As cloud computing and mobility – is fast becoming more than a necessity for the enterprise as well as SME segment – there are a lot of Independent Software Vendors in India which are focusing their efforts towards developing unique solutions around Cloud and Mobility to deliver unique business productivity driven proposition for their customers.
Whether it is designing solutions on SAP, Microsoft, Adobe or Oracle platform, the new breed of ISVs in India have started focusing extensively on the newer technologies and taking their offerings rapidly on the emerging platforms and trends.
Cloud Computing Driving Business Agility
When it comes to designing new age applications, cloud is a huge disruptive change and ISVs are rapidly building solutions and competencies to rapidly move ahead in this segment – primarily targeting the enterprise needs for better cloud management capabilities.
Small and new ISV players in India stand to gain in a big way because of the low initial investment requirement for providing next generation software solutions for enterprise and SMB community. Cloud strategy acts as a revenue and customer-growth engine, facilitating penetration to wider customer segments and geographies.
Keeping this in mind, ISVs are looking at designing solutions from a spectrum of open public to closed private cloud adoption. And in this context, the next two years will see the delivery of a range of cloud service applications that fall between these two ends – designed and delivered by ISVs in India.
The need of these specific solution and primarily driven by the enterprise requirements of having agile and flexible solutions – this is where ISVs play a big and important role. Business cases have emerged for using this delivery mechanism that provides a clear ROI to the enterprise customers.
Mobility – Drives Productivity Gains
As more and more applications are increasingly finding their way inside the smartphone ecosystem – high end devices such as Samsung Note series or the high-end Galaxy series or Apple’s iPhone – are quite extensively designed to deliver business class capabilities. And hence, with more than billion people carrying handsets that are capable of rich, mobile commerce, it provides an ideal environment for the convergence of mobility and the internet.
As today’s smartphones come with an great amount of processing ability and increasing mobile penetration has opened up new avenues for the ISVs to build mobile solutions as extension to their existing enterprise offerings. This is becoming a huge opportunity today and moving forward this will surely become basis for achieving great level of growth in the software design segment.
