The $1.05-billion (around Rs 5,250 crore) Computer Associates (CA) says it is not witnessing any impact of the global slowdown on its business coming from the India and Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. The IT management software company has been witnessing a 30% annualised growth from this region and expects to grow 50% this financial year.
Amit Chatterjee, managing director, India , CA ( India) Technologies, said, ?Emerging markets including India, Australia and Japan are growth engines for us. We are largely focusing on government, telecom and defence utilities and are expecting a growth of at least 50% in Indian market this financial year.? Currently, the APAC region, including Japan , contributes about 9% of the total revenues to the company. CA focuses on enterprise IT management through systems management, networks, security, storage, applications and databases.
The firm continues to see significant demand for its application, infrastructure, and service management products along with strong demand for its workload automation and mainframe products, across the globe.
The IT management space in India is about $100 million (around Rs 500 crore) this year, according to IDC, and of this, the service management market is about $50 million. CA provides the framework ITIL current version 3, a global standard for service management and methodology to develop tools that help automate network operations. According to CA, unlike its competitors HP and IBM, it can provide all three aspects of the IT service management space?IT governance, management and security.
CA is largely focusing on the National e-Governance projects (NeGP) for the State Wide Area Networks (SWAN) and State Data Centres (SDC) projects for application management of core network and services. CA currently handles 60% of the core infrastructure (software management) for SWAN. The over all NeGP programme is expected to deploy around 850 state mission mode centres and the overall IT spend is expected to touch $ 10 billion.
The firm is also focusing on the telecom vertical that contributes about 30% of its India revenues. It expects to increase it to 60% by 2012. CA is in talks with various operators for its recharge applications, revenue critical applications and managed core networks.
CA is also investing into the emerging markets including India . Its research and development (R&D) centre based in Hyderabad , contributes about 30% of the global R&D. The firm is investing about $ 30 million (around Rs 150 crore) to develop the R&D centre and has already invested 40% of this with 1,600 employees. This year, the firm would add another 1,000 employees at this centre.
