Western European Financial Management Solution Services Market 2005-2009 Forecast and Analysis

This IDC study answers the following questions:

What are IDC's predictions and assumptions relating to market forces affecting the Western European FM solution SCM services market, and what impact will they have on the market forecasts? What is the size of the opportunity for providing FM solution services in Western Europe in 2005 and for the next four years? What are the key recommendations from IDC for maintaining and growing FM solution services revenues in the coming years?

"The FM solution services market in Western Europe continues to be affected by the weak economic conditions but improved slightly in 2004 over 2003. Although constant currency growth in the market was only around 4.0%, this was an improvement relative to the meager 1.0% growth from 2002 to 2003", says Erik Bruin, Research Manager, European Services. "However, despite the fact that FM is the most mature solution services segment due to the fact that any FM has always been the first solution to be implemented in ERP implementations, healthy growth is expected. Again it will be driven mainly by the trends to leverage operational systems with analytics in conjunction with new projects triggered by regulatory compliance mandates".