Worldwide software as a service revenue will reach $7.5 billion in 2009, a 17.7 percent increase from 2008 revenue of $6.4 billion, according to Gartner. The market will show consistent growth through 2013 when worldwide SaaS (News - Alert) revenue will total over $14 billion for the enterprise application markets.

 

The content, communications and collaboration market and the customer relationship management market continue to have the largest amount of SaaS revenue across market segments, with the CCC market generating $2.6 billion in 2009, up from $2.14 billion in 2008 and the CRM segment generating $2.3 billion in 2009, up from $1.9 billion in 2008, said Sharon Mertz, research director at Gartner (News - Alert).

 

SaaS has continued to represent a key driver of growth in the CRM market for the past four years, climbing from less than $500 million in 2005 and over eight percent of the CRM market to over 20 percent of the market in 2008, with nearly $1.9 billion in revenue, says Mertz.

 

Gartner expects growth to continue, with SaaS representing almost 24 percent of the CRM market’s total software revenue in 2009.

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