[189 Pages Report] The global Service Delivery Platforms market in 2013 is estimated to be worth $4.48 billion, and expected to grow to $6.94 billion by 2018, at a CAGR of 9.15% from 2013 to 2018. In the current telecom industry, stiff competition has resulted in a decrease in profit margins for service providers. To counter this, service providers are constantly developing innovative business models. Also, the immense popularity of web apps by web based application providers, such as Google and Yahoo, has fuelled the growth of SDP implementation by the MNO�s for rolling out their own app stores.

In the recent years, Service Delivery Platform have quickly gained popularity as a middle ground platform, which enables an optimized exchange of services between telecom network operators, service providers, content providers and users. SDP enables operators to rapidly develop personalized service offerings and launch them quickly in the market. Ease of delivery of such service offerings, across different network elements, reduction in complexity in the deployment of service offerings, simplification of services management and administration, and other such benefits are provided by SDP to telecom operators. SDP can also serve as a bridge between the current systems and next generation network frameworks, which include an IP multimedia sub-system.

The Service Delivery Platform market report provides a detailed insight into the regional and worldwide vendor market share for fixed and wireless service delivery platform software and services. This report also provides a comprehensive analysis of the leading suppliers and their strategic direction, spread across different geographical regions. LA and MEA regions are the emerging markets, while Asia Pacific is considered the high growth market. This report deals with the market trends in the Service Delivery Platform market and the growth associated with it. It analyzes various factors that will drive and restrain the market over the next five years.

Scope of the Report

This research report categorizes the global market for Service Delivery Platform for forecasting the revenues and analyzing the trends in each of the sub-markets as follows:

On the basis of Service Delivery platform by software and services:

Software

Services

The services segment is further classified by the types of services

Consulting

Integration

On the basis of Sub segments:

Telecom application servers

Mobile Content management and delivery

Policy management

Subscriber data management

On the basis of Telecom service sectors:

Mobile

PSTN

Business Data Services

Residential Broadband

On the basis of Geographies:

North America (NA)

Europe (EU)

Asia-Pacific, incl. Japan (APAC)

Latin America (LA)

Middle-East Africa (MEA)

Each section provides market data, market dynamics (drivers, restraints, trends and opportunities), key players and competitive outlook.

Service Delivery Platforms have been in the market for a period of close to eight years and it is gaining popularity in the telecom industry. The concept was proven successful by the early implementers. Now, the focus is on consolidating the lessons learned from previous SDP implementations and benefits realization. The idea is to use this intelligence to gain an advantage in the industry, by early adoption of next generation SDP products. The next generation SDP products have become easier to plug and play, mainly because they use the concepts of web services interface and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

The service orchestration components are gaining limelight as key technology for coordinating and clustering components within the SDP, as well as the application services that lie in the application layer of the SDP. As the market enters a critical phase in its development, there has been a rising trend seen in SDP activities. IP multimedia system and IMS service convergence are going to be significant influencing factors on the next round of Service Delivery Platform implementations. The SDP vendors are reengineering their products to incorporate these features. In spite of all the momentum in the SDP market, still there are a few challenges that SDP has to overcome. There is a lack of clarity in translating the general concepts represented by SDP into real world deployments. The SDP vendors are not making an effort to bring in this clarity. There is an absence of a standard SDP reference model in the industry, which creates a fear of vendor lock-in among telecom operators.

In this report, the global Service Delivery Platform market has been segmented to understand and estimate market opportunities in its sub segments, SDP software and service, Telecom service sectors, as well as its revenue across different regions. Among the telecom service sectors, mobile network services capture the major share followed by a Business Data Services segment from 2013 to 2018. Among the sub-segments, mobile data content captures a major share of the market. The policy management sub-segment of the SDP market is expected to grow quickly at a CAGR of 9.23%. Among the geographical markets, the Asia- Pacific market captures a significant portion and has attractive growth prospects, because of a huge number of potential users for diversified and personalized service offerings. These offerings are available in countries such as China, India, Japan and South Korea. MarketsandMarkets expects the global Service Delivery Platform market to grow from $4.48 billion in 2013 to $6.94 billion in 2018. This represents a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.15% from 2013 to 2018. The table given below highlights the overall market opportunity, in terms of absolute dollar value and year-on-year (Y-O-Y) growth.

Global Service Delivery Paltform Market, By Revenue 2013 � 2018 ($Billion)

Source: MarketsandMarkets Analysis