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The Top Ten Software Vendors: Growth Strategies, Consolidation and Convergence in the Leading Players
Business Insights, Oct 2005
IT spending in recent years has shown signs of recovering, which comes as a welcome relief for ISVs; concepts such as 'on demand' and technologies such as RFID and Linux have become common industry themes. Software vendors are increasingly developing strategies to set a foothold in the mid-market market as it offers significant growth potential. There has been a significant increase in the volume of vertical-related projects carried out by vendors to improve their understanding of industry specific business issues and pain points. Mobilizing horizontal applications, particularly in the front office, has seen increasing activity. Security remains a number one priority for many CIOs.
Business leaders have come to realize the importance of IT as a strategic asset in their organizations. There are marked synergies between security management solutions and traditional infrastructure management solutions and a combination of supplier push and customer pull means that there will be increasing integration between the two. Threat management technologies automate the collection of event log data from security devices and help users make sense of it through a common management console.
This report looks at the following software vendors:
- Microsoft
- Oracle
- SAP
- Sungard Data Systems
- Computer Associates
- Symantec
- Intuit
- Amdocs
- Misys
- BMC Software
About the Author
Victoria Furness is a freelance technology and business journalist who has published work in Computer Business Review, Real Deals, Financial World, Information Age, MiD, and Marketing Week. Victoria also works part-time as a copywriter for Octopus Communications, whose clients include Adecco, Ariba and Websense.
Prior to her freelance career, Victoria worked for Marketing Week, and ComputerWire, where she wrote for its flagship magazine, Computer Business Review, the daily newswire Computergram and its research arm on her specialist area of enterprise applications. Victoria graduated with first class honors from Manchester University.
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