More Stats from Azure Chip Consultants
May 7, 2013
Would you guess that enterprise organizations spend more money on hardware or software? The Register tells us that the world spends about twice as much money on enterprise software as it does on data center hardware. The article “The Enterprise Software Gravy Train Stalled in 2012” discusses the fact that software is where IT makes much of its profit so when revenue does not increase as much as in previous years, the entire IT industry is impacted.
IDC has released the numbers for the enterprise software market for 2012 and the growth rate ended up at 3.6 percent.
The article tells us that IDC split the enterprise software space into three parts (applications, infrastructure and virtualization):
“The application segment, at $167.9bn, accounted for 49 per cent of the pie last year and was growing at only 3.3 per cent. Within this segment, customer relationship management and collaboration apps had 7 per cent growth, and various enterprise social apps (which are starting from a very small base) grew revenues by 24.8 per year.”
Only time will tell how how these sectors will continue to evolve. In the meantime, azure chip consultants will continue promulgating some interesting statistics.
Megan Feil, May 07, 2013
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