This IDC study provides vendor shares for the worldwide IT asset management software market for 2011 as well as a 2012–2016 forecast. Historical information going back to 2006 is provided as well. "Consistent with overall trends affecting the change and configuration management software market underlying this market, we lowered the forecast to 6.5% from 7.6%," comments Fred Broussard, research director, Client Device and IT Service Management Software. "This current forecast reflects a decrease in worldwide economic activity, exchange rate fluctuations, and growth uncertainty because of cloud management, mobile client management, and virtualization."
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