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Enterprise-quality. Enterprise-level. These days the word “Enterprise” has a lot of cachet, and it has nothing to do with the reputation of a certain starship, either. Once upon a time, “enterprise solutions” were industrial-strength, scalable, highly reliable solutions for the largest organizations. Lately, though, “enterprise solutions” have, in my mind, come to mirror the worst features of large corporations, rather than the best. In short, they’ve become bloated, slow, clumsy, bureaucratic and needlessly complex. Not to mention “if you’ve got to ask you can’t afford it” expensive. Slap the word “enterprise” in front of something and it becomes an instant calmative for worried managers who are looking for “guidance” and “best practices”. But so often it’s nothing more than a word...
James McGovern writes a very interesting blog entry titled “Outsourcing and the Emancipation of the Enterprise Architect” He begins with an anecdotal straw-poll of six enterprise architects about outsourcing stating “I asked each of these individuals whether their employer was currently outsourcing work to India.... My last question to these individuals was once outsourcing to India fails, would you within your own mind, smile?” for rest of the discussion, I read with the assumption that James uses offshoring interchangeably with outsourcing. In the blog, he goes on to add:
How Indian Outsourcing Firms encourage Bad Software Development ...
James McGovern
| Link to this blogWe should strive make it easy for developers by having them merely translate design documents into code. This of course implies that the entire software development lifecycle results in one-to-one translations and simply ignores any gaps that will arise. Should enterprises ask themselves whether the end-product benefits if a developer understands just a little bit about what comes before and after their process or should they simply focus on their task at hand?
Amazon.com, Cisco, Dell, eBay, GE, Google, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Target Corporation and Yahoo are 12 of the Top 20 Innovators of The Innovation Index who have setup their software operations or development centers in India. Each innovator is addressing its growing needs for cutting-edge software for the global customer base by creating offshore Software Operations in India. According to this report from Research and Markets as part of the announcement of addition of Directory of Multi-National Corporations (MNC) India Software Operations: “India as a country has been able to attract a number of global players in software. Microsoft has built its largest development centre outside the U.S. in Hyderabad city of India, almost 20% of the development activities of SAP are done in India, the Bangalore development centre of Philips contributes in every product of the company that has software in it. Hewlett Packard is conducting all its high level research on futuristic technologies for emerging markets in India.”
Though long past the nascent stage, the world of software outsourcing is still constantly evolving. Even as the old players consolidate their market, new trends and fields constantly emerge and make a mark. Demands on human resources also keep changing, as opportunities open up in new and different avatars. And all these changes can be observed in India, the leader of the outsourcing market. The budgets initiated for this fiscal period is seeing cut throat competition in Software Development Market. New businesses are empowering and the multinationals are invading India. As we all know human resources are plentiful and the talented and skilled workers are ready to serve the Company in better manner.
One of the big trends driving Motorola's business is the shift to enterprise mobility. "What goes into the enterprise is what goes in hand and with what goes home, just as the PC did," [Ed] Zander said. He predicted that in the next five years "Internet 2.0," catalyzed by advances, such as WiMax, would create a major shift away from PCs. In his view, mobile devices will replace the PC in many scenarios, which is not unlikely and would be good for his business.
In recent years, China and India are often mentioned together when discussing the future. They contain the world's two largest populations and are both developing rapidly. They are both set on a course to become world economic, political, and military powers. Recently, however, both The Economist and BusinessWeek have raised questions about India's ability to keep up with China without major reforms. The 3 February 2007 cover of The Economist featured a startled Bengal tiger with its tail on fire and the headline "India Overheats," while the 19 March 2007 cover of BusinessWeek featured an Indian elephant with a fracturing trunk and the headline "The Trouble with India" [click on image to enlarge]. What's going on? The Economist starts with the good news ["India Overheats"]:
