The Information technology industry in India has gained a brand identity as a knowledge economy due to its IT and ITES

sector. The ITITES industry has two major components: IT Services and business process outsourcing (BPO). The growth in the service sector in India has been led by the ITITES sector, contributing substantially to increase in GDP, employment, and exports. The sector has increased its contribution to India's GDP from 1.2% in FY1998 to 7.5% in FY2012.[1] According to NASSCOM, the ITBPO sector in India aggregated revenues of US$100 billion in FY2012, where export and domestic revenue stood at US$69.1 billion and US$31.7 billion respectively, growing by over 9%.[1] The major cities that account for about nearly 90% of this sectors exports are Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad, Pune, Kolkata and Coimbatore. Export dominate the ITITES industry, and constitute about 77% of the total industry revenue. Though the ITITES sector is export driven, the domestic market is also significant with a robust revenue growth.[1] The industrys share of total Indian exports (merchandise plus services) increased from less than 4% in FY1998 to about 25% in FY2012. According to Gartner, the "Top Five Indian IT Services Providers" are Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys, Cognizant, Wipro and HCL Technologies.[2] This sector has also led to massive employment generation. The industry continues to be a net employment generator - expected to add 230,000 jobs in FY2012, thus providing direct employment to about 2.8 million, and indirectly employing 8.9 million people.[1] Generally dominant player in the global outsourcing sector. However, the sector continues to face challenges of competitiveness in the globalized world, particularly from countries like China and Philippines.

The Indian Government acquired the EVS EM computers from the Soviet Union, which were used in large companies and research laboratories. In 1968 Tata Consultancy Servicesestablished in SEEPZ, Mumbai[4] by the Tata Groupwere the country's largest software producers during the 1960s. As an outcome of the various policies of Jawaharlal Nehru (office: 15 August 1947 27 May 1964) the economically beleaguered country was able to build a large scientific workforce, third in numbers only to that of the United States of America and the Soviet Union. On 18 August 1951 the minister of education MaulanaAbulKalam Azad, inaugurated the Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur in West Bengal. Possibly modeled after the Massachusetts Institute of Technology these institutions were conceived by a 22 member committee of scholars and entrepreneurs under the chairmanship of N. R. Sarkar.

Regulated VSAT links became visible in 2012 . Desai (2006) describes the steps taken to relax regulations on linking in 1991: In 1991 the Department of Electronics broke this impasse, creating a corporation called Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) that, being owned by the government, could provide VSAT communications without breaching its monopoly. STPI set up software technology parks in different cities, each of which provided satellite links to be used by firms; the local link was a wireless radio link. In 1993 the government began to allow individual companies their own dedicated links, which allowed work done in India to be transmitted abroad directly. Indian firms soon convinced their American customers that a satellite link was as reliable as a team of programmers working in the clients office. Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL) introduced Gateway Electronic Mail Service in 1991, the 64 kbit/s leased line service in 1992, and commercial Internet access on a visible scale in 1992. Election results were displayed via National Informatics Centre's NICNET. The Indian economy underwent economic reforms in 1991, leading to a new era of globalization and international economic integration. Economic growth of over 6% annually was seen during 1993-2002. The economic reforms were driven in part by significant the internet usage in the country. The new administration under AtalBihari Vajpayeewhich placed the development of Information Technology among its top five priorities formed the Indian National Task Force on Information Technology and Software Development. Wolcott & Goodman (2003) report on the role of the Indian National Task Force on Information Technology and Software Development:

Within 90 days of its establishment, the Task Force produced an extensive background report on the state of technology in India and an IT Action Plan with 108 recommendations. The Task Force could act quickly because it built upon the experience and frustrations of state governments, central government agencies, universities, and the software industry. Much of what it proposed was also consistent with the thinking and recommendations of international bodies like the World Trade Organization (WTO), International Telecommunications Union (ITU), and World Bank. In addition, the Task Force incorporated the experiences of Singapore and other nations, which implemented similar programs. It was less a task of invention than of sparking action on a consensus that had already evolved within the networking community and government. The New Telecommunications Policy, 1999 (NTP 1999) helped further liberalize India's telecommunications sector. The Information Technology Act 2000 created legal procedures for electronic transactions and e-commerce. Throughout the 1990s, another wave of Indian professionals entered the United States. The number of Indian Americans reached 1.7 million by 2000. This immigration consisted largely of highly educated technologically proficient workers. Within the United States, Indians fared well in science, engineering, and management. Graduates from the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) became known for their technical skills. The success of Information Technology in India not only had economic repercussions but also had far-reaching political consequences. India's reputation both as a source and a destination for skilled workforce helped it improve its relations with a number of world economies. The relationship between economy and technologyvalued in the western worldfacilitated the growth of an entrepreneurial class of immigrant Indians, which further helped aid in promoting technologydriven growth.

