This IDC study summarizes the 2024 performance and market forecast for 2025–2029 of the Japan digital business (DB) professional services market, categorized into five types of service segments across two areas: business services and IT services. The DB professional services market in 2024 achieved high growth, driven by active demand from Japan companies for DB transformation, as well as an increase in projects aimed at AI adaptation, which has become essential for realizing this transformation. IDC predicts that high growth will continue in all five service segments beyond 2024.Takuya Uemura, senior research manager of Software and Services at IDC Japan, says, "In the Japan digital business professional services market, in addition to the expansion of demand for IT modernization involving business process transformation to the mainstream among large enterprises, support for AI adaptation toward transformation is driving market growth. From a long-term perspective, service vendors need to capture such demand while proceeding with the reconstruction of professional service delivery models and business models."This is the English translation of the Japanese document IDC #JPJ52157225.
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Executive Summary
Advice for Technology Suppliers
Market Forecast
Japan Digital Business Professional Services by Service Segment
Market Context
Drivers and Inhibitors
Drivers
Digital Business Development and AI Adaptation
Development of Agentive AI
Inhibitors
Japan Economic Trends
Lack of Delivery Personnel
Monetization in Ways other Than Professional Services
Significant Market Developments
Digital Business Professional Services for AI Adaptation
Continuous Demand from the Modernization of Existing Businesses
Innovation Support and Product Orientation of Project-Oriented Services
Changes from Prior Forecast
Market Definition
Methodology
Methods for Calculating Market Size
Related Research
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