Software companies more profitable in the world – Hypertext

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In a time when computer technology expands ever more aspects of our lives everyday, it’s not surprising that companies that provide software win millonadas. But it is interesting to know which of these companies do better, that is, which of them get more benefits from his work when competition is getting harder. Let those that exceed one billion dollars in profits .

1. Microsoft: 22.074 million dollars profit in the last fiscal year . With 128,000 employees and Satya Nadella at the helm, it seems that this veteran company that has vexed both users in past years, is back on track innovation , betting on virtual reality and gambling with HoloLens. Surface tablet sales grow, income increased by 44% and it seems that he will win the next billion; Azure cloud their business is booming and income have grown 128% in the first three months of 2015; and Windows 10 Mobile expect to recover some of the usage fee that used to have in the PC.

2. IBM: 12.022 million dollars in profits . However, despite the efforts of Ginni Rometty, Company revenues down , and have gone to get 107,000 billion in 2011-93000 million in 2014. And that is investing in initiatives more innovative, such as cognitive or computer centers and data secure hybrid cloud settled. The newest technology generated 27% of total company revenue the last year, anyway. Fortunately, still has loyal clientele among the largest companies in the world, but the question is whether, with these innovations, Rometty be able to reverse the bad trend.

3. Oracle: 10.955 million dollars in profits . It provide with Cloud software and databases specifically to enterprise data centers, today is the second largest supplier in the world, having overtaken IBM. Now is being devoted to change its strategy in terms of software in order to be available for download on a subscription model digital , which estimated at 1,000 million subscribers. Not surprisingly, it has spent 50,000 million dollars in the last decade to acquire perhaps a hundred software vendors to the cloud, and revenues from products thereof increased to 29% of earnings in the first quarter of this year.

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4. HP: 5.013 million dollars in profits in the last fiscal year; of total revenues of 2013, about 4,900 million resulted from sales of software. The company prepares to split into two separate organizations, and still led by Meg Whitman, intends to maintain stability by reducing costs and streamlining research and development. In addition, because many of the cyber attacks on big corporations, your security software business has prospered .

5. SAP: 4.330 billion profit . It is a global leader in application and analysis software, has more than 291,000 customers in over 180 countries, 25 types of industry in 6 sectors, 12 lines of business and 74% of international trade transactions go through your system. Provide that 2020, its business software to the cloud will be seven times greater than it was in 2014 .

6. EMC ² : 2.714 million dollars in profits . It specializes in offering other companies data storage, cloud computing and information security services .