Why India is pioneer in software development

A brief history of software development in India

Sometimes he gives the ability to develop professional services in India to more disparate reasons. Among the most original include genetic engineering, evoked links between mathematics and Hinduism, mental states induced by intensive curry…

The history of software development in India begins in the 80s, when some leading American companies as Texas Instruments and Motorola establish branches property in Bangalore. Many young Indians, graduates at American University, formerly worked at the premises of these American companies and have facilitated the creation of the first settlements in India.

In the'90s others have followed, such as HP, American Express, Dun & Bradstreet, but the real turning point came only towards the end of the decade, with the millennium bug!

To remedy, with the fear him, at the end of the millennium bug large software houses Westerners remained short of developers and began to draw heavily basin of the Indian graduates.

Here comes the image we know today, some mythological, the Indian programmer "genius". To use the words of their manager, suddenly has asked Indians to the best graduates in IT to deal with a huge amount of work but was very simple: the replacement of the "data" in billions of lines of code.

In fact, the concentration of "genes" is not particularly different from the rest of the world. The two elements that play for them are greater selection of entry to university (around 1 in 100) and greater motivation to gain a better lifestyle

With the development of local branches western become less competitive, and the unbundling of some of them that the current Asian IT giants: Wipro, TCS, Cognizant, Infosys. Not as great as the Western equivalent, but still become national heroes by growth rates important.

In parallel, in the wake of western pioneers such as GE, American Express and British Airways, the companies have begun to look not only IT but other areas of work "by white-collar western. There were so developed societies BPO (Business Process Outsourcing), can handle different stages of processing of information: from treatment coupon insurance, to the call center inbound and outbound, the processing of medical records. Many business relatively simple yet to be repeated in large volumes took the road in India. Least as regards the United States and, to a lesser extent, England. The rest of Europe, also for linguistic reasons, it has remained more distant.

However, the prospects are not exempt from the shadows. The growing size of the Indian companies are to relive some problems typical of Western societies: the loss of competitiveness for the growth of income for operators, non-professional satisfaction of employees in highly repetitive activities, the governance of companies grow too quickly dimensions of tens of thousands of employees.

Finally, one of the reasons why India has developed rapidly in the service sector compared with the industrial capacity is the lowest allocation instrumental they require. The infrastructure problems are different in different parts of the country but everywhere present and tangible.