What YoY growth percentage did Splunk achieve in 2017 for IT Operations Management Software overall?

• A. 32.6%
• B. 9.4%
• C. 50%
• D. 20%

Answer: (A)

Year-over-year growth measures how much a segment’s revenue increases from one year to the next, showing how quickly demand or adoption is expanding. In 2017, Splunk reported that IT Operations Management Software overall grew by 32.6% year over year. This exact figure is why it’s the best answer: it directly reflects the official growth rate Splunk published for that category in that year. A growth of about one-third indicates strong expansion in IT ops tools—covering areas like monitoring, event analytics, and IT service intelligence—across both on-prem and cloud environments as organizations increasingly rely on operational data to keep systems available and performant. The other percentages would imply slower or much faster growth than what Splunk reported for that year, so they don’t match the documented result.