ALTEN Markets
?The market targeted by ALTEN covers all of the Consultancy and Advanced Technology Engineering services:
- Design and studies to implement all stages of global research and development projects;
- Consulting and project management assistance
- Network architecture and information technology systems (open environments).
The main outlets for these services are the sectors where ALTEN generates the bulk of its revenues: telephone companies, telecom equipment makers, electrical/ electronic equipment manufacturers, and the aviation, aerospace, defence, transport, process, and services industries.
These target markets are generally included in the sector referred to by Pierre Audoin Consultants as "CAR-IS" (Consultancy, Technical Assistance, Realisation of Applications and Integration of Systems). This market represented over 14.1 billion EUR in France in 2005, an increase of 5% compared with 2004.
The market that is accessible to ALTEN
According to Pierre Audoin Consultants, the market that is accessible to ALTEN consists essentially of two sectors:
The CAR-IS market in systems and scientific and technical applications. This sector covers the following fields:
- Scientific applications (computing, simulation, etc.)
- Inspection/Control/Monitoring
- Real-time Applications
- Applications that are “on board” or integrated into products, systems, services, etc.
- Digital or analogue electronics
- Computer-related R&D outsourcing (software development only)
This market was worth approximately 2.4 billion EUR in France in 2005.
The CAR-IS market for outsourcing of Engineering
and Design/Research and Development Offices,
consisting of subcontracting in “assistance” or research and development “projects” mode in miscellaneous techno logical fields: chemistry, energy, biotechnology, mechanics, aerodynamics and environment, etc.
This market was worth approximately 1.4 billion EUR in France in 2005.
It is interesting to study changes in the market accessible to ALTEN in relation to the entire CAR-IS market.
2005 saw confirmation of the recovery recorded in 2004 with growth in excess of 6%.
This growth will be sustained, thanks to the good performance of major sectors such as Aeronautics and Defence and the sub-contracting that is still active or recovering in the Automotive, Energy or Telecommunications fields.
The Industry sector is by far the biggest consumer of services, with a market estimated by PAC of 2.2 billion EUR in 2005.
Systems architectures, infrastructures and networks (technological information systems) According to ALTEN, this market is stable at 1.2 million EUR.
ALTEN's competitive environment
Given its product offering, ALTEN is not part of the competitive environment of traditional IT services firms: drafting and integration of software for management IT, outsourcing.
In the market for outsourced R&D, ALTEN is in second place among ten significant competitors and the rest of the market is given over to many local players.
In 2005, ALTEN continued to gain market share compared
to its direct competitors.
(source Pierre Audouin Consultants - April 2006)
Conclusion
ALTEN developed on a growing market in 2005.
Several sectors are very dynamic such as the Aeronautics, Automotive and Telecommunications sectors.
On a market that should continue to grow by approximately
6 to 7% a year for the next three years, ALTEN hopes to
continue to gain market shares.
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