Overview of Market Definitions
› The worldwide software market includes all packaged software revenue across all functional markets or market aggregations.
› Primary software markets are the aggregation of the functional markets for applications, AD&D, and system infrastructure. The three primary markets together make up the worldwide software market.
› Secondary software markets are 19 important aggregations that make up IDC's packaged software market taxonomy. These secondary markets are consumer applications, collaborative applications, content applications, enterprise resource management (ERM) applications, supply chain management (SCM) applications, operations and manufacturing applications, engineering applications, customer relationship management (CRM) applications, information and data management software, application development software, quality and life-cycle tools, application deployment software, other development tools, information access and delivery software, system and network management software, security software, storage software, networking software, and system software. These markets map into the three primary markets and collectively equate to the worldwide software market.
› Functional markets are the focal point of IDC's analysis. IDC defines 85 individual functional markets for which it analyzes revenue by vendor, geography, and operating environment. Functional markets also provide the foundation and revenue base for the generation of competitive markets.
› Submarkets describe one or more discrete functional areas within a specific market. Although submarket-level data may be reported in selected IDC studies, this level of detail is not recorded in the Software Market Forecaster database.
Tables 1–3 provide an overview of the functional markets and secondary markets that constitute the applications, AD&D, and system infrastructure software markets. |
