{"id":988335,"date":"2026-01-28T09:27:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T03:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988335"},"modified":"2026-01-28T14:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T08:38:17","slug":"ai-pushes-indian-it-firms-towards-smaller-phased-technology-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/28\/ai-pushes-indian-it-firms-towards-smaller-phased-technology-deals\/","title":{"rendered":"AI pushes Indian IT firms towards smaller, phased technology deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian IT companies are seeing a clear change in how global clients are buying technology services in FY26, with large transformation contracts increasingly being split into smaller, faster-to-execute deals. <\/p>\n<p>Executives across companies linked the trend to how artificial intelligence (AI) projects are being adopted. Rather than committing to large-scale programmes from the start, clients are beginning with smaller implementations and scaling them over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian IT companies are seeing a clear change in how global clients are buying technology services in FY26, with large transformation contracts increasingly being split into smaller, faster-to-execute deals. Executives across companies linked the trend to how artificial intelligence (AI) projects are being adopted. Rather than committing to large-scale programmes from the start, clients are beginning with smaller implementations and scaling them over time.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988335","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=988335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}