EMBEDDED INTEGRATED COMPUTER SYSTEMS (EICS) 2008 GLOBAL MARKET ANALYSIS VOLUME 02: MILITARY, AEROSPACE, AND DEFENSE APPLICATIONS

EMBEDDED INTEGRATED COMPUTER SYSTEMS (EICS) 2008 GLOBAL MARKET ANALYSIS VOLUME 02: MILITARY, AEROSPACE, AND DEFENSE APPLICATIONS published by VDC Research Group in December, 2008. This report consists of 51 Pages - 52 Exhibits and the price starts from US $ 5250.

Introduction

Abstract

VDC recently released six reports on Embedded Integrated Computer Systems (EICS), providing an in-depth investigation and analysis of the market for embedded computing systems as a complement to VDC' s board-level research program - Merchant Computer Boards for Real-Time/Embedded Applications (MCBREA).

The EICS program provides valuable vertical market-specific input from OEMs, users and/or other channels to segment the market for system-level embedded computers. The core vertical markets analyzed include: communications, military/defense/aerospace, transportation, industrial automation and control, medical, and instrumentation. In addition, VDC sizes and forecasts the EICS market; topics investigated in detail include: geographical segmentation, levels of integration/value-add offered by suppliers, most popular applications within each vertical, segmentation by architecture, and growth opportunities.

Research Highlights

VDC' s EICS research has sized both the merchant and captive segments of the embedded computing systems market for the major embedded vertical markets, as shown below for the communications EICS market. The captive market, representing systems produced in-house at OEMs for internal consumption, in most verticals represents a greater portion of the market than the merchant systems; however, in most verticals the trend is that merchant systems are increasing their share of the market at the expense of captive systems. The merchant segment for each vertical is examined in great detail within each volume of VDC' s EICS research. The reports also examine trends for both merchant and captive systems within each vertical and detail the relationship between merchant and captive systems for each vertical segment.

The communications vertical is responsible for the largest share of the total EICS market due to the large number of captive compute platforms built in-house by large Network Equipment Providers (NEPs) such as Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco Systems, Ericsson, Huawei, Nokia-Siemens Networks and Nortel - the captive communications market is very large. The EICS communications market is followed by the military/aerospace in terms of size, which is just ahead of the Industrial Automation and Control EICS market. Both the mil/aero and industrial markets derive a much greater portion of EICS shipments from the merchant market than does the communications market, which again has a heavy concentration of captive systems.

Report Scope

• Communications
• Military/defense/aerospace
• Transportation
• Industrial automation and control
• Medical
• Instrumentation

• Americas
• EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa)
• Asia-Pacific

• Merchant EICS: Embedded computer systems sold individually, by the vendor.
• Captive EICS: Embedded computer systems that are included or sold by the vendor in its own systems or subsystems. In this case the vendor is usually an OEM or integrator and the systems or subsystems usually have a purpose/use other than providing computing functionality.

• Embedded Enterprise: Embedded computers of varying form factors such as rack mount servers and storage systems used in embedded applications and in embedded products to provide enterprise-like functionality.
• Common Form Factors: ATCA, Bladed Servers, MicroTCA, Rackmount Servers, Proprietary Architectures.
• Embedded General Purpose: Embedded computers of varying form factors used in embedded applications and in embedded products to provide general-purpose computing functionality.
• Embedded computers that do not fit into Embedded Enterprise, Embedded High Availability, or Embedded High Performance.
• Common Form Factors: ATCA, CompactPCI, ISA, MicroTCA, Motherboards (ATX, microATX, FlexATX, Mini-ITX, Pico-ITX, etc.), PCI, PCI-ISA, Stackables (PC/104, EBX, EPIC, 3.5", etc.), VME, Proprietary Architectures.
• Embedded High Availability: Embedded computers that provide high-availability capability for embedded network infrastructure applications.
• Common Form Factors: ATCA, Bladed Servers, CompactPCI, MicroTCA, Rackmount Servers, Proprietary Architectures.
• Embedded High Performance: High Performance (HPC) embedded computers used in embedded applications and in embedded products to provide HPC capability.
• Common Form Factors: ATCA, Bladed Servers, Proprietary Architectures

• Market Forecast Coverage: 2007-2012
• Average Slides: 43
• Average Exhibits: 55
• Phone Survey Sample: 90
• Web Survey Sample: 210
• Profiled Vendors: 30

Table of Contents

• Scope and Methodology
• Market Estimates & Forecasts
• Demand Side Data and Analysis
• Competitive Analysis
• Summary Observations
• Appendices:
  • About VDC
  • Ways to Work with Us
  • Licensing Terms and Conditions
  • Vendor Profiles
  • Excel files are attached in a separate document

