The Top 10 Software Vendors: Positioning, performance and SWOT analyses

Publication Date	May 2008
Publisher	Business Insights
Product Type	Report
Pages	165
ISBN Number	not applicable
Product Code	RBI00227

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Summary

The Top 10 Software Vendors: Positioning, performance and SWOT analyses
The global software market was worth $203.4 billion in 2006 with the top 10 software vendors representing 50.9% of the total. Enterprise consolidation has accelerated over the years, with significant M&A activity leaving only a handful of major players in the market. Web information services continue to grow strongly and market competition continues to intensify. A strong focus on R&D is a key strategy for the top 10 players in this market who spent $28.6 billion during 2006 and 2007 in developing innovative products
The Top 10 Software Vendors: Positioning, performance and SWOT analyses is a new report published by Business Insights that examines market dynamics in the software market focusing on the top 10 vendors. This new report provides SWOT analyses of top 10 companies and assesses their market positioning, financial performance and growth strategies
Assess the world's leading software vendors, anticipate future trends and enhance your competitive strategies with this new report

Key questions answered by this report.

How do the leading software companies compare in terms of financial performance and coverage?
What is the market share of each of the global leaders by company and category?
How are the key strategies of leading software companies driving revenue and market share?
What are the key trends in the global software market?

Key findings from this report.

The global software market value will reach $272 billion in 2011, representing a five-year CAGR of 7.5%
Microsoft remains the software market leader with a 21.8% market share, followed by IBM with 8.9% share
Major acquisitions in 2007 included SAP acquiring Business Objects for $6.8 billion, IBM acquiring Cognos for $5 billion and the $3 billion acquisition of Hyperion by Oracle
New and stricter government regulations are creating opportunities for vendors with specific strengths in security and data protection technologies such as EMC and Symantec

This new report will enable you to.

Create more effective competitive strategies based on the financial and SWOT analyses of the top 10 software vendors detailed in this report
Benchmark your performance against leading software vendors with this report's ranking of the top 10 software vendors and their financial performance, market share by company and category
Identify and target future growth areas from this report's analysis of the acquisitions and divestments made by leading software vendors, and their strategies for growth
Understand the key issues in the software market and the impact that they are expected to have on the market using this report including virtualization, open-source, SMBs and the mainframe market slowdown

