Lack of Reference Clients to Limit Prospects of Offshore Service Providers?:

Lack of Reference Clients to Limit Prospects of Offshore Service Providers?

Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: IDC
Published: December 2006
Product Code: R104-28888

Description

This study examines the influence of the offshore players on the IT and business services markets through analysis of contracts in IDC's comprehensive contracts database, which contains over 8,300 contracts captured since 1995. For the purpose of this study, contracts signed in 2004, 2005, and 1H06 and totaling over 3,300 have been analyzed.

The analysis is based on contracts from close to 500 individual companies of which 28 were classified as pure-play offshore providers, i.e. a key selling point for the company in going to market is its ability to offer lower cost service delivery through presence in lower labor cost countries.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

IDC Opinion

In This Insight

Methodology

Geographic Segmentation

Contract Value

Classification of Vendors

Situation Overview

Contract Analysis ? "Traditional" versus Offshore

Table: Analysis of Contracts - Traditional vs Offshore, 2004, 2005, and 1H06 ($M)

Figure: Offshore Percentage of Contracts by Region by Year

Figure: Offshore Percentage of Total Contract Value by Region by Year

Figure: Development in Aggregate Offshore Contract Value ($M)

Figure: Development in Average Offshore Contract Value ($M)

Offshore Providers Take a Good Share of Large Deals in Europe

Table: Analysis of Top 100 Contracts - Traditional vs Offshore, 2004 and 2005 ($M)

Future Outlook

Ordering and More Information

Price and Delivery Options

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