The rapid growth in the Information Technology and ITES industries has spurred the need for an expansion of IT consulting services in India. IT consulting is a field which is concerned with providing professional advice to companies and businesses on how best to utilize information technology in order to meet their business-oriented goals. Apart from this, IT consultants also perform a very important function of ‘outsourcing’ that refers to the act of estimating, managing and deploying information technology systems on behalf of clients that include companies and businesses. As in the rest of the world, the overall IT consulting industry in India can be broadly categorised into professional services firms, staffing firms, independent consultants and information security consultants. An IT consultant may be hired on a temporary or on a long-term basis. However, a large part of IT consultancy services in India focuses on the outsourcing aspect. Hide this