Melani Warod

The global economic crisis makes the software trade of Shanghai under severe winter. Though concrete statistical findings for first quarter of this year have not made yet, the orders of a lot of enterprises compare and glide 30%~40% compared with the same period of last year last year.

The epiboly export is a downswing

"In fact, the intersection of software and at the state that in growing at top speed in the past several years trade. " General secretary of Shanghai association of software industry Yang GenXing tells Shanghai Business. There is data statistics, from 2001 to five years of 2006, 50% of the speeds were increased progressively with every year in the software trade of Shanghai.

However, the situation of this year is not optimistic. "Take the intersection of software and the intersection of epiboly and the intersection of export and this, come, say software the intersection of epiboly and service export speedup of since last the second half yearing, begin, slow down together, its major cause one is influence of the financial crisis, second, with RMB appreciation, it influences the order to increase that the cost is promoted, and relatively drop with the income of pricing of U.S. dollar. " Yang GenXing says, " to America and Europe, Shanghai is influenced by economy severe winter of Japan larger. "

It is reported, Japan is the mainly sending to the bag area of a Chinese software epiboly, proportion is up to 60%~70%. "A lot of software enterprises in Shanghai are doing the epiboly service of the software for the Japanese company, and Japan's economy is influenced by financial crisis continuously depressingly, causes company's corresponding traffic volume to reduce, have cut down the order. It is the universal phenomenon that the achievement of software company glides 30%, many enterprises complain bitterly. "

The situation of the national software trade is the same, January - December of 2008, Chinese software export is 14,200 million dollars, increase by 39% compared with the same period of last year, it is well paid 9.2 percentage points to increase the amplitude ratio, but the acceleration rate of export of epiboly service of the software is the downswing, finish 1,590 million dollars of export in January - December, it is 20 percentage points lower to add up to the speedup than January - June in January - December.

Change the tactics and take the advanced route

"As far as our association know, a lot of companies running whole scheme and solving have not received too great influence. A lot of opposite American-European companies are because of considering the question of the cost, would rather cut down one's own native development, move on to China. Like China for, Divine Land number, unite create if you can't last enterprise of solution, increase to exceed 50% to somes such as science and technology,etc., other game software and antivirus software manufacturer make the fast development. " Yang GenXing represents, the advantage of the Chinese software industry is cheap cost, labour force of fine quality and great input of the government on IT technology and infrastructure, "but the global economic crisis this time lets us see, China should not always confine to encoding the execution operation of the aspect, but should pay attention to the development of a series of complete network service, including requirement analysis, designing systematically, linking and protecting and serving etc.. "

Can be found out from a series of policy which the government announces, software epiboly trade, as the advanced information service trades has been encouraged and supported by the country all the time in recent years, there is strong progradation on long-term development of enterprises.

How do software enterprises deal with the demand to shrink?

General secretary Yang GenXing proposes:

1,The software epiboly is not merely only served, and should be based on " products " Plant serve. Much software epiboly enterprises do not have one's own software product so far, it is unable to declare software enterprises to assert that the most direct loss cause, can't enjoy the preferential policy of the software. If epiboly enterprises have one's own products, have streamlined a broad development path.

2,From developing epibolies to transporting linking the transition of epiboly, expand the channel of the epiboly of software of Shanghai. It is very good to transport the sustainability of linking the epiboly project, upper overseas bag enterprises have unique competitive edges such as talents, experience, geography, culture,etc.. So, conditional epiboly enterprises should set up ISO20000IT service management system as soon as possible. Moreover, transporting has a good market in China to link epibolies. In addition, software testing is a direction that can be expanded too.

3,Epiboly enterprises should further perfect the exercises to benefit the internal organs, besides the ability of foreign language, CMMI system, framed teacher, domain expert, platform products, new technology (such as BI) that should be in software Wait for the respect to train key talents.