• M&A will be the name of the game
• Experimenting in new geographies
• Mobile computing as the new wide platform

Phaneesh Murthy,CEO, iGATE Global Solutions

• Higher utilization
• Opening up of new sectors which till now did not do much offshoring
• Heavier leaning and focus on integrated technology and operations

Dr Ajay Kela,MD & COO, Symphony

• With the US economy slowing down and European firms embracing large-scale outsourcing, the Indian IT sector would continue to enjoy healthy growth.
• Larger captives will increasingly partner with service providers, and smaller captives will fold their operations into existing providers.
• Clients will look for country diversification and service provider with presence and scale in China, and India will do well as a single source provider

Anil Laud, managing director, SISL

• Shift toward IT solutions based on standard packages from customized development by small firms
• Demand for tangible benefits of investing in IT solutions

Vinay Deshpande, founder-chairman, Encore Technologies

• Identification and adoption of ways of improving per-employee productivity
• Reduction in business from the US as a percentage of total business
• Start exploring opportunities in the domestic market, especially in rural areas

KR Naik, chairman, D-Link India

• India will play an important role in hardware development
• There will be big growth in hardware and discrete components manufacturing
• The retail market will boom as IT products sell through this

Rakesh Verma, managing director, CE Info Systems

• Products and services will now focus on the domestic Indian market
• Web services (APIs) to hasten time to market and leverage core competencies: With time to market playing a critical role in a crowded market such as India, IT companies will partner with others and leverage each others strengths
• The Indian consumer navigation marketInternet, mobile, and in-carwill explode in India

Sunil Arora, CEO, ABS India

• IT applications supported by telecom infrastructure will fine new usage
• The SMB market will explode
• IT will significantly impact socio-economic indicators

Pradeep Kar, CEO, Microland

• Clear emergence of remote infrastructure management as the next growth engine for IT services company
• Significantly increased focus of Indian and global IT companies in the domestic market
• Increased entrepreneurial interests in the domestic mobile and the Internet market

Mohit Rampal, country manager, 3Com, India & SAARC

• Open Source Network Services
• Adoption of unified communications in a major way
• IP video and storage will emerge as a hot area

Krishnakumar Natarajan, president & CEO, IT Services, MindTree Consulting

• Services companies will move to more industry focused organization structure to serve their customer better
• Large diversified companies in India will start specialized shared services centers to support their diverse business needs

Sunil Mangalore, country manager, Datacraft India

• Selective, specialized IT infrastructure outsourcing
• Year of the unified communication adoption
• Consolidation of IT infrastructure

Rohit Sharma, COO, Zapak.com

• Proliferation of the animation and game development industry
• PC prices going down leading to growth in PC penetration
• Consolidation of the Indian Internet industry