The economic effect of the technologically inclined services sector in Indiaaccounting for 40% of the country's GDP and 30% of export earnings as of 2006, while employing only 25% of its workforceis summarized by Sharma (2006): The share of IT (mainly software) in total exports increased from 1 percent in 1n0 to 18 percent in 2001. IT-enabled services such as backoffice operations, remote maintenance, accounting, public call centers, medical transcription, insurance claims, and other bulk processing are rapidly expanding. Indian companies such as HCL, TCS, Wipro, and Infosys may yet become household names around the world.

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Today, Bangalore is known as the Silicon Valley of India and contributes 33% of Indian IT Exports. India's second and third largest software companies are head-quartered in Bangalore. Mumbai too has its share of IT companies that are India's first and largest, like TCS and well established like Reliance[disambiguation needed], Patni, LnTInfotech, i-Flex, WNS, Shine, Naukri, Jobspert etc. are head-quartered in Mumbai. And these IT and dot com companies are ruling the roost of Mumbai's relatively high octane industry of Information Technology.

Tally solutions is a Bangalore based ERP (Enterprise resource planning) software company that currently sells into more than 100 countries beyond its native India,including the United kingdom,Bangladesh and the middle east..

Tallys software is mainly used for vouchers,financial statements and taxation in many industries, and has specialised packages for Retail businesses..More advanced capabilities are found in its ERP package..Tally ERP 9 has advanced integration capabilities in the form of Application programming interfaces to make the software extensible..

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One of the barriers identified earlier that the effective use of IT in small businesses is a lack of formal planning and control methodologies, this relates to a lack of knowledge of how to plan effectively, lack of time and money to seek this knowledge, lack of time to apply it even if they have the knowledge and a lack of understanding that they even need the knowledge Small businesses are however, concerned with issues relating to how they can operate more effectively and efficiently and or how they can grow.

Another barrier to the successful use of IT in small businesses is a lack of understanding of the benefits that IT can provide, and how to measure those benefits. The success of IT implementations relate to the extent to which the system contributes to achieving organizational goals. There have typically been three methods used to evaluate the success of IT systems in small businesses. Measures of system usage Impact upon organizational performance Measures of user satisfaction

How important is training to the users of IT in businesses? Appropriate training in IT has been mentioned earlier as one of the factors leading to successful use of IT in small businesses. Many small and medium businesses feel that they are unsure of how to use the technology they have, let alone increase their investment in it. In 1997found that the amount of training that users had received from other users or IT specialists within the firm had an effect on the perceived usefulness of the system. External training had a positive effect on the perceived ease of use of IT, which they theorize may enhance computer skills and reduce negative attitude barriers to the acceptance of IT. A lack of training was a cause of user frustration

There is no doubt that a rapidly increasing number of small businesses are using the Internet. In 1999 claims that the level of Internet use is growing faster than any other technology in history. Many small businesses are establishing a presence on the Internet, be it through the development of a Web site or through the use of email. Two primary uses of Internet technologies in small businesses are the use of email for communication and the Internet to gather information.

Electronic mail also known as e-mail,is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients.Modern e-mail operates across the Internet or other computer networks..some early e-mail systems required that the author and recepient both be online at the same time,in common with instant messaging..But,todays e-mail systems are based on a store-and-forward model..

E-mail was widely accepted in by the business community as the first broad electronic communication medium and was the first e-revolution in business communication..E-mail is very simple to understand and like postal mail,e-mail solves two basic problems of communication,logistics and synchronization.. LAN based e-mail is also an emerging form of usage for business.It not only allows the business user to download mail when offline,it allows the small business user to have multiple users e-mail IDs with just one e-mail connection..

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