Report

November 2003

Forecasting Europe's Outsourcing Stampede

Andrew Parker 		IT services spending in Europe will shake off its early-decade blues to recover to €129 billion by 2008. But a surge of outsourcing uptake will reshape the whole market, forcing vendors into wholesale reinvention.

INTERVIEWS
  • Two-thirds of our interviewees cite regulatory change and new product introductions as likely spending drivers.
  • Three-quarters of firms plan to increase budgets for offshore IT services spending.
ANALYSIS
  • Outsourcing's share of Europe's IT services spending will grow from 29% in 2002 to 43% in 2008.
  • Systems integration spending will rebound to 55 billion in 2008 -- up from 42 billion this year.
WHAT IT MEANS
  • Small specialists like Citihub will thrive in value-led IT services niches.
 
Figures & Data
  • Figure 1.  European Enterprise Services Spending And Priorities For 2004
  • Figure 2.  Forecast: European IT Services Spending, 2002 To 2008
   
RELATED MATERIAL 
  • Online Resource
  • Methodology
  • Companies Interviewed For This Report
  • Related Research
 
GRAPEVINE
  • Greybeards make the clients smile.
  • Grown-up IT services step forward.
  • Great expectations from the public sector.
  • A steak in the offshore market?

 

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