BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - May 13, 2008) - The Annual State of the Market Report out from the Aberdeen Group showcases the results of five years of research and up to date insight from 4,645 snap-shot survey respondents. New to the report this year is a compilation of the Top 100 organizations that excelled at providing value to the business community. The list included software, hardware, and service providers with Microsoft, Oracle and SAP rounding out the top three spots. Technology household names including IBM, Dell, HP, Cisco, Salesforce.com, EMC and Sun closed out the top 10. Other well established brands including Google (#11), RIM/Blackberry (#12), Apple (#16), Motorola (#22), Intel (#29), and Intuit (#46) were notably present.
Mobility, identified in last year's Aberdeen Report as the number one technology growth area, was well represented in the Top 100 by AT&T (#15), Verizon (#23), Sony Ericsson (#26), Sprint/Nextel (#42), and T-Mobile (#92). This year the results from the 2008 Aberdeen Report indicate that mobility will take a back seat to business intelligence and analytics as the technology capabilities having the greatest impact over the next 3-5 years. Representing best of breed vendors in this category were SAS (#30), Microstrategy (#61), QlikView (#67), and SPSS (#89), as well the broader enterprise suite solutions including Microsoft (#1), Oracle (#2), SAP (#3), Hewlett Packard (#6), Infor (#18), Lawson (#34), QAD (#37), and IFS (#60). Also making a strong appearance on the service side were Accenture (#25), EDS (#36), Tata Consulting (#43), Infosys (#56) and Capgemini (#79). One interesting omission was the lack of human capital management solutions representation in the Top 100, with only Kronos weighing in at #98, despite the fact that 31% of survey respondents identify a "shortage of talent" as being the second greatest challenge facing their organization this year.
The Report identifies that the top two criteria organizations use when selecting a technology solution include: total cost of ownership (43%), product functionality (42%), vendor stability (24%), market specific knowledge and experience (24%), domain or industry expertise (22%), and reputation (21%). It also identifies that the priorities of organizations as it relates to technology spend vary by company size (see table).
Survey respondents were given an "open-text" opportunity to identify the top three technology companies that had the most influence on their business performance over the course of the past year. The compete list of the Top 100 Most Influential Technology Companies from the Aberdeen Report are:
1. Microsoft 35. i2 69. Xerox
2. Oracle 36. EDS 70. Front Range
3. SAP 37. QAD 71. Internec
4. IBM 38. Ariba 72. Manugistics
5. Cisco 39. CA 73. Palm
6. Hewlett Packard 40. Epicor 74. Unisys
7. Dell 41. Juniper 75. Yahoo!
8. Salesforce.com 42. Sprint/Nextel 76. 3com
9. EMC 43. Tata Consulting 77. ABB
10. Sun Microsystems 44. ADP 78. CANON
11. Google 45. Fujitsu 79. Capgemini
12. RIM (Blackberry) 46. Intuit 80. Informatica
13. Siemens 47. Manhattan Associates 81. Interwoven
14. Adobe 48. Novell 82. McKesson
15. AT&T 49. Red Prairie 83. Mincom
16. Apple 50. SunGard 84. Mitel
17. Sage 51. Telstra 85. Netsuite
18. Infor 52. BMC 86. Omniture
19. Nortel 53. BT 87. Progress
20. Avaya 54. CSC 88. Rackspace
21. Red Hat 55. Skype 89. SPSS
22. Motorola 56. Infosys 90. Syntel
23. Verizon Wireless 57. NetApp 91. Teradata
24. Dassault 58. Symantec 92. T-Mobile
25. Accenture 59. Huawei 93. Toshiba
26. Sony Ericsson 60. IFS 94. Websense
27. Alcatel - Lucent 61. Microstrategy 95. Servigistics
28. AutoDesk 62. Aruba 96. Genesys
29. Intel 63. CDW 97. Logility
30. SAS 64. Concur 98. Kronos
31. Citrix 65. Exact 99. Rockwell Automation
32. Nokia 66. Hitachi 100. Checkpoint Systems
33. PTC 67. Qlikview
34. Lawson 68. Vonage
Additional information on the 2008 Aberdeen Report: State of the Market can be found at http://www.aberdeen.com/2-0/campaigns/14-aberdeen-report-2008-landing-page.asp
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