The software in the cloud will be worth 50.8 billion dollars in 2018 – ictBusiness

Salesforce.com, Oracle , Sap, but also those who, like Intuit, offers specialized software for the financial sector: these, according to IDC , some of the names in the next four years will be able to do a roaring trade thanks to the cloud and in particular to Software-as-a-Service . According to the research firm, in 2018 the market for SaaS will be worth 50.8 billion dollars , or over a quarter (27.8%) of the total turnover of the enterprise application, for which is the estimate of 135.9 billion dollars. Starting from 22.6 billion in 2013, the segment SaaS will grow at an annual rate of 16.6%, while the business applications on premise will rise much less, 3.1%.

The shift to cloud will therefore be a general trend, however, crossed by different dynamics and exceptions. “In general where it will request a new software application, the expectation is that those SaaS will be preferred, in particular in the case of applications for customer relationship management and enterprise resource management”, said the ‘ IDC analyst Christine Dover , “However, the majority of enterprise software that is already in use currently or will in the near future will remain on premise, especially for areas such as supply chain, the manufacturing and engineering. “

In detail, the CRM SaaS at the end of 2018 will come to be worth 19.8 billion dollars, growing year-on-year 19.6%, while similar solutions on premise will drop by 3.9%; overall, the market for customer relationship management will increase from 22.8 billion dollars in 2013 to 31.8 billion in 2018 (+ 6.9%). Similar trend will cover applications of ERP , up 17.2% year on year for the SaaS mode (up to 28.8 billion dollars in 2018) and a decrease for the on premise.

More content, on the contrary, will be increases in the Software-as-Service for production management Manufacturing ($ 5.8 billion in 2018, when about an application of this type out of ten will be hosted in the cloud) and for supply chain management (690.9 million dollars in 2018, just over 6% of the total).

According to the calculations of IDC, in 2013 the 35% of the worldwide turnover of Sofware-as-a-Service was in the hands of five vendors, or Salesforce.com with 14.3% market share, ADP (6.4%), Intuit (5.8%), Oracle (4 , 8%) and SAP (4%). The percentage of revenue derived from SaaS, for each company, ranging from 100% of Salesforce.com, to 93.5% of ADP, to 66.1% of Intuit, to 12.4% of Oracle, to 7.3% of Wis.