IDC's European Application Life-Cycle Services research provides clients with a comprehensive view of the investment strategies and decisions of European enterprises around application development, implementation, management, and testing engagements. The service further examines the impact of new delivery and sourcing models, such as offshoring and cloud services, on the application environment, as well as charting the competitive landscape for these services.

• Application management market — discrete and embedded AM
• Packaged, customer, and legacy application management
• Custom application development, application consulting and implementation, and synergies with application management
• Third-party testing services portfolios and value propositions
• Application development and implementation
• Adoption and evolution of application outsourcing models: traditional, offshore, hosted, cloud
• Emergence of online development models (PaaS) in Europe and the impact on traditional application development and maintenance
• Testing services adoption trends and market evolution

• European Application Life-Cycle Services Market Forecast and Analysis, 2013–2017
• European Testing Services Market Forecast and Analysis, 2013–2017
• IDC European Enterprise Services Survey: Attitudes to Application Life-Cycle Services
• European Application Life-Cycle Services Competitive Positioning - Vendor shares 2012 and Leadership Grid

In addition to the insight provided in this service, IDC may conduct research on specific topics or emerging market segments via research offerings that require additional IDC funding and client investment.

1. What are the top investment priorities for European enterprises around the application environment?
2. Which segments of the application services market offer the best growth opportunities, and what is required of vendors to succeed in the market?
3. What is the competitive positioning of the major players?
4. What impact will new delivery and sourcing models, such as offshoring and cloud services, have on the application services marketplace?
5. What are the key decision criteria that enterprises employ to choose — and stay with — their application service supplier?

This service reviews strategies, market positioning, and future direction of several providers in the application services market, including:

Accenture, Almaviva, Atos, BearingPoint, BT, Capgemini, CGI, Cognizant, CSC, Deloitte, EVRY, Fujitsu, HCL, HP, IBM, Indra, Infosys, Mahindra Satyam, Steria, SQS, Tata Consultancy Services, Tecnocom, Tieto, T-Systems, Wipro

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