Channel Leadership Survey 2018 : Digital Transformation to change Business Dynamics

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Channel Leadership Survey 2018 : Digital Transformation to change Business Dynamics
Technology is changing the society. India is rapidly marching towards becoming a digitally empowered society. The push for e-governance, the proliferation of smartphones, increasing Internet access and booming digital payments are fueling the country’s journey towards a trillion-dollar digital economy by 2025. India presents a unique and a powerful growth story.

Business is getting personal. Leaders must shift their mind-sets and business models to focus on forging strong, trusted relationships with partners, customers, employees, governments, and more. Leading companies like Dell, HP, HPE, Cisco, Lenovo, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, Epson, Samsung, Canon and LG are improving the way we live with new products and services that will become indispensable in the future.

India’s IT industry is increasingly focusing on digital opportunities and is expected to grow over 30 per cent annually. 5G connectivity is set to accelerate the deployment of next generation ubiquitous ultra-high broadband infrastructure.

India’s PC market is buoyed by strong notebook demand; the Server market grew with a revenue growth of 33.7% in Q1 2018; the HCP (Inkjet, laser, SDM and line printers) market in India posted the highest growth (year-on-year) of 23.1 per cent in the second quarter of 2018; the software market is expected to achieve a year-on-year growth of 13.5% by the end of year 2018 to reach to USD 5.6 billion and the networking market which includes Ethernet switch, Routers and WLAN segments witnessed a 10.8% YoY growth in Q12018 with increased investments across the enterprise and service provider deployments. The Govt. initiatives including 2.5 lakh GPs (gram panchayats) will be covered with Wi-Fi by March 2019. Mahanet and BharatNet projects will thus fuel the growth.

India will remain the topmost offshoring destination for IT companies across the world. Having proven its capabilities in delivering both on-shore and off-shore services to global clients, leading IT firms like Infosys, Wipro, TCS, Tech Mahindra and Accenture are diversifying their offerings and showcasing leading ideas in blockchain, artificial intelligence to clients using innovation hubs, research and development centres, in order to create differentiated offerings.

VARINDIA brings the annual report for the C-suite leaders to better understand the interplay between digital and marketing performance of different vendors. VARINDIA has created this Channel Leadership Survey (CLS) Business Performance, based on our survey (online/Offline) involving vendors and partners of 500 leading organisations across verticals.
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The fact of the life is that digital has disrupted every industry. Your customers now expect you to be personal. Digital transformation is the application of technology to build new business models, processes, software, and systems that result in more profitable revenue, greater competitive advantage, and higher efficiency. Most of the vendors feel that digital enablement of top partners is going to be the key strategy going forward.

Digital transformation is disrupting businesses in every industry by breaking down barriers between people, businesses, and things. By breaking these barriers, they are able to create new products and services and find more efficient ways of doing business. Secondly, when we think of building a converged infrastructure in a corporate environment, it means that more than just replacing a few network devices, it requires an entirely different way of looking at a company's network infrastructure and the kind of IT staff needed to support it.

India has emerged as the fastest growing economy in the world. For deeper penetration across the country, the channel partner eco-system is being developed and is now, the top of mind for every companies worldwide. The partners on their end need to unlock the available resources with full potential. They also need to unlock intelligent transformation, because the scale is too vast and no company can drive it alone fully. Vendors must dedicate themselves to open partnerships and cross-border collaboration.

With the above backdrop, we present to you the "Channel Leadership Survey" (CLS 2018), where the partners have shared their experience about  their favourite vendors. We also bring forth emerging technologies, product evolutions (hardware/software/services) by technology vendors, training & certification and partner profitability that speaks about their overall positioning in the Indian market...Read More