Truffle 100 Europe: The software sector jumped 8.3% in 2014 – LeMondeInformatique

Truffle Capital, in association with IDC and CXP, released the 2014 ranking of European software publishers. (credit: DR)

According to the latest ranking of European software companies created by Truffle Capital in association with IDC and CXP, the sector’s turnover amounted for the past year to 62.2 billion euros against 57.4 in 2013. The amount of investment in R & amp; D remained stable at 7 billion euros.

Together with the firms IDC and CXP studies, Truffle Capital has published the 10th edition of its ranking of the top 100 software companies in Europe. Among the main lessons of 2014 of the Truffle 100 Europe, we note the annual growth rate of 8.3% of the total turnover of European software publishers (including the sale of software and services) that rises to 62 2 billion. A much higher increase than recorded in 2013 which was only 2.7%. On top of the list, always include SAP with revenues of € 17.24 billion, followed far behind by Dassault Systèmes (€ 2.1 billion) and Sage (€ 1.54 billion).

“2014 was a year of solid growth for all of European software industry. It was also a year of change, while a share of more and more of the top 100 sellers have relied significantly on their cloud activity to supplement their traditional software business, “said Bo Lykkegaard, Associate Vice President IDC. “Publishers have realized that it is in the cloud infrastructure and SaaS applications that is now the largest market dynamics, with growth between 30 and 40%, and revise their business model to base their development on a recurring revenue, “said his side Laurent Calot, CEO of CXP.

The French software publishers represent 12.2% of the total turnover of the Truffle 100 with 22 publishers (against 11.9% with 21 publishers in 2013) and approach the second step of the ranking. They are preceded by German publishers still leading (49.8% with 17 companies), and tailgating the UK in second place (12.4% with 19 companies). Secondly, there has been a stagnation of total investment in R & amp; D a year on year to 7 billion euros against 6.9 in 2013. Out of a workforce of 67,407 people assigned to tasks of R & amp; D, a large majority was German (38.1% with 25,654 people), followed by France (15.1% and 12,374 people) and Britain (13% with 7520 people) .