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'China is no threat to India'

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CIOL Bureau
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BANGALORE: The simmering competition between China and India, seen as closest rivals going neck to neck for software exports, might soon come to a logical end. India is being prudent as it prepares ground to take China head on in the software exports sector. The one factor that would keep India in a win-all situation, is the sheer number of companies that are CMM certified. Companies today need to be assessed under the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) to be able to export software and services.



"China can never pose as a threat to India in software, " says Krishnan Puthucode, SEI Authorised Lead Assessor and the Director- SQC



"According to US sanctions, China cannot have assessors, leave alone lead assessors. The country is not allowed to have a transition partner for CMM-I too. This leaves them handicapped, as no company in China is CMM-I certified and very few CMM level 2 or 3 companies in China. In the US, it is mandatory to have CMM assessed software companies for any kind of exports. This gives India a leading edge over China," Puthucode added.



As of today, India has four transition partners for CMM-I namely, SQC, KPMG, QAI and Sitara with roughly about 10 to 15 lead assessors for CMM-I in the country. There are nine CMM-I assessed companies in India and China has none.



However companies in China can have CMM-I assessed without an internal assessor. This would obviously be an impediment in their assessment as an internal assessor is very vital to understand the firm’s management process. "They can have CMM-I assessed but they would have to depend on us. We are their closest bet, if not they would have to bring in authorized assessors from Europe or the US," added Krishnan.

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