IBM leads in app development: Gartner

IBM leads in app development: Gartner

Leads the overall segment's growth with 27.1 per cent share in 2008, says a Gartner report

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

ARMONK, US: IBM on Monday announced that analyst firm Gartner, Inc. has ranked IBM as the worldwide leader in the application development software space.

Additionally, IBM has taken first place in the Evans Data Corp. "Users' Choice: 2009 Software Development Platform" survey.

Gartner named IBM the worldwide market share leader in application development based on total software revenue in 2008.

According to the independent Gartner report, IBM leads the industry with 27.1 per cent share in 2008, growing 7.9 per cent as compared to the overall segment's growth of 4 per cent, said a press release.
Gartner reports the total worldwide market for application development in 2008 was $7.3 billion.

Dr. Daniel Sabbah, general manager, IBM Rational Software, said "In order to deliver the right solutions, on budget and on time, our customers continue to invest in offerings that improve the collaboration and automation of their software development organizations.”

"Additionally, IBM is building upon its leadership in the application development tools market and is now delivering the next generation collaborative, team-based IDE. We feel that the strong customer validation demonstrated in these reports further confirms that we are on the right path," he added.

IBM Rational tools also achieved "top honors" in the annual Evans Data Corp. Software Development Platform User Satisfaction survey, said the release.

The Evans Data Corp. "Users' Choice: 2009 Software Development Platform" survey was conducted in Spring of 2009 and polled 1,200 worldwide developers.

For the first time in four years, Evans Data Corp. expanded the scope of their user satisfaction survey beyond an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) study to a broader array of development tools, it added.

"IBM is a leading example of a vendor that is moving beyond simply selling point products to customers, but rather helping meet their evolving needs by offering a complete, end-to-end application lifecycle management solution (ALM)," said John Andrews, president and CEO of Evans Data Corp.

He further added that the robust development environment and rich assortment of tools that are provided by IBM sets a standard of excellence in development tools as evidenced by its users overall satisfaction ranking in our annual survey.

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