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Infrastructure Opportunities in Western European and North American Financial Services (Market Focus)

Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: Datamonitor
Published: October 2006
Product Code: R313-17256
Description
Introduction

Infrastructure outsourcing is the most mature outsourcing market within the financial services sector to date, but significant opportunities continue to exist with interest levels remaining high. The brief analyzes the trends that are shaping the financial services infrastructure outsourcing market and helps vendors take advantage of the resulting profit opportunities.

Scope
  • The brief draws on 100 interviews with the main outsourcing vendors operating across the four lines of business.
  • Includes Datamonitor's datasets on financial services institutions infrastructure outsourcing take-up.
  • Provides a breakdown of the infrastructure financial services outsourcing landscape by region and outsourcing segment.
Highlights

Infrastructure outsourcing in financial services is a mature market, with high acceptance and take-up levels, but despite a relative maturity the market continues to grow.

Revenue-wise, data centers outsourcing services will hold the largest potential in both North American and Western European markets through 2008, while securities and privacy services will be the fastest growing markets.

Despite the lack of large mega deals, the desktop outsourcing market is positioned for growth from a number of smaller deals consummated at the end of 2005 and earlier in 2006. The networking and communications services market growth will be driven by the move to IP.

Reasons to Purchase
  • Get a strategic overview of the infrastructure outsourcing opportunities in North American and Western European financial services.
  • Understand the drivers of infrastructure outsourcing in financial services to improve sales effectiveness.
Table of Contents
DATAMONITOR VIEW
CATALYST
SUMMARY


ANALYSIS
Despite relative maturity, infrastructure outsourcing in FS continues to grow
The desktop services market is likely to experience a single digit growth
Desktop services are increasingly getting commoditized
The move to mobile working will drive the growth
Networking and Communications growth will be driven by the move to IP
WAN solutions revenues have traditionally been greater than LAN solutions though the balance is changing
Mobility and IP convergence are part of a new wave of revenue growth
Managed data center services will continue to see strong growth to 2008
Managed services are driving the growth in the market
Regulation drives the need to replicate data around the globe in the financial services industry
Storage services are growing as a result of growth in outsourcing
Space is at premium in data centers
Mainframe management services are back in favor
Security managed services will be the fastest growing market


APPENDIX
METHODOLOGY
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List of Tables
Table 1: Infrastructure services spend in North America by BPO service area, $m
Table 2: Infrastructure Services spend in Western Europe by BPO service area, $m
Table 3: Network and communications services revenues in North America, $m
Table 4: Network and communications services revenues in Western Europe, $m
Table 5: Data center services spend in North America, $m
Table 6: Data centers spend in Western Europe, $m


List of Figures
Figure 1: Financial services infrastructure outsourcing spending by market segment, 2006-2008
Figure 2: Desktop services spend in North America and Western Europe, $m
Figure 3: Network and communications services revenues in North America and Western Europe, $m
Figure 4: Data center services North American and Western European revenues, $m
Figure 5: The demand for security management services is growing
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