The business process management (BPM) and middleware market grew 3,6% year-over-year to $18,8-billion in 2012, with growth underperforming compared with that of the previous two years.
New research from International Data Corporation (IDC) shows that the slow growth in 2012 was only partially caused by poor macroeconomic conditions – the failure of large vendors to deliver products that met the growing appetite for public cloud significantly contributed to their growth problems.
“A large factor in slow growth across BPM and middleware was the failure of large vendors to deliver PaaS offerings that met the growing appetite for cloud-based automation,” says Maureen Fleming, vice-president of IDC’s BPM and middleware research programs.
“Cloud was the single biggest factor separating market share gainers from share losers.”
Other key findings from this research include:
* Among the four tiers of growth, the top tier grew 58,7% to $992,4-million in aggregate revenue in 2012. Of that, 80% of revenue came from public platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings. While only accounting for 5,3% of the total market, this tier generated more net-new revenue than the three additional tiers combined.
* The slowest-growing tier accounted for $12,7-billion – 67,5% of the market – and collectively generated negative net-new revenue in 2012. About 8% of revenue was attributed to cloud. This tier was represented by the largest BPM and middleware vendors.
* 2012 also signalled growing demand for newer, higher-performance messaging centred in the Internet of things and for mobile and partner integration via APIs, requiring API management.
“A large factor in slow growth across BPM and middleware was the failure of large vendors to deliver PaaS offerings that met the growing appetite for cloud-based automation,” says Maureen Fleming, vice-president of IDC’s BPM and middleware research programs.
“Cloud was the single biggest factor separating market share gainers from share losers.”
Other key findings from this research include:
* Among the four tiers of growth, the top tier grew 58,7% to $992,4-million in aggregate revenue in 2012. Of that, 80% of revenue came from public platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings. While only accounting for 5,3% of the total market, this tier generated more net-new revenue than the three additional tiers combined.
* The slowest-growing tier accounted for $12,7-billion – 67,5% of the market – and collectively generated negative net-new revenue in 2012. About 8% of revenue was attributed to cloud. This tier was represented by the largest BPM and middleware vendors.
* 2012 also signalled growing demand for newer, higher-performance messaging centred in the Internet of things and for mobile and partner integration via APIs, requiring API management.