Enterprise Applications Drive SaaS as the leading indicator of cloud computing

The world's software-as-service (SaaS) revenue this year will reach $12.1 billion trillion, up 20.7% from 2010 's 10 billion trillion dollars, Gartner said in a recent report. The SaaS market will maintain healthy growth, with revenue projected at $21.3 billion trillion in 2015.

The Gartner Research vice president Tom Eid says that after more than 10 years of development, the use of SaaS in the enterprise application market continues to grow, a trend that is now in the midst of a need to streamline the capital budget. The popularity and popularity of these patterns is also increasing, and interest in platform-as-service (PaaS) and cloud computing is growing.

Many businesses initially have doubts about SaaS security, response time, and service availability, and this computing pattern is growing more mature and widespread. Using quantity and the sustainable development of the supplier's on-demand ecosystem to provide customers with more business and technical services, more targeted specific functions, to provide customers with stronger community partnerships and more buyers.

Over the past two years, the focus on SaaS and other non-localized models has shifted to cloud computing. Cloud computing is a very broad concept, and SaaS is a part of it that represents the application component of cloud computing. However, SaaS has sometimes become a leading indicator of cloud computing. Gartner estimates that 75% of the current SaaS service revenue comes from cloud services by revenue, which will exceed 90% by 2015, as the SaaS model matures.

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is also the largest part of the SaaS marketplace. SaaS revenue for the CRM market in 2011 is expected to grow from $3.2 billion trillion in 2010 to $3.8 billion. Gartner predicts that SaaS revenues will account for around 32% of the overall CRM market in 2011.

SaaS revenue in the content, communications and collaboration (CCC) sector will grow from $2.8 billion trillion in 2010 to $3.3 billion in 2011. The CCC market in various areas of the use of SaaS significantly different, 2010 in the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) market accounted for 5%, and the network conferencing market accounted for 83%.

The revenue contribution of SaaS in the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) market is still only single-digit, about 7%. ERP SaaS contributed 1.5 billion dollars to the entire SaaS market last year and is expected to reach $1.7 billion by the end of the year. The penetration of SaaS in the ERP market is also significant, with the highest penetration in the area of human resources management (HCM), and the relatively low level of enterprise asset Management (EAM) and manufacturing.

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