The On Premise Software Applications Market covers the following main segments: System Infrastructure, Databases, Desktop Applications, Applications Development, and Enterprise Applications. The key issues for vendors and customers are:Channels to Market, Pricing and Value, and Switching Costs & Return on Investment.
Amazon.com, a US Fortune 500 company is the recognised global brand leader in internet retailing, with annual revenues over $15bn in 2007. It has grown customers, products and revenues consistently over the last decade, but did not record a profit until 2004. Over the last 3 years, profit performance has been far from impressive, with an average margin just under 3% of total revenues. In spite of creating the formats and standards now widely used in online retailing, Amazon now faces competitive threats from the major 'bricks and mortar' retailers such as Walmart who are now rapidly becoming large players in e-tailing.
Simon Fox, 13 January 2008
BAE Systems has made its first significant foray into the homeland security arena with the £531m purchase of Detica, a specialist provider of security technology, which supplies security-related software and IT services to the government and a range of other corporate and government clients.
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Michelle Wong, 29 July 2008
Google has befriended Salesforce.com and co-opted the company to battle Microsoft. Salesforce’s customer relationship management software and Google’s suite of office productivity applications, which includes e-mail, word processing and spreadsheets programs will be integrated into a single...
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Reiko Uchida, 08 June 2008
Software as a Service(SaaS)is likely to transform the $100bn enterprise software market, which today mainly consists of on-premise software and IT infrastructure. SaaS employs new technologies, new processes and different business models, which will speed adoption in smaller and medium size...
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Uday Phadke, 05 December 2007
The global market for enterprise software worth over $100 bn is now dominated by a small number of players led by Oracle and SAP, with consolidation set to continue. Innovation and growth is likely to be driven by new SaaS applications, where there are opportunities for small and medium size...
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Uday Phadke, 13 January 2008