Content

Table of Contents
The Top Ten Software Vendors
Executive summary
Market development
Microsoft
IBM
Oracle
SAP
SunGard Data Systems
Symantec
CA
EMC
Amdocs
Intuit
Chapter 1 Introduction
- What is this report about?
- Methodology
Chapter 2 Market development
- Summary
- Overview
- Market size and growth
- Key trends in software market
- Shift towards virtualization
- Growing internet and data security market
- Consolidation
- Shifting business models
Chapter 3 Microsoft
- Summary
- Company information
- History
- Recent financial performance
- Acquisitions and divestments
- Market positioning
- Growth strategies
- Focus on new product development
- Penetration into emerging markets
- SWOT analysis
- Strengths
- Strong revenue growth
- Broad offering
- Strong R&D capabilities
- Weaknesses
- Decrease in brand value
- Overdependence on the US
- Opportunities
- Emerging business units
- Expansion into new markets
- Software plus services
- Threats
- Software piracy
- Open source software
- Intense competition
Chapter 4 IBM
- Summary
- Company information
- History
- Recent financial performance
- Acquisitions and divestments
- Market positioning
- Growth strategies
- SWOT analysis
- Strengths
- Leading position in middleware segment
- Strong presence in emerging markets
- Weaknesses
- Decline in revenues from Japan
- Opportunities
- Next-generation storage technology portfolio
- Restructuring of systems and technology group
- Threats
- Stagnating other middleware business
Chapter 5 Oracle
- Summary
- Company information
- History
- Recent financial performance
- Acquisitions and divestments
- Market positioning
- Growth strategies
- Acquisition strategy
- Focus on SMB segment
- SWOT analysis
- Strengths
- Leader in relational database engine market
- Weaknesses
- Heavy dependence on the US
- Opportunities
- Growing CRM software market
- Threats
- Risk in government contracts
Chapter 6 SAP
- Summary
- Company information
- History
- Recent financial performance
- Acquisitions and divestments
- Market positioning
- Growth strategies
- Expansion of traditional core businesses
- Development of new mid market business
- SWOT analysis
- Strengths
- Leading market position
- Strong global partner ecosystem
- Strong R&D
- Weaknesses
- Low presence in public sector
- Opportunities
- Fast growing small and mid market segment
- Upgrading and enhancing customer base
- Threats
- Intense competition
- Economic slowdown in the US
Chapter 7 SunGard Data Systems
- Summary
- Company information
- History
- Recent financial performance
- Acquisitions and divestments
- Market positioning
- Growth strategies
- M&A activity
- New product development
- SWOT analysis
- Strengths
- Strong performance of the HEPS division
- Weaknesses
- Increasing costs and expenses
- Opportunities
- Acquisition of Financial Technology Integrators
- Growing IT spending in Western Europe
- Threats
- Consolidation in the US banking industry
Chapter 8 Symantec
- Summary
- Company information
- History
- Recent financial performance
- Acquisitions and divestments
- Market positioning
- Growth strategies
- M&A activity
- Product development strategy
- SWOT analysis
- Strengths
- Market leadership in security software
- Strong emphasis on R&D
- Weaknesses
- Declining profitability
- Opportunities
- Restructuring initiatives
- Threats
- Storage competition
Chapter 9 CA
- Summary
- Company information
- History
- Recent financial performance
- Acquisitions and divestments
- Market positioning
- Growth strategies
- Internal product development
- Strengthening partner relationships
- International expansion
- Strategic acquisitions
- SWOT analysis
- Strengths
- Strong position in internet security suite market
- Sales force reorganization
- Weaknesses
- Weak liquidity position
- Opportunities
- Restructuring of Asian operations
- Investments in research activities
- Threats
- Intense competition
Chapter 10 EMC
- Summary
- Company information
- History
- Recent financial performance
- Acquisitions and divestments
- Market positioning
- Growth strategies
- Pursuing acquisitions
- Expanding operations in emerging markets
- SWOT analysis
- Strengths
- Strong performance of VMware
- Weakness
- Overdependence on direct channel partners
- Opportunities
- Growing software storage market
- Threats
- Dell's acquisition of EqualLogic
Chapter 11 Amdocs
- Summary
- Company information
- History
- Recent financial performance
- Acquisitions and divestments
- Market positioning
- Growth strategies
- Focus on the communications and broadband Industries
- SWOT analysis
- Strengths
- Market leader in the OSS market
- Weaknesses
- Customer concentration
- Opportunities
- Launch of Qpass Retail Suite
- Threats
- Geopolitical risk
Chapter 12 Intuit
- Summary
- Company information
- History
- Recent financial performance
- Acquisitions and divestments
- Market positioning
- Growth strategies
- Customer-centric products
- Innovative new offerings
- SWOT analysis
- Strengths
- Strong position in financial sector
- Strong R&D activities
- Weaknesses
- Geographic concentration
- Opportunities
- Launch of Quicken Health
- Focus on mid-market companies
- Threats
- Seasonal demand
Chapter 13 Other major software vendors
- BMC Software
- Company information
- Adobe
- Company information
- Konami
- Company information
- BEA
- Company information
- HP
- Company information
- Misys
- Company information
- Novell
- Company information
- Software
- Company information
- Salesforce.com
- Company information
- Progress Software
- Company information
- Index
List of Figures
- Figure 2.1: Global software market size, 2002-2006
- Figure 2.2: Turnover of Top 10 players ($m) in 2006
- Figure 3.3: Microsoft financial performance ($m), 2004-2007
- Figure 3.4: Microsoft SWOT analysis
- Figure 4.5: IBM software financial performance ($m), 2003-2006
- Figure 4.6: IBM SWOT analysis
- Figure 5.7: Oracle financial performance ($m), 2004-2007
- Figure 5.8: Oracle SWOT analysis
- Figure 6.9: SAP software financial performance ($m), 2003-2006
- Figure 6.10: SAP SWOT analysis
- Figure 7.11: SunGard financial performance ($m), 2003-2006
- Figure 7.12: SunGard SWOT analysis
- Figure 8.13: Symantec financial performance ($m), 2004-2007
- Figure 8.14: Symantec SWOT analysis
- Figure 9.15: CA financial performance ($m), 2004-2007
- Figure 9.16: CA SWOT analysis
- Figure 10.17: EMC software financial performance ($m), 2004-2007
- Figure 10.18: EMC SWOT analysis
- Figure 11.19: Amdocs financial performance ($m), 2004-2007
- Figure 11.20: Amdocs SWOT analysis
- Figure 12.21: Intuit financial performance ($m), 2004-2007
- Figure 12.22: Intuit SWOT analysis