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Largest software and programming companies worldwide by sales revenue from 2017 to 2024 (in billion U.S. dollars)

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June 2024

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Worldwide

Survey time period

2017 to 2022

Special properties

Pure play or nearly pure play software companies*

Supplementary notes

The source includes only software-focused companies and excludes other companies such as manufacturers, consulting firms, and IT services vendors, even if they have large software departments. IBM, for example, would probably be among the top 10 companies in the world, if its software division were a separate company.

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Microsoft was the largest software and programming company worldwide by net sales from 2017 to 2024. In the most recent year, Microsoft’s sales revenue reached *** billion U.S. dollars. Oracle and Salesforce ranked in distant second and third places, earning ** and ** billion U.S. dollars, respectively.

Enterprise Software Industry

In 2023, the IT spending on enterprise software amounted to *** billion U.S. dollars worldwide. The enterprise software market is the fastest-growing sector in the IT industry, in comparison to other segments such as IT services and data center systems. The market includes a wide range of applications such as human resource management (HRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), office suites, etc. However, due to the negative economic impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the market witnessed a decline in 2020 but recovered quickly in 2022.

Microsoft Corporation

Founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Microsoft has grown into one of the most successful tech firms in the world and has experienced years of continued success. Microsoft’s core business is its productivity and business process segment, from which the company generated over *** billion U.S. dollars in its 2022 financial year. Intelligence cloud, another highly prolific segment, brought in a further *** billion U.S. dollars in that year.