Indian software industry

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The Indian software industry is India's most important exporter .

The three most important software companies are TCS (Tata Consultancy Services), WIPRO (Wipro Technologies), which Azim Premji switched from producing vegetable oil to software, and INFOSYS (Infosys Technologies), the youngest of the three companies founded in 1981 by NR Narayanamurthy was founded.

According to NASSCOM , the umbrella organization for the Indian IT industry, sales in the Indian software industry amounted to 146 billion US dollars in 2015, up 17 billion US dollars from the previous year. According to BITKOM , the umbrella association for the digital economy in Germany, the software industry in Germany had a turnover of 80.3 billion euros (equivalent to 85.1 billion US dollars). BITKOM summarizes this area under the term "information technology", which includes IT hardware, software and IT services. This means that the Indian IT industry is almost twice as large as the IT industry in Germany.

There are currently around 2.8 million employees in this growing industry in India.

The development of the software industry into India's most important exporter has essentially two causes.

On the one hand - contrary to the generally applicable strategy of import substitution - the import of computers was permitted under Rajiv Gandhi in the mid-1980s . This meant that the previous hardware manufacturers were faced with bankruptcy if they did not manage to either limit themselves to assembling foreign computer parts or to switch to the production of software.

On the other hand , since the software was exported via telecommunications, it was beyond customs control. In addition, since software production is included in services , it was not affected by the laws for industrial companies. The cheaper telecommunications tariffs also reduced costs.

literature

  • Dietmar Rothermund : India. Rise of an Asian world power , CH Beck, Munich 2008 ISBN 9783893319008
  • A. Sheshabalaya: Rising Elephant. The Growing Clash with India over White Collar Jobs and its Challenge to America and the World , Momroe / Maine 2005

Footnotes

  1. ^ Rothermund: India, p. 131.
  2. ↑ "Dewang Mehta, the President of NASSCOM , aptly said that there were no customs officers in a satellite." (Rothermund: India, p. 132)
  3. ↑ "While in 1984 you had to pay $ 1.2 million per month for a satellite connection with 2MB bandwidth, in 2002 it was only $ 3,800, and in the following three years prices fell again by 40 Percent. "(Rothermund, p. 133)