PwC tries to get the Indian Retail IT pie

There was this piece of news in Rediff.com today about PwC being in talks with Reliance and Bharti-Walmart to manage their IT systems. This is just great news !!!

This is also a wake up call for Indian IT majors like Wipro, Infosys & TCS to look homewards for huge IT deals. Remember the multi million dollar deal that IBM won from Bharti some time back !!!

Setting up an IT infrastructure for these companies would be a huge task. Managing that would be bigger. The IT opportunities in this sector are unlimited. Starting from the POS systems to the entire supply chain to HR systems, it would be one huge opportunity.

I would like to believe that these companies would go for a 3 tiered approach
1) In house Core Team - Their own employees for all decision making & providing direction
2) A world class Consultatnt - A PWC or Accenture type company helping them with the process and guidance. This group would help the retailer to buy initial software across their divisions
3) An IT services company to manage this whole deal

Surely this space looks interesting...