Why cloud will be successful in India

India is growing very fast, for an econonomy of US 1 trillion plus and to have maintain 9 % growth rate is commendable. Due to this growth, India is getting some of the advantages of Cloud faster to adopt than even some of the western counterparts. Case in point is one ERP built by an Indian company, Ramoco On Demand, this is being adopted by lot of companies since its much cheaper to adopt. Although, for ERP kind of application area, my personal views is that cloud ERP will not have very large scale adoptions.

Also looking at success of salesforce.com, I feel that indian companies will definitely adopt cloud applications in lot of areas like HCM, SFA, CRM, Expense Management and so on.

Here are my reasons for possible success of cloud in India

1. India has one of the largest concentration of Small and Medum business (SMBs) and growing rapidly

2. Internet and other connectivity solutions, coupled with 3G implementations by telecom companies, will increase possibilities with cloud

3. India has more than 20 years of history of adoption of serious large-scale applications like ERP, SCM and CRM.

4. Strong presense of MISO group ( Microsoft, IBM, SAP and Oracle) coupled with large scale Indian IT SWITCH ( Satyam, Wipro, Infosys, Cognizant, HCL) and large eco-system of small and medium IT players at much reasonable cost

Hybrid Cloud

Some of our customers are very cusrious and always want to know about Cloud. Some of them are very apprehensive about cloud not making into the mainstream applications like ERP, SCM and so on. Most of such customers are very curious about knowing how can they still keep some of the applications in-premise, to these kind of customers, I have simple value proposition, start thinking Hybrid Cloud.

Once I tell them that not-so-mission critical and data-lite applications can only be on cloud and rest can be in their control they are very comfortable talking about cloud.

Will cover more about interesting cloud companies to watch out.

Microsoft CRM on Cloud in India

Few months ago, I happen to talk to national sales manager of a data center company. I was comteplating that datacenter players will eventually align their business with cloud computing paradigm and I was surprised to see that it is happening. Microsoft is putting MS CRM on demand available from the cloud of this datacenter company. This again validates the view of vendor push for cloud adoption.

IBM 's Cloud Initiatives in India

Last month I happen to read about IBM starting a cloud infrastructure for business applications in Ahmedabad, India, targetted towards the SMB(Small and Medium) businesses. This is a welcome move. The adoption of cloud will only start by the vendor push.