Worldwide Software Product Life-Cycle Management 2007–2011 Forecast

This IDC study presents a sizing of the opportunity in the SPLM technologies market. This is a derivative, rather than functional, market that includes technologies that are utilized in combination to help productize, monetize, deliver, and install packaged software.

"The SPLM market continues to be an interesting space to watch. There is a high demand for improvements to software publishers' licensing and distribution systems and methodologies," said Amy Konary, research director for Software Pricing, Licensing, and Delivery. "The challenge is that this demand is not usually coming from the top down, meaning upper management within the software company and executive sponsorship or mandate is necessary to drive the changes needed to support a successful SPLM initiative."