Study: Salesforce Leads SaaS Market; Amazon Dominates IaaS Space
Salesforce.com (CRM) leads the software-as-a-service (SaaS) market, followed by ADP and Intuit. Oracle (ORCL) and Microsoft (MSFT) rank fourth and fifth, respectively. That’s according to a new report from IDC, which also looks at the platform-as-a-service (PaaS) market and other markets within overall public cloud computing space. Here are the details.
The study forecasts continued growth in the public cloud services market at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 23 percent through 2018. According to the IT research firm, products in the public cloud services space are divided into two groups: cloud software and cloud infrastructure.
IDC said the PaaS market has been largely driven by integration and process automation solutions, structured data management solutions and application server middleware.
This market segment is led by Amazon Web Services (AWS), followed by Salesforce.com and Microsoft tied for the number two position. GXS and Google (GOOG) hold the fourth and fifth positions, respectively.
Cloud infrastructure represents infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) products, but that is further divided into two markets: server and basic storage.
Top vendors in the IaaS market are Amazon, which holds close to the majority of market share (40 percent), RackSpace (RAX), IBM, CenturyLink (CTL), and Microsoft.
IDC reports that worldwide public cloud services revenue reached a total of $45.7 billion in 2013.
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