Tuesday, 13 January 2015

Unified Threat Management Market Regional Outlook till 2019

Unified Threat Management is a security solution that comprises of features such as gateway antivirus, on-appliance reporting, data leak prevention, VPN (Virtual Private Network), network firewalling, gateway anti-spam and load balancing content filtering that offers values to the organizations. UTM solutions utilize optimum energy and are low cost solutions as compared to intensive point security solutions. UTM solutions are used by enterprises owing to its supple and scalable features which enhances IT productivity.
The UTM market is segmented on the basis of organization size, its end users, its applications and services. Few different types of organization sizes include SOHO, SMBS and enterprises. UTM products are used in several industries such as BFSI, telecom and IT, education, manufacturing, retail, government and utilities, healthcare and others. Various application uses of UTM products include software, hardware, virtual and services such as support and maintenance.
Increasing incidences of data security breach is one of the major factors contributing to the growth of unified threat management market. Additionally, UTM solutions enable end users to save space, cost and energy consumption thus further driving the growth of this market. However, lack of acceptance in enterprise market and degradation in network performance are the challenges that limit the growth of UTM solutions. Consolidation of various security tools into single network device is responsible for degradation in performance features. To overcome these challenge, vendors in this industry are continuously focusing on their product offerings in terms of quality.
Currently, UTM centralized consoles are being used in multiple branches of larger organizations that offers security for entire infrastructure. UTM centralized consoles eliminate the necessity to maintain each site or gateways separately thus reducing administrative costs and errors. Some of the features of UTM solutions include simplicity, ease of deployment, low complexity, ease in troubleshooting and better performance.
North America is the largest market for UTM solutions, as growth in this region is attributed to demand from payment card industry that requires both intrusion prevention technologies and firewalls. Moreover, the businesses with the higher credit card transaction volumes deploy UTM solution to protect against network based attacks.
Some of the key players for UTM market include IBM, WatchGuard Technologies, Dell Inc, Juniper Networks, Inc, Cisco Systems, Inc, Barracuda Networks, Inc, Checkpoint Software Technologies, Fortinet, Inc, Cyberoam Technologies, Hewlett-Packard Corporation and Sophos among others. In near future, this industry is expected to strong competition from the local vendors of diverse regions particularly in the managed UTM and cloud based services. Hence global vendors are continuously focusing on new product development to obtain an edge over others in the competitive environment.
This research report analyzes this market depending on its market segments, major geographies, and current market trends. Geographies analyzed under this research report include
  • North America
  • Asia Pacific
  • Europe
  • Rest of the World
This report provides comprehensive analysis of
  • Market growth drivers
  • Factors limiting market growth
  • Current market trends
  • Market structure
  • Market projections for upcoming years
This report is a complete study of current trends in the market, industry growth drivers, and restraints. It provides market projections for the coming years. It includes analysis of recent developments in technology, Porter’s five force model analysis and detailed profiles of top industry players. The report also includes a review of micro and macro factors essential for the existing market players and new entrants along with detailed value chain analysis.



