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10 June 2008

AIM Market 'Continues to Grow'


Revenue in the market for application architecture and middleware (AIM) grew to $14.1 billion (£7.2 billion) in 2007, a 12.9 per cent increase over the 2006 revenue of $12.5 billion (£6.4 billion), it has been revealed.

According to Gartner the market was primarily driven by strong growth in emerging market segments, including Enterprise Service Buses (ESBs) and Business Process Management Suites (BPMS), as well as continued growth in more mature segments.

The analyst added that AIM vendors are focusing on ESBs and BPMS because of the strong demand among enterprises for products that support Service-Orientated Architecture (SOA) and process-centric applications, as well as the increasing B2B integration requirements of global organisations.

"The AIM segment in 2007 grew above the average growth rate of the overall enterprise software market demonstrating that this technology area had not seen any noticeable signs of slowdown," said Gartner research director Fabrizio Biscotti.

Meanwhile, analyst Forrester has highlighted Business Intelligence (BI) as one of the fastest growing areas of the worldwide enterprise software market. It also suggested that organisations will spend over £3 billion on web 2.0 technologies over the next five years.<br/>

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