SAP doubles customers in India
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(InfoWorld) - SAP AG has doubled its customer base in India from 1,000 to 2,000 over the last one year. Markets in India and China will play a key role in its drive to sign up 100,000 customers by 2010, the company said Tuesday. The company's entire executive board, including Henning Kagermann, CEO and chairman of the executive board, is currently visiting India, reflecting the rising importance of the country to SAP as a market and a center for technology development and support services, the company said. On a previous visit to India, Kagermann had shown interest in working with Indian outsourcers both for their skills and the lower costs they offer to customers. Last year, SAP announced that it would invest US$1 billion in India by 2010, primarily in its offshore development and services and support hub in the country. SAP Labs India is currently the company's largest research and development and support operation outside Germany. While its Bangalore operations focus on product development, a new facility in Gurgaon near Delhi focuses on global service and support. The company also announced Tuesday that Indian outsourcer Wipro Ltd. will become an SAP global services partner and will establish a solutions lab in Bangalore to showcase the benefits of enterprise SOA (service-oriented architecture).
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India&#39;s largest outsourcer, Tata Consultancy Services, Wednesday reported strong growth in revenue and profit, despite earlier concerns that the&#160;Indian outsourcing industry would be badly hit by a weak dollar, and a crisis in the U.S. subprime mortgage market.The company&#39;s revenue for the quarter, ended Dec. 31, was 59 billion rupees ($1.5 billion at the exchange rate on the closing day of the quarter), up by 22 percent from the same quarter in the previous year. Profit increased by 20.5 percent to 13.3 billion rupees.The company said it had improved its operating margin despite a 2.3 percent appreciation of the rupee against the dollar during the quarter, by cost-cutting and improving productivity. The rupee has gained about 12 percent over the dollar in the last year.Infosys Technologies, India&#39;s second largest outsourcer, said last week that its revenue for the quarter ended Dec. 31 increased by 32 percent, to $1.1 billion, from the same quarter in the previous year. Profit for the quarter rose by 42.2 percent to $310 million.Revenue growth rates are, however, not likely to be as high going forward, mainly because the companies already have large revenue bases, according to analysts.In the application development and maintenance market, where Indian companies are dominant players with about 36 percent market share, the opportunity to increase revenue isn&#39;t very large, said Siddharth Pai, a partner at Technology Partners International. The company is a sourcing consultancy firm in Houston.Indian companies are looking at new services lines, but it will take some time for these businesses to be key revenue earners, Pai said.Indian outsourcers also compete for staff with the Indian operations of multinational services companies like Accenture and IBM. Quality staff is increasingly harder to hire, and&#160;salaries are on the upswing.Infosys, for example, added 8,100 employees in the last quarter, taking its staff to 88,601 at the end of December. Tata added 4,037 in the quarter, giving it a headcount of staff to 108,229. The company&#39;s attrition rate at 12.2 percent was, however, higher than in the previous quarter.
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BANGALORE, INDIA - An anticipated boom in mobile telephony use in India is attracting multinational and local companies to establish manufacturing operations in the country.
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Indian software group Infosys turns in a 50% jump in profits as more companies hire it to run their technical support services.
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Business software maker SAP aims to  win about 1,000 customers for its new Web-delivered software  aimed at smaller companies by the end of 2008, according to  slides due to be presented on Wednesday.
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The number of Indian mobile phone subscribers has passed the 200 million mark after the country added another eight million customers last month, industry figures show.
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Indian outsourcers already have a large share of outsourced application development and maintenance and are dominant in business process outsourcing. The country is now targeting a larger share of the market for remote infrastructure management services (IMS), and is planning to more than double revenue from these services to $15 billion by 2013.
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Infosys Technologies Ltd., India's  second-largest software services company, posted its biggest  quarterly profit jump in three years on increased outsourcing  by telecoms and financial companies.
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India has become the fastest-growing cellular market in the world, adding 5.9 million subscribers in August and outstripping ChinaÂs increase of 5.19 million subscribers.
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India's second-largest software services exporter, Infosys Technologies, said quarterly net profit jumped 51.5 percent, helped by strong outsourcing demand.
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German business software vendor SAP AG increased software license revenue 10 percent in 2004 and forecast revenue to gain as much as 12 percent this year.
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Hewlett-Packard says nearly 200 of its customers using SAP business applications have migrated to HP servers with Itanium inside.
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SAP AG reported an 8 percent jump in its second-quarter net income on Thursday, helped by a sharp increase in revenue from new software licenses.
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Chipmaker ST Microelectronics is doubling its Indian workforce to 3,000 and making the country a centre for R&D.
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(InfoWorld) - Soaring subscriber growth in India led a 38 percentÂ global rise in DSLÂ (digital subscriber line) use in the 12 months ended June 30, according to an industry group. While India had the fastest growth, China remained the world's largest DSL market, according to the DSL Forum. On Tuesday, the group released results from a study conducted by research company Point Topic. During the period, almost 46 million more subscribers signed up for DSL, the group said. India's DSL market grew from fewer than 250,00 subscribers in June 2005 to more than 1.5 million a year later, according to the group. DSL use also boomed in Vietnam (up 147 percent), the Czech Republic (143 percent), Morocco (141 percent), and Russia (130 percent). China gained almost 12 million users to reach 33 million in June 2006. It became the world's largest DSL market in 2004, said DSL Forum spokeswoman Carol Friend. Still, fewer than 3 percent of China's phone lines are being used for DSL. In the U.S., the second-largest market, DSL subscribers went up 6.36 million to more than 23 million. The growth surpassed that of cable Internet access, which gained 5.45 million users, according to the group. In the U.S. and Canada, DSL gained market share and is now the choice of more than 46 percent of the broadband subscribers, DSL Forum said. However, the U.S. comes in number 33 for the penetration of DSL among all phone lines, Friend said. Only 8 percent of the country's lines have DSL. Finland leads the world in DSL penetration, with nearly 40 percent, followed by France with almost 33 percent. DSL penetration made big strides in France and the U.K. as speeds increased while prices remained about the same, she said. Penetration in the U.K. is now almost 25 percent. DSL subscriptions grew 45 percent in Europe, which now has 56 million DSL subscribers, more than any other region. Europe is home to 35 percent of the world's total, followed by Asia-Pacific with 18 percent and North America with 16 percent.
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The number of Indian subscribers for landline and mobile phone services is soaring, putting the country on track to have 250 million users by 2007.
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By Tony Glover, The Business, London  Sep. 17--German-based business software giant SAP is about to face fierce  competition from aggressive Indian software developer Tally.