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SME WORLD Bureau
Aug 2010

SMEs in India with their growing business domain and mandatory synergies in their work processes are orienting to invest more on the ICT (Information Communication Technology) environment. Continuous innovation initiatives in SMEs and rising pressure of the various work segments with optimum harmony are some the factors that are driving the ICT adoption rate in the SMEs.

During the last few years, SMEs have implemented a large number of innovations in various segments like software applications, work processes, business organizations, enterprise resource planning and management, supply-chain management, customer-relations management and business intelligence.

To handle all these SMEs are tending towards more and more ICT applications and devices. If we see the PC (Personal Computer) penetration among the SMEs in India, it is 38% of the total adoption. Many medium size companies who generally employ 300-600 workmen are now switching to the heavy ICT models for the increased efficiency and timely delivery.

“Most of the SMEs are now adopting the ICT solutions. The factors which are driving their willingness to adopt this pattern are the pressures to keep customers satisfied, collapsing response time, improving the production process and quality and easy or simple handling of the management,” says Swati Sasmal, Sr. Director in Research with AMI Partners, a global strategy consulting firm which has a wealth of experience in the IT and telecom industries specifically within the small and medium business marketplace.

Pain Points for SMEs

There could be many factors that are impacting the adoption pattern of the new applications for effective management. There have been many fundamental changes in all industry verticals during the last 10-15 years. Keeping pace with the requirements and to sustain with assurance of promising growth, it has become mandatory to implement the new age technology and applications. Most of the SMEs are now understanding the need of the hour and investing heavily in management applications and software solutions.

But the heavy dependency on such applications leads to a solution which keeps all the records. Such types of record devices are often called storage devices. The primary storages being enabled in the PC itself are called hard drives, removable disks and drives which generally are used in the one or more than one systems.

But as the quantum of data storage increases we need higher storage devices which are common for the server and networking platforms. At such platforms where the users need to save heavy amount of data, they also need for the data sharing and management.

“The research being done by the AMI partners also shows that sales and marketing, investment, customers are the factors affecting the ICT adaptation and expansion. Amongst the total number of small and medium enterprises, only 15% of the small enterprises are found to have branches while medium enterprises with branches number 85%. To handle these branches the SMEs need better solutions with improved options for the storage. Type of the content, locations, size, quality of service, protection levels, backup and archiving policies are some the factors which emphasize on the storage with higher capacity,” says Swati.

Storage Pattern and Dell

Today, an average consumer routinely carries hundreds of gigabytes of data with them everywhere they go, and businesses are expected to store absolutely everything they do – from emails all the way to corporate videos. According to a study report, the digital universe is growing faster at a rate of 60% and it is projected to be nearly 1.8 bzettabytes (1800 exabytes) in 2011, a 10-fold increase over the next five years.

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