List of the largest software companies

Many lists exist that provide an overview of large software companies, often called "independent software vendors" ("ISVs"), in the world. The lists differ by methodology of composition and consequently show substantial differences in both the listed companies and the ranking of those companies.

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Sales Annual revenue of company in USD billion
FY Company's fiscal year values
Market cap Market capitalization in USD billion
Headquarters Location of company's headquarters

Forbes Global 2000

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The Forbes Global 2000 is an annual ranking of the top 2000 public companies in the world by Forbes magazine, based on a mix of four metrics: sales, profit, assets and market value. The Forbes list for software companies includes only pure play (or nearly pure play) software companies and excludes manufacturers, consumer electronics companies, conglomerates, IT consulting firms, and computer services companies even if they have large software divisions.

The top 50 companies in terms of market capitalization in the 2023 Forbes list for the "Software & Programming" industry are listed in the following table (ranked by market capitalization):[1]

Rank Organization Sales (B$) FY Market cap (B$) Headquarters
1 Microsoft 211 2023 3,148 Redmond, Washington, US
2 Google 282.11 2023 2,170 Mountain View, California, US
3 Oracle 49.9 2023 344.9 Austin, Texas, US
4 Salesforce 34.9 2023 234.6 San Francisco, California, US
5 SAP 33.8 2023 223.4 Walldorf, Germany
6 Adobe 19.4 2023 208.5 San Jose, California, US
7 Intuit 14.4 2023 160.4 Palo Alto, California, US
8 IBM 61.9 2023 156.3 Armonk, New York, US
9 ServiceNow 8.9 2023 143.3 Santa Clara, California, US
10 ADP 18.0 2023 103.3 Roseland, New Jersey, US
11 Fiserv 19.09 2023 89.1 Brookfield, Wisconsin, US
12 PayPal 29.8 2023 70.5 San Jose, California US
13 VMware 13.6 2023 61.0 Palo Alto, California, US
14 Palantir Technologies 2.2 2023 52.8 Denver, Colorado, US
15 Dassault Systèmes 6.44 2023 52.6 Vélizy-Villacoublay, France
16 Crowdstrike 1.5 2022 47.9 Austin, Texas, US
17 Synopsys 3.8 2020 46.9 Mountain View, California, US
18 Autodesk 5.0 2023 46.2 San Rafael, California, US
19 Paychex 5.2 2023 44.1 Rochester, New York, US
20 Snowflake Inc. 2.8 2023 43.9 Bozeman, Montana, US
21 Workday 4.3 2020 43.0 Pleasanton, California, US
22 Palo Alto Networks 4.1 2020 42.0 Santa Clara, California, US
23 Cadence Design Systems 2.7 2020 40.6 San Jose, California, US
24 Fortinet 2.6 2023 45.6 Santa Clara, California, US
25 CoStar Group 2.46 2023 31.1 Washington D.C., US
26 Hubspot 2.17 2023 30.4 Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
27 Veeva Systems 2.4 2023 29.7 Pleasanton, California, US
28 Global Payments 7.4 2020 29.1 Atlanta, Georgia, US
29 Fleetcor 2.8 2020 28.3 Atlanta, Georgia, US
30 Ansys 1.6 2020 27.0 Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, US
31 Splunk 2.4 2020 24.4 San Francisco, California, US
32 Zoom 4.4 2020 19.4 San Jose, California, US
33 Akamai Technologies 3.2 2020 17.0 Boston, Massachusetts, US
34 Broadridge Financial Solutions 4.8 2020 16.96 New York City, New York, US
35 Gen Digital 3.7 2023 15.5 Tempe, Arizona, US and Prague, Czech Republic
36 SS&C Technologies 4.7 2020 14.02 Windsor, Connecticut, US
37 Citrix Systems 3.4 2023 13.2 Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US
38 NetApp 5.6 2020 13.94 San Jose, California, US
39 EPAM Systems 2.7 2023 10.3 Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, US
40 DocuSign 2.5 2023 10.1 San Francisco, California, US
41 Twilio 4.2 2023 9.8 San Francisco, California, US
42 Amdocs 4.9 2023 8.9 Chesterfield, Missouri, US
43 Paycom 1.5 2023 8.5 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, US
44 Kyndryl 16.1 2023 6.0 New York City, New York, US
45 RingCentral 2.2 2023 3.2 Belmont, California, US
46 Atlassian[2] 3.9 2023 40.9 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
46 Unity Technologies[3] 1.2 2022 35.3 San Francisco, California, US
47 Okta[4] 1.2 2022 16.3 San Francisco, California, US
48 Datadog[5] 1.0 2020 35.3 New York City, New York, US

All values listed in the table are in billion US$.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "The World's Biggest Public Companies, Software/Programming". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-01-14.
  2. ^ "Atlassian". Forbes.
  3. ^ "Unity Software | U Stock Price, Company Overview & News". Forbes.
  4. ^ "Okta (OKTA)". Forbes.
  5. ^ "Datadog (DDOG)". Forbes.com. 2010-06-04. Retrieved 2022-08-06.
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