Peregrine Systems Inc, the San Diego-based firm which has been predicting the explosion of the infrastructure resource planning (IRP) market for months, has received support from one of its integration partners, KPMG, which has launched an IRP practice. They [KPMG] have now committed to train over 150 consultants over the next 12 months, says Dominic O’Riley, director of channels and alliances for Peregrine’s EMEA region. The IRP market, he says, citing Gartner, is growing at a rate of 45% to 50%, and the company’s revenue is expanding at around 100%, he says. Asset management and service management, the IT infrastructure products which form part of Peregrine’s product suite, provide 75% of its revenues, says O’Riley, but the numbers are changing. Facilities management and fleet management, currently nearly 25% of business, will rise to around 40% in the next 18 months, O’Riley forecasts.
