IT companies are spotting great business opportunities in government’s e-governance efforts. Adobe Systems India, with their publishing solutions (especially PDF) and PDF A (archiving solution), is seeing big growth opportunities in this space. 

Talking to Deccan Herald Adobe President & Chief Operating Officer Shantanu Narayen said “The e-governance spend is estimated to be Rs 23,000 crore. We are in a position to capture major share of this.”  Adobe products can help large organisations looking to make their internal processes smooth and easy.

Adobe sees paper based automation process business at $200 million with 20 per cent year-on-year growth. It plans to touch $3 billion in revenues by December 2007. But inspite of good prospects, Adobe is, however, plagued with issues of piracy in countries like India and China, Mr Narayen said observing “Piracy rates as high as 80 - 90 per cent in India and China and continue to be a major challenge.”

To combat piracy Adobe has launched new licensing options and curriculum programmes to create awareness about licensing and illegal software among youngsters in schools and technical institutes.

On Adobe India R&D centre’s contribution, Senior Vice President (Print & Classic Publishing Group) & Managing Director (India-R&D) Naresh Chand Gupta  said, “The Noida centre contributes to around 25-30 per cent of Adobe R&D globally and nearly all-global products of Adobe have contributions from India.” Adobe has invested $100 million in expanding the Noida and Bangalore campuses and is evaluating further investment, Mr Gupta said.