Support is big business

ASP, the Association for Support Professionals, just published its annual survey of support revenue. ASP reviewed the financial reports of 100 public software companies in August and found that services as a whole (support, consulting, training) provided more than half (56.9%) of total company revenues, across the board. And this is good, profitable revenue since margins are close to 60% (56.8%), with both revenue and margin percentages up since last year.

If we just look at support the survey found that it constitutes a very respectable 38.9% of total revenue with a remarkable margin of over 83.2%, so much higher than for other services such as consulting and training.

If you find that your executive team still looks down on support as an afterthought or worse, perhaps sharing these numbers would help?

For more information about the survey go here.