As per a report released by Gartner, the worldwide application development (AD) software market is likely to see more growth due to evolving software delivery models, new development methodologies, emerging mobile application development and open source software.
Compared to 2011, the global AD software market is expected to increase by 1.8 per cent in 2012 where the market will reach more than Rs..49,180.33 crore ($9 billion).
"Application modernisation and increasing agility will continue to be a solid driver for AD spending, apart from other emerging dynamics of cloud, mobility and social computing. These emerging trends are directing AD demand towards newer architectures, programming languages, business model and user skills,'' said Asheesh Raina, principal research analyst at Gartner.
Going by a Gartner report titled, 'Market Trends: Application Development Software, Worldwide, 2012-2016', cloud is changing the way applications are designed, tested and deployed, resulting in a significant shift in AD priorities.
Cost is a major driver, but also agility, flexibility and speed to deploy new applications. 90 per cent of large, mainstream enterprises and government agencies will use some aspect of cloud computing by 2015.
"The trend is compelling enough to force traditional AD vendors to ‘cloud-enable’ their existing offerings and position them as a service to be delivered through the cloud. AD for cloud demands rapid deployment, a high focus on user experience and access to highly elastic resources for software testing, while requiring comparatively less underlying infrastructure for developing applications,'' adds Raina.
Mobile AD projects targeting smartphones and tablets will outnumber native PC projects by a ratio of 4:1 by 2015, predicts Gartner. With the consumerisation of IT, CIOs expect more than 20 per cent of their employees to use tablets instead of laptops by 2013, hastening the process of change as AD tools and applications evolve to address the requirements of these new devices.
Gartner also predicts that, the open source software will become more established and create pressure on market leaders during the next three to five years. At least 70 per cent of new enterprise Java applications will be deployed on an open source Java application server by the end of 2017, explains Gartner.
"Open source software tools will continue to erode revenue for some AD categories in design, testing and Web development. This is being driven primarily by the success of Eclipse and NetBeans, as well as by overall revitalisation of the market by new small software providers looking for technical and market disruptive approaches for offering products. Limited budgets and economic conditions compelling enough to focus on cost reduction, also fuel the use of open-source software in various development projects,'' said Raina.
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