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| Subject: | Re: [gislist] Indian GIS usage |
| Date: |
12/19/2003 06:10:01 AM |
| From: |
GISex* Technologies |
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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, th
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