The top software companies are mostly multinationals – the subsidiaries of Oracle (US), Endava (UK), SAP (Germany) and NTT Data (Japan), and the only Romanian-held business among them is security solutions provider Bitdefender controlled by Florin and Mariuca Talpes. The five companies employ some 9,000 people together, more than 500 fewer than in 2018, following streamlining steps taken by Oracle in Romania in 2019, which saw a number of employees moved to another company established in May.
The total revenue of Oracle’s two companies in Romania stood at more than RON1.2 billion in 2019, 26% higher than in the previous year, when it operated with only one company. Net profit stood at RON64.4 million, 73% higher than in 2018, and headcount was 5,379, 916 more than the previous year. Oracle Romania alone took the top spot with RON955.9 million revenue last year.
The only top five software companies to have reduced the number of employees is SAP, whose headcount went down by 11 people, Finance Ministry data show. SAP posted RON516.7 million revenue and RON173 milion net profit.
Second largest among the top five was Bitdefender, RON671.3 million revenue, followed by Endava, RON647.7 milion and SAP. NTT Data Romania ranked fifth, with RON379.8 milion revenue in 2019.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)