INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Software for Business
“MARKET CONCENTRATION
AMONG THE LARGEST
VENDORS IS DIMINISHING
UNDER PRESSURE FROM
SPECIALISTS, AND OPEN
SOURCE AND CLOUD
PROVIDERS…”
At a glance…
Kodak Alaris expands
capture software portfolio
from specialists, and open source and cloud
providers,” said Biscotti. “The growth of iPaaS and
aPaaS has, largely, not worked out to the benefit
of the market incumbents.”
In 2015, the largest vendors retained their market
positions, but market leader IBM suffered a
revenue decline of nearly 13%, falling to 25%
of the total AIM software market (see Table 1).
Oracle’s revenue also dropped, by nearly 4%,
capturing 13% of the total market. Microsoft’s
5% revenue growth meant it was the only one
of the top three players to grow its revenue.
Salesforce retained the fourth spot, while Software
AG dropped out of the top five — switching places
with TIBCO Software.
“Salesforce continues to disrupt the AIM market,
with its revenue growing more than 36% to just
over a billion dollars,” said Biscotti. “Salesforce’s
strong performance, as well as steady growth in the
‘Others’ category, underlines the trend of cloud-only
firms and smaller specialists picking up market share
at the expense of traditional vendors in this space.”
This trend is consistent with AIM buyers’ pursuit of
innovation — not necessarily from a technology
perspective, but most of all from go-to-market,
business model and delivery channel perspectives.
“2015 was the year that iPaaS became a
serious alternative to traditional software-based
integration approaches,” said Keith Guttridge,
research director at Gartner. “Buyers are choosing
iPaaS due to its lower entry costs, reduced
operational demands and improved productivity.
Vendor interest in this space is also growing rapidly,
with the number of offerings doubling in the past
12 months.”
More data is available in the report “Market Share:
All Software Markets, Worldwide, 2015.”
(For the full article, please visit
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Kodak Alaris has launched a series of enhancements to its
software portfolio that will help businesses and governments
accelerate their digital transformation. Kodak Info Input Express
and Kodak Info Input Solution v4.0, which features a new mobile
app, deliver simplified, connected and secure solutions to combat
the overwhelming amount of data that weighs down people and
processes and keeps businesses from realising their full potential.
Bringing mobile capture to today’s enterprise
The enhanced Info Input Solution v4.0 is a web-based document
capture application that provides an efficient way to integrate
capture into existing enterprise content management (ECM)
and line of business applications. Organisations that implement
Info Input can be more responsive to customers, while driving
down costs and enjoying the efficiencies of web-based business
applications. The solution helps eliminate costs associated with
thick client software by allowing IT departments to centrally
manage the deployment and support of Info Input on desktops
and mobile capture devices. It also eliminates per-user licenses
and volume-based click charges.
Info Input Sol