IBM today announced that it has maintained the lead in the India
Application Development and Application Deployment Software market
with a 30.5 percent share in revenue terms during the period of
January to December 2008, as per IDC’s India Annual Packaged
Software Market Report 2008. As per the same report, IBM also stood
as the leader in the India Quality and Life Cycle Tools market
during calendar year 2008.
Key Highlights
- IBM maintained the No.1 position in the India Application
Development Software market with a 33.4 percent share in revenue
terms during calendar year 2008.
- IBM led the India Application Deployment Software market with a
27.3 percent share in revenue terms during calendar year 2008.
- IBM emerged as the leader in the India Quality and Life Cycle
Tools market with a substantial share of 57.9 percent in revenue
terms during calendar year 2008, gaining 4.8 points market share
year-on-year (2008 over 2007).
“The leadership ranking by IDC re-affirms our Application
Development and Application Deployment portfolio as a robust,
integration intensive and flexible set of software solutions for
the entire Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC). In today’s
economic climate, businesses are looking for new ways to derive
greater value from their investments by better utilizing software.
IBM is committed to helping them make the right decisions and help
reduce the cost and risk in creating more intelligent, instrumented
and interconnected products “said Kalyan Sridhar, Country
Manager, Rational, IBM Software Group India / South Asia.
IBM has recently unveiled a new software platform and related
services under its Rational suite of solutions which will provide a
fully integrated software delivery platform that addresses
requirements, design, development, and management across
electrical, mechanical, and software technologies to help
organizations derive the greatest value from the products they
deliver.