News50,000 New Jobs in 2007: IDC Research Predicts Impact of Windows Vista on Europe's IT Industry and Business Economy
09/14/06 - PRNewswire
BRUSSELS, Belgium, September 14 /PRNewswire/ --
- New operating system will sustain more than 1,000,000 jobs, drive
revenues of over euro 32 billion, and stimulate innovation, study of six key
European markets says.
At a briefing in Brussels, Belgium, Microsoft Corp (Nasdaq: MSFT) and
research firm International Data Corporation (IDC) today announced details of
a study into the expected economic impact of Microsoft(R) Windows Vista(TM)
in six key European markets -- Denmark, France, Germany, Poland, Spain and
the UK.
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IDC gave details of how the new Microsoft operating system will be a
major driver of revenue and employment creation for more than 150,000 IT
companies in the six countries, which collectively account for 65 per cent
of IT spend in the European Economic Zone. According to IDC, the availability
of Windows Vista will generate revenues of more than euro 32 billion for
these companies in 2007. In addition, the new operating system will sustain
and support over 1 million jobs -- approximately 20 per cent of all IT
employment in the six countries -- and create an additional 50,000 new
positions.
"Windows Vista will be an important launch for Microsoft," said
Marcel Warmerdam, research director, IDC European IT Markets, and co-author
of the report. "But it will be an even more important launch for a much
larger and more extensive community around the world. The launch of Windows
Vista will have a pronounced positive impact on growth and innovation in
local economies throughout Europe."
According to the IDC report, which was commissioned by Microsoft,
Windows Vista will be installed on more than 30 million computers in the six
countries researched in its first year of availability, and 105 million
worldwide. This installed base will provide a market for application
developers, systems integrators and other companies that produce, sell or
distribute products or services running on Windows Vista. IDC's research
predicts that for every euro of revenue Microsoft makes, companies within the
IT ecosystem will, on average, will make over euro 13.
Jean-Philippe Courtois, president of Microsoft International, said,
"In the grand scheme of things, IDC forecasts that Windows Vista will account
for only 1 per cent of the euro 214 billion the six countries in the study
will spend on IT in 2007, and around 5 per cent of the packaged software
spend. However, the economic opportunity Windows Vista creates for small and
large companies across the region is clearly much more significant."
The ripple effect of Windows Vista's economic impact will spread beyond
the IT industry. "Based on standard software and services industry ratios for
spending on product development, marketing and training, Microsoft's partners
will be investing over euro 4.8 billion, between now and the end of 2007, in
readying their products and services," says IDC's Marcel Warmerdam.
Stimulating innovation
Imasoft ApS is typical of many of the independent software vendors (ISVs)
that help make up the 150,000 company strong IT ecosystem in the six
countries researched by IDC. Based in Fakse, Denmark, the company employs
five people. For the past four years its developers have been working on
CrimeSceneNet -- a product based on Windows Vista that will enable police
and law-enforcement agencies to create panoramic, 3-D, digital
representations of real crime scenes, enabling forensic and other evidence
to be plotted accurately and investigation scenarios to be analysed.
"Windows Vista has given us the opportunity to optimise our product
in a way that meets the rigorous demands of our customers. We are able to
develop better features in a tenth of the time it would have taken before.
This means faster development and faster innovation, helping accelerate our
time-to-market with a much stronger, more competitive product," said
Poul Bodeholt, co-founder of Imasoft. "In our principal markets, we expect
revenues to increase by DDK100 million (euro 13.5 million) over the next
five years with the new, Windows Vista-based solution."
Seemage Inc, a French software developer based in Nice, develops
solutions for the product design, engineering and technical illustration
industries, and is also planning a version of its Seemage system, based on
Windows Vista technology. "Our vision of 3-D product information being
available 'everyware' will be taken to the next level with Windows Vista.
We anticipate that, ultimately, most of our end users will view, manage,
manipulate and leverage 3-D digital design data via via Seemage running on
Windows Vista," said Chris Williams, CEO of Seemage.
This study is the latest in a series of studies conducted by IDC since
2002 into the economic impact of IT, software, and the Microsoft ecosystem
and partner community on local economies. A copy of the IDC report into The
Economic Impact of Microsoft Windows Vista can be downloaded from
http://download.microsoft.com/download/b/c/1/bc15f052-f970-405f-b691-
5d0052410b42/203326Euro.pdf.
ISV Partner Involvement
The following ISV companies are also participating in the event today:
-- Imasoft. A Danish-owned and-operated company, Imasoft specialises in
software and systems for police and intelligence agencies, and other
customers within the field of law enforcement. http://uk.imasoft.dk
-- Meta4. A Spanish company, Meta4's human capital management (HCM)
solutions maximise the potential of organisational talent by helping them
increase productivity and adapt to changing business demands, both globally
and locally. Meta4 offers the most advanced applications to companies of all
sizes, public institutions and to suppliers of HR outsourcing services.
Founded in 1991, Meta4 is one of the main agents in HCM, according to Gartner
(2005), with more than 1,000 clients who are using the company's solutions in
82 countries to manage 9 million people throughout the world.
http://www.meta4.com
-- Prim'X Technologies. A French provider of security solutions, Prim'X
Technologies was created in 2003 by cryptography experts. Prim'X Technologies
has developed and commercialised next-generation encryption software which
uses the "on-the-fly encryption" technique and is based on the [FSRd]
low-level file access interception technology developed and patented by the
company. http://www.primx.fr
-- Seemage Inc. Based in Nice, Seemage has made product information
available 'Everyware' for customers since 2002. With Seemage's system for
delivering product information in exactly the right form to the right person
at the right time, enterprise investments in CAD, PLM, ERP and CRM are
enhanced to deliver more value. With Seemage's XML-based, CAD-independent
architecture, products are delivered faster, with higher quality and at
lower cost. http://www.seemage.com
-- Skyrecon Systems. A French company, Skyrecon Systems is the premier
European software vendor for advanced endpoint security solutions.
SkyRecon's mission is to proactively ensure the integrity and reliability of
data and applications on every client workstation - stationary or nomadic -
without disrupting user activity. http://www.skyrecon.com
-- Step Ahead AG. Based in Germany, Step Ahead enables small and
medium-sized companies that produce and deal with high-value products and/or
provide specialised services to measurably increase productivity and profit
in their market. Founded in 1999, Step Ahead enables its customers to be more
successful by providing business solutions. Currently, 430 customers in
various industries with more than 4,000 desktops use the Step Ahead product
Steps Business Solution. They benefit from a broad variety of flexible
functionalities for marketing, sales, services and customer care as well as
from highly integrated Microsoft technology and applications.
http://www.stepahead.eu
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