Analyst Firm Positions IBM in Leaders Quadrant of Magic Quadrant Report12 July 2006
an enterprise data modeling and database design tool that also helps users map data assets to each other to more easily create database and integration schemas. "Gartner's assessment of the OOA&D positions IBM in the leaders quadrant which we believe confirms our strategy around model-driven development," said Danny Sabbah, general manager, Rational Software, IBM. "IBM's model-driven tools help geographically distributed software development teams to communicate their designs and requirements visually, eliminating the risk of project failures due to mis-communication resulting from language and cultural barriers."
Gartner's Magic Quadrant positions vendors along two dimensions: completeness of vision, and ability to execute on that vision. For 2006, Object Oriented Analysis and Design tools are well into mainstream use reaching 20 percent to 50 percent of the target audience: information architects, analysts and developers. According to the report, most organizations have converted to OOA&D methods and tools in concert with implementing service oriented architectures (SOAs), resulting in a rapid explosion of this market from 2000-2004.
Today's news builds on IBM's leadership in helping customers govern their software and systems development. IBM was recently named the worldwide market share leader in the application development and project and portfolio management software marketplace based on total software revenue for 2005 for the fifth consecutive year, according to independent analyst firm Gartner Inc. According to the independent report**, IBM was the leading market share vendor in total software revenue with 25.4 percent market share, more than double the share of its nearest competitor.
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* The Gartner Magic Quadrant for Object Oriented Analysis and Design (OOA&D) tools, 2H06-2H07 report was authored by Michael J. Blechar.
** The Gartner market statistics report is entitled "Market Share: Application Development and Project and Portfolio Management, Worldwide, 2005" authored by Laurie Wurster and Fabrizio Biscotti.
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