Indian software engineer Prithvi Sen has a spring in his step after getting re-hired by the country’s flagship outsourcing industry, which is shaking off the effects of the global recession.

“I was unemployed and it was tough, but I’ve got work again,” said the 26-year-old Sen, who landed a job recently with a small outsourcing company in India’s high-tech hub of Bangalore.

Sen is benefiting from a hiring wave by India’s outsourcing sector which is set to increase recruitment by nearly 70 percent in the next financial year, according to the National Association of Software and Services Companies (Nasscom).

India’s big three outsourcing companies — Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys and Wipro — all have plans to boost hiring sharply in the coming financial year.

“The feel-good factor is back in the industry,” said Prithvi Lekkad, head of the Union of IT and IT-enabled services (Unites) Professionals, a trade union which represents some outsourcing workers.

India’s software and services exports are expected to grow by up to 15 percent to hit 57 billion dollars in the next fiscal year to March 2011.

The growth projected for next year is still far below the blistering 28 percent export revenue rise clocked in the financial year 2006-07.

But it is allowing major companies to bump up hiring again after a year in which they froze salaries and sharply reduced recruitment.

The big companies have been returning to university campuses to recruit in large numbers with new orders in the pipeline.

“Prospects for jobs are bright now,” R.K. Akash, a 21-year-old computer science student, told AFP.

Indian software companies, whose breakneck growth has been an important driver of the country’s economic modernisation, were hit by the global slump that prompted many customers to put projects on hold.

More than 2.3 million people are employed in the sector either directly or indirectly, making it one of the biggest job creators in India and a mainstay of the national economy. It accounts for 5.9 percent of gross domestic product.

India’s success has been in convincing US and other foreign firms, drawn by a vast, educated English-speaking workforce and low labour costs, to farm out processes that were previously done in-house.

Companies provide a slew of services ranging from answering banks’ client calls, processing insurance claims, legal work and equity analysis to engineering and computer systems design.

“We expect net hiring in the ensuing fiscal year to be over 150,000,” Nasscom president Som Mittal told AFP.

That is up from net additions of 90,000 in the current year but still far off peak levels of 250,000 to 300,000 before the global financial crisis hit.

The Nasscom outlook comes after TCS, Infosys and Wipro announced forecast-beating quarterly earnings.

“Spending is coming back, decisions are being made (on new orders),” Nasscom chairman Pramod Bhasin said, adding the industry had “reinvented itself” during the downturn by cutting costs and making itself more efficient.

But while more hiring is being done, Bhasin said the industry was changing its hiring practices to reduce so-called “bench time”, when workers are idle, waiting for new projects.

Source:http://infotech.indiatimes.com/News/Software__Services/IT_hiring_to_be_up_by_70/articleshow/msid-5658325,curpg-1.cms

Each year the number of convenient and practical implementations of demanded IT solutions is increasing and one of them is SaaS – “Software As A Service”, or software rental, based on data center infrastructure. The Baltic largest data center operator, IT company DEAC deploys SaaS solutions for the small and medium business segments of Europe. “A few years ago, software rental using the data center infrastructure in Europe and Russia was seen as something exotic, because of the small number of actually working IT solutions and poor IT infrastructure. Today, it is one of the most effective ways in the world to optimize IT infrastructure both in terms of security and reliability, as well as financially,” notes DEAC CEO Andris Gailitis.

Global experience shows, that the typical SaaS-based IT solutions customer is a company with less than a 100 employees, which aims to optimize the organization of joint work in the company (content, communications and collaboration, CCC) and customer relationship management (CRM). Given model of software and data center infrastructure operation allows each employee of the company from any internet-connected computer, with a high degree of security to work remotely from anywhere in the world in an integrated system with all necessary information. “The perspective for SaaS is very promising. The rate of Saas-based IT solutions development will increase each year, taking into consideration the needs of customers in qualitative and cost-effective solutions, as well as burgeoning European IT infrastructure in general,” adds A. Gailitis.

It is important to understand, that old-way working, operating with data on server located in the office, has several important limitations comparing with the SaaS model. Firstly, colocating your data in DEAC data centers, the level of security is much higher, due to more modern and more powerful data center infrastructure, than an ordinary company can afford. Secondly, there is no need to invest in the purchase of servers and licenses, thus providing uniform costs. And finally, 24×7 multilingual technical support and certified IT specialists, capable of solving the problem quicker and more efficiently than company’s own IT department, will assure the company in coping with its main tasks.

“In recent years, a global tendency to delegate IT challenges to IT professionals is clearly traced. Experience has shown that responsibility for the leak of information from the service provider is rigidly stipulated in the relevant treaties, a possibility of such leak is much lower in the company, due to service provider developed security procedures system,” underlines A. Gailitis.

Currently IT company DEAC has a wide range of SaaS solutions based on such Microsoft software, as Exchange, Share Point, Office, Server, SQL and others. “For example, the cost of corporate e-mail Exchange user with a wide range of functions and integrated security solutions is about 6 EUR”, says A. Gailitis. Further collaboration development with largest IT companies from Europe and Russia already in next month’s will enrich the range of DEAC SaaS-based model solutions.

Source:http://www.pr.com/press-release/211968

Ukraine – Acceptic Ltd, a Ukrainian software and Web application development company, is to take part in the world leading ICT forum CeBIT 2010 (Hanover, Germany, 2-6 March 2010).

Dmitriy Kharchenko, CEO of Acceptic Ltd: “CeBIT is recognized as a prime place for introducing new IT solutions for home and business. Our company is planning to present our latest experience in building high-performance software and Web-based applications.”

In particular, Acceptic will demonstrate its capabilities in custom Web development on the basis of PHP/AJAX technologies, social networking websites and Facebook applications programming, software for iPhone and Blackberry, cross-platform and low-level systems development (network solutions, data processing, audio-video streaming, firmware).

Acceptic Ltd belongs to a new generation of East European IT outsourcing companies. It is characterized by strong emphasis on the best IT practices, staff educated in reputed Western and local universities, deep understanding of the US and EU customers.

Speaking about Acceptic, clients often accentuate high grade of its services. Dmitriy Kharchenko continues: “We are especially pleased that the European program for small companies from new democracy countries has appreciated our striving to provide best-of-breed software development services and kindly supported our presence at CeBIT 2010.”

CeBIT is a platform where business meets business for mutual benefits. A preliminary schedule of Acceptic meetings includes talks with a number of leading European technological companies and software houses. Dmitriy Kharchenko: “We build relations with our partners and customers on the principles of Reliability, Responsibility, and Flexibility. It is CeBIT expo that definitely shows how fast ICT technologies change. But the value of strong business relations is unchangeable.”

Source:http://www.emailwire.com/release/33775-Custom-Web-Development-and-Software-Company-Acceptic-to-Take-Part-in-CeBIT-2010.html