The enterprise management application market reached $5.3 billion in 1999 according to Cahners In-Stat Group (Scottsdale, AZ; www.instat.com). Enterprise management platforms link functions and applications across the enterprise and more efficiently address business problems using asset/inventory, configuration, database, security, web server, and desktop management. In-Stat expects the enterprise management solution market to reach almost $10 billion by year-end 2001. The network element management application market is expected to total more than $500 million by year-end 2001.