Mobile Enterprise Application Development Platform Market: SAP plays a key role according to IDC.

Pending the maturation of BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) concept in the enterprises, Connectikpeople can observe that, a set of companies today are or plan to invest in some kind of mobile application development platform.

This week, we have captured the report from IDC which recognized SAP AG as the market share leader by revenue in its latest market share analysis.

According to the "Worldwide Mobile Enterprise Application Development Platform 2013–2017 Forecast and 2012 Vendor Shares” report SAP® Mobile Platform captures nearly 49 percent of the mobile enterprise application development platform

(enterprise MADP) market.

‘’ In 2012, IDC believed the total market reached a size of $938.5 million dollars. By 2017, the market will experience a 38.7 percent CAGR to reach $4.8 billion.”

“In our most recent mobile enterprise survey, we found that the majority of companies today are or plan to invest in some kind of mobile application development platform, and that the apps they are building represent a broad mix of employee, customer and partner facing apps. While there is no one size fits all approach to mobile application development, we are seeing a growing number of organizations choose to buy a comprehensive mobile enterprise application development platform that includes front end, middleware and integration components.” said Stacy Crook, research director, Mobile Enterprise Research, IDC.

The full IDC Enterprise MADP report is available here, and the full IDC MEM report here.