100 Global software leaders: Key players and market trends

"To stay ahead, leaders will need to buy innovation."

Jamal Labed, Co-founder and CEO, EasyVista

"Customer loyalty is going to become more and more important."

Jim Whitehurst, President and CEO, Red Hat

"Companies like telecoms and banks will choose to take advantage of their corporate big data in a variety of ways."

Godfrey Sullivan, Chairman and CEO, Splunk

"We have seen significant [regional] differences in how information is shared and connections are made."

Tony Zingale, Chairman and CEO, Jive

"Globalisation in the software industry is definitely accelerating. Cloud computing, consumerisation [of IT] and other trends are driving globalisation. Applications will become global."

Mahendra Negi, COO/CFO, Trend Micro

"The vision that financial investors and clients have of the software industry is not accurate anymore. The industry is changing."

Bernard Charlès, CEO, Dassault Systèmes

"The market is changing and customers are asking why software is not a service the way hardware is a service."

Munehiro Hashimoto, Division President of IT Platform Business Management Division, Hitachi, Ltd., Information & Telecommunications Systems Company

"We are trying to build a sustainable business model to provide sustainable value for our customers, making software and service an integral part of social transformation and people's daily lives."

Dr. Liu Jiren, Chairman and CEO, Neusoft Corp