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.