Supply chain app grow fastest in market

Asia - Adoption of supply chain applications is fastest growing in the application market, said a study by IDC.

The application market to a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 11.6%, reaching US$11.16 billion by 2012 from US$6.43 billion in 2007, the study said.

The ‘Asia/Pacific Applications 2008-2012 Forecast and Analysis' report ranks the supply chain application markets in different countries Asia Pacific except Japan (APEJ).

China has been leading the line-up in 2007 accounting for 29% of the regional application market. Australia trailed behind with estimated 23.7% market share with Korea and India taking third and fourth place respectively. However, the report forecast that India will be overtaking Korea with their current CAGR of 20.9% within two years in the APEJ market.

Enterprise risk management (ERM) dominated the APEJ market Applications market in 2007 with 25.2% market share and a value of US$1.6 billion. Content Applications came in second with 21.7% while Services Industry Applications came in third with a value of US$1.1 billion. The Product Supply Chain Applications became the fastest growing market segment with a five-year CAGR of 14.5% and is predicted to grow from US$690.4 million in 2007 to US$1.4 billion by 2012.

Alan Tong, senior research manager of Asia Pacific Enterprise Applications Research at IDC said: "We anticipate that the recent downturn in the US economy would slow down demand of the Applications market in APEJ in 2008 with greater impact in countries such as Korea, Taiwan, New Zealand, and Singapore."