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Application infrastructure and middleware market growth
THE WORLDWIDE application infrastructure and middleware (AIM) software revenue market totaled $19.3 billion in 2011, a 9.9 percent increase from 2010, according to Gartner, Inc. In 2010, worldwide AIM revenue grew 7.3 percent and reached $17.6 billion.
“Application infrastructure and middleware projects increasingly span on-premises, cloud and external business partners,” said Fabrizio Biscotti, research director at Gartner. “The impacts of using multiple delivery models, increased reliance on governance technologies, and convergence of application and data integration requirements are driving organizations to sustain significant investment in AIM technologies and skills.”
“Cloud computing is increasingly becoming mainstream and gaining traction in the market. Middleware vendors should leverage their expertise to offer competitive cloud services in addition to on-premises software products,” said Mr. Biscotti. “Although the transition from on-premises to cloud computing will take an extended period of time, the demand for hybrid use of platform technologies is present now, and is projected to grow rapidly during the next two to four years. End users can judge the long-term viability of a platform as a service (PaaS) provider in part by its ability to attract independent software vendors (ISVs) and other partners into its ecosystem.”
IBM retained its leadership position, as it increased its market share to 32.1 percent (see Table 1). Despite difficult market conditions, the top five vendors showed solid growth. This growth was driven through acquisitions and organic growth.
Several segments showed a double-digit growth rate including application servers, where the performance of application PaaS vendors has been strong. Service oriented architecture (SOA) governance technologies, portal products and user interaction tools also performed well.
“Business process management (BPM) suites continued to grow at a sustained pace as some providers are evolving their offerings into next-generation application infrastructure platforms that Gartner defines as iBPMSs. These platforms address the growing need to account for social interactions, mobility and decision management in the process management context,” said Mr. Biscotti. “North America and Western Europe are the largest regional markets, followed by mature Asia/Pacific countries. Emerging regions have grown fastest due to solid performance in Latin America and Asia/Pacific,” said Asheesh Raina, principal research analyst at Gartner.
As companies in Asia/Pacific continue to embrace IT to improve productivity and drive growth - AIM technologies witnessed high sustainable growth that was complimented by the favorable economic conditions. Almost all AIM segments experienced growth in Asia/Pacific, but “appliances-AIM” grew fastest albeit from a lower revenue base. The primary drivers have been domestic demand, growing maturity of users and incremental enhancements in AIM technology.
“Despite the weak economy, particularly in the world’s largest economies, there are no signs that the growth we have seen in the AIM market for several years is faltering,” said Mr. Raina.
Worldwide Vendor Revenue Estimates for Total AIM Software, 2011 (Millions of U.S. Dollars 2011 Vendor IBM Oracle Microsoft
Software AG TIBCO Others Total
Revenue 6,222.8 3,250.1 977.5 646.7 555.0
7,737.9 19,389.97 Source: Gartner (April 2012) June 2012 I
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2011 Market Share (%)
32.1 16.8 5.0 3.3 2.9
39.9 100.0 2010
Revenue 5,537.4 2,995.7 875.4 601.0 500.0
7,136.7 17,646.27
2010 Market Share (%)
31.4 17.0 5.0 3.4 2.8
40.4 100.0
2010-2011 Growth (%)
12.4 8.5
11.7 7.6
11.0 8.4 9.9
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