IntroductionThis report offers Datamonitor's perspectives on the global smart badge solutions market, highlighting opportunities for smart card based solutions for logical, physical and converged access.
It serves as an update to a previous Datamonitor report on this topic published in April 2004, 'Secure access solutions: smart cards for logical and physical access'.ScopeForecasts the opportunities for the deployment of smart badge solutions by region, vertical market and by enterprise size band.Places developments in the smart badge solutions market in context, assessing its evolution in areas such as pricing and security applications.Identifies the variation in interest in smart badge solutions by vertical market and size band, highlighting prominent examples of vendors' successes.Focuses on the importance of positioning the potential ROI of solutions, discussing in depth the hard and soft dollar savings that may occur.HighlightsBy 2008, the global market for smart badge solution revenues for logical and converged access is set to reach $919 million, close to double its 2004 size ($483 million).North America represents the most lucrative market for smart badge revenues with around 60% of global revenues coming from the region in 2004.
Asia Pacific lags behind North America and EMEA as a source of smart badge revenues, though the strongest growth is expected in this region.Smart badge solutions have initially gained most prominence in government, financial services and healthcare, and these 'big three' vertical markets will continue to generate a high proportion of revenues for vendors.Reasons to PurchaseQuantification of the revenue opportunities for smart badge solution vendors to 2008, split by region, vertical market and enterprise size band.Provides an insight into the qualities that vendors and integrators should demonstrate, helping to improve their customer interaction.Assessment of the ROI element of smart badge solutions will enable vendors to improve their solution positioning.