It was in 1996, an Engineering fresh graduate from Bangalore with just mastery over two or three dozen of HTML-Hyper Text Markup Language tags could end up fetching handsome pay package of 5 Digits in some Blue chip company! In year 1999-2000, many non-engineering and non--computer science graduates ended up getting high paid jobs in Mainframe industry to fix Y-2-K (Year 2000) problem on COBOL- (Common purpose Business Oriented Language) machines! During 2005-2006 period engineers and non-IT graduates who had acquired a certification in Software Testing tools (like load-runner and win-runner) were having demand in I.T market and Software Testers had a lucrative period.
Subsequently Object oriented Programming languages like Java and Web based programming platforms like J2EE, .NET all fetched major pie in I.T job cake. Later people started talking about BIG-DATA & Hadoop, I.O.T, Android App development, Cloud computing so on and so forth as major breadwinner for I.T aspirants. But 2017 and years ahead has lot of challenges for I.T aspirants and finally questions of my Students in classes regarding, "Why we should learn subjects like Compiler-Design, Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning, Finite-Automata like stuff? while a mere Java and J2EE course at training institutes fetches me 6 digit salary" will be answered by rapidly changing industry needs. Are Indian IT firms becoming irrelevant? is a piece of Write up in NDTV-News I caught up with, where Author clearly mentions project size are getting shrunken and Automation and Innovation are two buzz words for I.T firms to survive in this highly competitive market.
Challenges in Technology Front
Infosys C.E.O Vishal sikka warns colleagues in his new year address that complacency can kill their business and reactive way of solving problems is no more in need. He quotes Martin Luther King Jr.'s quotation "If you can't fly then run, If you can't run then walk, If you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do keep moving forward." and stresses upon the need of Automation and Innovation to thrive in industry.
Why Automation?
Infosys chief tells mastering Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence as key, because most of the tasks done by I.T employees today have become mundane tasks (whether they agree or disagree) which is getting automated at client end itself instead of outsourcing to Country like India, Brazil, Philippines or China. So Clients are in need of tools with minimum human intervention as it happens in the floors of Machine shops. The Challenge here is to learn automating the regular activities done with human help all these days.
Friends, you agree or not, Though India boasts of biggest I.T exporter in world, which was true all these days due to huge English speaking population, Contribution to Computer Science in form of any new Operating System or programming language is a Big zero! All these days our IT firms were busy addressing the orders placed by clients from USA or Europe and have shown minimum interest in Research & Innovation. All of a sudden all these jobs are getting automated and our clients will no longer outsource it! This is the bottom line making our big I.T players to talk about Innovation for the first time with such emphasis.
Why Automation?
Infosys chief tells mastering Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence as key, because most of the tasks done by I.T employees today have become mundane tasks (whether they agree or disagree) which is getting automated at client end itself instead of outsourcing to Country like India, Brazil, Philippines or China. So Clients are in need of tools with minimum human intervention as it happens in the floors of Machine shops. The Challenge here is to learn automating the regular activities done with human help all these days.
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| machine learning : Need of Today |
Why Innovation?
Friends, you agree or not, Though India boasts of biggest I.T exporter in world, which was true all these days due to huge English speaking population, Contribution to Computer Science in form of any new Operating System or programming language is a Big zero! All these days our IT firms were busy addressing the orders placed by clients from USA or Europe and have shown minimum interest in Research & Innovation. All of a sudden all these jobs are getting automated and our clients will no longer outsource it! This is the bottom line making our big I.T players to talk about Innovation for the first time with such emphasis. |
| Human have less work ! |
Political Challenges
Now with Donald Trump taking power at USA and Great Britain opting to come out of European Union Honey moon Period is over for IT due to political strategies of these big players outsourcing might come down drastically.
Friends, as an amalgamation of Technological challenges and Political ones, Indian IT firms have to innovate themselves by shedding the old image of Cost-effective Solution providers due to the difference in currency rates of Dollar $ and Pound.
Finally to conclude it will be good if the kind of challenges in evolved IT industry demands Engineering skills rather than problems that can be fixed by non technical graduate too.
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