India gets bullish on SOA market

DQW News Bureau New Delhi, Nov 23

Service oriented architecture (SOA) market in India is expected

to have a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 49 percent during 2006-2009,

making it the fastest growing market in the region, according to Springboard

Research report 'SOA in Asia Pacific-Towards More Business Friendly IT'.

The report touched upon the key trends in the Asia Pacific SOA market.

"Despite a much higher awareness of SOA in India, the

number of companies planning to deploy SOA is less than that in China where the

awareness is much lower," said Ravi Shekhar Pandey, Senior Analyst,

Springboard Research.

"It is not surprising that India's pools of IT literate

professionals understand the latest technologies in the market such as SOA.

Often however, their efforts to implement new technologies are held back by

management teams less familiar with the latest technologies or how they can

benefit business results," he added.

Dane Anderson, VP-Research, Springboard, said, "A

majority of the market-leading companies and those with global ambitions are

more actively considering SOA than their less ambitious counterparts. The

government sector is also showing keen interest in deploying SOA."

In line with other regional markets, IBM leads the SOA

marketplace among Indian enterprises in terms of actual implementations, brand

perception and the proportion of planners intending to partner with IBM for its

SOA implementations.

Indian system integrators providing offshore services and local

ISVs have also been quick to include SOA in their business plans. IT service

providers like TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Ramco Systems, Satyam, HCL Technologies,

Polaris Software, Cognizant Technologies, and Patni Computers, besides a host of

other small and mid-size firms are building SOA capabilities.