Gartner Says Worldwide Application Infrastructure and Middleware Market Revenue Increased 7.3 Percent in 2010
Thursday April 14, 2011 , 6 min Read
Analysts Examine the State of the Industry at Gartner Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit 2011, 14-15 June in London
Bangalore, India, 14 April, 2011 — The worldwide application infrastructure and middleware (AIM) software revenue market* totaled $17.6 billion in 2010, a 7.3 percent increase from 2009, according to Gartner, Inc. In 2009, worldwide AIM revenue grew 3.4 percent and reached $16.4 billion.
"Organizations have moved away from a cost containment focus toward preparing for growth. AIM technologies are the key liaison between modernization of infrastructure and innovative applications, both well suited to serving any move to future growth,” said Fabrizio Biscotti, research director at Gartner. ”Service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business process management (BPM) continue to be the central piece of attention while cloud is rapidly moving up in the scale of priority. Cloud is driving only modest spending in the AIM space, but this will change as organizations become more acquainted with the benefits delivered by cloud technologies such as platform as a service.”
The market witnessed a number of acquisitions with more than $1.2 billion worth of AIM revenue in 2010 moving from independent companies to suite vendors. This has driven further market concentration with the top five vendors accounting for 61 percent of the AIM market, up from 57 percent in 2009.
IBM retained its market share lead and accounted for 32.6 percent of total AIM software revenue in 2010 (see Table 1). The top five vendors managed above market average performances fuelled by acquisitions and organic growth. Due to recent acquisitions and new strategic decisions Software AG exhibited the highest year-on-year growth among the top five AIM software vendors.
Table 1
Worldwide Vendor Revenue Estimates for Total AIM Software, 2010 (Millions of U.S. Dollars)
Source: Gartner (April 2011)
On the technology side, the fastest-growing segments include SOA governance technologies, application servers, portal products and appliances. Open-source is also increasingly a part of deployment plans with a focus on open-source application servers, enterprise service bus and a few other AIM functionalities, such as orchestration and embedded firmware for integration appliances.
“The business process management suites market continued to exhibit solid growth (9.2 percent), indicating that BPM continues to provide value as organizations return to growth and innovation,” said Teresa Jones, principal research analyst at Gartner.
North America and Western Europe are the largest regional markets, followed by Japan and Asia/Pacific. Emerging regions have been the fastest-growing, with good performances in Latin America. Asia/pacific continued to remain the fastest growing region worldwide for AIM technologies.
“The growing computing requirements of emerging economies such as China, India and Vietnam contributed to the overall growth of AIM technologies, such as application servers,” said Asheesh Raina, principal analyst at Gartner.
“We continue to see a creative turmoil where, on one hand, large vendors continue to consolidate, and on the other hand several up-and-coming players are shaping new markets such as low- latency messaging (LLM), managed file transfer (MFT), and business process analysis (BPA)," said Mr Biscotti. "In addition, there is an embryonic but yet vibrant activity around cloud with growing attention toward platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings."
Notes to editors:
*The AIM market includes 12 segments that comprise general-purpose portal products, business-process-management-enabling technologies, integration and platform middleware, business-to-business/multienterprise middleware products, integration platform as a service (iPaaS), SOA governance technologies, and AIM appliances.
Additional information is available in the Gartner report " Market Share Analysis: Application Infrastructure and Middleware Software, Worldwide, 2010." The report is on Gartner's website at http://www.gartner.com/resId=1628319.
Gartner analysts will present additional findings on the future of the AIM industry at the Gartner Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit 2011, 14-15 June at the Lancaster London hotel, UK. For further information on the Summit, please visit www.europe.gartner/aadi. Members of the media can register for the Summit by contacting Holly Stevens, Gartner PR on + 44 (0) 1784 267 738 or at [email protected].
Additional information from the event will be shared on Twitter at http://twitter.com/Gartner_inc using #GartnerAADI.
You can also obtain further information by listening to the replay of the Gartner webinar “Evolution of the Application Infrastructure & Middleware Market
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Where approaches such as cloud and SOA are adopted, their impact on application strategy shouldn't be underestimated. As organisations overhaul their applications, they must manage their application portfolio while simultaneously undertaking IT modernisation, and transition to more-modern languages, architectures and runtime environments. At the Summit, Gartner analysts will help organisations understand the future of architecture, development, integration and cloud, learn the real cost and business value of cloud, SOA and agile, and understand how to build a compelling case for applications overhaul.
About Gartner
Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) is the world's leading information technology research and advisory company. Gartner delivers the technology-related insight necessary for its clients to make the right decisions, every day. From CIOs and senior IT leaders in corporations and government agencies, to business leaders in high-tech and telecom enterprises and professional services firms, to technology investors, Gartner is the valuable partner to 60,000 clients in 11,000 distinct organizations. Through the resources of Gartner Research, Gartner Executive Programs, Gartner Consulting and Gartner Events, Gartner works with every client to research, analyze and interpret the business of IT within the context of their individual role. Founded in 1979, Gartner is headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, U.S.A., and has 4,400 associates, including 1,200 research analysts and consultants, and clients in 85 countries. For more information, visit www.gartner.com.
