Secure access solutions: smart cards for logical and physical access

Overview

Introduction

This report offers Datamonitor's perspectives on the secure access solutions market, in particular the market for smart card based solutions for logical and physical access. The report looks at the primary factors that are influencing secure access solution market growth, providing both market forecasts and industry-specific strategic and tactical recommendations for vendors and integrators.

Scope

• Forecasts the opportunities for the deployment of secure access solutions by region, vertical market and by enterprise size band.
• Identifies strategic and tactical initiatives for vendors across the secure access solutions value chain.
• Outlines the factors that are influencing market conditions, analyzing the drivers and inhibitors for the adoption of secure access solutions.
• Places developments and trends in the market for secure access solutions in context, outlining the technology behind the solutions.

Report Highlights

A number of factors are contributing towards the increasing penetration of secure access solutions including the need for strong security, improvements to the user experience, expanding access to corporate data, cost reductions, development of standards, regulatory compliance and internal company triggers.

Datamonitor expects the overall global market opportunity for logical and converged access to increase from $446 million in 2003 to $1.35 billion in 2007, representing a CAGR of 32%.

Government, financial services and healthcare will continue to represent a sizeable proportion of secure access solution deployments. However, Datamonitor believes that there is a clear trend towards increasing diversification in terms of the market opportunity by vertical market.

Reasons to Purchase

• Quantification of the revenue opportunities for secure access solution vendors to 2007, split by region, vertical market and enterprise size band.
• Strategic and tactical success factors will ensure that solution vendors and their partners can gain a competitive advantage.
• Assessment of a wide range of authentication solutions will enable vendors to improve their solution positioning.