NASSCOM: Industry Trends

Refer NASSCOM page for Trends:
http://www.nasscom.in/Nasscom/templates/NormalPage.aspx?id=56966

1. GLOBAL SOURCING TRENDS

2. IT-BPO SECTOR-OVERVIEW
2a. IT SERVICES, ENGINEERING SERVICES, R&D AND SOFTWARE PRODUCTS
2b. BPO MARKET
2c. HARDWARE MARKET

3. INDIAN’S IT-BPO VALUE PROPOSITION

4. FUTURE OUTLOOK

Where software vendors should focus

Refer Article:
https://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/High_Tech/Software/Where_software_vendors_should_focus_2202 Extract from article
.............Software vendors do better when they focus on capabilities that are crucial for their particular products and customers. ..................................

Cost champions concentrate on standardized architectures, tools, and processes, all of which cut expenses by promoting predictable results and minimal rework.

Innovators foster creativity by encouraging their people to develop new capabilities and by supporting an organizational mind-set that rewards novel ideas.

Perfectionists secure their niche by focusing on quality.

Integrators excel at standardization in order to get value from organizations they acquire.

Logistics in emerging markets

Refer the article:
http://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Transportation/Logistics_in_emerging_markets_1557

Many developing countries, out of necessity, concentrate on building critical infrastructure such as airports, highways, and shipping ports to foster their growing economies. But once the basics are in place, less visible efforts to improve the flow of goods through a country can have a stronger economic impact than another pier, runway, or paved mile, a recent McKinsey study shows.

Gartner:Indian ICT Spending to Grow 14% in 2010

Reference: www.gartner.com/it/

Report: Ecommerce Accessibility for High Street Retailers 2010

Reference Link: http://www.webcredible.co.uk/user-friendly-resources/white-papers/ecommerce-accessibility-2010.shtml
The report evaluates the accessibility of the UK's leading high street retailers' websites. Based on real world accessibility (not merely box ticking), it devised 20 essential web guidelines that all ecommerce websites should adhere to, evaluating each site against these guidelines.

• The website analysed and their scores were:
  B&Q - 84%
  John Lewis - 79%
  H.Samuel - 75%
  Argos - 73%
  Boots - 68%
  HMV - 68%
  Hamleys - 67%
  WHSmith - 64%
  Top Shop - 62%
  Waterstones - 61%
  Next - 60%
  Marks & Spencer - 59%
  Accessorize - 58%
  Game - 55%
  Debenhams - 55%
  Mothercare - 54%
  Early Learning Centre - 47%
  Body Shop - 40%
  Woolworths - 38%
  Currys - 37%

33 Free Tools to Make Your Website Better

Source: http://www.grokdotcom.com/2008/11/13/33-free-tools-to-make-your-website-better/

Few tools are:

Customer Focus Calculator

BT Buckets

Bad Neighborhood Link Checker

Webbed-O-Meter 2.0

Website Grader

Spider Simulator and Spider Test

Google Analytics and Google Website Optimizer

Gartner: The Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2009

Source: http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=777212
The top 10 strategic technologies for 2009 include:
1. Virtualization
2. Cloud Computing
3. Servers — Beyond Blades
4. Web-Oriented Architectures
5. EnterpriseMashups
6. Specialized Systems
7. Social Software and Social Networking
8. Unified Communications
9. Business Intelligence
10. Green IT