

This IDC study (which is a translation of the Japanese report IDC #J9010102) analyzes the trends in the Japan carrier solution/message market, as well as market conditions in 2008, and forecasts the market sizes and growth rates between 2009 and 2013.
"The Japan economy, especially the foreign-demand dependent industries, are impacted by the economic recession, and companies are cutting down on new IT investment and scaling down investment. On the other hand, against the background of costs, internal compliance and business continuity measures, the trend of shifting from ownership to service usage has persisted. Market will remain stagnant in the short-term but grow steadily in the long term. Solution/Managed services providers should identify areas that are likely to possess or have reserve capacity for IT spending by targeting businesses expanding into growth markets of restructured industries and developing countries, and formulate appropriate proposals swiftly. In addition, providers should strengthen collaboration with next-generation corporate network and datacenters to expand their customer base, in view of the trend for companies to outsource the ICT environment to datacenter for one-stop management," says Akiko Kawakami, market analyst, Communications, IDC Japan.