HP Declared Uncontested Revenue Leader in Distributed Automated Software Quality Market, Expands Market Share

HP Declared Uncontested Revenue Leader in Distributed Automated Software Quality Market, Expands Market Share

HP today announced that Mercury, now part of the HP Software organization, has been declared the uncontested revenue leader in the distributed automated software quality (DASQ) market by IDC, a leading analyst firm. The DASQ market is a subset of the overall automated software quality (ASQ) market that supports quality for distributed applications. It excludes revenue from areas such as mainframe-based ASQ tools, those aimed at standalone PC or minicomputer environments and special-purpose testing tools like those used for device driver testing and embedded systems.

According to IDC’s research, Mercury was once again the market revenue leader, growing faster than the market in 2005 and increasing its market share to 61 percent – nearly four times the market share of its nearest competitor. Mercury continued to be the engine behind much of the DASQ market’s growth to $947.6 million in 2005, a 20.4 percent increase over 2004. IDC remains optimistic about the continued growth prospects of the ASQ and DASQ markets as they are still under-penetrated and testing is still largely a manual process in many enterprises.

“HP obviously is the uncontested revenue leader in the DASQ market,” said Melinda Ballou, program director in the Application Development and Deployment Service at IDC and author of the report. “Given Mercury’s historic excellence in execution and the role beginning to be played by key Mercury executives within HP, IDC expects HP to continue to dominate – and grow its share of – the DASQ market.”

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