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Most wanted

  1. 1

    Market capitalisation for the largest companies

    No company has a market-cap series yet, so the 'Largest' comparison uses revenue and the bubble chart can't size by value. Year-end market caps from filings or exchange data would fix both.

  2. 2

    CRM shares for HubSpot and Zoho, and Gartner's 2019–2020 figures

    The CRM chart has Gartner shares to 2018 and IDC's top five for 2021–2025. HubSpot and Zoho aren't named in either, and Salesforce is missing for 2019–2020.

  3. 3

    Operating systems, security and ERP vendor shares for more years

    Each has one or two years, which is not enough for a trend, so they are left out of the share chart for now.

  4. 4

    Revenue for companies that report outside US dollars

    SAP, Nokia, RELX and Wolters Kluwer report in euros or pounds, so they have no series yet. Annual revenue from their annual reports, in the reporting currency, plus a decision on how to convert. Alibaba ships as estimated from its 20-F dollar translations; Nebius needs its post-2024 figures separated from Yandex's history.

  5. 5

    Revenue before 2009 for the companies that defined earlier eras

    SEC structured data starts in 2009, so Lotus, Netscape, PeopleSoft, Siebel, BEA, Sun, Sybase, Digital Equipment, Compaq, WordPerfect and Borland have no revenue line. Their annual reports on EDGAR (1993 onwards) or company histories have the figures.

  6. 6

    A size for the AI glasses market

    The emerging radar now includes AI glasses, backed by unit sales (7 million+ in 2025). A sourced revenue figure for the category would let it enter the market-size charts.

  7. 7

    Video streaming revenue

    Only music streaming figures were found (IFPI). Worldwide subscription video revenue from Ampere, MPA or company filings would size the market properly.

  8. 8

    Market sizes before 2004

    No market below the whole industry is sized before 2004. ERP and database sizes from the 1990s (AMR Research, Dataquest, IDC) are the most valuable.

  9. 9

    Two OECD PDFs that need a human to read them

    The 1995 and 2001 worldwide software figures come from OECD Information Technology Outlook PDFs whose text couldn't be extracted automatically. Confirming the quotes upgrades them from estimated to reported.

Markets without a size series46

These markets show only a rough size range. Three or four sourced years each (ideally one publisher, e.g. Gartner or IDC press releases) turn a range into a line. Largest markets first.

  • Social and messaging (Consumer)
  • Media and streaming software (Consumer)
  • GPU and AI capacity cloud (Infrastructure)
  • Mobile operating systems and app distribution (Infrastructure)
  • Productivity suites (Horizontal apps)
  • Marketing and advertising technology (Horizontal apps)
  • Application platform services (PaaS) (Infrastructure)
  • Cloud data warehouse and lakehouse (Infrastructure)
  • Data integration and platforms (Infrastructure)
  • Developer tools (Infrastructure)
  • Collaboration and work management (Horizontal apps)
  • Customer service and support software (Horizontal apps)
  • Supply chain and procurement software (Horizontal apps)
  • HCM and payroll (Horizontal apps)
  • Finance and spend management (Horizontal apps)
  • Analytics and business intelligence (Horizontal apps)
  • Design and creative software (Horizontal apps)
  • Healthcare IT (Vertical apps)
  • Financial services software (Vertical apps)
  • Legal software and information (Vertical apps)
  • Government and public sector software (Vertical apps)
  • Consumer AI assistants (Consumer)
  • Server operating systems and enterprise Linux (Infrastructure)
  • Document, key-value and vector-capable NoSQL (Infrastructure)
  • Observability and monitoring (Infrastructure)
  • Endpoint and workload protection (Infrastructure)
  • Identity and access management (Infrastructure)
  • Cloud and application security (Infrastructure)
  • Networking, CDN and edge software (Infrastructure)
  • Source control and CI/CD (Infrastructure)
  • Foundation model APIs (Infrastructure)
  • Virtualization and private cloud (Infrastructure)
  • Video meetings (Horizontal apps)
  • Marketing automation (Horizontal apps)
  • IT service management (Horizontal apps)
  • Demand-side advertising platforms (Horizontal apps)
  • Electronic health records (Vertical apps)
  • Core banking platforms (Vertical apps)
  • Construction and AEC software (Vertical apps)
  • Event streaming (Infrastructure)
  • +6 more

Markets without vendor shares over time51

A share chart needs at least 3 years of vendor shares from one publisher. Largest markets first.

  • Social and messaging
  • Games software
  • Media and streaming software
  • GPU and AI capacity cloud
  • Mobile operating systems and app distribution
  • Security software
  • Productivity suites
  • ERP
  • Marketing and advertising technology
  • Application platform services (PaaS)
  • Operating systems
  • Cloud data warehouse and lakehouse
  • Data integration and platforms
  • Developer tools
  • AI and model infrastructure
  • Collaboration and work management
  • Customer service and support software
  • Supply chain and procurement software
  • HCM and payroll
  • Finance and spend management
  • Analytics and business intelligence
  • Design and creative software
  • Healthcare IT
  • Financial services software
  • Legal software and information
  • Government and public sector software
  • Consumer AI assistants
  • Server operating systems and enterprise Linux
  • Document, key-value and vector-capable NoSQL
  • Observability and monitoring
  • Endpoint and workload protection
  • Identity and access management
  • Cloud and application security
  • Networking, CDN and edge software
  • Source control and CI/CD
  • Virtualization and private cloud
  • Video meetings
  • Marketing automation
  • IT service management
  • Demand-side advertising platforms
  • +11 more

Companies without a revenue series57

Public companies: annual revenue from 10-K or 20-F filings. Private companies: a reported figure or credible estimate, with its source.

  • Abridge
  • Ashton-Tate
  • BEA Systems
  • Borland
  • ByteDance
  • Canonical
  • Cognition
  • Compaq
  • Crusoe
  • Data General
  • Decagon
  • DeepSeek
  • Digital Equipment Corporation
  • ElevenLabs
  • Epic Games
  • Epic Systems
  • GitHub
  • Glean
  • Grafana Labs
  • Harvey
  • Hebbia
  • Informix
  • J.D. Edwards
  • Lambda
  • LangChain
  • Lotus Development
  • Metronome
  • Mistral AI
  • MySQL AB
  • Nebius
  • Netscape
  • Nokia
  • Nscale
  • Orb
  • PeopleSoft
  • Perplexity
  • Pinecone
  • Redis
  • RELX
  • Replit
  • SAP
  • Siebel Systems
  • Sierra
  • Software AG
  • SpaceX
  • Stripe
  • Sun Microsystems
  • SUSE
  • Sybase
  • Thoma Bravo
  • Weights & Biases
  • Wiz
  • Wolters Kluwer
  • WordPerfect
  • Workato
  • xAI
  • Zapier

Sources we couldn't open27

Our automated checks were blocked on these pages, so figures from them are marked estimated. If you can open one and confirm the quoted figure, say so in an issue and it becomes reported.

The whole industry

The industry chart has figures for 43 year-definition pairs between 1970 and 2026, from several publishers with different definitions. A single worldwide series from one publisher, or more years for any existing one, makes the lines comparable. See the chart.