A good number of awardees may be new names to some but that should be no surprise given software has always been an industry of startups that seemingly came out of nowhere to create and dominate a new space.
Software has become the backbone of our economy. From large enterprises to small businesses, most all rely on software whether for accounting, marketing, sales, supply chain, or a myriad of other functions. Software has become the dominant industry of our time and as such, we place a significance on highlighting the best companies leading the industry forward. The following awardees were nominated and selected based on a thorough evaluation process.
Among the key criteria considered were software product quality, management team caliber, organizational culture and overall company evolution among other factors. In many cases, a company received a remarkable number of nominations from a wide range of its various stakeholders.
Please join us in recognizing and celebrating The Top Software Companies of Microsoft is the biggest software company in the world. Its best known software products are the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, the Microsoft Office suite, and the Internet Explorer and Edge web browsers. LinkedIn, its business-oriented social network, is used by millions to build professional connections, and Microsoft's Xbox gaming systems continue to post record sales. Microsoft's customers range from consumers and small businesses to the world's biggest companies and government agencies.
Microsoft quickly rose to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mids, followed by Microsoft Windows. In the s, the company began to redefine its offerings and expand its product line into computer networking and the World Wide Web. Eventually Microsoft also moved into cloud computing with the Windows Azure platform. Azure is currently second behind Amazon for cloud services. As one of the top software providers in the world, tech giant Adobe serves millions of users across the globe.
From its humble beginnings in , the company is mostly known these days for its multimedia and creativity software offerings. On top of that, Adobe has field offices in about 30 countries across the Americas, Asia, and Europe. It also has major development operations in India. A long-time publisher of traditional software packages, Adobe was instrumental in the creation of the desktop publishing industry.
Since then, the company has found tremendous success by adapting to shifts in the market, leading the charge into the cloud and subscription-based business model. Propelled by these digital offerings, its revenue more than doubled between and Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, ServiceNow is leading the pack when it comes to providing business workflow software.
ServiceNow serves organizations of all sizes, from local governments to Fortune companies. At the same time, it generates the kind of information that business executives can use and understand; for example, how the cost of operating a sales force in the field compares with the cost of selling products through an online catalog.
Since , the San Francisco-based cloud storage and management company Dropbox has set the standard for storing and collaboration of files in the cloud. Initially launched as a niche software startup by MIT students Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, the company attracted more than one million users in its first year alone.
After more than a decade of successful refinement of its products and the acquisition of related companies — including, most recently, secure sharing and analytics leader DocSend — Dropbox remains the name to beat in cloud storage and sharing.
Dropbox has seen the cloud storage revolution happen in front of its eyes, holding its ground against competitors as hearty as Google and Amazon to maintain its dominant position in the market. The company has kept its momentum going throughout the last year, boasting considerable profits over the last three quarters. Founded in , IFS develops and delivers enterprise software for companies around the world that manufacture and distribute goods, build and maintain assets, and manage service-focused operations, and the firm serves many notable customers such as Carlsberg, Panasonic, and the US Navy.
IFS focuses on five key verticals including aerospace and defense, energy, manufacturing engineering, and services. Every day, its team of 4, employees serves their more than 10, customers.
Founded in , Guidewire combines digital, core, analytics, and AI to deliver its platform as a cloud service. More than insurers, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world, run on Guidewire. As a partner to its customers, Guidewire continually evolves to enable their success. Guidewire was later cited as being one of the top IPOs of Headquartered in Santa Monica, CA, with 20 offices around the globe, Cornerstone is a people development company that believes people can achieve anything when they have the right development and growth opportunities.
In , Cornerstone acquired one of its largest competitors, Saba Software, and announced a new strategic vision to accelerate innovation to help organizations thrive through unprecedented change. Cornerstone also renewed its focus on product innovation, and is leveraging AI-technology and a deep pool of talent data to help organizations and their people adapt and succeed through change.
Ultimately, the software is helping InfoSec teams bridge their cybersecurity skills gaps while reducing costs where security blind spots previously existed. This year Secureworks also announced a worldwide Managed Security Service Provider initiative to their Global Partner Program to expand and empower the cybersecurity community.
Insurance is about relationships, and technology should make those relationships stronger. After establishing itself as the first-ever InsurTech, Vertafore has remained the industry leader for innovation with its superior product offerings, inventive approach to customer success, and pledge to modernize the insurance industry.
