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Enterprise Software Market Regains Its Momentum

The market for enterprise software fell in 2009, along with the rest of the IT marketplace. As companies scaled back their purchases and slowed implementations; the market for enterprise software declined by 2.5%. While not a huge decline, it was still substantial, following years of robust growth.

A new Enterprise Software market research study by Gartner, suggests that the enterprise software’s long winter finally appears to be ending. Gartner recently announced that in 2010 the market grew by 8.5% to $245 billion (US). The strongest growth, not surprisingly, has been in Asia-Pacific and Latin America, two regions with booming economies. In contrast, Japan and Western Europe only experienced a relatively mild growth.

A few facts that stand out of the Gartner’s report include:

– Microsoft continues to maintain the largest share of the market with 22% – boosted by the recent release of Windows 7 and Office 2010.

– IBM was in second position – seeing strong sales of its WebSphere middleware and Tivoli system management tools. (IBM would have been #1 if Microsoft’s sales to consumers had been left out of the study)

– Big Blue would take the top spot if Microsoft’s sales of Office and Windows to consumers were left out of the study, the firm added.

– Oracle grew at a blistering pace of 19%, powered by strong growth in BI and security.

– VMware had the fastest growth, at 41%, much of it driven through acquisition (e.g., Zimbraand TriCipher)

Not surprisingly, as Enterprise Software sales rise, so do sales of IT Services, to implement these complex new systems. A vivid contrast with the 5% drop seen in 2009. Last year IT services spending grew 3% to $793 billion last year.

– IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Fujitsu took the top three market share berths.

– The largest share of this spending came from software support. The support sector saw the strongest growth at nearly 7%.

– Consulting, development and integration services performed slightly better than expected as organizations that held back on investments began investing again last year

– Process management and hardware support saw weaker results where both segments grew at 1 percent less than projected.

These recent enterprise software market research studies suggest that the impact of the recession are still evident in the market; overall there are still areas experiencing strong growth. The move toward cloud-based enterprise applications should continue to feed strong growth in this sector, as companies increasingly overcome their security fears and move enterprise apps to the cloud.

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The Joy of Automated Forex Trading

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Automated forex trading is setting the trend of the time. In this type of forex trading, Forex robots known as expert advisors are fully automated forex trading software that have come to the rescue of an average person who has interested in investing money in the forex market but is unfortunately not able to do so due to paucity of time. The phenomenon of automated forex trading has gained momentum within a short span of time and today almost every forex trader is going for one or the other kind of automated forex trading system that can enable them to make big money without any hassles.


Automated forex trading offers a plethora of benefits over self directed trading. Most of the self directed forex traders suffer from two major shortcomings; one being emotions tend to interfere with the strategy of forex trading and the other being that money is often managed poorly. Let us take each of the aspects one by one. Considering the former aspect of emotions, greed and fear often create problems for the forex trader and inhibit his/her thinking. What happens is forex traders who rely on their own judgment tend to close their position too soon due to fear and on the other hand, their greed compels them to keep their position open for too long. It is because of these emotions that they suffer losses and thus move out of forex market soon. It is here that automated forex trading more popularly known as forex robot comes into play.


The second issue is that most of the self directed forex traders fail to mange their time effectively and this in turn leads to poor money management. Automated forex trading does not give rise to these kinds of problems and is thus highly preferable. It is not that in automated forex trading, you have no control over your forex trading transactions. It’s just your forex robot or expert advisor that will follow the pre set instructions and this way enables you to concentrate on the more important issues. As far as the instructions are concerned, either you give the instructions or your trading mentor and then your automated computer program will take care of rest of the things and keep doing as you want things to be done.


You can set as many parameters as you want such as you can give clear specifications regarding the price pattern, averages, trading rules, technical indicators, market trend and many more. The system will identify your requirements and develop an algorithm which will work for you automatically.


There are varied kinds of automated forex trading systems available online. Some of them are offered for free while others are chargeable. The two most commonly used automated forex trading systems are desktop based systems and web based systems.


The first one is not very popular as there are some limitations associated with its use. Since the entire data is stored in the computer, it is highly prone to virus attack. Also, this system is likely to face some security issues. If a problem crops up in the computer, it is tough to retrieve the data. On the contrary, web based forex system is hosted on highly secure servers and thus there is greater reliability. It can be accessed from any computer having internet connection and is compatible with almost every internet browser.


To conclude, in the contemporary time, more and more people are becoming aware of the benefits of using automated forex trading systems.