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With 55% of $1 billion-plus companies not using any automated IP address management systems, the market should be growing at a healthy pace. This has not happened so far, and Forrester does not expect strong growth for the next year. The key reasons for this? IP address management solutions suffer from a still-depressed market on the service-provider side and a failure to clearly communicate the benefits of IP address management to senior IT decision-makers on the enterprise side. By 2005, however, the need to roll out new converged services quickly on the service-provider side and the realization on the enterprise side that true companywide end-to-end service delivery requires automated IP handling will create a much more positive investment climate, leading to mainstream adoption of IP address management. These trends will revitalize the IP address management vendor landscape and, in conjunction with general trends toward automation and Organic IT, will elevate the importance of the whole space.

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