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Software: Global Industry Guide

Report Code: DO-4959 Date: 4/2009 By: Datamonitor

Datamonitor's Software: Global Industry Guide is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the computer software industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, textual analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, and profiles of the leading companies. It also includes full five-year market forecasts. incisive report provides expert analysis on a global, regional and country basis.

This report is part of the Global Industry Guideseries from Datamonitor.

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Abstract: Datamonitor's Software: Global Industry Guide is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the Software industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, textual analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, and profiles of the leading companies. This incisive report provides expert analysis on a global, regional and country basis.

Scope of the Report

  • Contains an executive summary and data on value, volume and segmentation
  • Provides textual analysis of the industry's prospects, competitive landscape and leading companies:
    • IBM Corporation
    • Microsoft Corporation
    • Oracle Corporation
    • SAP AG
  • Incorporates in-depth five forces competitive environment analysis and scorecard
  • Covers Global, European and Asia-Pacific regional markets as well as individual chapters on 5 major country markets (France, Germany, Japan, the UK and the US). .
  • Includes a five-year forecast of the industry
Highlights
  • The global software market grew by 6.5% in 2008 to reach a value of $303.8 billion.
  • In 2013, the global software market is forecast to have a value of $457 billion, an increase of 50.5% since 2008.
  • General business productivity and home use applications segment accounts for 22.7% of the global software market's value.
  • Americas accounts for 42.6% of the global software market's value.
Who Should Buy This Report
  • Anyone involved in the Software Market globally
  • Anyone considering expansion into the Software Market
  • Anyone targeting customers or suppliers in the Software Market
  • This includes:
    • Competitive analysts
    • Distribution managers
    • Marketing managers
    • Strategic planners
    • Senior executives.
Why You Should Buy This Report
  • Spot future trends and developments
  • Make better-informed business decisions
  • Add weight to presentations and marketing materials
  • Save time carrying out entry-level research
  • Affordable price for this level of detailed market forecast data
Market Definitions
  • The computer software market consists of systems and application software. Systems software comprises operating systems, network and database management, development tools and programming languages, and other systems software. Application software comprises general business productivity and home use applications, cross-industry and vertical market applications, and utilities and other application software.
  • Market value figures are assessed at manufacturer selling price (MSP), based on revenues from software sales and licenses. Any currency conversions used in the creation of this report have been calculated using constant 2007 annual average exchange rates. For the purposes of this report, Europe is composed of Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
  • Asia Pacific is composed of Australia, China, India, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan.
  • Americas is composed of the US, Canada, Brazil and Mexico.
  • The global market consists of Asia Pacific, Europe and the Americas.

New Global Industry Guide Feature: Five-Forces Analysis


Datamonitor Global Industry Guides now include the use of Porter's Five-Forces Analysis, which is a framework for industry analysis and business strategy development developed by Michael E. Porter of Harvard Business School in 1979 (for more information see the article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porter_5_forces_analysis.

This uses concepts developed in Industrial Organization economics to derive 5 forces that determine the competitive intensity and therefore attractiveness of a market. Attractiveness in this context refers to the overall industry profitability. An "unattractive" industry is one where the combination of forces acts to drive down overall profitability. A very unattractive industry would be one approaching "pure competition".

This analysis technique looks at five forces acting on companies within a market that impact on their profitability:
  • Buyer power - how much control do customers have on the prices that market players can charge?
  • Supplier power - how much control do suppliers have on the prices that market players need to pay for their raw materials etc?
  • New entrants - how likely is it that new companies will decide to start operating in the market?
  • Threat of substitutes - are there any alternative products that customers can buy in preference to those offered within the market (ie indirect competition rather than direct competition)?
  • Rivalry - how intense is the rivalry between individual market players?
The stronger the force(s), the more difficult it is for a company in that market to remain profitable.

Datamonitor performs the analysis using a set of ‘drivers’ - factors that influence the strength of each force - and give each a numerical value between 1 and 5, then average these scores to determine the strength of that force - a powerful tool for analyzing an industry sector and its major players.


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