{"id":1047,"date":"2015-04-11T06:57:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T06:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/2015-mobility-services-blueprint_041015\/"},"modified":"2015-04-11T06:57:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T06:57:00","slug":"2015-mobility-services-blueprint_041015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/2015-mobility-services-blueprint_041015\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2015 Enterprise Mobility Services Blueprint: IBM, Cognizant, Accenture, TCS, Infosys and Capgemini in the Winner’s Circle"},"content":{"rendered":"

The world of enterprise mobility continues to unravel at a breathless clip, with a host of application, infrastructure and niche specialist service providers claiming to deliver (much) more than a bunch of Blackberries, mobile servers and basic help-desk support to enterprise clients.<\/p>\n

Enterprise mobility has quickly propelled into the corporate mainstream, with almost every consumer-facing, employee-engaging, supply-chain-enabling process requiring critical mobility interfaces and integration points to avoid becoming obsolete. And with so many processes now going completely native to the mobile world, from membership programs for healthcare insurance schemes, through to governance productivity tools, through to tax management applications etc., the mobility prowess, from a business<\/em> transformation aspect, is the Holy Grail the winning service providers are seeking to stay ahead of this fast-commoditizing digital marketplace.<\/p>\n

So, without further ado, let’s focus on how the 2015 enterprise mobility services environment is shaping up with HfS’ digital research guru, Ned May’s, new release of the 2015 Enterprise Mobility Blueprint:<\/p>\n

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Hi Ned, what has changed in the enterprise services mobility market over the last year?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I am pretty amazed at how fast the market has shifted. In the year that\u2019s passed since my last Blueprint, we now see a majority of enterprises undertaking efforts to integrate their mobility portfolios deeper into legacy systems. Few enterprises were at that stage a year ago when it was the build out of point solutions that dominated the activity sourced from service providers in mobility. Even just a year ago, efforts to integrate these apps were largely aspirational but now it is a major area of effort between service providers and enterprise clients.<\/p>\n

This increase in market demand for more sophisticated solutions translated into impressive results for some leading service providers. For example, IBM\u2019s mobility revenues grew over 300% in 2014 to reach $2 billion. That makes Mobility a significant contributor to IBM\u2019s services revenue. In short, the opportunity has arrived and I expect the current level of activity around mobility to continue. \u201cDigital\u201d may have become the de facto term service providers use to describe their practices around enabling technologies but when you peel this activity back a layer you quickly find the bulk of activity has a significant mobile component. Whether an enterprise is looking to drive increased efficiency across a current processes, open up new customer channels, or developing a new business model, more often than not today it involves some type of mobile device.<\/p>\n

And how did the Blueprint analysis turn out?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The big surprise this year was how well the largest service providers faired. In a rapidly shifting market you might expect smaller and perhaps nimbler service providers to excel but what we saw was the largest service providers fared the best. Topping this off was the success of IBM which I already mentioned grew over 300% in 2014 and that is off a base of $650 million in revenue the year before. That grow would be impossible off the back of new Apps alone. It is a result of the big push from clients for deeper enterprise integration.<\/p>\n

At the same time, we saw a second tier of service providers emerge in an area of what I\u2019d call focused scale. These were all large enough to drive efficiency across their delivery models while addressing the myriad of related technologies but not necessarily in the same breadth of industry or end-to-end fashion as the largest service providers. Arguably, these second tier service providers are in great positions position for 2015 as the maturing market looks for further specialization.<\/p>\n

So what are your key takeaways from this study and what should we be watching for in the next few years?<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

One of the most significant takeaways our analysis yielded was a realization that the relative positioning of service providers has become greatly compressed. Every service provider analyzed offers significant capabilities across our criteria for both execution and innovation.<\/p>\n

Our Winner\u2019s Circle of Service Providers included: Accenture, Capgemini, Cognizant, IBM, Infosys and TCS. Our High Performers were: Atos, EPAM, HCL, HP, NTT Data, Symphony Teleca, Tech Mahindra and Tieto.<\/p>\n

Yet, the differences are getting more difficult to discern and that makes for a buyer\u2019s market at least for the next year or so while integration remains king. We expect this to change in 2016 as a few service providers begin to demonstrate the unique advantages they gained by extending their definition of mobility to include the Internet of Things. Until this occurs the market will be led by those service providers who can drive the greatest efficiency around areas like running App Factories, providing Testing-as-a-Service and embedding security across every interface.<\/p>\n

\"Ned<\/a><\/p>\n

Ned May, SVP Digital Transformation and Mobility Services Research<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Another takeaway is that we don\u2019t expect to see a great deal of commercial demand for mobility-led transformation in 2015. When enterprises tapped their IT departments to rationalize the disparate mobile efforts underway, they inadvertently put the brakes on innovation. IT organizations are notoriously conservative and as they work to integrate the mess, they are reluctant to let go of any recently reclaimed control. This means we don\u2019t expect to see significant activity around transformation just yet and that could be a lost opportunity as enterprises spend perhaps too much energy on neatly tying together loose ends rather than embracing these new mobile technologies as a way to drive fundamental change. The only caveat here would be for those enterprises that have a strong Chief Digital Officer in place. Where this type of leader exists we expect to see some healthy conflict between running processes more smoothly and running processes in new ways. But again, the bulk of activity in 2015 will be around developing apps more efficiently and integrating them into existing systems.<\/p>\n

HfS readers can click\u00a0<\/i><\/b>here<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0to view highlights of all our 22 HfS Blueprint reports.<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

HfS subscribers\u00a0click here<\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0to access the new HfS Blueprint Report,\u00a0\u201cHfS Blueprint Report 2015: Enterprise Mobility Services\u201c<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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