The buy-side technology market, counted
What 909 product records from 634 vendors show about how this market is shaped. Every figure is computed from the catalogue at build time, and the method is stated beside it.
This catalogue holds 909 products from 634 vendors across 42 categories. 93.5% of those product records were confirmed on the vendor's own website rather than on a third-party page. The largest category is portfolio monitoring, with 102 products, which is 11.2% of the catalogue. The pair of categories that most often appears on the same product is combined oms/pms platforms with order management, on 37 products. 680 products carry more than one category, which is 74.8% of the catalogue, because a front-to-back platform genuinely belongs in several. The last re-verification pass over every cited source ran on 2026-10-15.
Catalogue at build 2026-10-15 Build:7. Last re-verification pass 2026-10-15.
How to read this. These are counts of what this catalogue contains, not estimates of the whole market. Where a proportion is given, the denominator is stated. Nothing here is extrapolated, weighted or modelled.
The catalogue's known gaps are set out in the methodology, and they bound what these figures can mean.
Vendors do not stay in one category
The mean product carries 2.48 categories. That is the single most useful fact about this market for a buyer: the shortlist for a narrow requirement will contain broad platforms, because those platforms genuinely do the narrow thing as well.
| Categories carried | Products | Share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 category | 229 | 25.2% |
| 2 categories | 314 | 34.5% |
| 3 categories | 199 | 21.9% |
| 4 categories | 100 | 11.0% |
| 5 categories | 37 | 4.1% |
| 6 categories | 12 | 1.3% |
| 7 categories | 10 | 1.1% |
| 8 categories | 4 | 0.4% |
| 9 categories | 2 | 0.2% |
| 10 categories | 2 | 0.2% |
Where the market clusters
The category pairs that most often appear on the same product. These are the bundles the market actually sells, as opposed to the ones a taxonomy suggests.
| Pair | Products carrying both |
|---|---|
| Combined OMS/PMS platforms + Order management | 37 |
| Investor portals and CRM + LP portals | 37 |
| Fund accounting and NAV + PE and VC fund administration | 36 |
| LP portals + PE and VC fund administration | 34 |
| Order management + Pre-trade compliance | 33 |
| Execution management + Order management | 31 |
| Market data + Reference data | 31 |
| Fund accounting and NAV + Fund administrators | 31 |
| Fund administrators + PE and VC fund administration | 31 |
| Combined OMS/PMS platforms + Pre-trade compliance | 29 |
The most populated categories
Counts exceed the product total because products carry several categories.
| Category | Products | Share of catalogue |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio monitoring | 102 | 11.2% |
| Data management | 101 | 11.1% |
| Market data | 89 | 9.8% |
| Risk analytics | 84 | 9.2% |
| Managed services | 83 | 9.1% |
| Fund accounting and NAV | 82 | 9.0% |
| Client reporting | 81 | 8.9% |
| Investor portals and CRM | 72 | 7.9% |
| LP portals | 67 | 7.4% |
| Fund administrators | 67 | 7.4% |
| Research management | 66 | 7.3% |
| PE and VC fund administration | 66 | 7.3% |
Evidence behind the records
| Verification level | Products | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Confirmed on the vendor's own site | 850 | 93.5% |
| From an industry source | 50 | 5.5% |
| Unconfirmed lead | 9 | 1.0% |
What these figures cannot tell you. This is a count of records, not of installations, revenue or market share. A category with sixty products is not necessarily a larger market than one with twenty — it may simply be one where more vendors publish clearly. Product counts measure the supply side's visibility, nothing more.