CHANNEL LEADERSHIP SURVEY 2016
CHANNEL LEADERSHIP SURVEY 2016 It has been a tradition every year for VARINDIA to conduct its Annual Channel Leadership Survey that is based on the feedback from the vendor and partners in the Indian IT and Telecom Industry. This year the report comes at a time when the government is moving with the implementation of the biggest Tax reforms - GST, which is anticipated to be a game changer for the Indian economy. This will eventually create new economic opportunities and highlight the market potentials. The Editorial team along with the research team studied the voting mechanism and re-aligned the segments by cross-validation with the key vendors and partners to understand the growth and opportunity in the respective segments. To summarize it, the industry is categorized into three segments - hardware, software and services. These three segments are further classified into several product segments. For each product segments, three to four main players have been identified. With the rapid development of ICT technology, traditional IT infrastructure that centred on physical resources — where software and hardware from different vendors and standards coexisted — can no longer satisfy the requirement of enterprises . More and more enterprises are introducing virtualization and cloud computing into their IT infrastructures. The Technology sector in India has seen massive transformation happening in the last couple of years and the IT spending is forecast to reach $71.0 billion in 2016, a 6.0 percent increase from 2015, as per Gartner. To top it all, the incremental support from the Government to bring digital transformation through various flagship programs have been quite laudable. The Channel cannot be overlooked when we are talking of the transformational phase that the Indian ICT industry is going through. The Channel has played an incredible role in this growth story and this is further going to be accentuated with the changes that are sweeping the channel landscape. There is indeed a good time ahead for everyone.
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September 2016
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