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The venture capital firm Truffle has presented the ninth edition of its Truffle 100 Europe-mentioned comparison of software companies. In the ranking, the hundred-selling software companies to be acquired in Europe and made comparable. In addition, the authors of the study, participated in the next Truffle among other things, IDC, BARC, PAC and the ESSEC Business School put even the changes in spending on research and development as well as the personnel situation in this field.

Germany accounts for 15 of the represented in the current in the Top 100 list Companies in 49.9 percent of sales of all investigated software companies. The strong position is of course essentially SAP thanks that during the period 2013 eight times as high as the revenue achieved second place in Europe, the French company Dassault. In addition, the Software AG in seventh place and Datev are with Wincor-Nixdorf in fifth place, three more German companies represented in eighth place in the top ten of the Truffle 100 Europe 2014.

Desktop Germany followed by the UK, the twelve represented in the ranking companies come to 12.8 percent of total revenue, and France (21 companies and a share of sales of 11.9 percent). Strongest Companies in these countries are Sage Software (total ranked third) and Dassault (total ranked second).

sales recognized in the European ranking Truffle 100 Europe Sofwtarefirmen by country (Graphic: Truffle)

would not have been expected by anyone doubt the fourth place: Here you can find 2014 Sweden. Here, too, contributes to the company Hexagon, the fourth place in the ranking of firms, a large provider essential to good placement with. He sat 2015, five acquisitions continued its aggressive growth. But even with the Analytics specialists Qlik (Rank 21) of the now even the ERP vendor IFS (27th) has overtaken, are companies from the Scandinavian country from which nine of the Truffle come 100 Europe, well positioned.

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distribution of posts in the Truffle 100 Europe ranking Companies in the field of research and development by country (Graphic: Truffle). However,

The current edition of the Truffle 100 Europe list also shows that, despite a rising expenditure on research and development only a few employees to be reset. The number increased by 63,290 employees in this area for all listed companies only to 63,957 in 2013, barely. It is also interesting that five countries account for 84 percent of all of these points – 38 percent to Germany, 18 percent in France, only 10 percent to the UK and 8.7 respectively 7.6 percent to the Netherlands and Sweden. To a lack of revenue can not lie: Turnover of the European software companies from 41.1 to 42.2 billion, (2011 there were 37.2 billion), the profits climbed from 5.8 to 6.3 billion euros.

companies from Germany, Austria and Switzerland in the Truffle 100 Europe 2014
rank	Company	revenue in 2013 in millions of euros	Country
first	SAP	16815.0	Germany
. 5	Wincor Nixdorf	2463.8	Germany
. 7	Software AG	856.5	Germany
. 8	Datev	803.0	Germany
15th	Swisslog	541.1	Switzerland
18th	GAD	441.2	Germany
22nd	Temenos	352.3	Switzerland
23rd	Compugroup	396.6	Germany
30th	Avaloq	301.5	Switzerland
43rd	Nemetschek	185.9	Germany
48	PSI	176.3	Germany
12th	MSG Life (COR & amp; FJA)	131.3	Germany
55	Haufe Group	251.0	Germany
64	Personal & amp;. computer science	93 3	Germany
68th	Seeburger	86.0	Germany
76th	Buhl Data Service	78.0	Germany
80th	Elca	78.9	Switzerland
88th	Isis Papyrus	66.1	Austria
84th	Eri Bancaire	65.0	Switzerland
91st	Automic	54.2	Austria
96th	IC (Intershop Communications)	53.6	Germany

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Author: Peter Marwan