10. Check Point Software

Profits: $0.6 Bn

Market Value: $10.3 Bn

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, provides customers with uncompromised protection against all types of threats, reduces security complexity and lowers total cost of ownership. Check Point first pioneered the industry with FireWall-1 and its patented stateful inspection technology.

9. VMware

Profits: $0.7 Bn

Market Value: $35.9 Bn

VMware is radically transforming IT with technologies that make your business more agile, efficient and profitable. A pioneer in virtualization and policy-driven automation, VMware simplifies IT complexity across the entire data center

8. Adobe Systems

Profits: $0.7 Bn

Market Value: $20.6 Bn

Adobe is the global leader in digital marketing and digital media solutions. Its tools and services allow its customers to create groundbreaking digital content, deploy it across media and devices, measure and optimize it over time, and achieve greater business success.

7. Amadeus IT Holdings

Profits: $0.7 Bn

Market Value: $11.9 Bn

Amadeus is a leading transaction processor for the global travel and tourism industry, providing transaction processing power and technology solutions to both travel providers and travel agencies.

6. Intuit

Profits: $0.8 Bn

Market Value: $19.4 Bn

Intuit a software company that develops softwares for financial and tax preparation. It services are for small businesses, accountants and people wanting to have easy solutions for financial queries.

5. CA Technologies

Profits: $0.9 Bn

Market Value: $11.6 Bn

CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) provides IT management solutions that help customers manage and secure complex IT environments to support agile business services. Organizations leverage CA Technologies software and SaaS solutions to accelerate innovation, transform infrastructure and secure data and identities, from the data center to the cloud.

4. Symantec

Profits: $1.1 Bn

Market Value: $16.9 Bn

Symantec has evolved to become one of the world’s largest software companies with more than 18,500 employees in more than 50 countries.

3. SAP

Profits: $3.6 Bn

Market Value: $103.9 Bn

Headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, with locations in more than 130 countries, SAP AG is the world leader in enterprise software and software-related services. SAP Americas, a subsidiary of SAP AG, oversees the company's business operations in the U.S., Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean.

2. Oracle

Profits: $10.6 Bn

Market Value: $172 Bn

With more than 380,000 customers—including 100 of the Fortune 100—and with deployments across a wide variety of industries in more than 145 countries around the globe, Oracle offers an optimized and fully integrated stack of business hardware and software systems.

1. Microsoft

Profits: $15.5 Bn

Market Value: $234.8 Bn

Microsoft is the biggest name in the world in making software and IT solutions for people and enterprises world over. With powerful brands like Windows, Skype, Xbox, MS Office, Internet Explorer etc, Microsoft is the one of the biggest software brands in world