These days of fast business growth and new products being entering into market every
day, it becomes very difficult to make a choice of any product just by browsing
the internet. There are few things which you can consider while choosing a product
especially in terms of software as there is nothing you can touch and it’s
difficult to analyze it completely in just a first look.
There are certain parameters which you need to consider while making your choice;
it may be very helpful in your decision making process.
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Reviews, which you have already considered and which helps you in finding the right
answers for your questions. So as you know this already, we are not taking this
into our deep discussion.
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Market Trend, this is something which most of the buyers don’t consider or
don’t know and most importantly, realize its importance. This can help you
in choosing a correct solution.
Today I will try to bring out some points and its analysis in terms of Market trends,
which might be useful for you and can bring out value for you. This approach can
work for various other products but as of now we are sticking with our analysis
on project management system.
Let us understand few graphical representations based on the interest of users over
time which is considered market trend.
Figure 1. Representation (Cloud Vs Stand Alone “Project Management System”)
Keyword Analyzed:
“online project management system” Blue Color
“download project management system” Red Color
Region: Worldwide
Time Duration: 2004 – present
By looking at the above graph first we will try to see what is actually happening
and how to understand the graph, and then we will further move on with our conclusions.
Analyzing Figure 1.
“Red” Color lines states that “download project management system”
is searched from the long period since our start date (2004) and “Blue”
Color “online project management system” is searched from afterwards
(2007) through which we can clearly signifies that download software was popular
since long time while the online (Cloud Version) started picking up since (Mid 2007).
Understanding this behavior we can come to the conclusion that (Download) means
stand alone software independent of OS were much in trend and at that time cloud
was not in public demand as suggested by searches.
Cloud solutions picked the market fast as compared to the standalone software’s
but very soon stand alone also made their ground. In year 2009 the growth and demand
were almost equal for the software models but as we go on further, the demand for
both software model increased but standalone software attracted more customers towards
itself, higher than cloud Model.
In 2013, the demand trend increased drastically, although it’s difficult to
say as economy around the globe is slow and still we have higher search trends in
business software which itself is a topic of discussion (but of course in a different
article).
The forecast marked with dotted lines states that in coming future the demand is
increasing for both the business model and by comparing the whole graph we can strongly
say that both types works good for the industry, as both are constantly maintaining
the pace and demand.
So now if we look at the conclusion and tries to decide which kind of software model
you should buy based on the market trends, here comes some of my insights, although
its just for your help I am not decisive for you at all.
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Cloud version has fewer users compared to standalone software.
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People searching download software’s may be high but pay less for the software
as download software’s are mostly 1 time pay and cloud versions are subscriptions
based.
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Stand alone users are most individuals or small business owners who work on single
machine. While the cloud version users may be having more the 1 machine to access
the application, just an indicator of a large organization.
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Market trends (Forecast) are showing the positive movement for both the formats
so we can consider both as stable and useful for users, so no problem in choosing
any of it, just have to identify your own needs.
My analysis is based on two keywords itself which cannot put the exact crux on the
exact trends, but I use this for purpose to keep things simple, as this study is
rarely made and I want my readers to understand this well. I would be happy to have
your valuable comments.
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