Tuesday, 6 January 2015

Engineering Software Market - Global Industry Segment and Analysis 2014 - 2020

Engineering software refers to the software solutions and software packages that are used across different engineering disciplines such as civil engineering, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, electronic and communication engineering, electrical engineering, manufacturing and others. The chemical engineering software are classified as software used for mapping and analyzing energy conversion (in designing actuators and sensors), designing fluid flow, combustion analysis, psychometric analysis, designing and analyzing heat transfer and designing steam tables among others. The civil engineering segment consists of software that are used for structural designing, drainage and footings designing, mapping and modeling of infrastructure and others. The electrical engineering software are used for electrical analysis of current, voltage and power, digital simulation of circuits, and calculations for designing a practical electrical circuitry.
The engineering software market is primarily driven by the rising demand for automation across several end-use industries. Additionally, the market growth is attributed to the wide adoption of integrated solution for designing and analysis of engineering system. Moreover, the rising demand for reducing errors, in order to save the operational cost by minimizing the scrap, is fuelling the growth of engineering software market. The market finds potential growth opportunities in the oil and gas industry and chemical industry due to the rising demand for process analytical solutions in these industries. In addition, the availability of engineering software on cloud is expected to boost the demand for engineering software over the coming years. Computer-aided engineering (CAE) software, Computer-aided designing (CAD) software, computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) software, product lifecycle management (PLM) software and building information modeling (BIM) software are the major categories contributing to the growth of engineering software market. The availability of portable devices and the compatibility of these devices with engineering software is further adding to the growth of the market. In addition, shifting trend form 2D solutions to 3D solutions provide potential growth opportunities for the manufacturing and designing industry. However, the high cost incurred in purchasing the license of the engineering software is posing challenge for the growth of engineering software market. In addition, the rising number of piracy cases in the software industry is hindering the growth of the market.
On the basis of geography, the market finds potential growth opportunities in emerging economies of Asia Pacific, Africa and Latin America. Countries such India, China, Japan and Korea are major contributors in terms of technology and the rising demand for automation solutions in these geographies is expected to grow the engineering software market over the coming years. Moreover, in the gulf countries the market finds potential growth opportunities in the oil and gas industry for process analysis and designing of automated systems for the industry. However, the lack of expertise for operating engineering software is hindering the growth of the market in this region.
Engineering software market is highly competitive, thereby pushing the companies to offer customized solutions to their customers, in order to differentiate their offering from the competitors. The key players offering engineering software are Integraph Corporation (Hexagon AB), Aveva Group Plc, Rockwell Automation, Inc., Autodesk, Inc., PTC, Inc., Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc., Scada Systems Ltd., SmartDraw LLC, EasyPower LLC, Schneider Electric, Dassault Systemes, Seimens AG, Google Inc., Microsoft Corporation, Aspen Technology, Inc., Petroleo Brasileiro, S.A., KBC Advanced Technologies Plc, Honeywell International, Inc., Cranes Software International Ltd., SAP AG, Oracle Corporation, IBM Corporation, Devices Ltd., Corel Technology Pvt. Ltd, D’GIPRO Design Automation Pvt. Ltd. and Cypress Semiconductor Corporation.



Sunday, 4 January 2015

Global Telecom Expense Management Market - Industry Outlook and Forecast up to 2020

Telecom expense management is a solution whereby business organizations can effectively manage their telecom networks. Such a solution encompasses people, technologies and processes that are needed to govern the network. With the help of telecom expense management, it is possible to maintain an accurate inventory of all the network elements in an organization including server, wiring panels, laptops, cell phones and others. Also, using telecom expense management solutions it is possible to estimate future network costs by building the telecom budget in advance. Another advantage of the telecom expense management is that it enables indentifying the issues in the security infrastructure, thereby optimizing the existing network infrastructure.
The telecom expense management is segmented on the basis of solutions into usage management, sourcing management, reporting and business management, ordering and provisioning management, invoice and contract management, inventory management and dispute management among others. On the basis of service delivery modes, the telecom expense management is segmented into complete outsourcing delivery mode, managed services delivery mode, licensed software and hosted services. The telecom expense management market is segmented on the basis of end-users into SMBs (Small and Medium Businesses) and Large Business organizations. On the basis of verticals, the telecom expense management market is segmented into manufacturing, healthcare, retail, BFSI (Banking Financial Services and Insurance), automotive, transportation and logistics, and media and entertainment among others. The telecom expense management market is segmented on the basis of regions into North America, Asia-Pacific, Europe and Rest of the World (RoW).
The increasing adoption of Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is one of the major factors fuelling the growth of telecom expense management market. The employees today are taking the advantage of mobile phones and other portable devices in keeping themselves connected with the corporate network. This is also encouraged by business organizations as it enables employees to carry out work related tasks at their convenient locations thereby enhancing productivity and increase revenues. Such Business Organizations constantly look for solutions to address the issues associated with BYOD such as data security, plans and usages of individual BYOD device, application control and other business related policies. Telecom expense management solutions cost-effectively addresses changes in BYOD inventory such as monitoring individual device costs and their usage plans. It also helps in controlling application policies to avoid any illegal applications that affect the data security thereby contributing to the growth of the market. Another factor fuelling the growth of telecom expense management is increase in the demand for telecom expense management solutions in business organizations. Most of the business organizations are taking initiatives in reducing costs pertaining to communication networks. Telecom expense management enables business organizations to collect and analyze information by providing visibility in the expenses involved. It also enables organizations in effectively managing change processes related to inventory and service level on daily basis.
However, the interoperability issues with the telecom expense management solutions are adversely affecting the growth of this market. As the enterprises are becoming sophisticated in carrying out their operations using BYOD devices, telecom expense management solution efficiencies are affected in delivering high value functionality and interoperability with the Human Resource (HR) information systems and ERP. Such limitations restrict their use thereby restraining their growth potential.
Some of the major players in the market are Dimension Data Holdings, Vodafone Global Enterprise Limited, Valicom, Econom Group, Computer Sciences Corporation, CGI Group Inc., Accenture Plc., Tangoe Inc. and International Business Machines Corporation.

