Global Software industry profile provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: market size (value 2019-23, and forecast to 2028). The profile also contains descriptions of the leading players including key financial metrics and analysis of competitive pressures within the market.
Key Highlights
The software market encompasses applications used for business operations (e.g., ERP, CRM, etc.), as well as infrastructure software that manages IT systems and operations.
The market value represents the revenue generated from sales and subscriptions of various software packages and offerings. It includes both signed deals that remain under contract and the annual revenues associated with new contracts signed within a specific calendar year. This excludes sales opportunities for third-party service providers.
The software market is segmented into business process applications, data and analytics, IT management, security, and others.
Business process applications are the applications used by enterprises for business operations that are either installed on-premises or delivered via the web. It covers 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.
Data and analytics include software/applications to analyze and act on data captured by the enterprise. It includes big data platforms, business intelligence and data discovery tools, and data and content management.
IT management covers all middleware software that facilitates enterprises to perform basic tasks related to the development and management of internal services and processes. It includes 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, storage management, and virtualization.
The security segment covers endpoint security software, endpoint threat detection and response software, IoT and SCADA endpoint, and data security. It also covers application security, fraud prevention, and transactional security, identity & access management, messaging security, data protection, security intelligence and management, and server security.
The scope of others includes software related to artificial intelligence, cloud computing, communications and collaboration, edge computing, the Internet of Things, mobility, networking, and storage.
All market data and forecasts are adjusted for inflation and all currency conversions used in the creation of this report have been calculated using yearly annual average exchange rates.
The global software market had total revenues of $945,233.2 million in 2023, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9% between 2018 and 2023.
The business process applications segment accounted for the market's largest proportion in 2023, with total revenues of $247,431.7 million, equivalent to 26.2% of the market's overall value.
The US is only second to Asia-Pacific market, which is the largest regional market in 2023.
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1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
1.1. Market value
1.2. Market value forecast
1.3. Category segmentation
1.4. Geography segmentation
1.5. Competitive landscape
2 Introduction
2.1. What is this report about?
2.2. Who is the target reader?
2.3. How to use this report
2.4. Definitions
3 Global Software
3.1. Market Overview
3.2. Market Data
3.3. Market Segmentation
3.4. Market outlook
3.5. Five forces analysis
4 Macroeconomic Indicators
4.1. Country data
5 Software in Asia-Pacific
5.1. Market Overview
5.2. Market Data
5.3. Market Segmentation
5.4. Market outlook
5.5. Five forces analysis
6 Software in Europe
6.1. Market Overview
6.2. Market Data
6.3. Market Segmentation
6.4. Market outlook
6.5. Five forces analysis
7 Macroeconomic Indicators
7.1. Country data
8 Software in France
8.1. Market Overview
8.2. Market Data
8.3. Market Segmentation
8.4. Market outlook
8.5. Five forces analysis
9 Macroeconomic Indicators
9.1. Country data
10 Software in Germany
10.1. Market Overview
10.2. Market Data
10.3. Market Segmentation
10.4. Market outlook
10.5. Five forces analysis
11 Macroeconomic Indicators
11.1. Country data
12 Software in Italy
12.1. Market Overview
12.2. Market Data
12.3. Market Segmentation
12.4. Market outlook
12.5. Five forces analysis
13 Macroeconomic Indicators
13.1. Country data
14 Software in Japan
14.1. Market Overview
14.2. Market Data
14.3. Market Segmentation
14.4. Market outlook
14.5. Five forces analysis
15 Macroeconomic Indicators
15.1. Country data
16 Software in Australia
16.1. Market Overview
16.2. Market Data
16.3. Market Segmentation
16.4. Market outlook
16.5. Five forces analysis
17 Macroeconomic Indicators
17.1. Country data
18 Software in Canada
18.1. Market Overview
18.2. Market Data
18.3. Market Segmentation
18.4. Market outlook
18.5. Five forces analysis
19 Macroeconomic Indicators
19.1. Country data
20 Software in China
20.1. Market Overview
20.2. Market Data
20.3. Market Segmentation
20.4. Market outlook
20.5. Five forces analysis
21 Macroeconomic Indicators
21.1. Country data
22 Software in The Netherlands
22.1. Market Overview
22.2. Market Data
22.3. Market Segmentation
22.4. Market outlook
22.5. Five forces analysis
23 Macroeconomic Indicators
23.1. Country data
24 Software in Spain
24.1. Market Overview
24.2. Market Data
24.3. Market Segmentation
24.4. Market outlook
24.5. Five forces analysis
25 Macroeconomic Indicators
25.1. Country data
26 Software in The United Kingdom
26.1. Market Overview
26.2. Market Data
26.3. Market Segmentation
26.4. Market outlook
26.5. Five forces analysis
27 Macroeconomic Indicators
27.1. Country data
28 Software in The United States
28.1. Market Overview
28.2. Market Data
28.3. Market Segmentation
28.4. Market outlook
28.5. Five forces analysis
29 Macroeconomic Indicators
29.1. Country data
30 Company Profiles
30.1. Oracle Corporation
30.2. NTT DATA Newson Corp
30.3. International Business Machines Corporation
30.4. Microsoft Corporation
30.5. MicroStrategy Inc
30.6. SAP SE
30.7. Dassault Systemes SA
30.8. Alphabet Inc
30.9. TOTVS SA
30.10. Neusoft Corp
30.11. Tata Consultancy Services Limited
30.12. Apple Inc
30.13. Infosys Limited
30.14. Fujitsu Limited
30.15. Otsuka Corp
30.16. AO Kaspersky Lab
30.17. Yandex NV
30.18. Sony Corporation
30.19. Open Text Corporation
31 Appendix
31.1. Methodology
31.2. About MarketLine
List of Tables
Table 1: Global software market value: $ million, 2018-23
Table 2: Global software market category segmentation: % share, by value, 2018–2023
Table 3: Global software market category segmentation: $ million, 2018-2023
Table 4: Global software market geography segmentation: $ million, 2023
Table 5: Global software market value forecast: $ million, 2023–28
Table 6: Global size of population (million), 2019–23
Table 7: Global gdp (constant 2005 prices, $ billion), 2019–23
Table 8: Global gdp (current prices, $ billion), 2019–23
Table 9: Global inflation, 2019–23
Table 10: Global consumer price index (absolute), 2019–23