Thirty Indian software product firms have come together to form a new association, marking the first break from the omnibus IT industry body Nasscom and reflecting the growing confidence and maturity of the software product community.
The founding members, led by Bharat Goenka, co-founder of Tally Solutions, Sharad Sharma, former head of Yahoo India R&D, startup mentor and founder of Brand Sigma, Naveen Tewari, founder of InMobi, and Vishnu Dusad, founder of Nucleus Software, will have their first meeting in Bangalore on Monday to formalize the association and develop action plans.
The association, called the Indian Software Product Industry Round Table, or iSpirt, has been formed with the vision that India now has the basic building blocks to develop a powerful software product industry that can help transform the country and deliver invaluable solutions to the world. All founding members have strong customer bases in India or worldwide and the objective is to share expertise and experiences, and create a larger awareness in society and government about the industry’s critical role.
Vishnu Dusad said iSpirt would work with all industry associations, including Nasscom, that are dedicated to creating world-class products and intellectual property. Nasscom tends to be dominated by IT services companies, and sub-segments within it, including the BPO companies, have often felt that their issues were not being sufficiently addressed. But this is the first occasion where a segment is breaking away, though some will be members of both Nasscom and iSpirt.
iSpirt’s other members include Capillary Technologies, Eka Software, Quick-Heal, FusionCharts, Orange-Scape, One97, Kayako.com, iCreate, Komli Media, Data Infocom, Srishti Software, Rategain, Drishti Software, CIIE, Greytip, Infrasoft, New-Gen, Pramati, Practo, Sapience and IIM Bangalore, as also some individual numbers. It may open up to more members later.
iSpirt will not have a president or any such nomenclature. There’ll be a governing council consisting of Sharma, Goenka, Tewari and Dusad.
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