The global customer experience (CX) outsourcing services market is challenged by commoditization. Consequently, outsourcers are deploying advanced technology-enabled solutions and working with partners from across the ecosystem to differentiate in the fragmented marketplace. Over the years, the focus has shifted from cost and labor arbitrage to cus...

Data breaches are inevitable in the enterprise space, and endpoints continue to be a popular vector of cyberattacks. In response, endpoint security tools have evolved from signature-based antivirus to advanced endpoint security solutions. Endpoint security includes host-based software products that secure computing devices such as laptops, desktop...

The European contact center as a service (CCaaS) market is enjoying significant attention, although it remains in a growth stage. The market comprises more than 150 vendors of varying size that offer solutions to companies and organization across a broad range of verticals, with financial services, healthcare, public sector, utilities, retail, educ...

The explosive growth of enterprise mobility and bring your own device technologies is putting immense pressure on IT teams to monitor and control cloud application usage, fueling the growth of cloud access security broker (CASB) solutions. A CASB is a security platform that resides between cloud service users and cloud apps to monitor all activitie...

In 2017, the MSS market in the ANZ region recorded a growth of 13.5%. Australian companies are increasingly witnessing cybercrimes, making the region one of the most targeted the Asia-Pacific region. Ransomware and phishing attacks are the most frequent, and governments are now looking at the growing number of cyber incidents as a major area of con...

Demand for MSS continued to quickly increase among ASEAN countries as the market grew significantly by 18.6%, on a YoY basis. Though investment in security measures for better security protection and risk management continued to increase, organizations in ASEAN faced growing challenges in security operations due to shortage of professionals and dom...

The Greater China MSS market maintained its double-digit growth of 18.3% on a YoY basis in 2017. The market was strongly driven by the introduction of new cybersecurity laws and guidelines from local authorities. Stricter compliance has put enterprises under greater pressure to meet specific requirements. More enterprises were looking for third-par...

In 2017, the Japanese MSS market witnessed a healthy growth of 7.6% on a YoY basis. The Japanese market continued to be the largest contributor in APAC, accounting for 32.3% of the market share in the APAC region. CPE-based management/monitoring service (MMS) segment contributed to a majority of the share in 2017, with a YoY growth of 6.6%. While ...

In 2017, the Indian MSS market recorded a growth of 27.9% on a YoY basis. The MSS market witnessed a growth in the uptake of services because of the increased digitization and the expanding landscape of advanced threats. The Indian Government continued to focus on the move toward ‘Digital India’ and emphasized on the rising need to make the d...