Market Trends of Digital Commerce Software Industry
This section covers the major market trends shaping the Digital Commerce Software Market according to our research experts:
Growth in the Adoption of Cloud-Based Services
- Cloud solutions play a crucial role in propelling digital commerce growth due to their cost-effectiveness, automatic integrations, minimum IT investment, and ease of accessibility. Rapid technological advancements and innovations in cloud-based services improve performance at low costs while providing flexibility to the entire IT ecosystem. Cloud-based deployment emerged as a preferred deployment type for digital commerce software in the recent past.
- Broadly, digital commerce software solutions facilitate enterprises to sell their products online. These solutions offer front-end for customer interaction, along with capabilities to manage back-end activities like order management, warehouse logistics, CRM, data analytics, mobile support, and tracking. The emergence of cloud and enterprise solutions has led to increased demand for digital commerce software applications. These applications can range from a simple shopping cart solution to a comprehensive ERP application dealing with all aspects of digital commerce enterprise.
- Moreover, the market is witnessing various mergers, acquisitions, and investments by key players as part of its strategy to improve business and their presence to reach customers and meet their requirements for multiple applications. With the rise in such activities, the market is anticipated to witness exponential growth during the forecast period.
- For instance, in July 2022, B2B Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-focused private equity and technology firm Basis Vectors acquired digital commerce cloud platform Commerce V3. This acquisition would enable the company to accelerate its overall impact on its customers and expand its footprint.
- According to a survey conducted by Flexera Software, in the year 2022, around 46% of respondents were running significant workloads on Amazon Web Services (AWS), and 45% of respondents were already running significant workloads on Azure. With this rise in the overall utilization of public cloud platform services running applications globally, the retail cloud market will witness a considerable growth rate during the forecast period.
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The Asia- Pacific to Witness the Fastest Growth
- Asia is the fastest-growing area in the global marketplace, accounting for the largest share of the world's business-to-consumer market. Along with that, companies are spending on digital channels. This is supported by the increasing number of smartphone users and high-speed internet connectivity.
- The digitalization of commerce in Asia has created an explosion of new marketplaces that have democratized buyer and seller access to new opportunities. People now have more consumption choices than ever, and sellers have a broad range of new digital pathways toward previously unreached markets.
- As per Indiantelevision.com, the total revenue earned by the pay-TV industry in India through subscriptions alone amounted to more than USD 6 billion in 2021. It is anticipated that by the end of the year 2026, the total revenue earned by the pay-TV industry in India through subscriptions would reach around USD 7.6 billion, driving the market's growth significantly.
- The Asia Pacific market is witnessing various significant activities, which in turn is accelerating the market to grow and expand throughout the forecast period. For instance, in February 2022, Sonata Software, a global IT services and technology solutions company headquartered in India, partnered with Microsoft in its introduction of 'Microsoft Cloud for Retail,' further strengthening its entire offerings to the retail industry. Sonata Software has provided high-quality solutions worldwide based on a deep understanding of retail markets and retailers' requirements and needs, utilizing world-class IPs, in-house migration and modernization tools, and robust engineering services, all underpinned by 'Platformation,' its unique digital transformation framework. Sonata Connected Retail provides personalized, intelligent, and adaptive solutions that primarily allow retailers to unlock the potential latent in their businesses and deal with changing market landscapes.
- Moreover, in September 2022, in conjunction with an IP Week organized by the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore, Alibaba's regional e-commerce platform Lazada came together with leading brands, including HP Inc. and BMW, to announce the launch of Southeast Asia's first e-commerce anti-counterfeit consortium. In its composite declaration, the consortium committed to collaborating with all relevant stakeholders to address rapidly evolving issues of counterfeit trade in online retail and supporting each other in their intellectual property rights (IPR) and consumer protection efforts in the e-commerce environment.
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