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R. Savitha

Pune, Feb. 5 Catering to the fast growing service-oriented architecture segment, Patni Computers Ltd is building software for specific verticals, keeping the domestic market in mind.

Talking to Business Line, Ms Sandhya Sule, Associate Vice President, Product and Technology Initiatives, Patni, said it would be coming out with the product and packaged templates with technological recommendations for specific verticals.

This plug and play software would be coming into the domestic market within the next six months. She noted that the work is being carried out by the enterprise application services team jointly with the vendor partners, Oracle and SAP and is being done out of Mumbai and Pune. She noted that these products would be catering only to the domestic market as they have no market either in the US or Europe.

According to the Springboard Research report , India is the fastest growing SOA market in the region with a compounded annual growth rate of 49 per cent from 2006-2009. The report also points out that the awareness of SOA is higher in India than in other countries. “Indian companies have higher awareness level but the implementation of SOA is much less in this region and is lesser than in China where the awareness level is much lower.”

Ms Sule said organisations were deploying SOA because it reduced the time and cost of creating and delivering new services arising out of the business needs. The report also pointed out that though the Indian market is still in the nascent stage, large organisations in the banking, manufacturing and telecommunications are beginning to plan enterprise-wide SOA.

The Government sector was also showing interest in deploying SOA. In line with the other regional markets, IBM lead the SOA market among Indian enterprises in terms of actual implementations, close to about 60 per cent and the other players were Tibco, BEA and Oracle, according to Ms Sule.

TCS, Infosys,Wipro, Ramco Systems, Polaris, Cognizant, Patni are some of the Indian players in this segment. Vendors such as IBM and HP have already established SOA focused facilities to improve their share in the market.

Ms Sule said Patni was also ramping up its portfolio with its vendor partners— Oracle, SAP, IBM. It already has set up a competency centre with IBM and had identified the product development in November 2007. One round of training has already been completed and noted that it would be soon rolling out similar concept for the other platforms. With Oracle, she pointed out that it was just exploring the possibilities.

According to the report, projected SOA revenues of $325 million in 2005 in Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) and is estimating the market to touch $1.2 billion in 2009. Presently middleware platforms, ESBs (enterprise service bus) and other software have the largest share of the market.

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