Worldwide Event-Driven Middleware 2010-2014 Forecast and 2009 Vendor Shares

This IDC study examines the event-driven middleware market for the period from 2005 to 2014, with vendor revenue trends and market growth forecasts. Worldwide market sizing is provided for 2009, with trends from 2005. A five-year growth forecast for this market is shown for 2010-2014. Revenue and market share of the leading vendors is provided for 2009. The event-driven middleware market is an aggregation of message-oriented middleware, complex event processing software, and standalone business activity monitoring software.

"We expect to continue seeing innovation in this market and increasing demand over the forecast period. However, event-driven middleware is increasingly competitive and is also part of larger enterprise integration suite purchasing. Between price competition, the popularity of open source event-driven middleware, and the increasing innovation from open source vendors, we expect to see pricing pressure as healthy competition continues," according to Maureen Fleming, program vice president for IDC's Business Process Management and Middleware research. "We believe demand for event-driven middleware will be greater than growth in spending because of strength of the competitors involved in this market."