Its solutions automate and accelerate end-to-end processes, enabling players to spend less time on manual tasks and more time building customer relationships.
Procore builds software for people who build the world. Procore is tailored for owners, general contractors, and specialty contractors looking to build smarter by winning and delivering more profitable projects, all while reducing risk and rework. Customers love Procore because it connects all project stakeholders with an unlimited user model and support model. That means even non-paying users collaborators have access to Procore, so everyone on the job is working off the same information.
Procore's App Marketplace has over partner solutions that integrate seamlessly with the Procore platform, giving construction professionals the freedom to connect with what works best for them.
Founded in by Facebook Co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and former Facebook and Google engineer Justin Rosenstein, Asana helps teams orchestrate work from daily tasks to cross-functional enterprise initiatives. While the global shift to remote work may have heightened the awareness of how difficult it is to achieve clarity at work, the problems themselves are not new. More than , paying customers and millions of teams around the world, from small businesses to large enterprises, rely on Asana to manage everything from company objectives to product launches and marketing campaigns.
The company recently announced Video Messaging in partnership with Vimeo. Bringing the benefits of live video communication to Asana reduces meetings, eliminates information silos and creates a single source of truth for distributed teams and timezones. This new integration allows users to connect asynchronously, delivering benefits of face-to-face communication without the tax of more video meetings or emails. Having the right talent is critical to an organization's success, especially as employers across the world continue to recover and rebuild.
The company introduced the iCIMS Talent Cloud in and refreshed its brand to support employers as they build strong teams for the future. Autodesk is an American multinational corporation that makes specialized software for industries including architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, entertainment, and media. Since its launch, Autodesk continues to develop the broadest portfolio of 3D software for global markets.
Architects, structural designers, and engineers have all relied on AutoCAD for designing, drafting, and modeling structures. The popular product has seen 31 versions since it was introduced in , meaning it has been around even longer than Microsoft Windows.
Over the years, the company has expanded its portfolio of computer-aided design CAD software. With over 90 products to choose from, Autodesk has established itself as a leading presence in the global CAD industry. Intuit was the brainchild of entrepreneur Scott Cook, who co-founded the company with Tom Proulx in As an undergraduate at Stanford University, Proulx wrote the first version of Intuit mainstay Quicken, then only a simple check-balancing program.
Since its founding, Intuit has seen substantial growth and now controls the majority of U. With headquarters in Mountain View, California, Intuit has operations in some 20 locations in nine countries, including Canada, India, and the U. Serving approximately million customers worldwide, the company now offers a vast array of business and financial management solutions. Its products include the tax preparation application TurboTax, personal finance app Mint, and small business accounting program QuickBooks.
The company also offers ProSeries and Lacerte — tax preparation products developed for professional accountants. The Altimetrik journey began in when Raj Vattikuti created the company to challenge the conventional approach to how businesses develop digital products and to deliver quick, lasting results.
Many companies are stuck in their digital enablement efforts, lacking the ability to harness the power of data and technology. Over the past decade Altimetrik has helped clients get unstuck by rethinking the typical cumbersome big bang approach prone to falling short of expectations. Altimetrik debunks the myth that building a digital business is expensive, complex, and takes too long by taking a collaborative end-to-end approach while delivering quick bite-size outcomes.
This approach has led to consistent double digit revenue growth and a growing list of top global brands the company is proud to call clients. With development centers across the globe and over 3, energized practitioners, Altimetrik partners with leading Fortune companies, mid-size firms, and startups alike to increase their agility, power continuous innovation and rapid experimentation that accelerates growth and profitability.
Based in Pleasanton, California, Workday has been in business for nearly 20 years. Today it is a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, helping customers adapt and thrive in a changing world.
This company's software provides businesses with helpful analytical insight along with information-backed support for decision-making. In addition to its platform, Workday also provides application programming interfaces for web services along with packaged connectors and integrations. Workday applications have been adopted by thousands of organizations around the world and across industries — from medium-sized businesses to more than 45 percent of the Fortune Salesforce continues to set the standard for customer relationship management CRM platforms, boasting a relationship of trust and collaboration with thousands of companies worldwide.
