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

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):

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

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

See also

• List of largest technology companies by revenue
• List of largest manufacturing companies by revenue
• List of largest United States–based employers globally
• List of largest employers
• Economy of the United States

External links

• Media related to Software companies at Wikimedia Commons

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