IT player MindTree is building system integration (SI) capabilities in the domestic market to go after large government projects. About Rs 1,296 crore, which is about 6.3% of the firm?s FY10 revenues, came from the India market. Now, the firm is targeting to up the share to 10% in the next three to four years, president & CEO of the firm?s IT services business Anjan Lahiri said.
Many of the government projects requires SI expertise and working with a large consortium of partners. ?We have hired some very senior people recently to build the SI ecosystem. The Aadhaar win has made many partners wanting to work with us. We are aggressively embracing that opportunity,? he said.
Earlier this year, MindTree had won the application development and maintenance (ADM) services contract of the Nandan Nilekani-headed Unique Identification (UID) project, named Aadhaar. The project involves services across the application lifecycle-from designing, developing, testing, maintaining and supporting the Aadhaar application to providing help desk services.
?We need to put in a team of architects, analysts and consultants to create, structure and deliver the SI opportunities,? Lahiri said, adding that the Aadhaar win was now opening up lots of new avenues for the firm. It has placed MindTree in the consideration page for many large transformational deals. ?Our presence in the Indian government is actually not large. This gives us the ticket to the party,? the CEO said. ?India is exploding in government investments ? not only in revenue, but in the quality of the projects that are being given out.?
The firm?s foray into SI is just a quarter old and may take a year before tangible results can be seen. MindTree currently does a lot of ADM work, even for private deals. It recently closed a deal with a large auto organisation to build their countrywide dealer management system and has been working with an MNC building IT systems for its India factories.