Demonstrating its close association with India’s growth industries, Cisco today shared a strategic roadmap to working with the IT services (ITS) sector, a traditionally significant adopter of leading edge networking, communications and computing technology. Following a 360o engagement model, Cisco will work with companies in the sector, not just as consumers of technology, but also as partners with whom to jointly develop solutions and with go-to-market strategies.
The Indian IT sector, estimated to be over $70 billion in FY10, is looking at a growth of 4.2 per cent in 2011, according Nasscom’s Strategic
Review 2010 on the IT-BPO sector in India. Organisations are not only realising the
value of IT in reducing information costs, but shift towards SaaS and cloud computing, shared services and more selective outsourcing is the near-term priority for IT organisations.
As part of the briefing, Jagdish Mahapatra, vice-president, ITS sales, Cisco India & SAARC, highlighted Cisco’s technology offerings, which help IT Services organisations. “The IT sector has evolved over the last couple of years, especially as the recession forced companies to trim costs and improve efficiencies to remain competitive. While the IT companies earlier followed a linear growth model to scale up, the trend now is a non-linear model.” wherein headcount and revenues are not in tandem,” said Mahapatra.
Over the last few months, Cisco has announced a host of new technologies specifically targeted at meeting the changing needs of the sector from the technology adoption and services delivery perspectives. Its virtual technologies, such as the recently-launched Virtualisation Experience Infrastructure (Cisco VXI), enable organisations to free employees to work remotely, cutting real estate and energy costs alike. Cisco also has unified communications offerings that include advanced telephony calling and management; unified messaging among others.
