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Market for UK Software and Computer Services Continues to Grow and Outperform European Averages

Posted on: Friday, 28 April 2006, 12:00 CDT

Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c36100) has announced the addition of UK Software And Computer Services Industry - A Competitive Analysis to their offering.

As one of the most vibrant and fastest growing sectors, 'UK Software and Computer Services Industry' has seen growing opportunities and market expansion in the last few decades. Driven primarily by the positive effects of Euro Vs Pound conversion rates and boom in the Internet communication have immensely contributed to the growth factor, which according to forecast is expected to incur a modest return by 2007.

UK is fast emerging as a hub for software investment, with large numbers of global players now entering the market for new ventures with UK-based software houses. UK Offshore business is rising exponentially and expected to grow from GBP 3billion in 2000 to reach over GBP 8.7billion in 2008.

The market has been performing consistently better than other European averages. Rising demand for advance technologies from UK-based offshore firms is drawing huge investment and expenditures, being carried out by public-owned agencies and private investors to make it the global leader in the recent times.

This report on UK Software and Computer Services Industry pays a detailed view to the changing pattern of software and computer services market in Britain and its effects on the overall European market. Based on analytical surveys, graphical representations and tabular data, it compares the productivity and demand for software support services in countries like U.S., Germany, and France vis-a-vis UK. The report further analyzes sector's influence on the productivity of other industries and assesses the growth prospect for small-scale, mid-sized and corporate software houses for U.K. by 2008.

REPORT HIGHLIGHTS:

-- Global and U.K Software and computer services landscape

-- Global and U.K. software consumption by sector (applications, application development and deployment, and system infrastructure)

-- Economies and business models in software, computer services, and offshoring

-- Supply and demand of software and computer services, geographically

-- Trends contributing to the maturation of the industry

-- Changes in customer mindsets and behavior in context of IT

-- Major mergers and acquisition deals

-- Measuring productivity in software and computer services sector

-- Analyzing the productivity in U.K. software and computer services sector

-- Drivers and nature of offshoring growth

-- Offshoring opportunities for software vendors and system integrators

-- Impact of offshoring on software and computer services

REPORT FEATURES:

This report describes the software and computer services sector in the U.K., and compares its productivity with that in the U.S., Germany, and France. The sector's influence on the productivity of other industries has been much researched and debated.

The software sub-sector and the computer services sub-sector are quite different from one another and are therefore treated separately in this report. Broadly, software includes the creation of applications and tools that can be sold to more than one user ('packaged', to use the industry term), while computer services includes custom services to create or integrate computer systems (both hardware and software) and the provision of outsourced computer services of many types, including the third party delivery of complete business processes.

Chapter 3 deals with an account of the sub-sector including detailed definition, economics, business models, industry structure and key trends; an analysis of its productivity including comparative analysis of U.K. productivity against the U.S., Germany, France, and India, and on the drivers of difference. Subsequently, Chapter 4 covers the same ground for computer services as for software. Then chapter 5 gives an overview of the impact of offshoring on the sector as a whole and opportunities for both software and computer services vendors to take advantage of offshoring.

Contents are as follows:-

1. Executive Summary

2. Introduction to Booming Industry of U.K.-- Software and Computer Services

3. Software

4. Computer Services

5. Offshoring

6. Government Initiatives and Regulatory Guidelines

7. Comparative Study of the UK's Leading Software Manufacturing and Developing Firms

8. Conclusion

9. Appendices

List of Tables

List of Figures

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c36100

Source: Business Wire

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