-- A report on the Chinese Collaboration Solution Industry
BEIJING, Dec. 18 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- In 2005, CCID conducted in-depth
market research on collaboration solution providers to probe changes under
competitive circumstances in the Chinese market, to seize opportunities and
generate potentially effective marketing strategies in this market, with the
delivery of the “2005 Chinese Collaboration Solution Market Research
Report.”
The research subjects are 500 leading Chinese enterprises covering
Telecom, FSI, Iron, Petroleum & Chemistry, Energy and Transportation, and
collaboration solution providers including Smartdot Technology.
The collaboration market is relatively mature, from a global perspective.
The domestic market has seen continued growth in 2005 and many domestic
players have demonstrated their competitive edge. As foreign vendors become
more involved in the collaboration solution business, the market’s dramatic
growth has drawn even more attention from domestic vendors. In 2005, this
market has grown to 3.93 billion with a growth rate of 28.4% from 2004 and
the growth is sustaining.
Collaboration solution providers are classified into four groups
according to their positions in the value chain. The First group are vendors
focusing on providing hi-end consulting and system integration like Neusoft,
China National Software and Service Company, and Accenture. The Second group
are collaboration platform providers that provide collaboration
infrastructures and applications, such as Smartdot, Inqure and Weaver, etc.
The third group build collaboration applications and application models on
second group vendors’ platforms. And the fourth group focuses on product
distribution.
In 2005, customers from energy and transportation industries, as well as
the government always chose those providers with comprehensive capabilities
and governmental background, some characteristics Smartdot possess, according
to their demand for security, technology and personalization.
In several pivotal industries like iron, petroleum & chemistry, utility,
transportation (airport), Smartdot demonstrated its edge with a share of 25%,
26.7%, 16.7% and 20.8% in each respective industry in 2005. In this year,
Smartdot’s strategy focuses on hi-end solutions and expanding into new
realms and industries, important and prominent to the country. Also,
Smartdot has initiated market research of demand from small and medium
businesses.
The emergence of a collaboration solution value chain brings new
opportunities to the vendors in this market. Vendors with core technology
can provide core technologies and application platforms and vendors without
those core technologies can evolve to ISV or consulting providers.
Based on these findings, CCID suggest vendors of collaboration solutions
should cooperate with other vendors in the value chain to strengthen their
own competitive capacity and, at the same time, develop partnerships with
local small or medium SIs to attract customers with more specified products
and professional services.
About Beijing Smartdot Technologies Co., LTD
Based in Beijing, PRC, Beijing Smartdot Technologies Co. Ltd.
("Smartdot") is a computer software development company engaged in software
development and solution projects, with its primary focus being in the area
of e-government projects and office automation. Smartdot was founded in 1998
by a group of graduate students from Tsinghua University in Beijing. After a
few years of development, Smartdot has a strong client base in the government
and state-owned corporate sector. In 2005 and 2006, Smartdot was voted by
Deloitte to join “The Top 50 High-Tech and Fast-Growing Companies in PRC
China “ and “Top 500 High-Tech and Fast-Growing Companies in Asia “.