Market Insights: Gartner APM Market Share Analysis

June 22 2015
 

Here's the breakdown for Gartner's market data for the APM marketshare to understand growth, trends and top vendors competing in the APM landscape.


This kicks off Market Insights, a new series of posts I will be writing, focused on thought leadership research coming from the press, bloggers and analysts covering the APM and other associated markets. Let’s start off by breaking down some market data from Gartner to understand where the growth is coming from in the APM market.

Gartner publishes market data annually, along with their assessment of the numbers. The analyst handling APM is Federico De’Silva, in the market data numbers for 2014 (http://www.gartner.com/document/3061126). This document focuses on IT operations management software specifically in the distributed arena. Note that where you see “Compuware” actually now refers to  Dynatrace, since the company was renamed from the source market data document to this new assessment document. OPNET was renamed to Riverbed following its acquisition in early 2013, and Quest was renamed Dell after its acquisition in late 2012.

The Gartner report states that the APM market grew at a record high 15.8 percent in 2014, up from 13.8 percent in 2013. The chart shows the top vendors in revenue (over $50m).

Vendor Gartner 2014 APM Market Share Revenue
Compuware $326.9
CA Technologies $222.6
IBM $219.3
Dell $208.7
Microsoft $159.4
Riverbed $158.4
Splunk $146.1
HP $131.3
New Relic $96.8
Oracle $83.6
AppDynamics $79.0
BMC Software $59.7

Charts/graphics created by AppDynamics based on Gartner research. Source: Gartner, Inc., Market Share Analysis: IT Operations Management Software, Worldwide, 2014, Laurie F. Wurster | Ronni J. Colville | Federico De Silva | David M. Coyle | Michael Warrilow, May 26th 2015.

The growth rate numbers published in the same research show a different story, for those growing over 10%. In this case, you can see where innovators have clearly been capturing new market opportunity.

Vendor Gartner 2014 APM Market Share Growth
AppDynamics 246.5%
New Relic 71.3%
SolarWinds 65.1%
Splunk 47.0%
Microsoft 21.8%
Compuware 20.6%
CA Technologies 14.7%
IBM 14.0%
Other Vendors 11.8%

Charts/graphics created by AppDynamics based on Gartner research. Source: Gartner, Inc., Market Share Analysis: IT Operations Management Software, Worldwide, 2014, Laurie F. Wurster | Ronni J. Colville | Federico De Silva | David M. Coyle | Michael Warrilow, May 26th 2015.

Interestingly, these growth numbers hide a bigger story. The overall APM market expanded 15.8 percent in 2014, so the vendors who were not growing above this rate were not keeping pace with market expansion. If we take the Gartner data and subtract out the market expansion, it undermines the growth story for a number of APM vendor, even pushing some into negative growth:

Vendor (Gartner 2014 APM Market Share) – (Overall Gartner APM Market Growth Rate of 15.8%)
AppDynamics 230.7%
New Relic 55.5%
SolarWinds 49.3%
Splunk 31.2%
Microsoft 6.0%
Compuware 4.8%
CA Technologies -1.1%
IBM -1.8%
Other Vendors -4.0%

Charts/graphics created by AppDynamics

While there is no doubt revenue replacement and  movement between vendors, it’s clear that the overall market expansion is being driven by just a handful of vendors.

With more and more businesses being defined by software, and the continuing evolution of software along with the teams who create, manage, and invent the ideas behind the software, this market trend is likely to accelerate, causing a further gap between the technology providers who meet these new demands, and those who are focused on legacy infrastructure and applications.

Jonah Kowall
Jonah Kowall is the Vice President of market development and insights, helping drive the company’s product roadmap and vision, while developing entry into new markets and providing valuable technology and business insights to fuel the accelerating and broad-based demand for the company’s Application Intelligence Platform. Jonah comes to AppDynamics with a diverse background including 15 years as an IT practitioner at several startups and larger enterprises focused on infrastructure and operations, security, and performance engineering. These included running tactical and strategic operational initiatives, going deep into monitoring of infrastructure and application components. In 2011 Jonah changed careers, moving to Gartner to focus on availability and performance monitoring and IT operations management (ITOM). Jonah led Gartner's influential application performance monitoring (APM) and network performance monitoring and diagnostics (NPMD) magic quadrants and research as a research vice president.

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