The study analyzes the packaged software market in China and offers forecasts for major market segments for the next five years. The study also looks at vertical and regional distribution in the market as well as its competitive landscape. Demand-side analysis, an outlook of the market, plus IDC's recommendations for market development, is also available.

"The size of China's packaged software market will grow from US$4.3 billion in 2007 to US$9.5 billion by 2012. Driving this more-than-double growth between 2007 and 2012 will be a compound annual growth rate of 17.0%. When analyzing software development, taking delivery and deployment activities out of IT and looking at this from a deeper level, we can see a major trend; that is, a transition from an offline and fixed product model to an online and on-demand services model," says Grace Han, senior research manager, Software and Service, IDC China.