International
Data Corporation (IDC) released the latest
results from the WorldwideSemiannual Software Tracker. For 2012, the worldwide software market grew
3.6% year over year reaching a total market size of $342 billion, which was in
line with IDC's previous forecast of 3.4% and less than half the growth rate
experienced in 2010 and 2011. In that sense, 2012 confirms the beginning of a
more conservative growth period. In the middle of this scenario, there are
faster growing market segments, such as Data Access, Analysis and Delivery,
Collaborative Applications, CRM Applications, Security Software, and System and
Network Management Software. Every one of these markets grew in the 6-7% range,
about double the rate for enterprise software as a whole.
Three
primary segments comprise the total software market in IDC's software taxonomy:
Applications; Application Development & Deployment (AD&D); and Systems
Infrastructure Software. Among the three primary segments, the AD&D
segment, which comprised nearly 24% of total software revenues in 2012, was the
fastest growing market with a 4.6% year-over-year growth rate. Growth in the
AD&D segment was largely driven by the performance of the Data Access,
Analysis, and Delivery and the Structured Data Management secondary markets
with 6.0% and 5.9% growth rates, respectively. Business Intelligence and
Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) solutions are pushing the
growing trend for these markets because of widening Big Data and Analytics
adoption. Big data and analytics are also closely tied to the fast growth
social business software markets, where the combination of contextual data and
the "right" expertise is becoming critical for supporting enterprise
decision making and data driven customer experience solutions.
In
the Applications primary market segment, which comprised 49% of total software
revenue, year-over-year growth for 2012 was 3.3%, which is slightly lower than
for software overall. Within this market segment, CRM and Collaborative
Applications stood out with year-over-year growth rates near 7%. While the
former is driven by the cloud migration trend and the large investments by
businesses to deliver a better customer experience to the "social
customer", the latter is largely driven by the Enterprise Social Software
market, which grew at 24.8% year over year and gained more than 5 points of
market share over three years. Mobile, while not a direct enterprise
applications driver, is however a contributing factor and driver for businesses
moving to newer and more mobile device agnostic enterprise software..
The third primary segment of the software market is System Infrastructure Software, which comprised 27% of total software revenue and grew 3.3% year over year in 2012. The Security Software and System/Network Management Software secondary segments both grew more than 6% year over year as these solutions provide the infrastructure - whether in the cloud or on-premise - to support the 3rd Platform. Although the other two System Infrastructure Software secondary segment (Storage Software and System Software) had flat growth in 2012, the Virtualization sub-segments had double-digit growth rates.
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