Cloud Services: The Professional Services Opportunity provides research and analysis of customer demand and service vendor offerings for consulting and professional services to help design and execute on a cloud strategy. Specific topics include customer demand for strategy work around cloud adoption, leveraging hybrid strategies, and building the necessary infrastructure to support a cloud strategy. IDC's research helps service firms move beyond the hype to identify new service opportunities and new business models for cloud computing, both in the United States and other parts of the world.

• Professional service offerings for business and IT cloud services
• Competitive profiles of service firms offering cloud professional services (business and IT consulting, systems integration, etc.)
• Case studies of major business and IT cloud services initiatives to examine ROI and the organizational, cultural, and people challenges
• Cloud professional services spending forecasts
• End-user surveys describing adoption trends, spending intentions, and market drivers and inhibitors involved in professional services engagements related to implementing business and IT cloud services

• Worldwide and U.S. Cloud Professional Services Forecast and Analysis
• Capitalizing on the Professional Services Opportunity for Business and IT Cloud Services: Competitive Analysis
• Adoption Patterns of Cloud Professional Services and Spending Intentions for Consulting and Professional Services
• Case Studies of Business and IT Cloud Services Implementation Initiatives

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. Cloud Services: The Professional Services Opportunity

1. What are the new and emerging market trends with respect to professional service offerings for IT cloud services?
2. What strategies are service firms adopting, and how are they adjusting their services portfolio to respond to new market needs in regard to IT cloud services?
3. Which service firms can best leverage the increasing market demand for IT cloud services?
4. How do organizations determine which components should move to cloud computing and which should not?
5. How can organizations evaluate which professional services providers to consider when implementing IT cloud services?

IDC's Cloud Services: The Professional Services Opportunity research examines how providers are positioning themselves to compete in the market and reviews the strategies, market positioning, and future direction of several providers, including:

Accenture, ACS, Amazon Web Services, Appirio, AT&T, Atos, Avanade, BlueWolf, Capgemini, CenturyLink, CGI Group, Cisco, cloudTP, Cognizant, CSC, Dell, Deloitte, Dimension Data, Fujitsu, Google, HCL, Hitachi Consulting, HP, IBM Global Services, Infosys, Keane, Lockheed Martin, Mahindra Satyam, Microsoft, MomentumSI, Northrop Grumman, Novell, NTT Data, Oracle Consulting, PwC, salesforce.com, SAP, Sun Microsystems, Tata Consultancy Services, T-Systems, Unisys, Verizon, Workday, and Wipro.

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