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August 27, 2005
Microsoft launches quality certification program in India
Microsoft Corporation India Pvt. Ltd, along with the National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom) of India, announced the launch of a certification to assess the quality of the software development process undertaken by independent software vendors (ISVs) in India.
The Indian software exports sector is on track to reach the $50 billion mark by 2008, projected by Nasscom-Mckinsey, said Kiran Karnik, president, Nasscom.
He said that the sector is looking at achieving a 30-32 per cent growth for the current fiscal on top of $17.2 billion registered during FY05.
Speaking at the Nasscom Quality Summit in Bangalore on Thursday, Karnik said: "We are pretty much on track for that target. To achieve that, the sector has to grow by around 35 per cent year-on-year for the next three years, which should not be much of a problem. The first quarter results of FY06 have been encouraging and this trend of robust growth should continue."
"The increasing investment of global product development companies in research and development centers across India is an indication of the tremendous potential of the Indian software development community, particularly in creating globally accepted products," Sheila Gulati, director of developer and platform evangelism at Microsoft India, said in a statement. "Our endeavor is to build a rich, local software ecosystem and to help the Indian ISV (independent software vendor) community develop great products and deliver world class IP (intellectual property)."
This week Nasscom also announced a national entry-level test in India for workers joining call centers and other outsourcing jobs, in a move designed to boost quality of output.
Posted by admin at August 27, 2005 11:19 AM