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Indian IT market to grow by 18% in 2008
June 14, 2008
Source: PTI
BANGALORE: The Indian IT market is expected to grow by 18 per cent in the year 2008 to reach USD 38 billion, clocking second highest growth rate after China's which is likely to attain a 20 per cent growth and touch USD 138 billion in size, as per the latest research data released by Forrester.
The report by the reseach firm calls this double-digit growth as a welcome news for technology vendors - who see slackness in the US and European markets, and advises them to now recognise India as a consumer of IT than just a supplier.
The report - the State Of A-PAC Enterprise Technology Adoption: 2008, gives highlights of data collected from 777 companies in the Asia Pacific region via Forrester's Enterprise Technology Adoption Survery (Asia Pacific, Q4 2007).
These 777 companies were of the 1000-plus employee size from countries such as Australia, New Zealand, India, Korea, Singapore, Japan and China.
Forrester's Sr Analyst - Jonathan Brown, who authored the report, said: "the IT sector has long looked to India for top-drawer technology talent. But India is poised to become an increasingly important market for technology vendors as its population comes of age (half of India's population today is under 20), its rural areas become increasingly developed, and its engagement with the US increases".
"It's time the tech vendors no longer treat India as merely a skilled talent pool but also as a lucrative market in its own right", he said.
Citing the report data on India's most promising opportunities, Brown said: "Indian firms will make the greatest leaps in application integration, ERP, CRM, unified communication, and security and regulatory compliance. In addition, India's cultural diversity, fragmented state goverments and socio-economic disparities make it a mocrocosm of the broader APAC region."
"I expect smart vendors will use India as a testing ground for new business models and strategies to try out models for the next wave of emerging economies", he said.
The report states that though Asia Pacific economies are closely connected to each other through trade and cross investment, they differ enormously in their levels of economic development and the states of their IT infrastructure.
Brown advised technology vendors to tap Japan for services rather than software and be cautious in Chinese market and asked them to first determine "what IT will not do with as much clarity as they describe what IT will do while in China."
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AP govt to launch portal about departments, schemes
 June
14 ,2008
Source: PTI
HYDERABAD: Andhra Pradesh Government will launch an integrated portal containing information about all the departments and development schemes on July 1.
The status of implementationof various welfare programmes and latest Government Orders would be posted on the integrated portal, the Chief Minister Y S Rajasekhara Reddy told a high level official meeting here on Friday.
The porta, www.ap.gov.in will be a single gateway for all government information, Reddy said during a meeting to review the functioning of the IT and Communications Department.
The Centre for Good Governance is developing the portal whose basic framework has been completed. The eGazette will also be available on the Internet as soon as it is published and software development for this is also under its final phase, the officials said.
The chief minister asked the officials of the IT Department to start 2,300 Rajiv Citizen Centres (Rural Internet-based citizen services Centres) in the next three months. Another 2,387 Rajiv Citizen Centres would be established over the next six months.
An Animation and Gaming City is being developed over an area of 100 acres at Sultanpur on the city outskirts to attract investments in this emerging sector.
A Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV), Hyderabad Digital Media City, is being incorporated with the representatives of the government and Animation/Gaming/Visual Effects/Digital Entertainment sectors under Public Private Partnership model.
As many as 41 Animation and Gaming companies have shown interest to be part of SPV, the meeting was told. |
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Sun Micro provides special effects tech platform for ‘Love Story 2050
June 14, 2008
SOURCE: Business Line
Bangalore, June 13 Sun Microsystems has announced that it is the technology partner for the sci-fi Hindi movie Love Story – 2050.
Sun has provided the technical platform to create special effects for this movie directed by Mr Harry Baweja, starring his son Harman Baweja, along with actors Priyanka Chopra and Boman Irani.
The post-production and visual effects have been done at studios such as WETA (behind movies like Lord of the Rings and King Kong), John Cox, Rising Sun Pictures (Harry Potter and Superman Returns) and Prime Focus India.
The Sun brand also appears in Love Story through some in-film placements. The movie releases on July 4.
Mr K.P. Unnikrishnan, Director – Marketing, Alliances and Teleweb Sales, said, “Technology forms the foundation of sci-fi films. Hence, the need to get the technology right is of utmost importance for the creators of special effects and animation for these films.
“Today, technological advancements are allowing filmmakers not just in Hollywood but also back home to experiment by opening up and enabling a world of possibilities for story-telling in cinema.”
Sun has worked with Hollywood on animation movies such as Barnyard and Big Buck Bunny. Love Story – 2050 is Sun’s first association with an Indian movie.
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