From http://www.9cbs.net/news/newstopic/17/17018.SHTML (2004.08.27) From: IT Times Weekly
China's software industry will have many opportunities in the 21st century, but it will also accompany many challenges.
In just 20 years, the size of the global software industry has reached 200 billion US dollars, and has more than 10 million professional experts. China IT industry grows at 25%, in the future, the world is the world's largest country, including any company, including Microsoft, can ignore the Chinese market, China's software industry will have many opportunities in the 21st century, but at the same time Also accompany a lot of challenges.
The first opportunity, China's economic development will provide a strong support for the software industry. Compared with India, although China's current total output value is far less than India, there are many shortcomings in software development management, but China has the fastest growing national economy and traditional enterprises in China. And the informationization of Chinese traditional enterprises has a large development space. On the one hand, enterprises can receive higher efficiency through information, on the other hand, the development of traditional enterprises can also promote the software industry to achieve sustainable development. potential.
China has 5% of the world's PC and 15% of mobile phones, all PCs and smart devices require support for all kinds of software, and the Chinese market has a huge demand for software products. At the same time, China's software service output value only accounts for 0.2% of the world, it can be seen that China's software production and consumption are not proportional, and there is a considerable gap. Therefore, it is necessary to vigorously promote the informationization of traditional enterprises to help domestic software creates business opportunities.
The second opportunity is outsourcing. Outsourcing has become a trend in the IT industry, and companies from the United States and other countries hopes to outsourcing more IT work to India or China. However, China's challenge is that India's software industry has far more than China, and 3 largest IT companies in India have reached 40 billion US dollars, far exceeding the value of China's top 100 IT companies. Most importantly, employees in the Indian software industry have accumulated very deep experience in software development management, software talent training, software market development, software outsourcing services. Relatively speaking, China's talents are very strong, but lack management, process, or experience and ability to work abroad, take orders.
At present, India's best software companies have constituted challenges to the US top system integrator in the US market. Many companies originally choose Indian companies because of cost reasons, and now continue to use their services because of quality factors. Therefore, China's software companies should first learn from India's successful experience to grasp outsourced opportunities. China has recently obtained many Japanese software outsourcing orders, and recently launched many US companies (including Microsoft) orders in software testing, which is the opening and entry point of software outsourcing services.
Outsourcing is a good opportunity for China, but it should not be the final goal. China can use outsourcing and train a group of excellent technicians. China can also use outsourcing, training a group of experienced managers in business, business, processes, etc.
The third chance, China can get a leadership opportunity to cross the world. When most people in the world are doing application software development, web services are a good opportunity to develop software running through network services. Web Services technology can integrate various information resources and service functions on the Internet, which is the unpleasant opportunity facing global software companies.
The status quo of the Chinese software industry and the characteristics of the software market are more suitable for development with web services technology as the core of Web Services technology. At present, foreign companies have an advantage in the boxed software market, but in the software service market, from the portal to ERP, CRM, e-commerce, e-government, China companies have obvious competitive advantages. Because industry or service software often needs to be tailored according to customer specific needs, consulting, upgrading, and maintenance, etc. China Software Enterprises are more likely to meet localized needs and close customer business. Therefore, Chinese companies should seize the development opportunities of Web Services. In the market of software services, use Web Services technology, comprehensively improve the quality and level of services, and then improve the overall competitiveness of China's software industry. The United States is so strong in the network and software, great reason is that the United States has the best conditions in 10 to 20 years - the world's largest computer and the world's best network. Today, China has similar conditions. For example, China has the world's largest mobile phone market and the best wireless network. Whether we can use this advantage to inspire innovation and discover business opportunities, in order to be large in this field, becoming a leader in global unlimited technology and market. In addition to the mobile market, there are still many other special markets such as online games, web text media, digital TV.
The fourth opportunity, the current talent in China is unable to be in the world. But the same challenge is that IT programmers may not have good management capabilities, sufficient entrepreneurship and innovation. China has many single technical talents, China's software education is highly scientific and developed, not comprehensive and popular. However, the purpose of technology is not for technology, technology is always for customer base. Therefore, we should focus on cultivating professional skills, familiar with modern software architecture, with leadership talents, and have a manager of vision. This is the key to the breakthrough progress in China's software industry.
Opportunities and challenges coexist, software service outsourcing, domestic software companies demand, leadership opportunities across the world platform are three complement opportunities, in the next five years, China should give these three aspects of the same opportunity parallel, and enhance diversity Education. 5 years later, the common development of three business models will lay a solid foundation for China's software export business. Only in this way, China may win a place in the international software market, and get more relatively strong than simple software outsourcing services. profit.
Kai-fu Lee:
Born in Taiwan in 1966, in 1972, he moved to the United States. He successfully took off the Global Vice President of Apple Computer Company. And created the world's best research laboratory - Microsoft Asia Research Institute, with a large number of papers and product transformation results.
