Challenges for Enterprise Applications Represents a Rosy Outlook for the Performance Validation Market

New application development platforms, application modernization and the escalating use of global development teams will drive continued growth in the performance validation market.

From 2004 to 2006, the performance validation software market grew more than 23% to $264.1 million and Yankee Group expects healthy double-digit annual growth rates through 2010 (see Exhibit 1). Performance validation solutions evolved from application load testing to currently include load testing, enterprise load testing and application performance lifecycle management. Load testing had been considered a mature market, but application complexity has not abated. Aided by emerging application challenges and a focus on enterprise risk, the performance validation market will remain healthy.