Market Share Of The Enterprise Software

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This is how 2015 market share of the enterprise software looked like for the top 10 vendors of total $320B in product revenues.

Gartner 's 2Q16 forecast shows that 2016 global spending for enterprise software will be $367.5 billion in constant U.S. dollars.

Large organizations as well as small startups have been focusing on the enterprise segment. Once consumer only products like iPhone (for business) and Android (for work) are now enterprise ready and widely used for businesses in the large organizations. Moreover, the business model shift from a "legacy" on-premises to the cloud based SaaS model is evident and that is enabling both, businesses as well as vendors, to be agile, work from everywhere, reduce maintenance/ownership cost and quickly scale to the evolving business demands. It 's not surprising that nowadays virtually every enterprise software offers a flavor of cloud or SaaS solution.

Though as of today most of the enterprise softwares are still sold traditionally where CIO/CXO and business relations play crucial roles, but the market shift, workforce sentiment/satisfactions can 't be ignored for long. As a result, established players and leaders in the segment are changing and pulling up their sleeves to deliver modern and competitive products. Contrary to what Paul Graham said in 2007, today enterprise software companies are also trying to be technology companies.

However, building enterprise software always has been challenging. In my opinion, consumer
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