The Trailhead Training Platform, Lightning App Builder, and other offerings bring businesses greater control of their cloud-based infrastructure, automation-powered sales and marketing processes, and next-level commerce and analytics solutions. Its Dreamforce conference will be held globally for the first time in , bringing its unique portfolio of products to the broadest audience yet. The Trade Desk is the leading global, independent technology company empowering data-driven digital advertising.
Marketers today are under pressure to make every advertising dollar work as hard as possible and to prove ROI, while at the same time being more agile and flexible than ever before. This includes leading the initial development of an open-source, interoperable identity solution to preserve the future of the open internet.
Experience management XM software company Qualtrics continues to deliver along its four core areas of business interaction: customer, employee, brand, and product.
Using its signature AI and machine-learning analytics, Qualtrics uses experiential customer data to help clients turbo-charge their customer relationship management CRM with regular actionable insights provided through its CustomerXM and EmployeeXM platforms. CustomerXM covers everything the client sees and interacts with, allowing for an enterprise to stay connected and informed, while EmployeeXM provides utilities for tracking performance and incentivizing each team member.
Companies come to BlackLine because their traditional manual accounting processes are not sustainable. One of the most respected, acclaimed, and successful tech companies in the world, Cisco Systems is largely responsible for keeping networks across the globe connected.
Founded in , Cisco is at the heart of Silicon Valley, both literally and metaphorically. The conglomerate manufactures and sells networking hardware and software, as well as telecommunications equipment and other technological services, primarily through its subsidiaries, such as OpenDNS, Webex, Jabber, and Jasper. The company was founded by Sandy Lerner and Leonard Bosack, both of the Stanford University computer science department, quickly becoming an integral part of networking the World Wide Web.
After four decades leading the tech industry, Cisco has become a model of optimized organizational structure both for its external performance as well as its internal operations. As the global standard in process management and automation, Nintex is on a mission to improve the way people work. Everyday ops, IT, process professionals, and power users across more than 10, organizations leverage the powerful, easy-to-use, and complete capabilities of the Nintex Process Platform to drive business outcomes and accelerate digital transformation.
More than 50 percent of the Fortune have standardized on Nintex to manage, automate, and optimize their business processes, rapidly digitizing hundreds to even tens of thousands of workflows across their organizations.
PowerSchool is the leading provider of cloud-based software for K education in North America. Its mission is to power the education ecosystem with unified technology that helps educators and students realize their full potential in a way that works for the unique needs of their community. PowerSchool, widely recognized as the most comprehensive suite of mission-critical education solutions, connects students, teachers, administrators, and parents, with the shared goal of improving student learning outcomes.
From the front office to the classroom to the home, PowerSchool helps schools and districts efficiently manage instruction, learning, grading, attendance, assessment, analytics, state reporting, special education, student registration, talent, finance, and human resources. Following the dramatic overnight shift to distance learning in the spring of due to the COVID pandemic, PowerSchool immediately pivoted to help customers, districts, and educators keep the learning going in the classroom and at home.
PowerSchool Unified Classroom is the only solution to combine best-in-class learning management system LMS , formative assessment, special programs, student information system SIS , and unified analytics to create a complete teaching and learning classroom solution that helps give teachers the time and information they need to support whole child instruction. Cloud communications company Twilio helps to fill the gaps so often left in traditional modes of communication with its proprietary cloud communications platform as a service CPaaS.
In addition to helping businesses and individuals make calls and send messages using its cloud-based web service APIs, the company has also released open-sourced software such as OpenVBX, which lets businesses configure phone numbers to receive and route calls, and Stashboard, a status dashboard written in Python that displays the functionality of a service.
In March of this year, Twilio pledged to power critical Covid communications for more than one billion people, and has worked with over federal, state, and local governments, health services, educational institutions, NGOs, and nonprofits to facilitate safe communication of important health information.
Since its founding in , Gainsight has devoted itself to revolutionizing the field of customer success management CSM , particularly with the ever-wider adoption of SaaS. Rather than focusing purely on retention, businesses around the world use Gainsight to increase customer satisfaction.
Formerly known as AdventNet, India- and California-based CRM company Zoho is giving the bigger tech players like Google a run for their money when it comes to enterprise workflow and human resources solutions.
With its distinctive CRM platform, Zoho puts together sales, marketing, inventory management, and human resources into one convenient, cloud-based solution while integrating seamlessly with its competitor G Suite to boost enterprise intelligence and communication. Founded in , Zoho has exploded over the past two decades, currently claiming more than 60 million satisfied customers.
