At present, service outsourcing, trade in services, as well as high-end manufacturing and technology research and development sectors as the main characteristics of the new round of world industrial restructuring is on the rise, mainly rely on intellectual resources, the development of service outsourcing industry, the development of society “green engine.” In 2006 about 350 billion U.S. dollars in the global service outsourcing market, software and information services outsourcing alone accounts for more than 60% of the share of the software industry to become a new growth point. The development of software and information services outsourcing to become a modern service industries and countries to improve their level of development of software industry and international competitiveness of the inevitable choice.

The development of outsourcing to be rational and prudent

September 1, the Third China International Software Products Expo “service outsourcing and software internationalization” as the theme kicked off in Nanjing, the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals, the European Outsourcing Association, as well as Microsoft, Oracle, Motorola, NEC, etc. 1 batch of transnational corporations, chairman, president and full-scene, Japan, Europe and the United States in 23 major international offshore contract providers, participants, Microsoft, Oracle, Vimicro, etc. A total of 98 Chinese and foreign enterprises signed 69 major projects with a total investment 8.65 billion yuan .

In fact, this year to promote the software outsourcing service industry has been engaged in a warm-up activities, whether in the June 14 Eleventh Beijing China International Software Expo, or June 20 in Dalian, China International Software & Information Service Fair , a number of topics related to software and information services outsourcing.

Electronic Information Products Management Division of Xiao Hua, said: “China’s development of service outsourcing While a late start, but in high-quality human resources and IT hardware and software industries on the basis of comparative advantage and develop rapidly, has great potential.” In recent years, , engaged in software and information service outsourcing enterprises increased their strength in 2006 through the CMM / CMMI 2-5 assessments, there are 468 professional staff engaged in software and outsourcing about 10 million people. Outsourcing is currently dominated by Japan, to Europe and the United States outsourcing is developing rapidly. At the same time, outsourcing business structure and diversification of existing customer service centers, data processing, there are offshore business process outsourcing (BPO) and knowledge process outsourcing (KPO), a multi-level rapid development momentum.

In 2006, China’s software service outsourcing growth of 55.4% over the previous year; estimated that by 2010, China’s software outsourcing market will reach 7.03 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for global software service outsourcing market, 8.4%. This aspect has reflected that China’s software outsourcing service industry is growing rapidly on the other hand the reality of its small size is also at a glance.

Beijing, vice president of Core Digital Technology Co., Ltd. Li Jin to the “China Electronics News” reporter said, and now China’s software outsourcing service enterprises, there are two paths, one is the product to get the Department to do outsourcing; one is by outsourcing Enterprise sent to the other companies on outsourcing.

The latter approach uses the initial momentum of development of enterprises is good, quick. But from the long-term development, on one hand will lead to software talents for enterprises do not have a sense of belonging, easy loss; the one hand, the formation of large industrial enterprises have difficulties in the scale and the accumulation of effects; the same time, it is difficult to form their own intellectual property rights of high value-added outsourcing products.

Experts pointed out that with Vietnam, the Philippines, Fiji and other countries of the software outsourcing industry, the rapid rise of China’s cost advantage will diminish. Vietnam started late, but soon there will be a 6,000-scale software companies, Chinese companies still better than; the Philippines, Europe and the United States focus on doing business in Eastern Europe and some countries also use geographic advantages of software outside the European sweep into the arms, which are on China’s Software Outsourcing has brought a tremendous challenge.

The Government guidance is essential

Experts point out that from 2007 to 2010 will be the world’s largest software and information service outsourcing market is continually expanding in an important period. According to Gartner Inc. predicts that by 2010, outsourcing value will reach 800 billion to 1 trillion U.S. dollars.

At present, China ranks the top 10 software outsourcing enterprises, only Neusoft’s business volume reached 100 million U.S. dollars, compared with annual revenue of Indian companies frequently reached 1 billion U.S. dollars, even as high as three billion U.S. dollars ~ 40 billion U.S. dollars. The Gartner’s figures show that in 2006 the huge international software outsourcing large sheet, the highest in the first one from Germany, the project amounted to 9.4 billion U.S. dollars, from IBM and SBS receive. The second single from the UK, amounting to 3.7 billion U.S. dollars, in order to CSC received. Look at our situation. Even according to the growth rate of 55.4%, to 2010, China’s outsourcing scale is only 5.0 billion. China’s software outsourcing business a long and difficult road of development, rely on it alone is difficult to create a strong corporate competitiveness. The Chinese government is already aware of this problem.

