Wednesday, May 13. 2009

IDC Market Metrics & Sonnen on Spatial Enterprise 2.0

Dave Sonnen of IDC/ISSI provided one of the keynote presentations today at Korem's Geodiffusion Conference in Quebec City. Here are some of the details, insights and market metrics that he presented to the audience:

IDC says geospatial technology has grown to $3 Billion in total software revenue with systems integration and custom application development providing an additional multipler affect of 3x to 5x that amount.

Sonnen also said that IDC is tracking 700 companies that do geospatial.

Overall market size is $50-$60 Billion in total revenue for acquiring, managing, analyzing map data. Sonnen also commented that some of the complaints about traditional geospatial technology is that it's "too cautious, too incremental, and too dull...The technology is tailored largely for insiders but these are normal characteristics of any established industry."

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Sonnen's notion of the Spatial Enterprise 2.0 acknowledges that spatial information will just be part of the infrastructure and that location-specific data will be generated by everything: mobile device being one example.

Posted by Joe Francica in Market Research, Geospatial Business at 20:39 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0) |

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