Financial Insights' IT Spending Guides bring together current regional and country-level analysis to create a regional and segmented perspective on IT spending by financial institutions. It addresses the need for detailed IT spending data by both financial institutions and IT players serving financial institutions. A detailed, global spending tool, the Guide leverages IDC's forecasting models and geographic reach as well as Financial Insights' detailed vision on future trends for financial services. The Guide is an interactive, easy-to-use, spreadsheet-based interface with a sophisticated query tool that enables the user to conduct detailed spending analyses by self-selecting critical parameters, including geography, institution type, line of business, and technology components. Users of our electronic Guide will find that it combines portability with an extensive ability to manipulate data for efficient interactions and analyses, eliminating the need to sift through volumes of paper-based forecasts or multiple spreadsheets to assemble necessary cross-tabulations.

Key Questions Answered

• What business areas will see significant increases in IT spending over the next five years?
• Which financial industry segments will have the largest IT spending in five years?
• How do similar types of institutions in different geographies spend their IT budgets?
• How will the distribution of IT spending (across hardware, software, external services, and internal services) change over the next five years by financial industry segment?
  
  

Market Segments and Subjects Analyzed

• North America (United States, Canada, and Latin America)
• Western Europe (United Kingdom, France, and Germany)
• Eastern Europe/Middle East and Africa
• Asia/Pacific (Australia, New Zealand, and China)
• Hong Kong, Japan, and Singapore

• Corporate and retail banks
• Securities and investment firms (retail brokerage and trading, investment management)
• Insurance carriers
• Specialty finance institutions: corporate and retail
• Spending across major lines of business within the firm, including internal/external services, hardware, and software

Competitive Analysis and Advisory Services
By presenting a regional and segmented perspective on IT spending by financial institutions, the Financial Insights IT Spending Guides help IT suppliers that are targeting the financial services sector to identify market opportunities and execute a global financial services strategy. In addition, the detailed market segment data will help financial institutions plan their budget allocations more effectively.

Financial Insights will publish selective versions of the Guide for the Capital Markets, Insurance and Banking segments as well as provide access to the individual taxonomy research reports, a framework from which to categorize and relate functions and solutions in these various markets. This framework demonstrates the relationship between specific functions and provides insight as to where technology solutions are properly applied. Documenting the function and solution relationship will provide a greater understanding of the application of technology to the business of financial services.

Our high quality benchmark data and analysis also includes:

• ANALYST INQUIRY TIME (fee based) to answer specific questions on the market segmentation and spending forecasts within the regional Guide
• 24 x 7 ACCESS for five (5) users to the Guide and Taxonomy reports via financial-insights.com, a dynamic, personalized Web experience
• DISCOUNTED ADMISSION to our annual Financial Insights client conferences and/or IDC's Directions conference
• COMPLIMENTARY INVITATIONS to monthly interactive forums in which clients receive additional insight about our research and strategies, have the opportunity to interact directly with analysts, and listen to their peers' questions
  
  

For more information, contact:
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