Software exports have grown by 200 per cent in the past one year, say officials. 95 crore was Chandigarh's share. Last year exports had been Rs 14.77 crore, a majority of this being from Chandigarh. In the year 1998-99 exports stood at Rs 7.7 crore. The target for next year is Rs 100 crore, he informs.
Exports are in the fields of electronic publishing, graphic arts and production workflow for Quark.
Smartdata Enterprises is exporting software designing, development and maintenance, data analysis, capture, processing and mining besides having online consultancy. ATEC Software exports web content development and multimedia softwares. Inde Dutch Systems is into pre-press publishing, legal data, coding, web chat centre, medical billing and collection. Technology Centre is doing medical transcription and software development. The Director IT, Chandigarh Administration, Mr Vivek Atray, says this shows the growing status of the city as an ideal IT destination.