Published on the 18/06/2014 | Written by Newsdesk
Australia’s market for enterprise applications grew by 7.7 percent in 2013, considerably faster than the 6.5 percent growth registered across Asia Pacific, and Microsoft continues to dominate…
New software market analysis from Gartner reveals that the enterprise software market in Asia Pacific (except Japan) grew 6.5 percent in 2013, to $US12.6 billion. Australia, which had a market worth $US3.4 billion last year, now represents more than a quarter of the total regional market.
Across the region Microsoft grew revenues 6.6 percent to control a 23.6 percent share, followed by SAP which grew slightly faster (7.2 percent) to command a 12.1 percent share. Oracle and IBM took out third and fourth slots on 7.2 percent and 4.1 percent respectively.
According to Gartner, “Australia stood out as the fastest growing market among the mature Asia Pacific countries driven by growth in CRM investments, BI and analytics, new spending on SaaS and cloud-based deployments, as well as upgrades and improvements to continue the modernisation of established, mission-critical software.”
In a separate report released this month Gartner also points to the continuing importance of mobile apps in the enterprise, but warns that at present most IT leaders are “failing to consider the deep impact that mobile apps have on their information infrastructure”. It also predicts that by 2017 wearable devices will drive half of all app interactions.
While Gartner’s enterprise application statistics demonstrate companies continue to invest in their IT infrastructure, it does not reveal the mobile-readiness of these enterprises.
Gartner research director Roxane Edjlali said it was important to integrate the personal data collected on mobile apps and treat it as an enterprise asset to be integrated with the overall information infrastructure rather than kept in mobile data silos. However she stressed that organisations needed to develop governance policies about maintaining a sensible and sensitive division between personal information stored on mobile apps and enterprise data.
“Organisations should plan to manage information across cloud and on-premises implementations, as combining all data on the premises or on a single repository is no longer viable. It is important to understand the service-level agreements for various use cases that access mobile app data, and adapt the information capability accordingly,” said Edjlali.
It seems Australian appetite for platform as a service offerings (PaaS) is also on the march. A further report, this time from Vanson Bourne on behalf of Progress Software, reveals that demand for rapid internal software development is driving PaaS growth with 70 percent of the survey’s 700 global respondents (which included Australia) saying that they use or planned to use PaaS for applications development.
