In 2016，global economy grew slowly，the expenditure of IT began to decline，but its growth speed was obviously higher than in 2015 and the software and information service industries witnessed a growth；cloud computation and big data entered a period of rapid development，the artificial intelligence began to grow rapidly；the mobile application market witnessed an explosive growth，with the greatest increment observed in Asia. In the future，the industrial Internet of things will boost related industrial application software to grow explosively. Open source will become a mainstream mode for information technology innovation. In the future，software enterprises will develop in the direction of network，ecology，platform and profession.