Global Software industry profile provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: market size (value 2016-20, and forecast to 2025). The profile also contains descriptions of the leading players including key financial metrics and analysis of competitive pressures within the market.
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Key Highlights
- The software market is defined as revenues generated from both sales of, and subscriptions to, various software packages and offerings. The market includes both signed deals that remain under contract, and the annual revenues associated with new contracts signed, within a particular calendar year. This excludes sales opportunities for third-party services providers.
- The software market is comprised of the following sectors: Business Process Applications, Data and Analytics, IT Management, Security and Other.
- Business Process Applications includes revenues from Commerce Applications, Customer Relationship Management Applications, Enterprise Resource Planning Applications, Financial Applications, Human Resource and Payroll Applications, Office Productivity Applications, Product Lifecycle Management Applications, Supply Chain Management Applications and Vertical-Specific and Packaged Applications exhaustively.
- Data and Analytics includes revenues from Artificial Intelligence Platforms, Big Data Platforms, Business Intelligence and Data Discovery Tools, Data and Content Management and Enterprise IoT (Internet of Things) Platforms exhaustively.
- IT management includes revenues from Application Lifecycle Management, Application Platforms and Containers, Integration Software, Operating Systems, Virtualization, Business Process Management, IT Service Management Tools, Database Management, System and Network Management Platforms and Storage Management exhaustively.
- Security includes revenues from Application Security, Endpoint Security Platforms, Fraud Prevention and Transactional Security, Identity and Access Management, Messaging Security, Data Protection, Security Intelligence and Management, Network Security, Server Security and Web Security exhaustively.
- The Other segment includes revenues from Cloud Computing, Communications and Collaboration, Mobility, Networking and Storage.
- All market data and forecasts are represented in nominal terms (i.e. without adjustment for inflation) and all currency conversions used in the creation of this report have been calculated using constant 2020 annual average exchange rates.
- COVID-19: The assumption has been made that after the pandemic is over the global economy will gradually go back to the levels recorded before. It is also assumed that there is no widespread economic crisis as seen in 2008 due to announced financial support packages from governments around the world. In January 2021, at the time of the preparation of this report, the economic implications of national and local lockdowns of many economies are difficult to predict as there is no indication how long the pandemic will last, nor how many industries will be forced to stay closed and the scale of the governmental aid involved.
- The global software market had total revenues of $580.8bn in 2020, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2% between 2016 and 2020.
- The business process applications segment was the market's most lucrative in 2020, with total revenues of $202.1bn, equivalent to 34.8% of the market's overall value.
- In recent years, growth around the globe has been driven primarily by increased mobile and cloud computing usage among businesses and the population. Cloud
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- What was the size of the global software market by value in 2020?
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- What factors are affecting the strength of competition in the global software market?
- How has the market performed over the last five years?
- What are the main segments that make up the global software market?
Table of Contents
1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
2 Introduction
3 Global Software
4 Software in Asia-Pacific
5 Software in Europe
6 Software in France
7 Software in Germany
8 Software in Italy
9 Software in Japan
10 Software in Australia
11 Software in Canada
12 Software in China
13 Software in The Netherlands
14 Software in Spain
15 Software in The United Kingdom
16 Software in The United States
17 Company Profiles
18 Appendix
List of Tables
List of Figures
Companies Mentioned (Partial List)
A selection of companies mentioned in this report includes, but is not limited to:
- MicroStrategy Inc
- Oracle Corporation
- Alphabet Inc
- Neusoft Corp
- International Business Machines Corporation
- SAP SE
- Microsoft Corporation
- NTT DATA Newson Corp
- Otsuka Corp
- Dassault Systemes SA
- SCSK Corp.
- Open Text Corporation
- The Sage Group plc