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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] Indian GIS usage |
| Date: |
12/18/2003 03:15:00 AM |
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Research .. NucleusGIS.com |
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everything that goes into making a product out of an idea is what
"productizing services" should mean.
observation :: some people on this list seem to have lot of spare time.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike" <mjsnow@direcway.com>
To: <gislist@lists.thinkburst.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 10:10 PM
Subject: RE: [gislist] Indian GIS usage
>
> Interesting article, but what does "productizing services" mean?
>
> Mike
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com
> [mailto:gislist-bounces@lists.geocomm.com] On Behalf Of Anthony Quartararo
> Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2003 8:31 AM
> To: gislist@lists.thinkburst.com
> Subject: RE: [gislist] Indian GIS usage
>
>
> I'd question the assertion that India has the largest number of GIS
educated
> people in the world, could be. My experience with GIS companies and
> individual professionals from India [either in India or in North America],
> and this is confirm by several prominent GIS executives from India, is
that
> Indian GIS companies really excel at "productizing services". The GIS
> industry was one of the first IT domains that moved labor-intensive
> production to India, and that model has garnered significant momentum
across
> the entire business spectrum. Recent headlines continue to confirm this
> trend.
>
> I asked several Indian GIS Executives several years ago, why, if India had
> such potential, such domestic expertise, combined with such a compelling
> cost structure, why had none of these companies made a product to compete
> with the major GIS ISVs. This still puzzles me, especially now that the
> current marketing efforts focus on SEI-CMM certification [ISO 9000
> certification being a 1990's fad]. The answers I received, unanimously,
> were that Indians were much better at "productizing services" rather than
> creating new products and marketing those new products. Before anyone
takes
> offense at the above comments, remember, these were Indian GIS Executives
> telling me this.
>
> In contract, in China, there are no less than 15 different
fully-functional
> and highly effective GIS applications that are designed, built and
deployed
> domestically, and with incredible success. The cost structure in China is
> highly competitive to India, and there is a compelling argument for
Chinese
> clients to use home-grown GIS applications. This continues to prove a
major
> obstacle for the major ISVs to penetrate that market. As a consequence,
the
> adoption rate and up-take of GIS technology [the full spectrum] is
outpacing
> any other market in the world. It is truly amazing. This would not be
the
> case if the only options were ArcView, ArcInfo, GeoMedia, MapInfo, etc:
the
> cost of deployment and support is simply prohibitive for the Chinese user
> community. This is not to say that ESRI, Intergraph, MapInfo, Autodesk
have
> not had reasonable success, but it is in the single digit percentile as a
> whole.
>
> Because India [as a whole] continues to rely on a) back-office services
and
> b) licensing COTS applications from ESRI, Intergraph, MapInfo & Autodesk
> from very parochial and anti-competitive local distributors, the up-take
and
> adoption of GIS technology across the full user community spectrum is
still
> very low. 80-90% of the application of GIS technology is in the field of
> natural resources/environmental management, and while key for India, is
> nominal when compared to the entire potential market.
>
> The cost of data and access to data is certainly a continuing problem for
> the Indian community. Two years ago, in conjunction with the MapIndia
2002
> conference, the NSDI addressed this issue. While they continue to talk,
my
> friends in India tell me that not much has changed. Inertia is difficult
to
> overcome, wherever it exists. As an example, one attendee pointed out
that
> he could acquire IKONOS 1m panchromatic imagery of Delhi if he acquired it
> outside of India, but if they wanted to buy it inside India, they would
have
> to go through the sole provider (NRSA) and it was their discretion on
> whether to sell the imagery or not, and what I have been told, that
process
> is quite laborious and intrusive. Similarly, at least at that point [it
may
> have been changed by statute by now] it was illegal to a) publish internet
> maps with a scale greater than 1:1M, and it was also illegal to digitize
the
> Survey of India 25K scale map series (or any other series), but, this is
> such common practice that the legality of it almost never surfaces.
>
> I, as well as many others in India, have made the same arguments that
> Dimitri points out below: that being
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