The worldwide portals, process and middleware (PPMW)
market totalled £6.1bn in 2006, a 16.4% increase from 2005, said
analyst Gartner.
The growth was driven by strong demand in
enterprise service buses (ESBs),
business process management suites (BPMS) and application
servers, said the analyst.
“Software vendors have begun to shift their product mix away from
traditional application integration middleware (AIM) products and
more toward ESBs and BPMS, to capitalise on organisations' demands
for process-centric applications and interest in moving to
service oriented architecture
(SOA),” said Michele Cantara, an analyst at Gartner.
IBM continued to maintain a strong lead in the worldwide PPMW
market, as it accounted for 31.8% of total software revenue in
2006.
Oracle showed the strongest growth rate among the top-tier
suppliers, as its revenue increased 45% as a result of market
demand for its SOA suite, ESB, application and portal offerings,
which leveraged its large installed base of databases and
applications, said Gartner.
The top five suppliers by revenue in order were IBM, BEA
Systems, Oracle, Microsoft and Tibco.
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