Revenue growth will be dependent upon two critical factors: cost reduction via the introduction of new workflow efficiencies and new revenue sources from higher margin value-added services.
Although better/faster/cheaper presses, digital printers, and pre- and post- printing devices will certainly play a significant role in advancing both of these objectives, it will be the software driving these devices, as well as other software solutions up and down the value chain, that will provide differentiation to print service providers and solution vendors.
This fundamental change represents an opportunity for software and solution vendors. In 2004, InfoTrends/CAP Ventures produced a multi-client study entitled The Global Print Production Workflow Market: Enabling Fundamental Business Change in Graphic Arts. The study was a first-ever comprehensive analysis of the print production-related software market. It sized the market for software and related services by product category and forecasted the growth of the market over the next five years.
Due to the rising importance of this market, Research and Markets has turned the multi-client study into an annual market forecast. In addition to the global forecast, this market forecast provides further details on the Western European market. The outlook covers the period between 2004 and 2009. Additional information on the North American market is available in a separate report.
Topics Covered
Executive Summary
Global View
Western European View
Software Category Forecast Discussion
Introduction
Methodology
Definitions of Terms
Structure of Document
Descriptions of Product Categories
Adjustments to Forecast Data
Industry Trends
Market Size and Forecast: Global View
Production-Class Creative Applications
Modular Automated Production Management Software for Predominantly Offset Printing Workflows
Modular Automated Production Management Software for Predominantly Digital Printing Workflows
Modular Automated Production Management Software for Hybrid Offset and Digital Workflows
Print Controllers and RIPs (Digital Devices)
Print-Specific ERP, MIS, and Business Management Applications
Variable Data Design, Production, and Automated Composition Applications
Print e-Business Software
Datastream Transformation Software
Mail Preparation Software
Prepress Point Solutions
Conclusion
Appendix A: In-Scope Vendors by Product Category
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