This IDC study examines the extent of managed services adoption by and future plans of large enterprises across the Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) or APEJ region. IDC surveyed enterprises in 10 APEJ countries to assess their usage of and future needs for managed services. This study also discusses the problems and issues faced with managed services and the large enterprises' criteria in selecting a managed services provider.

"Large enterprises are slowly looking beyond cost savings as a main motivator for adopting managed services," says Adrian Dominic Ho, research manager, Managed Services and Enterprise Networks, IDC Asia/Pacific. "The challenge for services providers now lies beyond the realm of cost savings; services providers need to effectively articulate to large enterprises the other value propositions of managed services."