Global revenue from Sofware-as-a-Service (SaaS) will grow nearly 18% in 2009 to $7.5 billion, up from $6.8 billion in 2008. That’s the latest according to technology research firm Gartner.
“The adoption of SaaS continues to grow and evolve within the enterprise application markets,” said Gartner research director Sharon Mertz.
Gartner says that the worldwide SaaS market will continue to grow through 2013 with expectations that revenues will exceed $14 billion, with content, communications and collaboration services capturing the greatest share of SaaS revenue at $2.6 billion. This is followed closely by CRM systems at $2.3 billion and enterprise resource planning at $1.2 billion.
Mertz attributes much of this growth to on-demand vendors who are expanding their offerings though alliance and partnerships as well as moves to grow user application development via platform-as-a-service offerings.
SaaS is growing on a lot of fronts and the vendors who are offering it are offering more functionality. All of the SaaS vendors continue to build relationships with systems integrators and they are taking good advantage in building their solutions, not only internally but also leveraging the ecosystem.
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