Identify the Key Trends & Attitudes Towards Outsourcing Application Services.

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c41540) has announced the addition of The Top Application Priorities in 2006 (Customer Focus) to their offering.

This brief explores the attitudes of end-users toward outsourcing application work to IT services vendors. Technologies covered include application development, testing, integration and collaboration, packaged applications and hosted/managed applications. Understanding the end-user opinion is key to success in an increasingly competitive IT services market.

Scope of this title:

--Our survey of 1,100 IT decision makers highlights attitudes to outsourcing revealing the short, mid and long term opportunity for vendors.

--Covers five key technology areas. Application testing and development, integration and collaboration, packaged applications and hosted/managed apps.

--Survey results are explored by country and by industry vertical revealing specific trends.

Highlights of this title:

The focus of this report is highlighting the key trends and attitudes toward outsourcing application services. Uncovering this information provides vendors with a clear view of the short, mid and long term opportunities in this market.

Reasons to order your copy:

--Understand what IT decision makers are thinking about application outsourcing services.

--Discover who is, and isn't, buying IT services by country and industry vertical.

--Learn which trends matter and what our advice to vendors is.

Topics Covered

OUR VIEW

CATALYST

SUMMARY

METHODOLOGY

ANALYSIS

Integration and packaged applications are end-user priorities

Development, testing and integration still has untapped potential

Outsourcing packaged applications is most likely amongst verticals with less in-house IT

Outsourcing in application services is a high demand area but requires direct geography and vertical expertise

APPENDIX

Definitions

Further reading

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List of Tables

Table 1: Investment priorities in applications

Table 2: Likely to outsource application work in the nest two years by technology area

Table 3: Likely to outsource application development in next 2 years

Table 4: Likely to outsource application testing in next 2 years

Table 5: Likely to outsource application integration and collaboration in next 2 years

Table 6: Likely to outsource packaged applications in the next two years

List of Figures

Figure 1: Investment priorities in applications

Figure 2: Likely to outsource application work in the nest two years by technology area

Figure 3: Likely to outsource application development in next 2 years

Figure 4: Likely to outsource application testing in next 2 years

Figure 5: Likely to outsource application integration and collaboration in next 2 years

Figure 6: Likely to outsource packaged applications in the next two years

Figure 7: Likely to outsource packaged applications in the next two years

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Source: Datamonitor