India is a great place for innovation: Microsoft

1. India is a great place for innovation: Microsoft India is a great place for innovation and there is a lot of opportunity for Indian firms and start-ups to work with Microsoft and develop cloud-based tools and platforms for a global marketplace, according to a senior official of the software giant. Alyssa Fitzpatrick, general manager of Microsoft's worldwide channel sales, on the sidelines of the ongoing annual partnership meet of Microsoft 'Inspire', said that some of the great things have been happening in the Indian market from an innovation perspective. She said that Microsoft was going to market with solution maps. "That's gonna give us an opportunity to bring some of the innovation from India into those solution maps and really highlight it for the rest of the world's consumption," she said.

2. A recognised leader for transforming global direct and indirect sales in the software industry, Fitzpatrick has carried responsibility for over 50,000 global partners, encompassing management consultancies, global systems integrators and services partners. Fitzpatrick, a frequent traveller to India when the Indian IT sector was in its infancy stage, cited the example of a small time app developer in India, which now has global presence. "India is a great place of innovation, she said. "I think there is a lot of opportunity in the Indian market to join together with Microsoft, as we're going through this transformation and really give opportunity to develop in our Cloud and produce in our Cloud, so that they can be sold globally in the Cloud," she said. Noting that it is a very exciting time in India, she said it is because they have gone through the entire maturity of the Cloud, and starting to adopt the Cloud. ARTICLE SOURCE : BUSINESS STANDARD BUSINESS STANDARD