SI SPECIAL
System Integration
Looking for Greener Pastures
The system integration market in India is expected to reach $18.5 billion by
2020 from the present $2.6 billion. So integrators are gravitating towards new
verticals like smart cities, digital enterprise, Digital India and cybersecurity
A
ccording to industry reports, the
Indian system integration market
is expected to reach $2.6 billion in FY201617 and it is forecasted to reach $18.5 billion
by 2020, contributing around 5 per cent
of the global market as the global system
integration market is expected to reach
$393.1 billion by 2020.
According to Raj Malik, Chief Delivery
Officer, HCL Infotech (a wholly-owned
subsidiary of HCL Infosystems), “The
expected market size by 2020 for different
sectors is likely to be defence and telecom –
$4.2 billion, BFSI – $4.5 billion, government
– $2.4 billion, and energy, utilities &
S. Karthikeyan
Managing Director, Bloom Electronics
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manufacturing – $3.3 billion.
"The system integration market in India
for FY2016-17 is Rs 16,000 crore and the
growth in FY2016-17 vis-a-vis FY2015-16 is
9 per cent," said Ranjan Chopra, Managing
Director, Team Computers.
Commenting on the system integration
market trends, S. Karthikeyan, MD, Bloom
Electronics, said, “Both states and central
government are investing around 3–5 per
cent of their yearly budget on ICT. Digital
India is envisioned with one lakh crore in
the first five years on the other hand Indian
Railways and Defence are making huge
investments as they need to integrate their
Ranjan Chopra
Managing Director, Team Computers
existing live systems and provide additional
services/security with new technologies.
Even education and heath industries needs
to work on various integration to provide
better systems to the public.”
“We believe the cloud is going to be the
biggest market with annual growth of 30+
per cent. The expected revenue pie from
smart city and IoT by 2020 is more than
Rs.200 billion. Even security is going to be
the prime area for government, education
and healthcare sector which is expected to
grow 1.5 times from the current market size
of $2 billion,” added Karthikeyan.
Commenting on the drivers, Anoop Pai
Kshitij M. Kotak
Chief Innovation Officer, Blackbox Data Safe