Despite the stormy economy in the later part of 2008, the overall Application Deployment Software (ADS) market in the Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) – APEJ - pushed through to register a 6.7% growth, from US$740.1 million in 2007 to US$789.7 million in 2008. According to IDC, continuous application deployment projects and data warehouse implementations proved to be an essential source for growth as businesses went through overnight budget revisions and investment scopes changed during the economic crisis. In fact, the research firm expects this market to flourish better as the economy stabilizes, and demand for BPM and SaaS accelerate.
