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The Indian application development software market is expected to cross $227 million in 2012, a 22.6 per cent rise over 2011.
Growth will be driven by evolving software delivery models, new development methodologies, emerging mobile application development and open source software, according to a study by research and analyst firm Gartner.
Emerging trends
“Application modernisation and increasing agility will continue to be a solid driver for app development spending, apart from other emerging dynamics of cloud, mobility and social computing,” said Asheesh Raina, principal research analyst at Gartner.
“These emerging trends are directing app demand towards newer architectures, programming languages, business model and user skills,” he added.
According to Gartner, cloud is changing the way applications are designed, tested and deployed, resulting in a significant shift in app priorities. About 90 per cent of large, mainstream enterprises and government agencies will use some aspect of cloud computing by 2015. Gartner predicts that mobile AD projects targeting smart phones and tablets will outnumber native personal computer projects by a ratio of 4:1 by 2015. Emerging mobile applications, systems and devices are transforming the app development space rapidly, and are one of the top three CIO priorities at the enterprise level.
The research also found that CIOs expect more than 20 per cent of their employees to use tablets instead of laptops by 2013, hastening the process of change as app tools and applications evolve to address the requirements of these new devices.
Open source software
Gartner expects open source software to continue to broaden its presence and create pressure on market leaders during the next 3-5 years. It predicts that at least 70 per cent of new enterprise Java applications will be deployed on an open source Java application server by 2017-end.
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