Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC) - Cost Pressure Drives European Apps Management Demand

Top Five AM Providers in Western EuropeStore this angel in big sizeNew analysis from Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC) has begin that applications administration will be one of the arch areas of IT casework spending during the next three years.

London – November 19, 2008 – Spending on applications administration casework in Western Europe will beat €9bn in 2009, according to a new abstraction from PAC.

‘Applications Management in Europe – A Buyer’s Guide’ begin that AM is set to be one of the a lot of breath areas of the IT casework bazaar as audience attending to abate their operating costs, rationalize their applications estates, and advance their software processes.

PAC defines AM as the aliment and accessory of absolute applications, and can aswell cover antecedent development work. This differs from applications outsourcing, area a supplier takes albatross for managing the absolute appliance alternation including the server and operating system.

Logica ranks as the better provider of AM in Western Europe on the aback of contempo acquisitions in France (Unilog) and the Nordic counties (WM-data), as able-bodied as through deepening its all-around accumulation capabilities. It captivated an 8.5% allotment of the €7.63bn spent on AM in the arena in 2007, which ranked it advanced of Accenture and IBM, and European rivals Capgemini and Atos Origin.

Nick Mayes, Senior Consultant at PAC, said: “Applications administration will abide a able-bodied across of spending for organisations during the accepted bread-and-butter downturn, as it can action a way to abate operating costs after the charge and sourcing aggravation of a ample outsourcing engagement.”

“The AM suppliers that will accomplish in the accepted bazaar will be those that can bear a ‘blended’ account accumulation onshore chump intimacy, as able-bodied as amount able adopted skills. They will aswell be able to go above labour arbitrage to bear abiding amount in agreement of action improvement, industrialization, and ability optimization,” he added.

The address ‘Applications Management in Europe - A Buyer’s Guide’ is a white paper, accessible from the PAC website at www.pac-online.com.

It provides an overview of AM in Western Europe, including a country-by-country attending at bazaar drivers, an appraisal of the supplier marketplace, and a supplier account to advice audience with their AM bell-ringer alternative process. Five of the key belief that PAC believes barter charge to abode are:

•Pricing – How cellophane is your supplier in agreement of pricing? How abundant of the proposed amount accumulation are to be delivered through labour arbitrage?

•Cost Reduction - What added methods/tools/processes is your bell-ringer traveling to advantage to bear added accumulation and account improvement?

•Continuous advance – Will your supplier proactively appraise and advance the account in agreement of efficiency, capability and flexibility?

•Cultural Affinity – Is the supplier traveling to be able to plan with your centralized team. Does it allotment your business values?

•Financial Stability – How defended is the supplier’s accepted and approaching banking positioning? Are you adequate to accomplish to a multi-year deal?

About Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC): PAC is the arch European bazaar analysis and cardinal consulting close for the Software and IT Services Industry (SITSI). We admonish IT companies on developing acknowledged end-to-end advance strategies in Europe and in the U.S. through planning, development, implementation, and advancing support. This is done through bazaar analyses as able-bodied as consulting engagements.

Headquartered in Paris, we accept been acknowledging over 300 audience common for over 30 years. We administer our audience through a specialised bounded arrangement with subsidiaries in Munich, New York, London and Bucharest, as able-bodied as ally in Italy, Tunisia, Latin America (Argentina, Brazil and Mexico) and Asia (Australia, China, Japan, India, Pakistan and Singapore).

For added information, amuse appointment our website at www.pac-online.com.

Press Contact:
Shelly Wills
Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC)
15 Bowling Green Lane
EC1R0BD London
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0)20 7553 3965
Fax: +44 (0)20 7490 7335
E-mail: s.wills@pac-online.com

Further information:
Nick Mayes
Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC)
15 Bowling Green Lane
EC1R0BD London
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0)20 7553 3968
Fax: +44 (0)20 7490 7335
E-mail: n.mayes@pac-online.com