India outsourcing market set for further rapid growth

The business process outsourcing (BPO) market in India will expand by 23.2 per cent in 2011 to reach a size of $1.4 billion, compared to $1.1 billion a year ago according to a study by global IT research firm Gartner

Gartner's research director T.J. Singh said. "Changing demographics, increasing affluence and economic growth in Asia-Pacific continues to drive shared services and BPO adoption, especially in Australia, India, Southeast Asia and China," 

 "Buyers continue to invest in services that deliver scalable and consistent services across their geographical presence," he added.
The study also forecasts that the BPO market will grow to $1.69 billion by 2012 and $2.47 billion by 2014.

According to the study, India is one of the fastest growing BPO markets in the region. However, the largest BPO country market is Australia, which is more than three times larger than India, the second-largest consumer of BPO services.

Banking and financial services, communications, government (both local and federal), technology and travel and transportation have been largest consumers of BPO services in the region.

Over the past three years, many established India-based BPO service providers and US and Europe-based multinational BPO service providers have started focusing on the Indian domestic market.