The State of Analytics Across Asia

[Steve Bennett]

Further to my last blog, I have collected my facts and thoughts into a year-end overview of Asia in 2009. Here's a round-up of developments that I noted over the last 12 months. There were many more that you can access by using the CORTEX, but several key events are listed below. What are common trends across the region? A V-shaped market recovery is predicted in the 2010 BI market. The leading tech companies have created analytic centres of excellence across Asia. If you engage a major vendor or consultancy then it is likely that you will be leveraging Indian or Chinese IP. Low-cost and innovative reporting and analytic solutions are winning worldwide accolades. Strong sales across the region will continue and price sensitive buyers in Western markets will begin to take notice. Notable Events in 2009 January Accenture India said it planned to hire 8,000 people by the end of 2009, which will take its total workforce in India to 50,000. “We believe that analytics is going to be an important trend that our customers are going to demand from us. We think India is going to be a great place for us. We have some core centres of excellence in the analytics space in the country,” said William D Green, chairman and CEO of the firm that employs 177,000 people globally. April SAP Opens Co-Innovation Lab in Bangalore. Joins existing labs in Palo Alto, California, and Tokyo, Japan. Work has concentrated on delivering workflow and mobility solutions. May Analytics tools are becoming more vital to outsourcers -especially quality monitoring and performance management products. Agent Performance Optimisation (APO) products have become vital as outsourcers strive to differentiate themselves competitively and cut costs for their clients. June Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) launched a new business intelligence solution for hospitals and health care sector. The company today said in a press release that it has developed an out of the box dashboard that will simplify projects, cut cost and dramatically shorten time to value related services to both hospital administration and patients care. Ramco Systems in India introduced a corebanking analytics solution aimed at addressing Business Intelligence (BI) needs of banks. The analytics solution packaged and delivered with HP s Neoview Appliance box will be based on Ramco s Decisionworks software framework. Chinese telecom operators reportedly spent US$1.18 bln on their business and operation support systems in 2008, up 26.8 percent year-on-year and a significant portion of this was reportedly on business intelligence. China Mobile is working on a back end system based on cloud computing technology, which it has dubbed "Big Cloud". This includes data mining systems for China Mobile's mobile search service and a business intelligence system to track user behavior. August IBM Analytics Centre in Beijing. IBM announced last August that it would open an advanced business analytics centre in Beijing that will serve clients including the Chinese government. This centre joins a worldwide network of others in cities such as Berlin, Tokyo, London, New York and Washington,...



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