Zoho has led the charge in enabling a swift corporate response to the pandemic and subsequent work-from-home revolution, offering free subscriptions to its platform to its millions of SMB and enterprise clients. Zoho has weathered other crises that have felled many of its competitors since its formation, and is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year.
And with its strategic focus on its philosophy of transnational localism in the wake of the pandemic recovery process, Zoho is well positioned to see continued success and growth. In only a few short years, university students Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar turned their hustle and their drive to up their software game into a multi-billion-dollar company, Australian software titan Atlassian. The fruits of their labor, Jira, is a complete project management, bug tracking, and all-around IT management platform.
In , the company finally cemented its status in the upper echelons of the software industry with annual revenue surpassing the billion-dollar mark. The growing enterprise software company boasts nearly 5, employees in its Sydney, New York City, Amsterdam, and Manila offices. In Atlassian announced it would be pivoting away from server-based products and towards greater emphasis on cloud and data center services.
VMware is a cloud computing and virtualization technology company. As its name implies, the use of VMware, or "Virtual Machine" ware, creates a virtual machine that allows businesses to run multiple application and operating system workloads on one server, reducing IT costs while increasing the flexibility of the computing environment.
VMware has proven particularly suitable for new businesses that are growing quickly. Over the years, VMware's employees and ecosystem of 75, partners have been behind technology innovations transforming a wide array of industries, including banking, healthcare, retail, telecommunications, manufacturing, and even government. Founded in , the company is known worldwide for its vSphere VMware Hypervisor, which enables the virtualization of practically any x86 or x64 architecture.
VMware was the first commercially successful company to virtualize the x86 architecture. In the company was acquired by EMC which was later acquired by Dell in , and since these acquisitions, many more products have been added to the VMware inventory. The company now has a major presence in private data centers, cloud management services, virtualized storage, networking, and desktop software.
As businesses promote digitization with a push for remote working, VMware's offerings become even more valuable. Although the company was originally a mere online snowboard shop, it pivoted into ecommerce software when the founders couldn't find what they were looking for online — a platform for users to sell goods while simultaneously growing their brand in the digital space.
Shopify's success is now legendary. As of May , the company announced that it had more than 1,, businesses in approximately countries using its platform. In return, the software company earns subscription fees. It also offers shipping, digital payments, and fulfillment, all under the umbrella terms of merchant solutions. In , Shopify emerged as a clear coronavirus stock winner. As of , Shopify is the largest publicly traded Canadian company by market capitalization.
The upstart is now challenging the likes of eBay and Amazon. Facilitating all the ways in which people get together and stay connected while staying safe at home, Cvent offers virtual meeting management software that integrates with all major video conference platforms and event planning resources. Cvent allows businesses to create fully customized virtual work environments and event spaces, then easily integrate all relevant event data into their existing CRM.
Boasting more than 4, employees helping over , customers on , campaigns, Cvent scales to help businesses of any size accomplish their virtual communication and event needs. Based in Redwood City, California, Talend is a provider of cloud data integration and integrity solutions for healthcare, financial, government, retail, and telecom organizations.
Although the company is now strategically headquartered in Silicon Valley, Talend was founded in France in by Fabrice Bonan and Bertrand Diard in an effort to make data integration simple, powerful, flexible, and scalable. In light of the continuing need for hybrid workplaces in the foreseeable future, Templafy is positioned to redefine how enterprises connect their content across the tech stack.
Since , this fast-growing B2B SaaS company has established itself as a global powerhouse that helps clientele process business content including documents, presentations, and emails. Presently, Templafy serves over 2. Last year, Templafy introduced Hive, a new iteration of its platform that redefined the typical workflow of creating business content. Its latest cash injection will be used to help the company capitalize on its rapid growth over the past 14 months.
Indeed, since its Series C last April, Templafy has quadrupled its customer base. Since , Cloudflare has been on a mission to help build a better internet by stopping malicious traffic and optimizing content delivery.
Founded by Lee Holloway, Matthew Prince, and Michelle Zatlyn, Cloudflare is a web infrastructure and website security company that provides content delivery network services, DDoS mitigation, Internet security, and distributed domain name server services. Its infrastructure hosts well-known websites such as Zoom, Spotify, Reddit, and YouTube, among millions more, making it one of the largest networks in the world.