Market Estimates & Forecasts

• Market Estimate & Forecast Exhibit-1
  • Merchant EICS Market for Military, Aerospace, and Defense Applications, Current and Projected Markets, 2007-2012 (US$ in Millions)
• Market Estimate & Forecast Exhibit-2
  • Captive EICS Market for Military & Aerospace Applications, Current and Projected Markets, 2007-2012 (US$ in Millions)
• Market Estimate & Forecast Exhibit-3
  • Total EICS Market (Merchant & Captive) for Military & Aerospace Applications, Current and Projected Markets, 2007-2012 (US$ in Millions)
• Market Estimate & Forecast Exhibit-4
  • EICS Market for Military, Aerospace, and Defense Applications, Shipments and Projections by Geographic Region, 2007 & 2010 (% of Dollar Volume Shipments)
• Market Estimate & Forecast Exhibit-5
  • EICS Market for Military, Aerospace, and Defense Applications, Shipments and Projections by Sales Channel, 2007 & 2010 (% of Dollar Volume Shipments)
• Market Estimate & Forecast Exhibit-6
  • EICS Market for Military, Aerospace, and Defense Applications, Shipments and Projections by Customer Class, 2007 & 2010 (% of Dollar Volume Shipments)
• Market Estimate & Forecast Exhibit-7
  • EICS Market for Military, Aerospace, and Defense Applications, Shipments and Projections by Application, 2007 & 2010 (% of Dollar Volume Shipments)
• Market Estimate & Forecast Exhibit-8
  • EICS Market for Military, Aerospace, and Defense Applications, Shipments and Projections by System Configuration, 2007 & 2010 (% of Dollar Volume Shipments)
• Market Estimate & Forecast Exhibit-9
  • EICS Market for Military, Aerospace, and Defense Applications, Shipments and Projections by System Architecture, 2007 & 2010 (% of Dollar Volume Shipments)
• Market Estimate & Forecast Exhibit-10
  • EICS System Architectures in Military, Aerospace, and Defense Applications, Estimated Current Shipments Identified as Comprising the Most Common Type, 2 (Weighted Shipment Shares of Vendors Identifying)
• Market Estimate & Forecast Exhibit-11
  • Passive Backplane EICS Market for Military, Aerospace, and Defense Applications, Shipments and Projections by Bus Architecture, 2007 & 2010 (% of Dollar Volume Shipments)
• Market Estimate & Forecast Exhibit-12
  • Passive Backplane EICS Bus Architectures in Military, Aerospace, and Defense Applications, Current Shipments Identified as Comprising the Most Common Ty (Weighted Shipment Shares of Vendors Identifying)
• Market Estimate & Forecast Exhibit-13
  • Active Backplane EICS Market for Military, Aerospace, and Defense Applications, Shipments and Projections by Form Factor, 2007 & 2010 (% of Dollar Volume Shipments)
• Market Estimate & Forecast Exhibit-14
  • Active Backplane EICS Form Factors in Military, Aerospace, and Defense Applications, Current Shipments Identified as Comprising the Most Common Type, 20 (Weighted Shipment Shares of Vendors Identifying)
• Market Estimate & Forecast Exhibit-15
  • EICS Market for Military, Aerospace, and Defense Applications, Shipments and Projections by Enclosure/Mounting Type, 2007 & 2010 (% of Dollar Volume Shipments)
• Market Estimate & Forecast Exhibit-16
  • EICS Enclosure Types in Military, Aerospace, and Defense Applications, Current Shipments Identified as Comprising the Most Common Type, 2007 (Weighted Shipment Shares of Vendors Identifying)
• Market Estimate & Forecast Exhibit-17
  • EICS Market for Military, Aerospace, and Defense Applications, Shipments and Projections by CPU Type, 2007 & 2010 (% of Dollar Volume Shipments)
• Market Estimate & Forecast Exhibit-18
  • EICS CPU Types in Military, Aerospace, and Defense Applications, Current Shipments Identified as Comprising the Most Common Type, 2007 (Weighted Shipment Shares of Vendors Identifying)
• Market Estimate & Forecast Exhibit-19
  • EICS Market for Military, Aerospace, and Defense Applications, Shipments and Projections by Number of Processors, 2007 & 2010 (% of Dollar Volume Shipments)
• Market Estimate & Forecast Exhibit-20
  • Services Offered by EICS Suppliers in Military, Aerospace, and Defense Applications, 2007 (% of Vendors)

