Worldwide
software revenue totaled $407.3 billion
in 2013, a 4.8 percent increase from 2012 revenue of $388.5 billion,
according to Gartner. The developed geographies were the primary
growth drivers offsetting the relative sluggishness in emerging markets.
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.
Salesforce.com has also moved into the top five for overall application
revenue.
"Investors
continue to focus on revenue growth and market share gains as the
primary criteria when evaluating vendors," said
John Rizzuto, research vice president and Invest analyst at Gartner.
"At this point, the new and emerging technology markets in software,
such as digital marketing and public cloud computing, are so nascent
that investors are favoring those companies that
are early and aggressive in grabbing both market and mind share — in
many cases dismissing progress on earnings and cash flow in hopes that
they will one day follow."
Table 1. Top
10 Worldwide Software
Vendors, Worldwide, 2012-2013 (Billions of Dollars)
|
Rank 2013
|
Rank 2012
|
Vendor
|
Revenue
|
Revenue
|
Growth 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
|
|
|
Others
|
234.6
|
224.0
|
4.7
|
|
|
|
|
Total
|
407.3
|
388.5
|
4.8
|
Source: Gartner (March 2014)
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