According to Gartner, the market for applications in the supply chain (SCM) and supply has experienced explosive growth in 2014. As many 10.8 % growth, to a total of $ 9.9 billion in the world. A figure well above the average growth of the software market that shows interest for solutions considered by companies as competitive factors. According to research firm, this growth benefits both publishers offering complete suites of business applications and specialists of the subject. And if the solutions offered in the Cloud experiencing the sharpest increase (+ 17%), the growth of on-site license sales (on premise) remains enviable, at + 9%.
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Among the publishers, SAP took last year to strengthen its hold on the market. Through its acquisitions (including that of the Ariba platform supply) and internal product development strategy (with a logistics module announced for this year in the range S / 4 Hana), the German managed to control more than 25% market , with growth of almost 20% in 2014. Second, Oracle appears stalled, due to its weak growth in 2014 (+ 1.5%). Its market share fell below 15%. Over a billion dollars of revenue now separates the two heavyweights of the business software. Behind, despite a very disappointing year (- 1.7%), JDA Software seems firmly clinging to third place. The fourth, another specialist SCM, Manhattan Associates, is more than two times smaller than its predecessor. Epicor completed the top 5.
If the top 10 concentrates 55% of the market, the 57 other publishers surveyed by the Gartner also recorded an enviable average growth (+ 9.6%). The research firm expects a new round of acquisitions in this sector
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