Systems management software market dominated by Japan

The global systems management software market has been forecast to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 5.5% over the period through to 2015, driven by the growth in workload scheduling and automation (WSA), performance management, and change and configuration management markets.

Furthermore, the need to boost employee productivity and reduce costs, and the increase in demand for cloud systems management solutions look set to fuel growth within the industry. However, managing configuration complexity could pose a challenge to the growth of this market.

Systems management software automates various systems management requirements such as security management, performance management and configuration management. This increases the amount of time employees spend on work, thereby increasing employee productivity.

The system management software market achieved double-digit growth in 2011 although growth in the second half of the year slowed by 3% compared to the first half. Although slowing in the second half of the year, the 2011 results show continued healthy growth in global system management software revenue.

Central Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEMA), Asia/Pacific and Japan represented the top performing regions within the systems management software market in terms of growth rates in 2011.

Japan is the only one out of these 3 regions that surpasses $1 billion in annual revenue while Asia/Pacific excluding Japan is forecast to reach the $1 billion threshold in 2015.

IBM, BMC, HP, CA Technologies and Microsoft were the top five vendors who had recorded worldwide revenue of more than $1 billion.

For more information on the systems management software market, see the latest research: Systems Management Software Market Report

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