BANGALORE, Aug 24: The India application development (AD) software market is expected to reach more than USD 227 million in 2012, an increase of 22.6 percent over 2011, according to IT analyst firm Gartner.
It said in a report here that the growth would be driven by evolving software delivery models, new development methodologies, emerging mobile application development and open source software.
Principal Research Analyst at GArtner, Asheesh Raina, commenting on the trends in AD market said ‘application modernisation and increasing agility will continue to be a solid driver for AD spending, apart from other emerging dynamics of cloud, mobility and social computing.’ These emerging trends were directing AD demand towards newer architectures, programming languages, business model and user skills he added.
The report said cloud is changing the way applications are designed, tested and deployed, resulting in a significant shift in AD priorities. Cost is a major driver, but also agility, flexibility and speed to deploy new applications. 90 percent of large, mainstream enterprises and government agencies will use some aspect of cloud computing by 2015.
‘The trend is compelling enough to force traditional AD vendors to ‘cloud-enable’ their existing offerings and position them as a service to be delivered through the cloud,’ said Mr. Raina.
Gartner predicts that mobile AD projected targeting smartphones and tablets will outnumber native PC projects by a ratio of 4:1 by 2015. Emerging mobile applications, systems and devices are transforming the AD space rapidly, and are one of the top three CIO priorities at the enterprise level. Gartner research found that CIOs expect more than 20 percent of their employees to use tablets instead of laptops by 2013, hastening the process of change as AD tools and applications evolve to address the requirements of these new devices.
Also driving the AD shift, Gartner expected open source software to continue to broaden its presence and create pressure on market leaders during the next three to five years, especially as open source becomes a key element of the software quality landscape beyond the developer level. It predicted that at least 70 percent of new enterprise Java applications will be deployed on an open source Java application server by the end of 2017. (UNI)
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