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The software industry is in the midst of significant change as new technologies (cloud and mobile) and customer behaviours emerge. Here, PwC presents not just the leading software companies from key markets around the world but, more importantly, insights into where the industry is going in the next five years shared by executives from companies such as Symantec, Dassault, Sage, SAP, and Wipro.

In addition to the top 100 global software vendors, this report contains indices of top 100 software vendors in China, France, Germany, India, the UK and the US. Given its growing impact to the sector at large, specific focus is given to the top five video gaming companies in each territory. An overall sector analysis provides a snapshot of how the industry is performing and key trends.

Top 10 global software vendors

Ranked by Software Revenue - Worldwide (in millions of Euros)

1. Microsoft 6. Symantec
2. IBM 7. HP
3. Oracle 8. CA
4. SAP 9. Intuit
5. EMC 10. Adobe

Source: Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC), 2009 figures