Cloud Applications Market Report 2025

This Cloud Applications market report provides a comprehensive analysis of the market’s characteristics, size, and growth, including segmentation, regional and country-level breakdowns, competitive landscape, market shares, trends, and strategies. It also tracks historical and forecasted market growth across various geographies.

The cloud applications market size has grown rapidly in recent years. It will grow from $325.27 billion in 2024 to $385.98 billion in 2025 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18.7%. The growth in the historic period can be attributed to increased adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning, growth of IoT devices and edge computing, remote work and digital transformation, increasingly rely on cloud service providers, and hybrid and multi-cloud strategies.

The cloud applications market size is expected to see rapid growth in the next few years. It will grow to $755.85 billion in 2029 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 18.3%. The growth in the forecast period can be attributed to scalability and cost efficiency, rapid deployment and time-to-market, increasing business productivity, global accessibility and collaboration, increased digitalization. Major trends in the forecast period include integration of AI, ML, and IoT with cloud computing across industry verticals, product innovation, strategic partnership, expansion of AI and machine learning capabilities, technological advancements.

The increasing adoption of DevOps toolchains is expected to drive the growth of the cloud application market in the coming years. DevOps toolchains consist of integrated tools and processes that automate and streamline software development, testing, deployment, and monitoring. By automating various aspects of the software development lifecycle, from code integration to testing and deployment, DevOps toolchains accelerate the development and release of cloud applications. These automation features enable faster deployment and updates of cloud applications, reducing time-to-market and enhancing the ability to respond to customer needs. This efficiency makes cloud applications more appealing to businesses. For example, in January 2023, the InfoSec Institute, a US-based technology training organization, reported that by 2023, 60% of businesses would integrate infrastructure automation technologies into their DevOps toolchains, improving application deployment efficiency by 25%. As a result, the growing adoption of DevOps toolchains is fueling the growth of the cloud application market.

Leading companies in the cloud applications sector are innovating with advanced solutions such as cloud mesh to improve application-centric connectivity across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Cloud mesh, an advanced networking architecture, facilitates seamless integration and communication between multiple cloud environments. For instance, IBM launched the IBM Hybrid Cloud Mesh in May 2023. This solution simplifies, scales, and secures application connectivity across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, addressing the challenge of isolating IT environments and accelerating application deployment and management. It aims to meet the rising demand for enhanced multi-cloud and hybrid-cloud connectivity, visibility, and governance.

In January 2024, Accenture plc, an Ireland-based IT company, acquired NaviSite Inc. for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition is designed to enhance Accenture's managed services offerings, helping clients across North America modernize their IT infrastructure for the AI-driven era. By incorporating NaviSite’s cloud expertise and adding 1,500 professionals to its team, Accenture strengthens its Infrastructure Engineering practice and accelerates digital transformation. NaviSite Inc., a US-based technology company, specializes in cloud management services, including migration, optimization, and ongoing management to support businesses in their transition to the cloud.

Major companies operating in the cloud applications market are Google LLC, Microsoft Corporation, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), Cisco Systems Inc., Salesforce.com Inc., SAP SE, Adobe Inc., Intuit Inc., ServiceNow Inc., OpenText Corporation, Workday Inc., Infor Global Solutions Inc., Citrix Systems Inc., The Sage Group plc, Zoho Corporation Pvt. Ltd., IFS AB (Industrial and Financial Systems), Epicor Software Corporation, Box Inc., Upland Software Inc., Tidip Technologies Ltd., Vultr Holdings Corporation, pCloud AG, Cloudflex Computing Services Limited.

North America was the largest region in the cloud application market in 2024. Asia-Pacific is expected to be the fastest-growing region in the forecast period. The regions covered in the cloud applications market report are Asia-Pacific, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, Middle East, Africa. The countries covered in the cloud applications market report are Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, South Korea, UK, USA, Canada, Italy, Spain.

Cloud applications are software applications accessed and utilized primarily via the internet, rather than being locally installed on a user's device. This allows users to access and use applications through web browsers or dedicated applications without the need for local software installation or management.

The primary players in the cloud applications market include small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and large enterprises. SMEs are defined as businesses with revenues, assets, or a number of employees below a specific threshold. These applications encompass a wide range, including customer relationship management, enterprise resource management, human capital management, content management, collaboration and productivity suites, supply chain management, business intelligence and analytics, among others. They cater to various sectors such as banking, financial services, and insurance, energy and utilities, government and public sector, health and life sciences, manufacturing, retail and consumer goods, telecommunications, transportation and logistics, travel and hospitality, and more.

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The cloud applications market includes revenues earned by entities through business intelligence and analytics, software-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service, and data storage solutions. The market value includes the value of related goods sold by the service provider or included within the service offering. Only goods and services traded between entities or sold to end consumers are included.

The market value is defined as the revenues that enterprises gain from the sale of goods and/or services within the specified market and geography through sales, grants, or donations in terms of the currency (in USD, unless otherwise specified).

The revenues for a specified geography are consumption values that are revenues generated by organizations in the specified geography within the market, irrespective of where they are produced. It does not include revenues from resales along the supply chain, either further along the supply chain or as part of other products.

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