IDC's BuyerPulse® Deals Database: Worldwide Application Development and Deployment service provides critical deal and customer purchasing data that helps technology vendors, professional services firms, and the financial services community monitor the demand for application development and deployment (AD&D) software and the continuous performance of key vendors. With more than 6,000 worldwide AD&D customers winning transactions and new additions every quarter, this program provides tangible metrics for competitive intelligence teams to evaluate buying patterns in AD&D offerings and for sales and marketing teams to use in a sales enablement capacity. Subscribers can search and segment the data for the purpose of lead generation and account development and analyze patterns to make decisions about marketing and channel investments as well as for data that will help in making product development decisions.

• Application development software
• Mobile development and deployment software
• Application life-cycle management
• Application servers
• Business-to-business middleware
• Business process management software (BPM)
• Cloud PaaS
• Cloud testing
• Data integration and access software
• Database management systems
• Integration as a service
• Middleware
• Portals and mashup software
• Real-time integration , SOA, and connectivity middleware

Throughout the year, this product will address the following topics:

• Vendor track records across AD&D functional markets, hundreds of products, by country, by industry, by employee size, by announcement date, and by customers/buyers

1. Which customers are my competitors winning?
2. What AD&D products are being purchased across the customer experience management process to manage customer service needs?
3. What industries are investing in development and deployment tools software?
4. What size of customer is purchasing cloud development and deployment tools or PaaS?
5. What are the buying patterns of AD&D purchases and the implications for vendors?

IDC's BuyerPulse Deals Database: Worldwide Application Development and Deployment service examines how AD&D vendors are positioning themselves to compete in the market. This service monitors purchasing across key AD&D market segments and covers more than 400 vendors, including:

Ab Initio, Accellion, ACI Worldwide, Active Endpoints, Acxiom, Adobe, Aldon, Aleri, Amdocs, Appian, Attachmate, Attunity, Axway, Azul Systems, Black Duck, Borland, CA Technologies, Cast Iron, Compuware, Cordys, Corticon, Coverity, DataFlux, EasyLink Services, Embarcadero Technologies, EMC, EnterpriseDB, Enterworks, Extol, FICO, Fiorano, Fortinet, Four Js, Fujitsu, GemStone, GigaSpaces, Global 360, GlobalSCAPE, Green Hills Software, GT Software, GXS, HandySoft, Harte-Hanks, IBM, Infor, Informatica, Information Builders, Inovis, Intalio, Integrify, Jacada, JackBe, K2, Liferay, Magic Software, MessageWay, Metastorm, Microsoft, MuleSource, nuBridges, OpenConnect, OpenSpan, Oracle, Palamida, Pegasystems, Pervasive Software, PrismTech, Progress Software, QAD, Recommind, Red Hat, RepliWeb, RTI, SAP, SAS, Savvion, Seeburger, Serena Software, Signiant, Software AG, SPS Commerce, StreamBase, Teradata, TIBCO, and YouSendIt.com.

Throughout the year, this product will offer insight into the latest trends impacting the market. BuyerPulse Deals Database: Worldwide Application Development and Deployment clients receive weekly updates to IDC's software deals data.