ARMONK, N.Y., April 24, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM's (NYSE:
IBM) share of application infrastructure and middleware market
share is 29.1 percent, extending the company's leadership position
for the 14th year in a row and outpacing the competition
by more than two times, according to Gartner based on total
worldwide revenue for 2014.
"This market has changed dramatically over the past 14 years,
and we feel that has increasingly played to IBM's advantage given
our technical expertise, investments and restless reinvention,"
said Marie Wieck, general manager,
IBM Middleware. "With the emergence of hybrid cloud, mobile,
Internet of Things, and analytics – IT leaders are realizing that
success starts with having an open platform built for digital
transformation and future workloads, yet delivering value
today."
According to the Gartner report, "Market Share: All Software
Markets, Worldwide, 20141," IBM leads in nine of the 12
application infrastructure and middleware markets. We believe this
leadership is a result of the company's technology breakthroughs in
WebSphere®, IBM MQ, and Business Process Management solutions.
Based on IBM client feedback, there is a demand for organizations
to link together Big Data, mobile, cloud and social computing
technologies into core enterprise software systems.
The worldwide application infrastructure and middleware software
market grew 8.8 percent to $23.8
billion, according to Gartner.
Within the application infrastructure and middleware portfolio,
IBM was once again ranked the number one vendor in Business Process
Management Suite (BPMS) software with 28.5 percent share, nearly
three times that of its closest competitor. BPMS software helps
improve business growth and agility, including enabling employees
to work together using mobile technology. IBM held its number
one position in Mobile Application Development software with 15.2
percent share and growing six points faster than the market.
IBM was also ranked the number one vendor in Application
Development for the 13th consecutive year, which IBM believes is a
result of a continued focus on helping clients leverage application
development and delivery towards achieving better business outcomes
with data, cloud and mobile technologies. As software has
become a major driver of innovation, IBM has helped developers use
new approaches like DevOps that apply lean and agile principles
across the development life cycle to speed delivery and improve
customer responsiveness.
Gartner also ranked IBM number one in other noteworthy segments
such as Message Oriented Middleware, a key enabler for mobile
computing, with 75 percent share, more than 10 times its closest
competitor. IBM also leads Transaction Processing Middleware with
85 percent share, which supports mobile and cloud-based
commerce.
IBM is also ranked #1 in Enterprise Service Bus Suites with 29
percent share, and Managed File Transfer Suites with 31.3 percent
share, both solutions which help clients with secure, reliable
delivery of data between people, process and systems.
Footnote
1. Market Share for All Software
Markets, Worldwide, 2014 by Bianca
Francesca Granetto et al, 31 March
2015, Report #G00273284
For more information on IBM's application infrastructure and
middleware software portfolio visit: www.ibm.com/software.
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