This IDC study reports the market share of the worldwide competitive cloud application platforms software market for the year 2022 and the two prior years. It includes both on-premises and cloud deployment types, depicting most of the growth in the cloud portion of the market. It also provides a competitive analysis of the worldwide cloud application platform market players and the associated submarkets."In the digital-first world, software development and deployment are essential capabilities to deliver business value, including employee productivity, business growth, market competitiveness, and customer engagement," said Brijesh Kumar, senior research analyst, Cloud Application Platforms at IDC. "For cloud application platform providers, delivering business values to customers means addressing the challenges and pain points of developers, DevOps, DevSecOps, and platform engineers, enabling them to focus on application innovation and business logic. Making development and deployment easier and seamless with new tools and approaches such as AI-based solutions, serverless, automation, and resource optimization will encourage more organizations to adopt cloud application platforms to build modern, innovative applications."
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IDC Market Share Figure
Executive Summary
Advice for Technology Suppliers
Completeness of SDLC
Security
Enabling Rapid Iteration
Market Share
Cloud Application Platforms Revenue by Region
Cloud Application Platforms by Deployment Type
Who Shaped the Year
Microsoft
AWS
IBM (Including Red Hat)
Emerging Vendors
Partnerships and Acquisitions
Market Context
Growth Drivers
Agility in Building Applications
Continued Shift to Next-Generation Cloud Development