The Indian advantage for Offshore IT outsourcing includes:
Process and Quality Emphasis
Indian companies with their high technical skills,
are able to deliver quality and on time. India has 24 CMM Level 5 certified companies out of the 49
worldwide. According to NASSCOM, India will soon have the highest number of ISO-9000 software companies
in the world.
Government Policies:
The Indian Government has been proactive to meet
the increasing needs of the fast emerging Indian Software services
and ITES-BPO sector in India. Indian Government has always been pro-IT,
formulating its policies & laws to promote the IT industry's growth.
Some of its initiatives include
- Setting up of specific commerce zones including the Software Technology
Parks (STPs)
- Making the existing laws more liberal
- Giving tax exemption for exporting IT enabled outsourcing services
- Deregulation &
liberalization policies
- Enactment of Cyber Legislation
- Working on a stronger data protection and privacy law in
association with NASSCOM
Skilled Talent Pool:
India has a large base of highly talented, qualified and easily available
human resource in the field of Information Technology. Adding to this, India has the
largest English speaking population amongst the developing countries. The government institutes
like IIT (Indian Institute of Technology), IIM (Indian Institute of Management) and a number of other
reputed institutes (both private and public) every year add to this pool.
Indian Education System:
India has one of the most advanced and developed educational systems in the world.
The educational system is modeled to nurture analytical and scientific talent. Besides
education is much more affordable in India as compared to the western nations.
With all the above-mentioned strengths, India has and will continue to have a growing number of vendors successfully working on complex projects across all areas of software and services, and performing at levels comparable to those of leading global players, as per a McKinsey & Co. report. India is definitely emerging as one of the most suitable IT Outsourcing destination.
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