Revenues in the worldwide system management software market are steadily climbing. In 1998, they rose 16% to $9.7 billion. In 1999, they will reach $11.3 billion, and by 2003, they will top $18 billion. This data comes from International Data Corporation`s (IDC`s) new report, System Management Software: 1999 Worldwide Markets and Trends.
"The need to keep business-critical applications running at peak efficiency and with high availability is driving demand for a wide variety of system management tools," said Paul Mason, vice president of infrastructure software research at IDC.
According to IDC, U.S. vendors are benefiting the most from this market`s upswing. In 1998, their revenue growth was three times larger than non-U.S. vendors`. U.S. companies increased their revenues almost 18% to $8.7 billion in 1998. International vendors, on the other hand, increased their revenues by less than 6% to $1.1 billion. As a result, U.S. companies accounted for a dominating 89% of the overall market.
Computer Associates is the top vendor in the worldwide market with almost $2.7 billion, or 28% market share. IBM is the closest competitor with more than $1 billion less in revenues than Computer Associates and a market share of 17%.
According to IDC`s 1998 yearend data, storage management was the largest segment of the overall system management software market with revenues of $2.67 billion, reflecting the importance of data protection on all platforms. Performance management was the second-biggest segment with $2.28 billion. The fastest-growing segment, however, will be change and configuration management, earning a compound annual growth rate of 22.1% from 1998 to 2003.
"Users have learned from painful lessons that there is a need for change and configuration management tools, especially for Windows NT," Mason said.
IDC`s new report System Management Software: 1999 Worldwide Markets and Trends (IDC #B19080) looks at the major factors shaping this market. It splits the overall market into the following seven segments: change and configuration management, event automation, job scheduling, output management, performance management, problem management, and storage management. A forecast through 2003 is included for each segment as are vendors` 1996-1998 revenues. Forecasts are segmented by region and operating environment. The report also discusses key trends in each market segment. To view the complete table of contents for this report, please visit http://www.idc.com and search for 19080. To order a copy of the report, contact Cheryl Toffel at 1-800-343-4952, ext. 4389 or at ctoffel@idc.com.
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