Microsoft was the largest software and programming company worldwide by net sales from 2017 to 2023. In the most recent year, Microsoft’s sales revenue reached 208 billion U.S. dollars. Oracle and SAP ranked in distant second and third places, earning 48 and 33 billion U.S. dollars respectively.
Founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Microsoft has grown into one of the most successful tech firms in the world and has experienced years of continued success. Microsoft’s core business is its productivity and business process segment, from which the company generated 198 billion U.S. dollars in its 2022 financial year. Intelligence cloud, another highly prolific segment, brought in a further 75 billion U.S. dollars in that year.
Largest software and programming companies worldwide by sales revenue from 2017 to 2022
(in billion U.S. dollars)
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Microsoft
Oracle
SAP
Salesforce.com
PayPal
CDW
Fiserv
Adobe Inc.
Intuit
VMware
HCL Technologies
Spotify Technology
Amadeus IT Group
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The source includes only software-focused companies and excludes other companies such as manufacturers, consulting firms, and IT services vendors, even if they have large software departments. IBM, for example, would probably be among the top 10 companies in the world, if its software division were a separate company.
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Largest software and programming companies worldwide by sales revenue from 2017 to 2022 (in billion U.S. dollars) [Graph], Forbes, June 12, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/790179/worldwide-largest-software-programming-companies-by-sales/