So you want to do IT in India !
The growth of India’s economy in the last decade has been truly remarkable. Much of India’s economic boom can be attributed to the influence of foreign corporations and companies. But entrepreneurs, bureaucrats and politicians there also are now advancing views about how India can transform itself into a knowledge-based economy by riding the information technology (IT) bandwagon. Despite India’s seemingly limitless pool of workers, foreign workers make up for talent shortages faced by the outsourcing industry. Although no one knows exact count of how many foreign IT workers are working in India, some 40,000 expats are estimated to work for Indian IT industry today. To everyones surprise it is predicted that the IT talent shortage there is about to hit a tipping point and industry expects foreigners to make up the difference.
The most attractive factor for forigners are - “Life is so much happening and cheaper in India”
Rock your Data Warehousing with SOA
The lazy big giant who serviced the BI world on a periodic basis is getting an overhaul. It’s all set to keep a finger on the pulse of business and ship all the different [BI] pieces that customers require. Service-oriented architecture makes room for data warehousing! This could be the beginning of a perfect marriage.
The relationship between data warehousing and SOA was always complicated. Opposite ends of a spectrum - aggregated vs. federated data, data centric vs. process centric. But how about bringing them together to deliver data as a service? The suitability of a service-oriented architecture (SOA) to transform data warehouses into information as a service is addressing this challenge, though with important conditions and qualifications.
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