India continues to be one of the fastest growing IT and telecom market. The India IT market grew at over 26% in 2005 (including domestic BPO-ITeS), providing tremendous opportunities for IT and telecom vendors and service providers. In 2005, India was ranked as the 18th highest IT spender and it is expected to move up to the 13th position in 2010. IDC's India IT and Telecommunications Markets provides trends and market dynamics for the IT and telecom industry, highlighting various products/segments driving the market like PCs, enterprise systems, storage, MFDs, IT Services, packaged software, BPO, enterprise applications, telecom services, datacom etc.

This service covers the following segments of the IT and Telecoms market:

• PCs, Workstations and Servers
• Digicams and SHDs
• Printers and MFDs
• IT Services
• Packaged software
• BPO
• Datacom
• Enterprise storage systems

Throughout the year, this service will address the following topics:

• Market demand and forecast
• Vertical market opportunities
• Market share, competitive positioning, profiles of market players
• Product and vendor strategies
• Partnerships, alliances and channels
• Technology issues

Our research addresses the following issues that are critical to your success:

1. How big is India's IT and telecom industry and its various segments?
2. What are the growth prospects for IT and telecom vendors?
3. Who are the key vendors and what is their strategic positioning?
4. What are the latest market trends and what challenges are there in the emerging landscape?

IDC's India IT and Telecommunications Market service examines product and vendor strategies, market shares, competitive positioning, and overall strategic direction of leading hardware, software and services providers in India market, including:

Cisco Systems, HCL, HP, IBM, Infosys, Microsoft, NIIT, Oracle, Satyam, Sun Microsystems, TCS, and Wipro.

Throughout the year, this service will offer insights into the latest trends impacting the market. Potential studies include:

Riding high on the digital imaging wave, the digital camera market evolved rapidly during 2005 in India. Vendor initiatives, coupled with end-user awareness and interest, led to this upsurge in the market activities for digital camera. In an expanding IT market, digital camera usage rose as PC penetration increased. What is the future of this market? What is driving the growth in the market? This report will attempt to answer many such critical questions.

With IT spending moving towards solutions rather than products, the IT services market is expected to witness a healthy growth. This report analyzes the size and growth of the 12 foundation IT services categories defined by IDC and paints the likely evolution over a 5-year time horizon. The report will further dwell on the competitive scenario in this market segment.

IDC classifies packaged software market into three broad categories - system level software, application software, and application development and deployment tools. The India market is witnessing the transition from simple application dominance to increased spending on system level software, driving demand for complex and enterprise applications. This study examines the relative sizes and growth of these categories and discusses the underlying trends.

This study aims at providing a detailed overview of IT spending in key industry verticals in India, future trends, and the state of adoption of new enterprise applications. The study is based on extensive secondary research on the status and role of IT applications in each industry vertical and is backed by interviews with IT heads/CIOs of select large organizations in each vertical.

Datacom hardware industry in India includes LAN & WAN equipments and physical LAN cabling. This study primarily draws data and analyses from IDC's India LAN and WAN equipment trackers. It involves secondary research about the key protagonists of the market. The study assesses the overall size constitution of the market and its segments, market shares of vendors, and analyzes the drivers and inhibitors fuelling/slowing the growth of the market. This study also provides an overall forecast of the market and by segments for the period 2006-2010, along with the key assumptions taken to deduce the forecast.

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