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Worldwide software revenue totaled $407.3 billion in
2013, a 4.8 percent increase from 2012 revenue of $388.5 billion, according to Gartner, Inc. Oracle also took the second place in the vendor ranking list, leaving IBM in the third place.
The software industry is in the middle of a multiyear
cyclical transition as organizations are focusing investment on
technologies to support existing system structure, in order to maintain
competitiveness, while still taking advantage of
cloud/subscription-based pricing where it makes sense to grow and
advance the business.
"There is a shift in vendor rankings from 2013 at the
top of the worldwide software market," said Chad Eschinger, research
vice president at Gartner. "This is the first time in Gartner's global
software market share research that Oracle has ranked second in terms of
total software revenue with $29.6 billion and capturing 7.3 percent of
the global market. Global trends around big data and analytics with
business investment in database and cloud-based applications helped to
drive Oracle's top-line growth."
"The software market has been changing shape over the
past five years, and cloud is driving the bulk of this change as
software vendors acquire and provide applications and infrastructure
technology to support the cloud and the Internet of Things (IoT)
movement," said Joanne Correia, research vice president at Gartner. "A
clear indicator of this is that for the first time we have a pure cloud
vendor in the top 10."
Salesforce.com, with more than $3.8 billion in revenue
during 2013, climbed two positions to capture the No. 10 slot of the
worldwide enterprise software market, and it achieved the highest growth
among the top 10 vendors at 33.3 percent (see Table 1). Salesforce.com
has also moved into the top five for overall application revenue.
Top 10 Worldwide Software Vendors, Worldwide, 2012-2013 (Billions of Dollars)
Rank 2013 |
Rank 2012 |
Vendor |
2013 Revenue |
2012Revenue |
2012-2013Growth Rate (%) |
1 |
1 |
Microsoft |
65.7 |
62.0 |
6.0 |
2 |
3 |
Oracle |
29.6 |
28.7 |
3.4 |
3 |
2 |
IBM |
29.1 |
28.7 |
1.4 |
4 |
4 |
SAP |
18.5 |
16.9 |
9.5 |
5 |
5 |
Symantec |
6.4 |
6.4 |
-0.8 |
6 |
6 |
EMC |
5.6 |
5.4 |
4.9 |
7 |
7 |
HP |
4.9 |
5.0 |
-2.7 |
8 |
9 |
VMware |
4.8 |
4.2 |
14.1 |
9 |
8 |
CA Technologies |
4.2 |
4.3 |
-2.6 |
10 |
12 |
Salesforce.com |
3.8 |
2.9 |
33.3 |
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Others |
234.6 |
224.0 |
4.7 |
|
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Total |
407.3 |
388.5 |
4.8 |
Source: Gartner (March 2014)
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