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Methodology

How Every Figure on This Platform Is Built

The analysis is designed to be checked, not believed. Each stage below states what is published, what is assumed and what is calculated, so a reader can reproduce or reject any figure.

The calculation chain

  1. 01

    Separate economic activity from software expenditure

    The US maintenance, repair and operations economy measures parts, labour and services. It is used only as context for the scale of activity and is never treated as software revenue opportunity.

  2. 02

    Assemble the relevant software envelope

    Published US enterprise asset management, predictive maintenance and field service management values are collected at their own base years and definitions, together with an explicitly modelled connected-compliance allowance.

  3. 03

    Discount overlap rather than summing categories

    Published categories double count the same expenditure. Pairwise overlap discounts and a multi-category residual adjustment are applied and disclosed before any envelope figure is shown.

  4. 04

    Filter for applicability

    Industry relevance, compliance sensitivity, digital readiness, connected-tool availability and workflow suitability narrow the envelope. Because several of these criteria are correlated, a weighted-score method is offered alongside straight multiplication.

  5. 05

    Convert to revenue using explicit contract mechanics

    Customer counts, average contract value, adoption schedule, churn and implementation capacity convert an addressable market into an obtainable revenue position.

  6. 06

    Test the position at the level of a single customer

    Enterprise economics are modelled independently so the reader can judge whether one organisation could justify the expenditure before considering aggregate demand.

Classification system

Every figure carries one of three labels, applied consistently across all pages and charts.

Published

Published figure

External research or government data, reported at the publisher's geography, definition and base year.

Modelled

Assumption applied

An internal judgement the reader can change. No published authority is claimed for these values.

Calculated

Calculated output

Arithmetic on the two categories above, recomputed live from the current assumption set.

Presentation and rounding rules

  • All monetary figures are US dollars and are written in the form US$93.17B, US$2.90B or US$450,000.
  • Displayed values are rounded for legibility; all calculations use full unrounded values throughout the chain.
  • Percentages are shown to one or two decimal places depending on the sensitivity of the input.
  • Charts state their source, base year, forecast period and access date beneath the plot area.
  • Populations measured by different publishers are never combined into a single total.

Limitations

  • Published market sizes use differing category boundaries; overlap discounts reduce but do not eliminate this imprecision.
  • Base years differ between sources and are not normalised to a single year.
  • Organisation counts, asset bases, technician counts and contract values are internal modelling assumptions unless explicitly identified as published data.
  • Adoption rates, churn and implementation capacity are judgements about future behaviour and cannot be verified in advance.
  • No figure here constitutes a forecast, guidance, valuation or offer of any kind.

This platform presents market analysis only. It contains no valuation, no statement about future company value, and no reference to any potential transaction or counterparty.