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Just leafing through an extract of the IDC's World Wide Software Forecast 2010-14 Summary report. <a href="http://www.idc.com" target="_blank">www.idc.com</a></div><div style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br></div><div style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">The Worldwide Packaged Software Market was USD 273 Billiion in 2009. Made up of </div><div style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<ol><li>Application development and deployment 64,575 Million USD</li><li>Applications 129,838 Million USD</li><li>Systems Infrastructure software 78,068 Million USD</li></ol><div>Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, SAP, Symantec, HP, CA. EMC Adobe and Fujistu are the leading vendors.</div>
</div><div style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">Conclusion from our reading this report:</div>
<div><ul><li style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">Certain global company technologies dominate and the ability to develop and deploy solutions on top of these technologies can greatly enhance a country's overall ICT competitiveness. </li>
<li><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse">Most global enterprises run some of their critical operations on the back of these. Indeed the biggest ICT projects in the private sector here relate to deployment of solutions. e.g in CRM at Safaricom and Kenya Airways, in ERP at EABL, BIDCO, SHELL, and indeed in Financial Management in Government.</span></font></li>
<li><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="border-collapse:collapse">The consultancy, project management and deployment of these platforms is a huge business opportunity. Indeed many shared services and outsourcing functions include supporting or using these platforms as part of wider business operation or process. Many successful ICT firms in Kenya are in this space. Some of the venture capitalists / and private equity managers in Kenya have asked us to </span><span style="border-collapse:collapse">encourage</span><span style="border-collapse:collapse"> more ICT </span><span style="border-collapse:collapse">entrepreneurs</span><span style="border-collapse:collapse"> to operate their businesses around established platforms.They would be willing to fund more Oracle or Cisco certified firms. </span></font></li>
</ul><div style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div></div><div style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">As an example, Infosys the large technology services and outsourcing provider has 20,000 certified oracle consultants on their payroll according to their CEO speaking at this year's Oracle World in California.</div>
<div style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">Part of any effort to develop a country's ICT sector includes aligning capacity building efforts to global demand.</div>
<div style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px">asante and Happy Jamhuri weekend.</div>
<div style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></div>Paul Kukubo<br>Chief Executive Officer, Kenya ICT Board<br>
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personal twitter: @pkukubo<br><br><br>____________________<br>Vision: Kenya becomes a top ten global ICT hub<br><br>Mission: To champion and actively enable Kenya to adopt and exploit ICT, through promotion of partnerships, investments and infrastructure growth for socio economic enrichment <br>