IDC Market in a Minute: SaaS and Cloud Software

14.9%of all software sold.

$ $$ $

nearly $1 of every $6 spent on packaged software will be consumed via the cloud.

Leading vendors based on 2011 cloud

software revenue:

By 2016,

That’s about

17.3%of application spending will

be consumed via the cloud.

AboutMost suitable applications

for public cloud:

Business apps

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Enterprise ResourceManagement (ERM)

Collaboration apps

Data as of 10/31/12