India is growing very fast, for an econonomy of US 1 trillion plus and to have maintain 9 % growth rate is commendable. Due to this growth, India is getting some of the advantages of Cloud faster to adopt than even some of the western counterparts. Case in point is one ERP built by an Indian company, Ramoco On Demand, this is being adopted by lot of companies since its much cheaper to adopt. Although, for ERP kind of application area, my personal views is that cloud ERP will not have very large scale adoptions.
Also looking at success of salesforce.com, I feel that indian companies will definitely adopt cloud applications in lot of areas like HCM, SFA, CRM, Expense Management and so on.
Here are my reasons for possible success of cloud in India
1. India has one of the largest concentration of Small and Medum business (SMBs) and growing rapidly
2. Internet and other connectivity solutions, coupled with 3G implementations by telecom companies, will increase possibilities with cloud
3. India has more than 20 years of history of adoption of serious large-scale applications like ERP, SCM and CRM.
4. Strong presense of MISO group ( Microsoft, IBM, SAP and Oracle) coupled with large scale Indian IT SWITCH ( Satyam, Wipro, Infosys, Cognizant, HCL) and large eco-system of small and medium IT players at much reasonable cost
