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JOURNAL OF COMPUTERS, VOL. 6, NO. 9, SEPTEMBER 2011 1807
information technology support of the related industries.
As for the traditional industrial departments, the
development of IT services industry can raise developing
efficiency of the new products, the technological content
and value-added products. As for the construction
industry, IT services like modern engineering consulting
services should be developed vigorously, to soften the
industrial industries and to achieve business value-added.
In addition, to develop vigorously IT services industry
can not only raise the added value level of the third
industry but also update the traditional means of service
industry.
IV. TENDENCY ANALYSIS OF PRESENT IT SERVICES
STATUS
Although late beginning, with the development of IT
and its wide use in various fields, China’s IT services
industry now goes into the rapid growth stage, having a
certain scale and achieving substantial results. The scale
of software industry continues to grow. IT services,
represented by communications industry, has been
developing rapidly, the development and application of
information resources having made positive progress,
outsourcing service becoming a new highlight, some
excellent digital content products having been created,
information services promoting information technology
having preliminary breakthrough and leading to upgrade
of optimization. But, compared with the international
advanced level, China’s information technology industry
is still in lower level. Specific development status and
future trends show as follows.
A. Analysis of Information Technology Services
(a) Unbalance of the Development Shown from Market
Structure, Low Level of Market Development
Unbalanced development of information technology
services is mainly reflected in the unbalance of balance
industrial structure and the regional development. In
recent years, the information service level of information
service industry has been obviously improved, but, the
entire IT services market presents low-level trend. At the
same time, the development of information services level
is vigorously unbalanced. The information service
industry level of cities like Shanghai, Shenzhen,
Guangzhou is far above the China’s average level. As for
the present, the communication industry in China
accounts for over half of IT services industry, but, the
software, technical services and information content
services accounts for miner proportion. The development
is unbalanced. In addition, due to the influence of many
aspects such as its own conditions and external
environment, the overall strength of IT services industry
in China is low and small. The large groups with
internationally competitiveness are too limited.
(b) Developing Fast Scale, a Big Gap to the
International Advanced Level, Belonging to Growth
Stage
Viewing from the revenue of the whole industry, the
growth tendency of China’s IT services is great. Although
China’s IT services industry, especially, modern IT
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services industry has made great progress, the proportion
in the national economy and services industry is still low.
Compared to the developed countries the overall level
falls behind twenty to thirty years. In the global share of
modern IT services market, IT services market scale of
the United States, Western Europe and Japan altogether
accounts for 90 percent of the global market, while
China’s IT services market share accounts for only less
than 10%. The gap is obvious.
(c) Falling Behind Relatively in Information Resources
Construction, the Information Infrastructure Not Being
Sound Enough
Not enough is the input of China’s database
information systems infrastructure. Nor is the
development strength of information resources. For
example, there are many shortcomings in database
construction: small quantity of database construction,
small capacity, lack of database product with high
quality, present database information resources focusing
on hardware neglecting software, slow updating speed,
contents focusing on science and technology and difficult
to meet the market requirements.
B. Analysis on Future Development Trend of IT Services
Industry
(a) The Traditional IT Hardware Manufacturers
Transformation to Software and Services
Many well-known enterprises of today’s IT
manufacturing fields in the whole world see IT services
as a key development. Some manufacturers like
internationally renowned electronic data processing
companies successfully realize transformation from the
traditional hardware manufacturers to software and
hardware manufacturers and service. In the Unite States,
the largest feature of IT services industry is meanwhile
providing the integrated IT services of hardware and
software. The largest project in Japan’s IT services
industry is software development services, which
accounts for 60% of total sales. While, now in China, IT
services industry should do better to prepare for strategic
transformation, leading it to transformation of software
and services in developing hardware manufacturing
industry and realizing IT service industry’s convergence
with international standards.
(b) Adaping International Trends, Realizing
Outsourcing of Software and Services
The local industrial cluster formed and developed
under the global background is the carrier of the regional
and global economy. The IT development makes the
industrial cluster theory take on a revolutionary change.
The border region and national boundary and therefore,
conduct development, production and sales activities in
different areas. Software outsourcing, compared with the
previous one, in terms of scale or in the related content,
has presented unprecedented differentiation and
development. Shown as follows, first, scale enlarging and
energy degree increasing. To ensure the quality and
speed, the contractor establishes more and more large
development centers where the party contracting locates.
Second, diversification of outsourcing situation, there are
two types: direct and indirect sub-contracting. The United