Overall software industry: Software for data management, data access, and collaborative information sharing, key vendors, players and trends.
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captured the latest results from the Worldwide Semiannual Public Cloud Services Tracker.
According to this index, for 2013, worldwide public cloud services revenue
reached a total of $45.7 billion.
Connectikpeople.co soon #Retinknow®, can also observe that, when it comes
to Cloud Software and Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Software spending represented
almost 86% of the total public cloud services market in 2013 while Cloud
Infrastructure held the remaining 14%. The Cloud Software market includes two
product categories: Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service
(PaaS).
- The SaaS category has been mainly driven by enterprise applications solutions, such as enterprise resource management (ERM) and customer relationship management (CRM), followed by collaborative applications. Holding a smaller share of the SaaS category are System Infrastructure Software solutions, such as Security and Storage software. From a competitive perspective, the SaaS service provider ecosystem is largely led by Salesforce.com followed by ADP and Intuit. Traditional software vendors like Oracle and Microsoft hold the 4th and 5th position respectively.
- The PaaS market has been largely driven by Integration and Process Automation solutions, Structured Data Management solutions, and Application Server Middleware. The competitive market is led by Amazon.com, followed by Salesforce.com and Microsoft tied for the number 2 position. GXS and Google hold the 4th and 5th positions, respectively.
When it comes to Cloud Infrastructure product group, it is comprised by
only one product category: Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), (comprised by
two markets, Server and Basic Storage).
The top 5 vendors in this market are Amazon.com, which holds the first
position with more than 40% of market share, RackSpace, IBM, CenturyLink, and
Microsoft.
Regarding the regional basis, the United States holds almost 68% of the
market, which is much more than what it holds for traditional technologies.
Western Europe holds
19% and the rest of the regions hold 5% or less each. 
