Asia/Pacific is the fastest growing outsourcing region in the world, both as a market with its own demand, as well as a community of suppliers to the global marketplace. As outsourcing contracts become more discrete in nature, it is becoming more important to understand the sub-segments of this market, for example the dynamics of the network management market as compared to desktop management market within the overall outsourcing marketplace. IDC's Asia/Pacific Semiannual Outsourcing Tracker aims to help end-users understand how the various service providers are performing in these sub-segments to ensure that their 'smart-sourcing' decisions are well informed. It also aims to give the service providers an understanding of the competitive environment in each of the key countries in the region, and how they can best position themselves at the country and regional level to boost their market share.

This product covers the following segments of the Outsourcing market:

• Application management
• Desktop management
• Network management
• Hosting (application and Infrastructure)
• IS outsourcing

Throughout the year, this product will address the following topics:

• Revenue and market share changes during the two half-year cycles
• Indicative IT outsourcing contracts
• Marketing strategies that contributed to revenue and market share changes

Our research addresses the following issues that are critical to your success:

For End Users: For Vendors:

1. Who are the vendors I need to consider in the Asia/Pacific outsourcing market and what is their market share?
2. Which vendors are strong performers in the vertical industries I operate in?
3. Which service provider's business portfolio makes them attractive as a partner for my business?
4. What is my market share in the Asia/Pacific IT outsourcing marketplace?
5. What changing strategies have my leading competitors undertaken in the previous six months?
6. What parts of the Asia/Pacific IT outsourcing marketplace are growing the most rapidly and how can I compete in these markets?

IDC's Asia/Pacific Semiannual Outsourcing Tracker examines how service providers are positioning themselves to compete in the IT outsourcing market. This product reviews strategies, market positioning, and future direction of various providers in the outsourcing market, including:

Accenture, Alcatel-Lucent, AsiaInfo, Atos Origin, AT&T, Bearing Point, Cap Gemini, CSC, Daewoo Information Systems, Dell, Digital China, Datacom, Deloitte Consulting, Dimension Data (Datacraft), EDS, EMC, Fujitsu, Gen-i, HCL, HeiTech Padu, HP, Hitachi, Huawei, Hyundai Information Technology, IBM, Infosys, LG CNS, Logica, KT, Microsoft, NTT Data, NEC, NCS, NIIT, Nihon Unisys, Novell, Optus, Oracle, PCCW Solutions, Samsung SDS, SAP, SK C&C, Sun Microsystems, Sybase, Systex Corporation, TCS, Telstra, Tongyang Systems, Toshiba, Unisys, UXC, VADS and Wipro.

Throughout the year, this product will offer insight into the latest trends impacting the market. Potential studies include:

• Outsourcing revenue by foundation
• Ranking and market share of top 5 players
• Outsourcing revenue by vertical segments
• Two half-year outsourcing revenue forecast by foundation market
• Qualitative analysis of the players in the IT outsourcing market along with some key insights on the wins and strategies
• Master dataset of the noteworthy companies tracked along with their half-yearly revenues and segmentation in the IT outsourcing market

As a privately held company, IDC believes that our customers are our primary constituency. A large percentage of every revenue dollar is reinvested back into our products, including more analysts, more geographic coverage, and extensive primary research.