Asia-Pacific region with the greatest potential in the emerging software market, China has attached importance to developing software applications for the domestic market, but also actively committed to developing software outsourcing as the representative of the foreign markets. Lou was in Nanjing, soft-Bo pointed out: “the development of software and information services, outsourcing, not only conducive to improving China’s software industry and services sectors overall competitiveness, absorb and digest advanced technology, enhance independent innovation capability and capacity for sustainable development and training high-end talent, expand multi-level jobs, as well as help to promote economic restructuring and promotion of resource-saving and environment-friendly society to form a situation of economic globalization, to participate in international economic cooperation and competition in the new edge. ”

In recent years, Ministry of Information Industry and Commerce and other ministries in the promotion of software export outsourcing, issued a series of measures, including the establishment of the relevant parks and export base, pooling resources to build China’s outsourcing brand. In September 2006, Ministry of Information Industry and Commerce jointly issued a “carry out” China’s service outsourcing base cities “work to identify issues related to notice,” identified 11 service outsourcing base cities in China, making the promotion of software and information an important force in the development of service outsourcing, Neusoft, China News, Dalian Hi-Think, Dalian Hoi Fai, CS International, Insigma focus on exports and a number of outsourcing companies has been formed, outsourcing levels rising. Also the formation of a number of software products with independent intellectual property rights, making profit margins also improved.

Gartner, director of the United States China Hong Gang, is targeted at the current situation, pointing out that China’s software outsourcing companies in 25 international markets, the key success factors, including the definition of core competencies, focused and decided on the location of the value chain, selling the unique value of advocates, etc., of which the rapid development of process maturity investments of talent and attract capital, create a brand, use of international market practices and other factors, enterprises need to help guide the government and the Software Park to complete.

July 1, 2007, the country’s first local regulations on software industry, “the software industry in Jiangsu Province to promote the Ordinance,” into effect. The promulgation of the regulations, marking the software industry in Jiangsu Province as a first priority to the development of the industry from a legal sense finalized. In the Ordinance expressly provides software outsourcing services to undertake enterprises can enjoy the national and local on the promotion of service outsourcing development policies.

Beijing to attract multinational IT companies settled in, create a good environment for development, strengthen the software industry, infrastructure construction, encourage enterprises to explore overseas markets and strengthen international personnel training and other measures have also achieved outstanding results. Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Committee Member Chen Li Engineering, said: “In 2006, the Beijing software exports reached 356 million U.S. dollars, accounting for 1 / 3.”

Software Outsourcing to be clustered

China’s software outsourcing firm size is not yet competitive. Compared with India, China probably has about 8,000 software services providers, of which less than 50 people accounted for 3 / 4, while India’s software service providers less than 3000, and at least 15 have more than 2,000 employees. Li Jin said: “The software is the size of the sex industry, there is no large-scale projects be able to afford a larger scale effect is the software outsourcing business orders of the deciding factor. A lot of domestic enterprises do not have enough staff due to receive large-scale projects, resulting in many Project Opportunity was forced to give up. ”

Therefore, Xiao Hua priorities in the development of software outsourcing the work to be done clearly pointed out that to build the software and information service outsourcing of public support platform to build industry, public service system; give full play to the role of industry alliance to promote and promote business cooperation and industrial joint; go cluster-based development path, to play a regional agglomeration effect.

In order to build industry, public service system, bring the regional agglomeration effect, take the road of development clustering, September 1, using 2007 Electronic Information Industry Development Fund was established to focus on the tender of the project “Software and Information Service Outsourcing of public support platform” in Nanjing, soft-Bo at the start, covering the common technology platform to support intellectual property services, training services, the nation’s public brand building and marketing and so on. The platform’s main goal is to build service outsourcing bases clustered city’s public technical service resources to form a resource sharing network of complementary service capabilities, and built the software and information service covering the whole country outsourcing mainly accumulated in the public technical service support system.

China Software and Information Service Outsourcing Industry Alliance chairman, Worksoft president, Chris Chen, said: “The alliance will be equality and mutual benefit, complementarity and sharing of resources, cooperation and win-win principle, integrate industrial development resources, optimize the industrial development environment, promoting the outsourcing business in order to attack the overall strength of the global market. ”