This IDC study provides a summary view of vendor revenue and vendor market shares for the worldwide distributed system management software market in 2006. This study also provides a market forecast as of July 9, 2007, for the distributed system management software market for the period 2007–2011. Forecasts are provided for the total market and by operating environment. This document does not contain vendor profiles.

According to Tim Grieser, IDC program vice president, Enterprise System Management, "Distributed system management software continues to be a strong growth area, with future growth rates forecast to average in the high single digits annually for the next three years."