market trends

Cloud adoption is at an all-time high. IaaS ACV is growing over 25% CAGR and shows no sign of slowing. At the same time, applications ACV is up 31% year to date, and up 37% against its five-year average (see Data Watch). Through the first half of the year, ADM represented almost 55% of the ITO market.
 
Why it’s happening: Today we see very few cloud deals that don’t involve application transformation. This is because enterprise technology leaders are recognizing that, to reap the true benefits of cloud, they need to re-think the way they build and manage their applications. This is pushing companies to evaluate their entire application portfolio, which is in turn driving increased spending towards next-generation ADM services.
 
What’s next: We believe ADM ACV will continue to grow and that cloud will continue to pull ADM ACV along with it. At the same time, traditional infrastructure ACV will stay flat to slightly down, hovering around $1 to $1.5 billion in ACV each quarter as companies progressively modernize their legacy systems.
 
I hope you’ll join us for the 3Q21 ISG Index call next Tuesday, October 12 at 9 am EST. We’ll be talking about this important growth trend – as well as hot-off-the-press data for the third quarter – so hope to see you there.

Data watch

deal activity

M&A

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