Demand-Side Data

• Demand Side Exhibit-1
  • Military, Aerospace, and Defense Applications Provided by the Respondents' Companies (Percentage of Survey Respondents)
• Demand Side Exhibit-2
  • Sources for Embedded Integrated Computer Systems (Percentage of Total Respondent System Purchases)
• Demand Side Exhibit-3
  • Embedded Integrated Computer System Configuration Types (Percentage of Total Respondent System Purchases)
• Demand Side Exhibit-4
  • Importance of Product Technologies for Customers in Selecting Embedded Integrated Computer Systems (Average Rating of Importance on a Scale of 1 to 7, 7 is highest)
• Demand Side Exhibit-5
  • System Architectures Purchased (Percentage of Total Respondent System Purchases)
• Demand Side Exhibit-6
  • Passive Backplane Systems Purchased by Architecture (Percentage of Total Respondent Passive Backplane System Purchases)
• Demand Side Exhibit-7
  • Active Backplane Systems Purchased by Form Factor (Percentage of Survey Respondents' Active Backplane Purchases)
• Demand Side Exhibit-8
  • Stackables System Purchases by Architecture (Percentage of Total Respondent Stackables System Purchases)
• Demand Side Exhibit-9
  • Microprocessor Types Identified as Being Used in Embedded Integrated Computer Systems (Percentage of Survey Respondents)
• Demand Side Exhibit-10
  • Average First Year Embedded Integrated Computer System Failure Rate Identified by Respondents (Percentage of Survey Respondents)
• Demand Side Exhibit-11
  • Most Often Occurring Reasons for Embedded Integrated Computer System Failure (Percentage of Survey Respondents Identifying)
• Demand Side Exhibit-12
  • Critical Importance of Causes of Failure for Embedded Integrated Computer Systems
• Demand Side Exhibit-13
  • Most Important Services Offered by Embedded Integrated Computer System Vendors (Percentage of Survey Respondents Identifying)
• Demand Side Exhibit-14
  • Importance of Services offered by Embedded Integrated Computer System Vendors
• Demand Side Exhibit-15
  • Field Service Engineering Methods Used for Add-On & Replacement Boards for Embedded Integrated Computer Systems (Percentage of Total Respondent System Purchases)
• Demand Side Exhibit-16
  • Most Important Product Feature and Performance Considerations in Selection of Embedded Integrated Computer Systems (Percentage of Survey Respondents Identifying)
• Demand Side Exhibit-17
  • Importance of Product Feature and Performance Considerations in Selection of Embedded Integrated Computer Systems
• Demand Side Exhibit-18
  • Price Premium Acceptable for Systems with High Availability over Commercial Systems without High Availability or Ruggedization (Percentage of Survey Respondents Identifying)
• Demand Side Exhibit-19
  • Most Important Non-Technical Considerations in Selection of Embedded Integrated Computer Systems (Percentage of Survey Respondents Identifying)
• Demand Side Exhibit-20
  • Importance of Non-Technical Considerations in Selection of Embedded Integrated Computer Systems
• Demand Side Exhibit-21
  • User Perceptions of EICS Suppliers (Average Rating on a Scale of 1 to 7, Where 1 has the Lowest Perception and 7 has the Highest Perception)
• Demand Side Exhibit-22
  • Most Important Functionalities Offered by EICS Vendors (Percentage of Survey Respondents Identifying)
• Demand Side Exhibit-23
  • Importance of Functionalities Offered by EICS Vendors
• Demand Side Exhibit-24
  • Number of Employees in the Business Unit of the Respondent (Percentage of Respondents)
• Demand Side Exhibit-25
  • Yearly Revenue Generated by Respondent' s Business Unit (Percentage of Respondents)

Competitive Analysis

• Competitive Analysis Exhibit-1
  • 2007 Vendor Shares of EICS Shipments for Military, Aerospace, and Defense Applications, Ranked in Descending Order (Percentages of US Dollar Volume)
• Competitive Analysis Exhibit-2
  • 2007 Vendor Shares of EICS Shipments for Military, Aerospace, and Defense Applications to the Americas, Ranked in Descending Order (Percentages of US Dollar Volume)
• Competitive Analysis Exhibit-3
  • 2007 Vendor Shares of EICS Shipments for Military, Aerospace, and Defense Applications to EMEA, Ranked in Descending Order (Percentages of US Dollar Volume)
• Competitive Analysis Exhibit-4
  • 2007 Vendor Shares of EICS Shipments for Military, Aerospace, and Defense Applications to Asia-Pacific, Ranked in Descending Order (Percentages of US Dollar Volume)
• Competitive Analysis Exhibit-5
  • 2007 Vendor Shares of Passive Backplane EICS Shipments for Military, Aerospace, and Defense Applications, Ranked in Descending Order (Percentages of US Dollar Volume)
• Competitive Analysis Exhibit-6
  • 2007 Vendor Shares of Active Backplane EICS Shipments for Military, Aerospace, and Defense Applications, Ranked in Descending Order (Percentages of US Dollar Volume)
• Competitive Analysis Exhibit-7
  • 2007 Vendor Shares of Rackmount Backplane EICS Shipments for Military, Aerospace, and Defense Applications, Ranked in Descending Order(Percentages of US Dollar Volume)

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