{"id":1041053,"date":"2026-10-06T08:02:34","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T02:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1041053"},"modified":"2026-10-06T08:07:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T02:37:38","slug":"ai-deals-seen-driving-medium-term-growth-as-indian-it-sector-faces-muted-q2-report-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/06\/ai-deals-seen-driving-medium-term-growth-as-indian-it-sector-faces-muted-q2-report-2\/","title":{"rendered":"AI deals seen driving medium-term growth as Indian IT sector faces muted Q2: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s IT services sector is likely to see muted performance in the second quarter of FY27, but increasing traction in artificial intelligence-related deals could support growth over the medium term, Centrum said in a report. <\/p>\n<p>The report said the demand environment has remained broadly unchanged over the past three months, with clients cautious about AI adoption and longer decision-making timelines weighing on near-term growth. At the same time, the brokerage expects deal booking to remain healthy, with a strong pipeline across most IT services companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s IT services sector is likely to see muted performance in the second quarter of FY27, but increasing traction in artificial intelligence-related deals could support growth over the medium term, Centrum said in a report. The report said the demand environment has remained broadly unchanged over the past three months, with clients cautious about AI adoption and longer decision-making timelines weighing on near-term growth. At the same time, the brokerage expects deal booking to remain healthy, with a strong pipeline across most IT services companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041054,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041053\/revisions\/1041054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}