This in-depth market data research is split into two key modules: Market Growth Outlook and Competitive Analysis. Each of these modules is further configured into several sub-modules to meet the needs of executives as well as marketing, sales, and product development managers. All of these modules and sub-modules may be purchased as a bundle or separately. A brief description of these modules, sub-modules, and their use cases is included below.
The Industrial Cloud Application Platforms with Internet of Things market research study covers industrial cloud application platforms with IoT functionality, focusing on solutions supporting operational processes and personnel. The study delivers current market analysis plus a five-year market and technology forecast. The study is available in multiple editions including worldwide, all regions, and most major countries.
Cloud Application Platforms: Tools for Business Agility
Cloud platforms are appearing in the solution portfolios of many industrial and smart city software and automation suppliers. Together with machine learning and artificial intelligence, modern cloud-based application development and runtime platforms are changing the industrial software marketplace. Organizations cannot remain on older platforms and still compete effectively.
Companies that use tools like cloud platforms simply have more technological firepower to confront both competitive disruption as well as unforeseen market circumstances. It seems reasonable to expect that most organizations would have the needed skills, particularly IT-related, to use these solutions. That is not the case for most companies.
Growth for cloud platforms will be uneven, as adoption tends to rely heavily on an individual company’s business, work culture, and technology sophistication. COVID-19 is likely to have an adoption tipping point effect for the adoption of many digital solutions underpinned by cloud platforms.
North America is currently the clear leader in investment for cloud applications and industrial IoT, followed by Europe and Asia.
Cloud Application Platforms with IoT Strategic Issues
In addition to providing a five-year market forecast, the Cloud Applications Platform with IoT market research provides detailed quantitative current market data and addresses key strategic issues, such as:
Disruption Highlights Value Potential of Modern Platforms
COVID-19 is likely to have a tipping point effect for the adoption of numerous operationally-focused digital technologies. In addition to the need for solutions to remotely monitor and control equipment and processes, digital twins, data visualization, and analytics are also likely to experience a surge in adoption. Many key subject matter experts are also likely to remain working remotely, perhaps permanently, and companies will adjust workforce size. Companies with strong innovation backbones, both organizationally and technologically, are separating themselves from the pack. The COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating that gap.
Applications Surge to the Front
Many providers that initially leaned on PaaS models for industry have downplayed their platforms as standalone solutions, opting to instead promote outcome-based applications. For users, the value is more readily tangible and enables both managed and rapid innovation. Applications provide the first step: understandable starting points. Platforms then logically follow, enabling users to extend app value and build their own as they become more digitally comfortable. With applications and managed services, users can focus on core competencies while limiting cost and process complexity.
Self-service Cuts Both Ways
Self-service applications, increasingly important components of platforms, cut both ways. On the value side, these capabilities provide adoption-friendly means for involving a company’s most valuable subject matter experts. In terms of risk, these tools create a propensity for shadow IT, particularly for those organizations that don’t have a shared vision for converged information technology (IT), operational technology (OT), and engineering technology (ET).
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Market Growth Outlook
ARC’s market growth outlook service delivers an in-depth market opportunity analysis including five-year market and technology forecasts and 3-year history trend lines where available. Besides providing an in-depth analysis of the market opportunity provided by each technology, this service allows technology suppliers to analyze their own customized markets consisting of multiple technologies. For example, customers can view different market scenarios by adding or removing technology markets from the analysis, providing them a Total Available Market (TAM) view of their own served market. A list of the available market growth outlook services can be seen in the list below.
This service is designed to help accelerate your organization's ability to understand an up-to-date view of the market opportunity provided by your current product portfolio and analyze how your company’s market opportunity would change if you were to acquire or divest a particular product line. The service will also help you identify and capitalize on emerging markets, whether these markets are based on an emerging technology, region, vertical industry, or application. Built upon a proprietary market model and ARC’s field proven primary research, this service helps product and marketing managers optimize their business plans by identifying the opportunities provided by emerging trends. ARC’s reputation as the preeminent independent provider of market growth opportunity analyses for nearly four decades also provides greater weight to your business plans. ARC’s market growth outlook services are available in a variety of formats depending on whether you view your market opportunities via different technologies, industries, or world regions.
In addition, ARC has a strong history of providing customized market opportunity reports and services to meet your specific needs. For example, you may sell your products only to specific industries and/or in only one or two regions. You tell us your served markets and ARC can quickly configure a report or service designed to best serve your served market.
