Market Trends 2008: project services and application-led outsourcing

Publication Date	January 2009
Publisher	Ovum
Product Type	Report
Pages	18
ISBN Number	not applicable
Product Code	OVM00706

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Summary

The rosy view of the UK project services and application-led outsourcing market in 2007 has been overshadowed in 2008 by the macroeconomic slowdown. Constrained capital expenditure is driving a cost-cutting agenda that will see slower growth to 2012.

Content

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
- In a nutshell
- Recommendations
- Plan for a long economic downturn
- Re-prioritise price competitiveness
- Focus on cost take-out
- Exploit counter-cyclical opportunities
- Deepen vertical expertise
- Review M&A strategy
- SCOPE
- Examining the state of the UK market
- Demand-side trends
- Project services and ALO feel the pinch
- More trouble ahead
- Projects are early casualties
- Application-led outsourcing slower to suffer
- More for less' becomes even more for less'
- Sourcing strategies governed by complexity and cost
- Financial services and retail take the brunt
- Public sector budgets under pressure
- Supply-side trends
- Vendors feel the slowdown
- Smaller business ERP market remains robust
- Skill shortage eases at the bottom, toughens at the top
- Global delivery model ascends
- Testing gets smarter
- Hype over SOA subsides
- IT and telco services converge further
- Consulting and outsourcing more closely co-ordinated
- Process improvement realised through innovation
- Verticalisation becomes more widespread
- Applications services evolve
- Rebalancing occurs towards applications services
- Market forecasts: project services
- Market composition
- Economic turmoil takes its toll in 2008
- Looking forward: challenging conditions
- Market forecasts: ALO
- Price pressure
- Market definitions
- Project services
- Application-led outsourcing (ALO)
List of Tables
- Table 1: UK project services market size ( billion) and growth (%)
- Table 2: UK project services market size by service sub-line ( billion)
- Table 3: UK project services market growth (%) by service sub-line
- Table 4: Table 4 UK application-led outsourcing (ALO) market size ( billion) and growth (%)
List of Figures
- Figure 1: UK GDP growth projected to 2009
- Figure 2: UK project services market size by sector and overall growth
- Figure 3: UK project services market size by service sub-line
- Figure 4: UK application-led outsourcing (ALO) market size and growth