Top 700 European Systems Integrators generate combined revenues in excess of $170 billion (€108bn)
Average year-on-year sales growth 11%

A growing desire amongst both private and public sector organisations to outsource responsibility for the implementation and support of IT has enabled Europe’s leading System Integrators to post growth rates well above the industry average over the last year. The top 700 European Systems Integrators, which between them employ 1.29 million people, posted average growth rates of 11.27% in generating combined sales of $169.96 billion (€107.57bn) last year. These are amongst the findings of “Systems Integrators in Europe –The Top 700”, the latest database report from IT Europa which is published today.

The database report, which provides detailed business profiles of each of the top 700 European Systems Integrators, provides further evidence that Europe’s IT industry is increasingly being driven by applications and service based sales.

In terms of geography, the highest growth rates were achieved in Germany (average 18.45%) followed by Italy (16.98%) and Poland (16.35%). Norway was at the bottom of the growth league with just 4.58% growth. Amongst the leading companies, major winners included Dimension Data (23.5% growth) Accenture (19.8%) and IBM (18%)

“What we are seeing here is mainly geographic growth as companies set up operations in other regions, particularly Eastern Europe, by a combination of organic growth and acquisition,” explains Christine Bardwell, IT Europa Research Manager. “Companies such as Ness, Logica CMG, CIBER Novasoft, S&T CZ and Sigma AB have all benefitted from significant acquisitions over the last 2 years.”

IT Europa’s Managing Director, Alan Norman, adds: “The considerable growth we are seeing in this sector underlines the transition we have been observing for some time towards more application and service lead sales. Put simply, organisations are increasingly averse to the risk of deploying and managing large scale IT systems and infrastructures themselves. They want Systems Integrators to take responsibility for managing the increasing complexity for them and to do that on an international basis involves having a local presence, which is one reason why we are seeing so much geographic expansion. There is also a growing desire to harness lower cost near-shore resources from the developing Central and Eastern European markets”

The leading European Systems Integrators:

Company            2007 Total Sales($m)
IBM Global Services EMEA       19001
BT Global Services Limited       16351
T-Systems International GmbH       15840
Capgemini SA             9546
Accenture EMEA             9534
Atos Origin S.A.          7631
EDS EMEA             6849
HP Services EMEA          6825
Logica Plc (EMEA)          6131
Siemens IT Solutions         6050
and Services GmbH & Co. OHG
Fujitsu Services Holdings plc       4918
CSC Europe Limited          4225
 
The “Systems Integrators in Europe – The Top 700” database report spans 38 countries and represents the most detailed view of this key market sector. It has been compiled from detailed interviews by IT Europa’s own research team. The company profiles include sales breakdowns by company activity, which markets they operate in, and detailed information on staff numbers and development plans, along with contact details for the top executives of each company. The report is available from IT Europa (www.iteuropa.com) at a cost of £2,095 for a single user licence and £8,380 for a multi-user licence.