Disaster Recovery As a Service Market - Industry Analysis and Global Forecast till 2020

Disaster Recovery(DR) as a Service provides organizations with a variety of cost-efficient ways to recover and replicate critical servers and data center infrastructure to the cloud environment in case of any disaster resulting in disruption of services. IT environments are becoming complex with greater mixes of virtual platforms, operating systems, storage and applications. As a result, the impacts on disaster recovery are cascading and growing exponentially. Virtually every company faces the risk of IT interruptions that can bring business to a standstill. Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) offers business continuity across a range of organizations and their applications, by ensuring availability of IT infrastructure in an event of disaster.
The market for disaster recovery as a service can be segmented based on storage capacity, types of recovery services, providers, organization size and end-use verticals. The different storage solutions and services can be segmented based on size into 1 TB and below, 1 TB - 10 TB, 10 TB and above. By type of disaster recovery services, the market includes services designed on following models - cloud to cloud disaster recovery model, self disaster recovery model and hardware to cloud disaster recovery model. The service providers can be segmented into cloud service providers, disaster recovery service providers, telecom/communications service providers (T/CSPs), and technology partners and suppliers. Organization size comprises of small office/ home office (SOHO), small and medium businesses (SMBs) as well as enterprises. The end-use verticals include E-commerce and web, banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI), manufacturing, academia, healthcare, government and others.
Some of the major forces driving the disaster recovery services market are factors such as low cost, virtualization, high level of automation, easy deployment, recovery, location independence, secure storage and backup, 24x7 support, management and control, along with high utility based dynamism. DRaaS is expected to replace IT infrastructure burden with cost effective and reliable solutions. Businesses of all sizes have steadily grown more dependent on their escalating IT infrastructures to help them automate, analyze and manage the strategies and operations in businesses. Online trading companies, airline reservations, web-site hosting providers, insurance-document imaging, financial databases or other computing systems are inseparably linked to the incessant availability of the services and data.
Cloud-based DR is poised to shake up the heritage approaches and offer aggravated infrastructure and operations (I&O) professionals, a great option. Disaster Recovery as a Service or DR on demand or DR as a cloud service model is becoming widely attractive solution among enterprises. The main reason for this is its pay-as-you-go pricing model that can lower operating costs drastically. Implementation of DRaaS with a virtualized cloud platform can be automated easily while minimizing the recovery time after a failure. The only challenge for the cloud service customers would be the choice of service provider along with the process of consulting, negotiating and implementing suitable service level agreements (SLAs).
The global market for DRaaS has been witnessing a rising demand from small and medium enterprises (SME) in implementing hybrid cloud disaster recovery services. However, customers are more concerned about security and privacy, in terms of cloud based DR implementation. An increasingly accepted solution is to lay both primary production and disaster recovery instances onto the cloud and let a managed service provider handle both of them. By doing this, businesses can eliminate the need for an on-premise infrastructure and also benefit from the low usage-based costs from the implementation of cloud computing.
Some of the key vendors in the market for disaster recovery as a service include Amazon Web Services Inc., Accenture plc, IBM Corp., EVault Inc., SunGard Data Systems Inc., Terremark Worldwide Inc., Allsteam Inc., CommVault Systems Inc., CenturyLink Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Corp., and Rackspace Inc.

