System integration

What enters a concept of system integration

For 2014 IDC includes in a segment of system integration:

• design,
• development,
• implementation,
• implementing solutions,
• project management,
• development of the custom software,
• installation and setup of the equipment,
• structure of networks and
• consulting.

Market of Russia

• Change or die. Why the future of system integrators in Russia strongly differs from their past

Leaders of the world market

Among world system integrators with the greatest market share a research of the American company Global Industry Analysts are called (April, 2011):

• Accenture,
• Capgemini,
• CSC (Computer Sciences Corporation),
• Fujitsu,
• HP,
• Hitachi,
• IBM,
• Infosys Technologies,
• Oracle,
• SAP SE,
• T-Systems,
• Wipro and others.

Forecast of market development

The world market of system integration will reach of $340 billion in the next six years (April, 2011), said in a new research of the American company Global Industry Analysts.

Among the main drivers of the market analysts call complication of infrastructure of IT, need of integration of opportunities of separate applications / systems and activation of business in respect of consolidation, optimization and rationalization of the used applications.

Steady demand for industrial applications (Enterprise Application Software, EAS) allows to give iridescent forecasts of rather future this market.

Against the background of the fact that the companies are forced to revaluate the messaging applications and network infrastructure and to address cost-efficient schemes of distribution of IT, importance of services of system integration comes to the forefront.

Now, said in a research, the possibility of use of the diverse system components (including the equipment and software) working together and creating uniform value for business is so promising that the hi-tech companies cannot just ignore it.

System integration is and will remain one of the most difficult tasks in the world relying on the integrated architecture. At the same time recently increase in level of complexity and sophisticated technological effectiveness of corporate networks forces more and more enterprises to address services and experience of system integrators. It plays an important role for growth of business of the companies providing IT services.

Experts estimate perspectives of growth of IT services as considerable as business continues search of effective solutions of a distributed architecture. For business need of receiving the maximum ROI from investments into applications and at the same time optimization of business operations where workflow improvement, performance improvement of work, integrity of data, decrease in operating costs enters that will promote growth of the market of system integration for a row of years is dominating at the same time.

The high demand on the corporate software, including resource management systems of the enterprise (ERP), management system for supply chains (SCM), product lifecycle management system (PLM), HR-applications (HRM), data management system and the business analysts (BI) promoting increase in profitability, efficiency and competitiveness of the enterprises also is a good omen for the market of system integration.

Special attention of the company to optimization of strategy of the data centers (DPC) will create demand for integration of IT infrastructure in addition to demand for application integration.

At the same time, as business will move even more often towards a convergent IT environment, the problem of extraction of the maximum profit on infrastructure will become general, and system integration will become the main instrument of achievement of this purpose. Need of creation of convergent network infrastructure, scalable, reliable and cost-efficient, will demand integration of solutions of different product providers and technologies that besides will support the market of system integration.

In the report it is said that application development will become the most perspective of segments in the predicted period: it will grow for more than 5% annually.

Forecast of growth of interest of investors in system integrators of Eastern Europe

According to the statement of analysts of Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC) made on May 8, 2012 the three-year absence period of interest of investors in the companies in emerging markets of Central and Eastern Europe approaches the end. Let's remind, on the eve of 2007-2008 strategic and financial investors showed keen interest in local integrators, software developers and even distributors, quite often revaluating them in comparison with competitors in the developed markets. Since 2009, the burst financial crisis turned "booming markets" into "the countries with a high investment risk" earlier.

Certainly, within three years which followed the beginning of crisis several considerable transactions took place, however their cost and conditions strikingly differed from the period of general prosperity. If before acquisition were made for the purpose of the fastest building of a market share or regional presence for service of needs of the western countries with the high level of demand, then now investors began to treat much more selectively transactions, carrying out the careful analysis of positioning of proposed solutions and services and taking only obvious benefits into consideration. In combination with underestimation of assets of the absorbed companies such approach allows to minimize the majority of the risks connected with investment activities.

One more key difference in behavior of investors in Eastern Europe till 2008 consists in change of priorities. Before crisis transactions on absorption of large suppliers with the developed portfolio and extensive staff of specialists were of paramount interest. Since 2009, interests were displaced towards rather small players with whom the minimum management and integration risks are connected. Besides, fast return of investments, steady indicators of profitability, high quality of management, an optimal combination of small and big customers, representatives of the commercial and state organizations began to play much more important role.

Analysts of PAC expect increase in number of absorption and acquisitions in 2012 in the East European region. The markets reached acceptable volume, and steady profitability indicators managed to show many companies within three post-crisis years.

In the Russian market of system integration investment thaw is also observed. For example, at the beginning of 2012 AFK "Sistema" agreed about acquisition of 100% of stocks of NVision Group. According to sources of CNews, shareholders of the Russian integrator IBS look for on it buyers. Sales opportunity is considered by shareholders of Asteros, Rosservice and some other the companies.