According to the report of foreign media, the American market research firm ¨C Springboard Research reported that in the next three years, business users in the Asian-Pacific (excluding Japan) would spend 56 billion US dollars on IT service each year; if comprehensively considering about all the factors involved, China would be the most attractive market in this region.
Springboard pointed out that in the Asia-Pacific, the growth of India¡¯s IT service market would be the highest, the annual growth rate would reach 18.6%; however, by comprehensively considering about all the factors involved with market growth, China would be the most attractive market. Phil Hassey, the vice president of the research development of Springboard said, ¡°To Chinese and Indian markets, the scale of the two countries are both large, and at the same time, they can provide the corresponding services to the neighboring countries and regions.
Hassey stressed that in the next three years, the fast growing IT service in Asia-Pacific region would be application software trusteeship business, the annual growth rate would reach 19.5%; however the largest business volume would be enterprise application software integration. He also believed that recently, a number of Chinese enterprises wouldn¡¯t like to outsource the IT services; this had affected the overall growth of IT services in the Asia-Pacific region.
Hassey commented, ¡°From the perspective of the growth speed of IT service market, the Asia-Pacific region is definitely the world leader. Besides China, India, Australia and Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam and other countries will grow faster.¡±
