Thirty software product members of NASSCOM, the industry association for the IT BPO sector in India, announced that they would form a group to expand the software ecosystem in India: the Indian Software Product Industry Round Table, or iSPIRT. The key driver behind this development appears to be NASSCOM’s limited focus on software product companies in India. iSPIRT plans to:

• Convert ideas into policy proposals to take to government stakeholders
• Enable product startups to discuss issues through a dedicated platform (productnation.in)
• Create awareness for the adoption of software products within the Indian SMB sector
• Work with NASSCOM and other industry associations to provide a platform for product start-ups