Thursday, October 23. 2008

Daratech's Foundyller: Intergraph May be #1 in GIS

[Daratech founder Charles] Foundyller estimates privately held ESRI's revenue at about $710 million last year. Privately held Intergraph lists 2007 revenue of $725.3 million, which might make it the market leader.

This comment appeared in an article about the use of ESRI technology in medical care at Loma Linda University Medical Center, not too far from ESRI headquarters in Redlands in Investor's Business Daily.
The most recent publicly available rankings I can find (recall that Daratech sells its reports and only sometimes offers press releases on marketshare) had the rankings: ESRI, Bentley, Autodesk, Intergraph. This from coverage of BE (May 2008) in the August 2008 issue of GIM.

Daratech is a market research company specialising in the information technology market, including GIS. A 2008 Daratech study ranked Bentley a world number two, with geospatial revenue of over $200 million. The list is dominated by ESRI, with over half a billion US dollars, and numbered three and four are Autodesk and Intergraph, respectively: very close to Bentley in terms of turnover. The first European firm to appear on the list is Leica Geosystems, ranked number six.

As usual with such numbers, "your mileage may vary!"