The Top Ten Software Companies

The Top Ten Software Companies in India

Today the software industry has become the backbone of companies around the world. With technology advancing in leaps and bounds, there is no stopping IT professionals from around the world to bridge the gap between huge untapped markets and its customers, as well as creating an opportunity for innovation.
The companies that dominate the software industry are those which look out for these opportunities and provide instant solutions. The Indian software industry has arrived, and the companies that are dominating this industry, based on their turnovers, are:
Rank Names Sales (in Rs mill)
1 TCS LIMITED 97,272
2 WIPRO LIMITED 82,330
3 INFOSYS TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED 71,297
4 SATYAM COMPUTER SERVICES LIMITED 35,209
5 I-FLEX SOLUTIONS LIMITED 11,386
6 TATA INFOTECH LIMITED 9,743
7 CMC LIMITED 8,074
8 MPHASIS BFL LIMITED 7,657
9 MASTEK LIMITED 5,670
10 NIIT LIMITED 3,984

World's largest software companies

This yearly list offers 2000 large companies active in all kinds of industries. By selecting software & services a sublist can be made, which is 35 companies long in the 2009 edition. Forbes offers figures such as sales, profits, assets and market capitalization. Only public companies are listed. The ranking seems to be based upon a multiplication of sales*profits*assets*market capitalization. A Top 10 extract of the world's largest software companies according to the Forbes Global is provided below
1) IBM
2) Microsoft
3) Apple
4) Oracle Corporation
5) Google
6) Softbank
7) SAP AG
8) Accenture
9) Computer Sciences Corporation
10) Yahoo!
Forbes includes services revenues given its listing of IBM, Accenture, Computer Sciences and Cap Gemini. Forbes also appears to include advertising revenues given the listing of Google and Yahoo in their Top 10. Large private software companies are not on the Forbes list. Market capitalization influences the ranking: Forbes has used the market cap of Feb 27 2009 to build their list.

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