The volume of the global IT market exceeds two trillion US dollars. The most dynamic segment is software, it grows by 6% annually. The category of collaboration applications is growing rapidly.
The development of IT industry analysts IDC presented in the form of three platforms. Thousands of users worked on the first, it is built on the basis of mainframes and terminals. Then came the traditional personal computers and the Internet, the technology became available to hundreds of thousands of users. Today,
billions of users use mobile devices,
cloud services, and social technologies to access information and work.

An important component of the “third platform” is big data. Distinctive features of technology: speed, variability and volume. Data from various sources of tens of terabytes are analyzed in near real-time mode. The cost of these technologies will grow according to IDC estimates from twenty billion dollars in 2013 to seventy billion by 2018.
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Cloud technologies provide remote access to resources, including from mobile devices. Services save money by standardizing hardware, virtualizing, and sharing applications. 16 of the top 100 software developers get more than 50% of the revenue from the cloud-based delivery model. The cost of cloud services according to IDC forecast will increase from $ 40 billion in 2013 to $ 120 billion in 2018.

The development of solutions based on the “third platform” will ensure the growth of the market.
Alibaba , Twitter and Facebook have boasted the most successful IPOs in the last few years. The initial public offering of the Chinese online retailer was the largest in history, it brought the company $ 21.8 billion, and with the implementation of the option to sell additional shares, the volume reached 25 billion. Twitter has attracted 1.82 billion dollars, and Facebook - 16 billion.

The largest publicly traded IT company in the world is Apple, whose capitalization, according to the report, is 483.1 billion dollars. This figure as of February 11, 2015 was already 700 billion.
The top ten included eight US companies. The ninth place with a capitalization of 11.9 billion is the
Lenovo Group. Closes Accenture rating from Ireland.

In 2013, the largest Russian IT company became the holding LANIT with a turnover of 2.15 billion US dollars, if you take the course that year is 31.89 rubles for 1 dollar. The volume of the Russian market in 2013 amounted to 34.49 billion.

An analytical report was
compiled by IDC for the Moscow Exchange and RVC.
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