Global application infrastructure and middleware (AIM) software revenue rose marginally to $23.9 billion in 2015 as a considerable jump in the dollar masked growth in the market, Gartner said on Friday.
The AIM software revenue stood at $23.92 billion in 2014. However, in constant currency terms, the market grew 7.8 per cent, driven by rapid growth in the platform as a service (PaaS) segment.
“The PaaS segment showed the most impressive growth, not just in the AIM market, but across the entire enterprise software market,” said Fabrizio Biscotti, Research Director at Gartner. The research firm said integration PaaS (iPaaS) grew 55 per cent while application PaaS (aPaaS) grew 40 per cent despite headwinds from the appreciating US dollar.
Gartner said that in 2015, the largest vendors retained their market positions, but market leader IBM suffered a revenue decline of nearly 13 per cent, falling to 25 per cent of the total AIM software market.
Oracle's revenue dropped by nearly 4 per cent, accounting for 13 per cent of the total market. Revenue of IBM for 2015 stood at $6,043.2 million compared with $6,926.5 million in 2014 whereas Oracle's declined to $3,173.1 million from the earlier $3,298.2 million.