The Global Print Production Workflow Market: Enabling Fundamental Business Change in Graphic Arts

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1 Headquarters 97 Libbey Industrial Parkway Suite 300 Weymouth, MA Phone: Fax: Europe 3 rd Floor, Sceptre House 7-9 Castle Street Luton, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom LU1 3AJ Phone: Fax: euro.info@capv.com The Global Print Production Workflow Market: Enabling Fundamental Business Change in Graphic Arts Japan Hiroo Office Building Hiroo Shibuya-ku Tokyo Japan Phone: Fax: info@gsm.to About Us InfoTrends/CAP Ventures is the leading worldwide market research and strategic consulting firm for the digital imaging and document solutions industries. We provide research, analysis, forecasts, and advice to help clients understand market trends, identify opportunities, and develop strategies to grow their businesses. To learn more about our company, visit InfoTrends/CAP Ventures

2 Introduction As the print industry matures and print volumes are threatened by alternative media, print service providers must reexamine and reengineer their basic business models and operations protocols to adapt to the changing business climate. For the savvy print service provider, revenue growth and increased profit will be dependent upon two critical factors: cost reduction via the introduction of new workflow efficiencies and an expanded portfolio of 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 the print service provider and the solutions vendor. This fundamental change in the industry clearly presents an opportunity for software and solutions vendors, but how big is this opportunity? What are the highest growth areas? How fast will adoption be? Does the opportunity vary by geography? Are some markets more mature than others? What is the role of standards such as XML and JDF? What does the future hold for hybrid digital/offset workflow solutions? Is the Web ubiquitous? Are certain brands more recognizable than others or is this currently a market with limited brand preferences? InfoTrends/CAP Ventures multi-client study and market forecast entitled The Global Print Production Workflow Market: Enabling Fundamental Business Change in Graphic Arts is the first-ever comprehensive study on the print production related software market. This study accurately sizes the market for software and related services by product category; presents a detailed analysis of service providers attitudes, plans, and trends; and forecasts the growth of the market over the next five years. This study provides software and solutions vendors with the unprecedented ability to clearly understand market trends, correctly assess the market opportunity, and confidently plan future directions. It provides print service providers with a guide to aid in purchasing decisions and offers information on how they can remain competitive. Project Scope This study profiles and sizes the worldwide print production software market for 2003 and forecasts growth of this market through The results of this study provide the information required to: Prioritize product and market opportunities Understand customers perceptions and requirements Identify new business opportunities Support product and service strategic planning Improve sales and marketing activities in key market segments Determine service and support requirements Determine pricing strategies To achieve these goals, InfoTrends/CAP Ventures has surveyed software and solutions vendors as well as print service providers worldwide to: Size the worldwide print production software market for 2003 by product category, including revenue in each major category broken out by: Software or ASP licenses Bundled hardware Maintenance Professional services Forecast year-over-year growth of this market through 2008 by product category Report revenue in each major category by geographical region (North America, South and Central America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Japan, Asia-Pacific excluding Japan, and Africa and the Middle East) Page InfoTrends/CAP Ventures

3 Examine market penetration in each geographical area Present market insight on a range of print service provider topics including brand awareness, standards implementation, and technology adoption rates Describe key trends impacting the print production software market in each category Methodology InfoTrends/CAP Ventures conducted primary research with software and solutions vendors as well as print service providers to obtain an in-depth, accurate, bottoms-up analysis of the print production software market, its trends, and its directions. This research was supplemented by other InfoTrends/CAP Ventures studies as well as extensive secondary research. Solutions Vendor Primary Research InfoTrends/CAP Ventures conducted interviews with software and solutions vendors worldwide, including leading vendors in each product category. Individual vendor data and market share information remains confidential, and all numbers are reported in aggregate by product category and geographical region. Software categories are defined below. Examples are given for illustrative purposes only and are by no means considered a comprehensive list of vendors in each category: 1. Production-class creative applications that facilitate complex document creation and layouts Examples: Adobe InDesign, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, QuarkXpress 2. Modular automated production management solutions for predominantly offset printing workflows Examples: Agfa Apogee, Creo Brisque, Creo Prinergy, Heidelberg Prinect 3. Modular automated production management solutions for predominantly digital printing workflows Examples: IBM Infoprint Manager, Heidelberg/NexPress ImageSmart Workflow Suite, HP Production Flow, Océ PRISMA solutions, Xerox Freeflow solutions 4. Modular automated production management solutions for hybrid offset and digital Examples: EFI OneFlow 5. Print controllers and RIPs Examples: Xerox DocuSP, Creo Spire, Peerless Sierra Technologies, AHT Squadron 6. Print-specific ERP and business management systems Examples: Avanti, EFI Hagen, EFI PSI, EFI Logic, EFI Printsmith, DiMS!, PACE, Prism, Profit Control 7. Variable data design and production and automated document composition Examples: Atlas PrintShop Mail, Datalogics DL Formatter, Document Sciences xpression, Exstream Dialogue, GMC PrintNet, Group1 Software DOC1, Objectif Lune PlanetPress, Pageflex Persona, MPower, PrintSoft PReS, Xerox VIPP 8. Print e-business Infrastructure (ASP and Software models) Examples: Adobe JobReady, Global Graphics PDF Courier, PagePath MyOrderDesk, Printable PrintOne, Printcafe PrinterSite, Rochester Software Associates WebCRD, EFI Digital StoreFront, Xerox Web Document Submission 9. Datastream transformation solutions Examples: Agile Print Manager, American PrintWare s solutions, Barr Enterprise Print Server, RSA M.I.S. Print, Solimar Print/Director, solutions to convert from legacy graphic arts formats such as Scitex Handshake, CT 10. Mail preparation software Examples: Group 1 Code1 Plus, Mailstream Plus, and MOVEFast, BCC Software MailManager, First Logic PostalSoft 11. Prepress Point Solutions (standalone software products) a. Color management b. Trapping c. Imposition d. Soft proofing e. Preflighting 2004 InfoTrends/CAP Ventures Page 3

