List of the largest software companies

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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.

## 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  | Revenue (B$)  | Year  | Market cap (B$)  | Headquarters

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1  | Microsoft | 237  | 2024  | 3,123  | Redmond, Washington, US
2  | Alphabet | 318  | 2024  | 2,178  | Mountain View, California, US
3  | Oracle | 55.78  | 2024  | 388.36  | Austin, Texas, US
4  | Salesforce | 34.9  | 2024  | 277.1  | San Francisco, California, US
5  | SAP | 34.5  | 2024  | 224.7  | Walldorf, Germany
6  | Adobe | 19.9  | 2024  | 216.6  | San Jose, California, US
7  | Intuit | 15.09  | 2024  | 185.12  | Palo Alto, California, US
8  | ServiceNow | 9.48  | 2024  | 156.84  | Santa Clara, California, US
9  | IBM | 62.07  | 2024  | 155.27  | Armonk, New York, US
10  | ADP | 18.9  | 2024  | 103.28  | Roseland, New Jersey, US
11  | Fiserv | 19.43  | 2024  | 89.35  | Brookfield, Wisconsin, US
12  | Synopsys | 6.14  | 2024  | 86.45  | Mountain View, California, US
13  | Crowdstrike | 3.06  | 2024  | 84.12  | Austin, Texas, US
14  | PayPal | 30.43  | 2024  | 67.45  | San Jose, California US
20  | Snowflake Inc. | 2.8  | 2024  | 54.1  | Bozeman, Montana, US
16  | Dassault Systèmes | 6.52  | 2024  | 54  | Vélizy-Villacoublay, France
17  | Palantir Technologies | 2.33  | 2024  | 48.46  | Denver, Colorado, US
18  | Autodesk | 5.45  | 2024  | 47.66  | San Rafael, California, US
19  | Paychex | 5.2  | 2024  | 45.23  | Rochester, New York, US
20  | Block, Inc. | 22.88  | 2024  | 44.6  | San Francisco, California, 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  | Roper Technologies

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| 6.4  | 2023  | 61.0  | Sarasota,Florida,US
46  | RingCentral | 2.2  | 2023  | 3.2  | Belmont, California, US
47 | Atlassian[3] | 3.9 | 2023 | 40.9 | San Francisco, California, US
48 | MongoDB[4] | 1.7  | 2023  | 25.6  | New York City, New York, US
49 | Unity Technologies[5] | 1.2 | 2022 | 35.3 | San Francisco, California, US
50 | Okta[6] | 1.2 | 2022 | 16.3 | San Francisco, California, US
49 | Datadog[7] | 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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* 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

## References

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1. ^ "The World's Biggest Public Companies, Software/Programming". Forbes. Retrieved 2025-05-15.
2. ^ "Roper Technologies - ROP Stock Price, Company Overview & News". Forbes. Forbes Media LLC. Retrieved 2025-07-21.
3. ^ "Atlassian - TEAM Stock Price, Company Overview & News". Forbes. Forbes Media LLC. Retrieved 2025-07-21.
4. ^ "MongoDB - MDB Stock Price, Company Overview & News". Forbes. Forbes Media LLC. Retrieved 2025-07-21.
5. ^ "Unity Software - U Stock Price, Company Overview & News". Forbes. Forbes Media LLC. Retrieved 2025-07-21.
6. ^ "Okta - OKTA Stock Price, Company Overview & News". Forbes. Forbes Media LLC. Retrieved 2025-07-21.
7. ^ "Datadog - DDOG Stock Price, Company Overview & News". Forbes. Forbes Media LLC. Retrieved 2025-07-21.

## External links

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* Media related to Software companies at Wikimedia Commons

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Major software companies

Companies with annual software revenue of over US$3 billion

* Adobe
* Amadeus IT Group
* Amazon
* Apple
* Autodesk
* Citrix
* FIS
* Google
* HPE
* IBM
* Intuit
* Infor
* Microsoft
* Oracle
* Quest Software
* Sage Group
* SAP
* SAS Institute
* Tencent

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