Enterprise Telephony Market - Industry Analysis and Global Forecast 2014 – 2020

Telephony refers to the transmission of voice, fax and other information by using electronic means. Telephony equipment includes landline telephones, fax machines, computers, handheld devices such as mobile phones, laptops, tablets and others. In enterprise telephony, communication is accomplished over the intercom systems, internet protocol (IP) and others. Currently, with increasing sizes and areas of businesses across the world, communication amongst the colleagues becomes a crucial issue for the organizations. Enterprise telephony communication is used to provide a smooth flow of communication and a socialized environment among the colleagues in an organization. Telephony is used by various enterprises such as banks, financial institutions, manufacturing sector, education organizations and others to enhance the communication among the people for smooth workflow. Enterprise telephony facilitates real-time communication which enables the employees to make quick decisions.
Government and healthcare sectors are the major consumers of the enterprise telephony solutions. In government sector, enterprise telephony is used to provide a common platform for communication between various departments in the government offices. In healthcare sector, efficient enterprise telephony plays an important role as it helps to make quick decisions. Furthermore, enterprise telephony is also used in educational institutes, transportation, banks, and other organizations as it helps to reduce costs of communication within the organization. Banks and financial institutions implement enterprise telephony to facilitate communication of their employees among various departments and branch offices. In education sector, enterprise telephony is used to establish communication in the organizations such as colleges, universities and other institutions. Moreover, it enhances the productivity of the organization due to reduced efforts for communication.
The enterprise telephony market can be segmented on the basis of technology, end-user and geographic regions. The enterprise telephony market can be further sub-segmented based on technology as IP private branch exchange (PBX), PBX, key telephone system (KTS) and wireless private branch exchange (WPBX). IP PBX is a system that is used for instant messaging, audio and video communication through the IP networks. PBX is telephone exchange system that provides communication between large numbers of telephones in the organization. A KTS is equipped with several keys to directly select incoming and outgoing lines using the intercom without any special operator. WPBX is a telephones system that uses cordless phones for communication. The end-users of the enterprise telephony market include banks, financial services and insurance (BFSI) sector, retail industry, government organizations and others. Furthermore, the market can be geographically segmented based on regions as North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Rest of the World (RoW).
Rising urge for adoption of unified communication solutions is one of the most important factors driving the growth of enterprise telephony market. Additionally, increasing investment of the organizations such as hotels in enterprise telephony is another factor driving the market. Sectors such as BFSI, transportation, information technology (IT), retail and other business services are expected to pose significant demand for enterprise telephony in near future. Additionally, small and medium size businesses (SMB) are increasingly shifting towards enterprise telephony for enhancement of communication in their organizations. Moreover, introduction of advanced technology for communication such as voice over internet protocol (VoIP) is expected to significantly contribute to the growth of enterprise telephony market. However, intense competition and improper standards for the solutions are major factor hampering the market growth. Security of data and network infrastructure is another challenge faced by the vendors in the enterprise telephony market.
Some of the key players in enterprise telephony market include Cisco Systems Inc., NEC Corporation, Alcatel-Lucent, Microsoft Corporation, IBM Corporation, Microsoft Corporation and others.
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Thursday, 25 December 2014

LNG Re-Gasification Market - Global Industry Analysis and Forecast till 2020

Increase in the oil and gas exploration activities to satisfy the global energy needs can have direct implications on the global LNG Re-gasification industry. The global market for LNG Re-gasification industry depends upon the demand for LNG, and hence any factor driving LNG demand could also drive the LNG Re-gasification market. Re-gasification is a process of converting back the Liquefied Natural Gas into its original form. The stringent environmental laws advocating the use of cleaner fuels can have positive impact on the demand of natural gas, and hence re-gasification equipments. The need to meet the energy and climate targets by various countries is one the major driver for the LNG re-gasification industry. LNG re-gasification plants can be located on both onshore and offshore locations. The offshore plants are usually located on the floating barges equipped with all necessary technologies for re-gasification.
Segmentation of the LNG Re-gasification market can be done on the basis of technology, plant location (Onshore and Offshore Re-gasification), end user industry and geography. Some of the major LNG-re-gasification technologies include the use of open rack vaporizers, submerged combustion vaporizers, shell and tube vaporizers, intermediate fluid vaporizers and ambient air vaporizers. The LNG Re-gasification industry can also be segmented depending upon the location of re-gasification plants. The LNG Re-gasification plants can be located both on the onshore and offshore areas. The Floating Storage and Re-gasification Units (FSRU) are purposely built tankers that can be used for designed for re-gasification of LNG. Natural gas is widely used as a fuel for gas powered cars, buses and trucks. Besides that natural gas can also be used as fuel for power plants.
The segmentation of the LNG Re-gasification market can be done by indentifying the major LNG importing and producing countries. Major natural gas importing and producing countries include the United States, Canada and Mexico; Australia, India, Singapore, China, Korea and Japan; Italy, Spain, Germany, Russia and the United Kingdom in Europe; Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia. Rest of the World segment includes countries from Africa and Latin America. Major countries in this segment are Angola, Nigeria, Venezuela, Brazil and Ecuador. Recent natural gas discoveries in West Africa and Central Asia are also having the positive impact on the world LNG Re-gasification industry.
Increasing onshore and offshore natural gas exploration activities, advancements in re-gasification technologies, increasing demand for natural gas, stringent environment regulations advocating the use of cleaner fuels are the major drivers for the LNG Re-gasification industry. Moreover, the development of offshore re-gasification units can also have a positive impact on the LNG Re-gasification industry. High cost of installation for LNG re-gasification units is one of the major restraints to the LNG Re-gasification industry. Moreover, the development of bio-fuels and renewable energy technology can also be a restraint to the LNG market and hence the LNG Re-gasification industry. Increase in the number of vehicles especially in the Asia Pacific countries such as India and China can act as the opportunity for the LNG Re-gasification industry. Both of the countries import LNG in large quantities and hence can act opportunities for the companies planning to invest in LNG Re-gasification.
Some of the major companies involved in LNG Re-gasification include KBR, Inc., Golar Management Ltd., Höegh lng AS, John Wood Group PLC, Wärtsilä, Excelerate Energy, L.P and others.
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Advanced Metering Infrastructure Market - Global Industry Analysis and Forecast 2014 - 2020

