{"id":4531,"date":"2012-11-09T00:04:47","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T00:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2012\/nov\/09\/cloud-computing-and-enterprise-software-forecast-update-2012\/"},"modified":"2012-11-09T00:04:47","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T00:04:47","slug":"whats-influencing-enterprise-it-buyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/whats-influencing-enterprise-it-buyers\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s influencing enterprise IT buyers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest round of cloud computing and enterprise software forecasts reflect the growing influence of analytics, legacy systems integration, mobility and security on IT buyer&rsquo;s decisions.<\/p>\n<p>Bain &amp; Company and&nbsp;Gartner&nbsp;have moved beyond aggregate forecasts, and are beginning to forecast by cloud and SaaS adoption stage.&nbsp;&nbsp;SAP&nbsp;is using the Bain adoption model in their vertical market presentations today.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the predictions of the demise of enterprise software, forecasts and sales cycles I&rsquo;ve been involved with&nbsp;indicate&nbsp;market growth.&nbsp; Mobility and cloud computing are the catalysts of rejuvenation in many enterprise application areas, and are&nbsp;accelerating&nbsp;sales cycles. &nbsp;Presented in this roundup are market sizes, forecasts and compound annual growth rates (CAGRS) for ten enterprise software segments.<\/p>\n<p>Key take-aways from the latest cloud computing and enterprise software forecasts are provided below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Software as a Service (SaaS) and cloud-based business application services will grow from $13.4 billion in &#8230;<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest round of cloud computing and enterprise software forecasts reflect the growing influence of analytics, legacy systems integration, mobility and security on IT buyer&rsquo;s decisions.<br \/>\nBain &amp; Company and&nbsp;Gartner&nbsp;have moved beyon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}