Large data and analysis remains the 2013 IBM software group Focus

IBM announced April 10 that it continues to maintain a leading position in the market, based on Gartner's analysis of the application infrastructure and middleware market. The results are based on the company's 2012 global Income statistics, the top of the list marks IBM 12 consecutive years as the market leader. Gartner "2012 Global Software market share Report" shows [1],IBM 30.9% of the market share of the top of the software supplier, the market share is closely followed by nearly twice times. Gartner estimates that the global application infrastructure and middleware software market has grown by 5% and the market has reached $20 billion trillion. IBM has maintained a leading position in the Chinese enterprise middleware market for 3 consecutive years, according to IDC. In the upcoming IBM software group's 2013 China strategy launch, IBM software will also unveil the 2013 Greater China strategy, with large data and analysis, cloud, mobile, social commerce, intelligent business and Smart city as the representative of the growth sector will be the focus of this year's market.

Referring to Gartner's report, Steve Mills, IBM Global senior vice president and general manager of software and systems technology, said: "We believe that the latest Gartner report not only highlights IBM's continuing leadership in the software sector, but also highlights IBM's commitment to High-value business areas." To meet the long-term business plan that customers are eager to implement. The news released today further demonstrates the effectiveness of the strategy and how IBM is leading its customers into a new computing era. ”

In addition to recognizing IBM's overall leadership position, Gartner's report affirms the progress made by IBM in a number of important areas that provide an important foundation for IBM's high value growth initiatives in intelligent earth, large data, security, mobile, and cloud.

For example, IBM became the first business process Management suite with 28.6% market share (Business process Management Suite, abbreviation: BPMS) supplier, the market share is nearly 3 times times the second manufacturer. BPMs software enables enterprises to develop and implement workflows that help consolidate business activities and business data, helping enterprises to increase flexibility and achieve business growth.

The Gartner report also shows that IBM continues to lead in other key growth areas, including security information and event Management, data integration tools information Tools), Enterprise content Management (Enterprise content Management), Enterprise Asset Management (Enterprise Asset Management), and IT operations management (IT operational Management).

In addition, the report notes that IBM has achieved strong growth in the smart business world, including key market segments such as E-commerce and marketing automation. IBM Smart Business is designed to help organizations realize the transformation of business usage patterns to meet the growing needs of today's digital consumers and to reach new customer groups such as the chief marketing officer.

IBM believes that one of the key reasons for the company's strong growth and profitability is that IBM is consistently leading the market share in the field of application infrastructure and middleware. Over the past decade, IBM software group revenues have doubled and profits have increased twice-fold.

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Gartner points out that IBM continues to lead the global application infrastructure and middleware market for 12 consecutive years, with IBM leading the global software market with 30.9% market share in 2012. In the 2013, IBM's software business will be built around big data and analytics, cloud, mobile, social commerce, smart business and smarter cities.