India has emerged as one of the fastest growing IT hubs in the world; its growth being dominated by IT software and services such as Custom Application Development and Maintenance (CADM), System Integration, IT Consulting, Application Management, Infrastructure Management Services, Software testing, service-oriented architecture and Web services. In the process, it has opened up numerous avenues at different levels for technical as well as non-technical job aspirants.

ITeS, which started with basic data entry tasks over a decade ago, is witnessing an expansion in its scope of services to include increasingly complex processes involving rule-based decision making and even research services requiring informed individual judgment. It now offers services such as knowledge process outsourcing (KPO), legal process outsourcing (LPO), games process outsourcing (GPO) and design outsourcing among others.

Realizing its potential, after IT Parks and IT SEZs, the government has cleared a proposal for creating much larger Information Technology Investment Regions (ITIRs) to give a fillip to the country's growing IT and ITeS sector.

Today, it already finds itself in a position where Indian IT companies have already established their superiority in terms of cost advantage, availability of skilled manpower and the quality of services across the world. Moreover, they have been continuously enhancing their global service delivery capabilities through a combination of organic and inorganic growth initiatives. Global giants such as Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, and Lenovo have already established their captive centre’s in India.