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Worldwide BPO Market Steadily Expands, with Buyer Demand Molding Vendor Strategies
"The BPO market continues to gain momentum and present growth opportunities for service providers," said Romala Ravi, program director for BPO Services research at IDC.
The study compares and contrasts BPO spending and growth projections across the eight BPO markets. The study also identifies and evaluates key buyer and vendor trends that are shaping BPO spending intentions for each BPO market. Key findings from the study include:
- The BPO market worldwide is experiencing robust growth
- Some of the more mature segments such as customer care and logistics continue to hold strong, and present pockets of new opportunity and growth
- Emerging markets such as procurement and training, though starting off from a small base, will experience high double-digit year-to-year growth in BPO spending over the five-year forecast period
- Markets with a strong history of discrete, high-volume processing services such as human resources, and finance & accounting, are seeing great momentum around comprehensive BPO evaluation and adoption
In line with the above market size spending projections, there are dramatic shifts in buyer and vendor trends. Buyers are moving beyond the "salvage" mode associated with the early 2000s and are looking to BPO to establish competitive differentiation and leadership. Their expectations of vendors are changing, deals signed are becoming more comprehensive, and buyer involvement in BPO deal-making is becoming more pronounced. On the vendor side, new types of players are seeing a role for themselves in this market. This in turn is impacting vendor business models and strategies, and is influencing the types of investments vendors must make to build and strengthen their BPO portfolios.
The IDC study, Worldwide and U.S. BPO 2005-2009 Forecast: Market Opportunities By Horizontal Business Functions (IDC #33815) presents the annual update to the five-year forecast for the worldwide and U.S markets for BPO services. Data is also provided for both the U.S. and the worldwide markets, providing a macro-region top-line view and a deeper dive into the U.S. market. The study also examines the eight business functions of BPO highlighted above, and discusses how buyer preferences are evolving and how vendor strategies are unfolding for each market. In addition, the study provides IDC's predictions of the evolution of each of these eight BPO markets, concluding with market-specific recommendations for incumbents and new players looking to expand their share of or make a play in BPO.
