete computerization,
building campus networks, connectivity establishment between both the campuses
of the university. Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences (SGPGI)
is planning to setting up its own Hospital Information System (HIS) and
establishing Tele-Medicine system for video conferencing while another hospital
in the city namely King George Medical College (KGMC) is coming up with its own
Hospital Management System (HMS). Those are a few instances of how requirements
are coming up within the city.
Demand for branded systems is on the rise as compared to the non-branded or
assembled systems. “This is a bad time for the new products in the market, as
people don't trust them. Local customers look for return on every single rupee
they spend. Whatever is being sold is dominated by the branded stuff," said PK
Agarwal of Docket Care Systems. Defining the trend in the city Surinder Suri
from Sagar Infosystems said, “Laptops are becoming more popular than desktops
now. Local consumers prefer to go for branded laptops rather than the desktops
as the price difference is coming down. This is expected to follow in future
too.”
He further added that the best selling brands in the city are Compaq, HP,
Sony, Dell and Lenovo in laptops while with these brands HCL is also preferred
within the city for desktops.
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With high demand for IT and IT peripherals, Lucknow is seemingly not that
affected by the recession. But the fear of the coming tough times, as they say,
the first quarter of the year 2009, will decide the direction of the market.
Owing to this skepticism, channel partners say, that customers looking to buy a
computer are delaying their plans for a few months owing to the current crisis.
“Need of the hour is basic demand. Demand is slowing down a bit on the sale of
computer. The demand should not slowdown at all as it didn't in the past.”
informed Ajay Saxena from Ingram-Micro.
Name: Lucknow |
Highlighting the same thought, he further said that new offices should set
up, new infrastructure should be made so that the demand doesn't get affected
with the creeping fear of slowdown in the coming months.
Commenting on the opportunities which the partners have in the local IT
market there, “Every partner is expected to run schemes for the customers as
customers do pay for something which satisfies them. I don't see a problem with
customers shelling out money if the product offered is good enough,” said Shah
of Redington. He further added that the current phase is definitely a temporary
phase with low bottomlines in the trade. Overall, the entire market is set for a
long term growth in all aspects.
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