Businesses’ appetite for on-demand software applications shows no signs of dissipating in the near future, and service-oriented computing will continue to become an even larger percentage of the overall worldwide software market, according to the latest report from IT researcher Gartner.
Buoyed by lower startup and maintenance costs compared to on-premises application deployments, as well as the ability to distribute and share applications and documents through the cloud, software as a service (SaaS) is is poised for rapid growth for at least the next four years.
“After a decade of use, adoption of SaaS continues to grow and evolve within the enterprise application markets,” Gartner analyst Sharon Mertz said in the report. “As tighter capital budgets demand leaner alternatives, familiarity with the model increases, and interest in platform as a service and cloud computing grows.”
This year, Gartner predicts worldwide SaaS sales will eclipse $8.5 billion, up 14.1 percent from 2009 sales of $7.5 billion. More telling, this rapid increase in both customers and SaaS vendors means that on-demand applications will make up a larger percentage of total enterprise software sales this year and for the foreseeable future.
SaaS apps, which accounted for a little more than 10 percent of the total enterprise software market last year, are expected to represent at least 16 percent of worldwide software sales by 2014.
See full article at: SaaS Market Growing by Leaps and Bounds: Gartner — Datamation.com.
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