4 Print Service Provider Research In addition, InfoTrends/CAP Ventures conducted interviews with 408 print service providers in North America and 169 print service providers in Western Europe, supplemented by secondary research in other regions. Service providers encompassed a broad range of business sizes and specialties, including creative establishments, commercial printers, quick printers, digital print specialists, publishers, and inplant establishments. The service provider research examines: Installed print production workflow solutions Planned short-term and long-term spending plans Attitudes towards industry standards such as XML and JDF Requirement for hybrid offset/digital workflows Brand awareness and brand loyalty Channel preference Perceived benefits and barriers to adoption InfoTrends/CAP Ventures supplemented this research with existing InfoTrends/CAP Ventures forecasts, multi-client studies, and other research including: U.S. Print On Demand Market Forecast: Western European Print On Demand Market Forecast: U.S. Document Outsourcing Market Forecast: Western European Document Outsourcing Market Forecast: Corporate Print Services: The In-Plant Printing Opportunity multi-client study, 2004 The Future of Mail and Transaction Documents multi-client study, 2003 The Future of Paper multi-client study, 2003 The Next Generation Digital Color On Demand Printing Opportunity multi-client study, 2002 Black & White Print On Demand: Catching the Next Wave multi-client study, 2002 Ongoing tracking studies with WhatTheyThink.com and OutputLinks.com Secondary Research InfoTrends/CAP Ventures also thoroughly examined existing market information utilizing a variety of sources that included: Annual reports and SEC documents Periodicals and trade articles Web sites Vendor white papers Published industry reports Industry databases Research reports Deliverables The final report includes extensive analysis of primary and secondary research to develop a comprehensive understanding of trends impacting the print production software market and InfoTrends/CAP Ventures recommendations, as well as accurate sizing and a forecast for the market. The material includes: An executive summary that addresses key issues, findings, and overall recommendations A detailed written report with text, charts, and graphs addressing the objectives of the study; the final report is 218 pages long and includes 198 charts and tables. A set of presentation-style overheads for internal communication of the research results A data book of survey research with print service providers for additional analysis An optional, on-site briefing Page InfoTrends/CAP Ventures

5 Who Should Subscribe? Software & workflow solutions providers Creative application software providers Automated workflow solutions providers Controller and RIP vendors Print ERP and business management systems vendors Variable data design and production and automated document composition solutions providers Job submission and e-business infrastructure providers Prepress tools providers Printing equipment vendors and suppliers Digital printing Traditional printing Pre- and post-press Supplies (including paper and graphic arts supplies) Print service providers Those seeking information on the future of print production workflow solutions and the competitive environment Terms and Conditions Liability for Advice Although reasonable efforts will be made by InfoTrends/CAP Ventures to ensure the completeness and accuracy of the information contained in written and oral reports in connection with the study, no liability can be accepted by InfoTrends/CAP Ventures for the results of any actions taken by the Client in connection with such information, opinions, or advice. Copyrights InfoTrends/CAP Ventures retains all Copyrights. Reproduction of any material can be made only with the written consent of InfoTrends/CAP Ventures. Confidentiality InfoTrends/CAP Ventures will use its best efforts to ensure that any confidential information obtained about the Client and its business during the course of the study is not, unless agreed otherwise in advance, disclosed to any third party without the prior written permission of the Client. InfoTrends/CAP Ventures retains the right to re-use any non-proprietary information as part of its ongoing analysis of the print buyer market. Terms Payment is due upon report delivery InfoTrends/CAP Ventures Page 5

6 Authorization Complete report with tabbed service provider data for one region $15,995 Tabbed data for additional region $2,500 Complete report with no tabbed data $13,995 Optional On-Site Briefing $2,500 plus travel expenses Print Service Providers* Report without data tabulation $4,995 Purchase order number: Signature Name Title Company Address City, State, Zip Telephone Fax *To qualify for the print service provider price, the subscriber must not sell or distribute any software solutions in any way. Page InfoTrends/CAP Ventures