Last year was challenging for many traditional software vendors, particularly those that have been slow to embrace the shift to cloud services. Worldwide application infrastructure and middleware (AIM) software revenue totaled $23.9 billion in 2015 -- that's 0.1 percent growth from 2014, according to the latest study by Gartner. The rapid adoption of enterprise platform-as-a-service (PaaS) cloud offerings, often applied as a foundation for digital business transformation projects, may have caught some legacy software vendors by surprise. Meanwhile, those with strategic foresight were able to adapt to the market development momentum. "The PaaS segment showed the most impressive growth, not just in the AIM market but across the entire enterprise software market," said Fabrizio Biscotti, research director at Gartner . "Integration PaaS (iPaaS) grew 55 percent in U.S dollars, while application PaaS (aPaaS) grew 40 percent, despite headwinds from the appreciating U.S....
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