The need for grid modernization and positive steps taken by utilities across the world to replace conventional electronic meters with improved smart meters capable of providing improved meter reading and data collection are the most important factors facilitating growth in the global advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) market. Furthermore, launch of dynamic pricing schemes and demand response programs are considered as motivational factors for the use of smart meters. Demand response programs are considered as enablers of growth in the global AMI market. AMI is the integration of hardware, software, and technologies that provide an intelligent connection between consumers. Consumers by participating in demand response programs will benefit from lower electricity bills, while electric distribution utilities will be able to avoid investments in expensive new capacity buildings and benefits from a stable load on a utility grid. Through bi-directional communication between the meter and meter data management, the electrical distribution utilities will be able to remotely manage metering assets and collect information on energy usage in a real-time.
Use of AMI offers several benefits to the utilities and end consumers, which includes customer service, system operations, and financial benefits. Early detection of meter failures, improved billing accuracy, time-based tariff options to consumers, faster service restoration, and consumer participation in demand response programs are some of the customer service benefits of the AMI. Increased meter reading accuracy, reduction in number of meter reads, easier outage management, and easier energy theft detection are some of the system operation benefits. Financial benefits include shorter outages and faster restoration, reduced support expenses and reduced equipment and equipment maintenance cost. An AMI typically includes smart meters, communication networks, communicating thermosets and other sensors, and meter data management systems (MDMS), and platforms for integrating of data into existing and new software.
The overall market for AMI can be segmented into devices and geographies. On the basis of AMI devices, the market can be segmented into smart meters, communication infrastructure, home area networks (HANS), MDMS, and support systems (in-home display units). An increased emphasis on improving energy efficiency and reducing energy peak demands by encouraging participation in demand response programs are the key drivers of growth in the global AMI market. Installation of smart meters as part of advanced metering infrastructure will enable electric distribution utilities to reduce their operational cost as well as improved identification of energy theft, and outage notification. AMI systems help in meter reading accuracy and reducing theft of utilities resulting in an overall financial benefit to the consumer as well as a service provider. Lack of inter-operability standards in most of the countries of the world may hamper growth in the AMI market. The total capital cost of AMI includes costs of hardware, software, MDMS, IT integration, and installation. The declining cost of AMI hardware is likely to impact positively to the growth in the global AMI market.
Governments across the globe are encouraging utilities to deploy smart meters at end consumer infrastructure. Moreover, favorable regulatory conditions in North American countries and some part of Asia Pacific are likely to aid rollouts of smart meters in the near future. Presently, North America and Europe dominate the global AMI market. The demand in these regions is majorly driven by governmental support in the form of research and developmental activities of smart grid technology. Asia Pacific is expected to drive the growth of AMI market in the near future on account of the growing population and acceptance of these modern systems by utility companies. Additionally, growing awareness of consumers regarding wastage and consequently carbon footprints is expected to propel growth in the AMI market.
Some of the key players in the global AMI market include: Sensus, Schneider Electric SA, Silver Spring Network, General Electric, Landis+Gyr, Itron, Eaton Corporation and Echelon Corporation.
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