ARC provides several versions of these reports and services depending on your role in the organization. Executive Views are high level market opportunities designed to help executives quickly identify key trends and market opportunities around the world. In-depth market opportunity analyses provide marketing and product managers more detailed technology specific market information to plan marketing and product development strategies. The following table shows more specific information included in each version.
| Market Growth Outlook Analysis | Use Cases | Target Role |
| Worldwide Market Growth Outlook by Industry & Region with 3-year history where available | In-depth technology-specific strategic growth planning across multiple technologies, applications, regions, and industries | Product & Marketing Managers |
| Worldwide Industry Growth Outlook by Region with 3-year history where available | Strategic technology growth planning for markets defined by a single or multiple vertical industries | Industry Managers |
| Regional/Country Market Growth Outlook by Technology & Industry with 3-year history where available (includes country data) | Strategic technology growth planning for markets defined by a single or multiple world regions | Regional & Country Sales Managers |
| Market Growth Outlook Executive View | Strategic Total Available Market (TAM) growth planning dashboard covering multiple vertical industries, technologies, and world regions | Executives |
Market Competitive Analysis
ARC’s Competitive Analysis services deliver in depth competitive analyses across multiple technologies, applications, regions, and industries. Besides providing an in-depth analysis of the market opportunity provided by each technology, this service allows technology suppliers to analyze their own customized markets consisting of multiple technologies. For example, customers can view different market scenarios by adding or removing technology markets from the analysis, providing them a Total Available Market (TAM) view of their own served market. A list of the available market growth outlook services can be seen in the list below.
This service is designed to help product and marketing managers identify their company’s market positioning across multiple views within their Serviceable Available Market (SAM). Built upon a proprietary market model and ARC’s field proven primary research, this service helps product and marketing managers optimize their business plans by identifying how their company’s market position would change if the company were to acquire or divest a particular product line or technology. ARC’s reputation as the preeminent independent provider of competitive market benchmarking for nearly four decades lends greater weight to your business plans. ARC’s market competitive services are available in a variety of formats depending on whether you view your market opportunities via different technologies, industries, or world regions.
In addition, ARC has a strong history of providing customized market opportunity reports and services to meet the specific needs of our clients. For example, you may sell your products only to specific industries and/or in only one or two regions. You tell us your served markets and ARC can quickly configure a report or service designed to best serve your served market.
ARC provides several versions of these reports and services depending on your role in the organization. Executive Views are high level market competitive analyses designed to help executives quickly assess their SAM by world region, technology, or vertical industry. In-depth competitive market analyses provide marketing and product managers more detailed technology specific benchmarking information to plan marketing and product development strategies. The following table shows more specific information included in each version.
| Competitive Analysis | Use Cases | Target Role |
| Worldwide Competitive Analysis by Technology | In-depth competitive market analysis that quantifies how your company’s market position has changed over time across multiple technologies, applications, regions, and industries | Product & Marketing Managers |
| Worldwide Competitive Analysis by Industry | Strategic technology-based competitive analyses for markets defined by a single or multiple vertical industries | Industry Managers |
| Regional/Country Competitive Analysis by Industry | Strategic technology-based competitive analyses for markets defined by a single or multiple world regions | Regional Sales Managers |
| Competitive Analysis Executive View | Strategic Serviceable Available Market (SAM) analysis dashboard covering multiple vertical industries, technologies, and world regions | Executives |
Worldwide Research Focus Areas
Worldwide Research Focus Areas
Strategic Analysis
- Major Trends
- Industry Trends
- Regional Trends
- Strategic Recommendations
Competitive Analysis
- Market Shares of the Leading Suppliers
- Market Shares by Region
- North America
- Europe, Middle East, Africa
- Asia
- Latin America
- Market Shares by Revenue Category
- Corporate License
- Subscriptions
- Deployments and Services
- Consulting
- Implementation
- Market Shares by Industry
- Aerospace & Defense
- Automotive
- Chemical
- Electric Power Generation
- Electric Power T&D
- Electronics & Electrical
- Food & Beverage
- Machinery
- Medical Products
- Metals
- Mining
- Oil & Gas
- Pharmaceutical & Biotech
- Refining
- Semiconductors
- Transportation & Logistics
- Wholesale & Distribution
- Market Shares by Deployment Model
- Hybrid
- Private
- Public
- Market Shares by Customer Size
- <$250 Million
- $250 Million to $1 Billion
- >$1 Billion
- Market Shares by Customer Type
- Market Shares by Sales Channel
Market Forecast Analysis
- Total Cloud Application Platforms with IoT Market
- Revenues by Region
- North America
- Europe, Middle East, Africa
- Asia
- Latin America
- Revenues by Software & Services
- Corporate License
- Subscriptions
- Deployments and Services
- Consulting
- Implementation
- Revenues by Industry
- Aerospace & Defense
- Automotive
- Chemical
- Electric Power Generation
- Electric Power T&D
- Electronics & Electrical
- Food & Beverage
- Machinery
- Medical Products
- Metals
- Mining
- Oil & Gas
- Pharmaceutical & Biotech
- Refining
- Semiconductors
- Transportation & Logistics
- Wholesale & Distribution
- Revenues by Deployment Model
- Hybrid
- Private
- Public
- Revenues by Customer Size
- <$250 Million
- $250 Million to $1 Billion
- >$1 Billion
- Revenues by Customer Type
- Revenues by Sales Channel
Industry Participants
The research identifies relevant suppliers serving this market.
Regional Research Focus Areas
Strategic Analysis
Scope
Competitive Analysis
- Leading Suppliers in Region
- Industry Shares in Region
- Country Shares in Region
- Leading Suppliers by Industry
Market Forecast Analysis
- Market Forecast by Country
- Market Forecast by Industry
Industry Participants
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