The global Continuous Integration Tools market is expected to grow from USD 483.7 million in 2018 to USD 1,139.3 million by 2023, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 18.7% during the forecast period. The major growth drivers are the automation of software development process to quickly release software application, and increasing adoption of software CI tools as they can considerably reduce the time required to create a build, and improve developer productivity, and thereby accelerate the time-to-market. However, the availability of open source CI tools and projects would affect the adoption of commercial CI tools, which, in turn, may restrain the overall market growth.
On the basis of geographic regions, North America is expected to be the major revenue contributor to the CI tools market. In this region, the growing demand for automating the build process to enhance the developer productivity are becoming crucial and achieve competitive advantage. Asia Pacific (APAC) is expected to record the highest growth rate in the global CI tools market during the forecast period. The emerging APAC economies, such as China and India, have several untapped and unexplored opportunities for large enterprises in the adoption of CI tools market.
CI tools can be deployed both on-premises and the cloud depending on the business needs and the users’ requirements. The on-premises deployment mode gives organizations complete control over all their systems and data. However, users have to invest heavily to deploy the CI tools and maintain the IT infrastructure. Henceforth, most of the large enterprises prefer on-premises CI tools for advanced scalability features. The demand for SaaS-based CI tools are expected to be rapidly increasing, as it serves as a dominant integration tools model in meeting the IT infrastructure security.
By organization size, the CI tools market is segmented into SMEs and Large enterprises. The adoption rate of CI tools among large enterprises is expected to be relatively high as compared to that among the SMEs. Due to the huge IT infrastructure budgets and high demand for advanced technologies, the large enterprises segment is expected to hold a larger market size in the CI tools market. Most of the SMEs are adopting cloud based CI tools for various opportunities.
The CI tools are adopted by companies across verticals, such as BFSI; media and entertainment; retail and eCommerce; healthcare; manufacturing; telecommunication; education; and others (government, energy and utilities, and logistics and transportation). The media and entertainment vertical is expected to have the largest market size, as it has started adopting CI tools for applications and software to meet the growing demand for automation and testing to unify the entire development process into an end-to-end process. CI/ CD tools are gaining traction across all verticals to enhance the customer experience and the overall productivity of companies.
