Chad Eschinger, research vice president at Gartner says "There is a shift in vendor rankings from 2013 at the top of the worldwide software market. This is the first time in Gartner's global software market share research that Oracle has ranked second in terms of total software revenue with $29.6 billion and capturing 7.3 percent of the global market. Global trends around big data and analytics with business investment in database and cloud-based applications helped to drive Oracle's top-line growth."