{"id":3763,"date":"2013-05-21T07:00:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=3763"},"modified":"2013-05-21T07:00:51","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T15:00:51","slug":"saas-and-crm-40-percent-of-crm-revenues-come-from-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/saas-and-crm-40-percent-of-crm-revenues-come-from-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"SaaS and CRM: 40 Percent of CRM Revenues come from the Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While many sectors of the Enterprise IT market are seeing only relatively modest growth rates, areas like Big Data and the Cloud are seeing gang-buster growth. \u00a0For example, <a title=\"Gartner estimate of the CRM market\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gartner.com\/newsroom\/id\/2459015\" target=\"_blank\">Gartner estimates<\/a> that the global CRM market is grew at a rate of 12.5 percent in 2012, a rate that&#8217;s three times faster than the average enterprise software segment. \u00a0Global CRM is now an $18 billion annual business.<\/p>\n<p>Gartner&#8217;s report noted that 40 percent of all CRM revenue in 2012 came from SaaS-based CRM.<\/p>\n<p>The CRM market has been very active. \u00a0Gartner notes that between 2009 and 2012 that there have been more than 50 acquisitions, resulting in greater consolidation among vendors. \u00a0The top five players in the CRM market now control 50 percent of the market. \u00a0Smaller players like Zoho are also growing very quickly &#8212; Zoho saw growth of 81.2 percent in 2012. \u00a0Gartner said that smaller vendors are growing quickly because of features they&#8217;re adding in the areas of SaaS, social, e-commerce and mobility.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Joanne Correia bio\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gartner.com\/AnalystBiography?authorId=14501\" target=\"_blank\">Joanne Correia<\/a>, vice president at Gartner, said that\u00a0&#8220;Competition among CRM software vendors really heated up in 2012, as major players continued to vie 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