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Salesforce Grew Their Application Infrastructure & Middleware Revenue 55% Last Year

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The worldwide application infrastructure and middleware (AIM) software market grew 8.8% from 2013 to 2014, generating $23.8B in revenues last year.

In comparison, the worldwide enterprise software market grew from $405.5B in 2013 to $428.6B in 2014, attaining a 5.7% growth rate.

Salesforce is the fastest growing AIM provider worldwide, attaining a 55% increase in revenue from 2013 to 2014.

These and other insights are from the recent Gartner report, Market Share: All Software Markets, Worldwide, 2014 (G00273284) published March 31, 2015 (client access only, opt-in). Gartner’s definition of the Application Infrastructure and Middleware market includes several segments that comprise general-purpose portal products, technologies that enable business-process management, integration and platform middleware, business-to-business middleware products, managed file transfer, application services governance, mobile application development platforms and AIM appliances. You can find their definition of AIM here. The following table compares 2013 and 2014 revenue, market share and revenue growth of market leaders.

Key take-aways from the AIM market share update:

  • Salesforce grew revenue from $477M in 2013 to $740M in 2014, attaining a 55.2% growth rate. The following graphic compares growth rates of AIM vendors, illustrating just how fast cloud, mobile and analytics technologies are reordering the AIM landscape.

  • IBM (29%) had over twice the market share of Oracle in 2014 (14%).    Microsoft (5%), Salesforce (3%) and Software AG (2%) also successfully competed for business in this market and won deals on a global level.   The following graphic compares market shares as of the close of last year.

  • Gartner is seeing enterprises focus on new spending on extending integration capabilities through the use of PaaS offerings. Specialized vendors introducing cloud-based alternatives to mobile middleware are also disrupting the market.
  • Open source software (OSS) and open core providers including MuleSoft, Talend and Liferay added according to Gartner’s analysis. Specific point solution vendors that specialize in niche but fast-growing technology areas (in-memory data grids and low-latency messaging, for example) also had a similar impact on the market.

Source: Gartner Says Worldwide Application Infrastructure and Middleware Market Revenue Grew 8.8 Percent in 2014

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