Software Industry Changing its CG

In the last half decade the global software market has seen the center of gravity changing from a single country to the whole globe. The whole globe is a marketplace now either in terms of providing services or in terms of being a potential revenue generation market.

Till the beginning of this decade it was only India as a service providing nation with the software industry experience and offering low cost resources. Now if you talk about the nations which were potential buyers of these services the only name we could say 6-7 years ago was America.

America was the only explored market where India uses to provide services as being the only major provider. In the initial times India only has low level designing and coding work in all the projects. The higher level architectural designs were done in USA, UK or the project parent company. Its only recent that the CG (center of gravity) of this structure has changed and there are research projects coming in India and the companies are investing hugely in the R&D departments to keep up the growth graph.

Recently an Indian company is working on a research and development project for a giant US based IT company on a mainframe UI application which will automate all the processes which were used to be done at the backend by high level code commands. This is going to be a landmark in the field of technology.

So the motive of the above example is to highlight the upcoming trends in the Indian IT industry. The industry has matured a lot in the last few years and is capable of producing results comparable to the high wage markets like US and UK. Now if we consider other service providing low wage countries as china, Taiwan, Philippines, Romania and others they are at the stage where India was 10 years back. And the main point these countries are working upon is the language barrier which needs to be taken care of.

So the result of the whole matter is that it’s a complete cyclic process and if a country slows down its speed the others following will lead.