Unlike other CDNs, Cloudflare focuses on network security as well as performance, and the company has indicated it may enter the cloud hosting sector dominated by Microsoft and Amazon Web Services, as well as compete against Google Analytics with a more privacy-friendly offering.
In , MURAL was launched to give teams a secure, digital workspace to collaborate visually from anywhere. To do this it relies on a digital whiteboard canvas that allows colleagues and clients to share ideas and brainstorm, even when they're remote. When the pandemic accelerated the need for businesses to create while working remotely, visual collaboration went mainstream. By August , however, the company had added over a million monthly active users.
Currently the company supports nearly 80 percent of Fortune global enterprises. Stack Overflow wanted to know what new hypothetical tools is the developer community interested in. I thought that maybe this interest in all new hypothetical tools is a result of the young age of the Indian developer community that we saw earlier.
Therefore, I grouped all the developers according to their years of coding experience and calculated the percentages of developer belonging to different interest levels for every experience group. Maybe, its because the existing Stack Overflow can be quite harsh and unwelcoming for newcomers. However, the older developers are very much uninterested in this tool. Maybe its the curse of knowledge. Or maybe the more experienced devs believe that the existing tools are fine and sufficient because, well, they have made a career out of the existing ones.
Or maybe, somehow, their experience in the field pessimistic about the success of such tools. Whatever be the reason, it is clear that if the Stack Overflow team does decide to go forward with any of the above mentioned products, younger people are more likely to welcome it and India might be a particularly good country to try that the launch.
So, the people who do contribute would also mark it under non-degree education. I am not sure what to make of this. Let me know what you think. In this analysis, we saw the various areas in which software developers in India differ from software developers in other countries.
India had a late start in the world of computing, as evident by the low percentages of older developers that we saw above but software development has become incredibly popular with the current generation.
This makes me hopeful that we are catching up fast. Maybe, we will even play a pivotal role in defining the next major tech-revolution in Artificial Intelligence, maybe. You should check out my complete analysis on Kaggle for more insights like how Indian developers differ in the methods of self-education adopted, IDE used, programming methodology used, popularity of various languages and frameworks, use of ad blockers, operating system, Stack Overflow usage and more.
Also, please do upvote it or comment if you find it interesting. I tried taking this philosophy home by analysing the Stack Overflow survey data to find out how the developers from my country differed from the others. Doing this lengthy analysis has made me curious about a few other questions too.
So, here I post all the questions that I wish to ask this dataset —. The exciting part is that it is possible to arrive at satisfactory solutions to all of them by analysing this very dataset! I plan on exploring some of these topics myself. But feel free to go ahead and do your own analysis if you find any of the above questions interesting.
Also, if you found this analysis interesting, you can do a similar one for your own country. If you found my analysis interesting, I would really appreciate it if you could upvote that kernel.
Augmented Analytics. Machine Learning. Big Data. Robotic Process Automation. The team has delivered hundreds of game-changing solutions to Fortune giants, enterprises, and startups. ITRex turns technology innovation into market-ready products and solutions to help businesses gain a competitive edge, increase operational efficiency, and maximize profits. In , Slingshot was founded by Big Kids with big dreams. That mission remains 15 years later, as they have grown culture and team of spearheading developers.
Most importantly, they still define success as building software that has a profound impact on their clients.
Innowise Group is an international full-cycle software development company with key delivery centres in Eastern Europe and offices worldwide. Our team has over top-notch IT professionals, leveraging their software engineering expertise to make the businesses of our customers more innovative and successful.
Geomotiv is a custom software development company headquartered in the US, with a development center in Belarus. Geomotiv professes the culture of transparent and honest communication and strives to establish win-win cooperation with clients.
If you choose Geomotiv as your software development partner, you will get dedicated resources that excel in everything they do. The team is ready to create and evolve the project from its onset to after-delivery support and maintenance. Our core strength lies in the development of custom software and mobile applications using emerging technologies, which include React.
Our aim is to offer significant value to our clients by maximizing productivity and ROI. Simform is a top custom software development company with a mission to help successful companies extend their tech capacity. The team help you decide the right architecture and processes to follow and oversee the successful delivery of your software projects.
You run your business. They take care of your development needs. A3logics is a global IT services, consulting and business solutions company delivering best-in-class services and helping worldwide companies to drive business efficiencies. The organization is known as a Software Center of Excellence and has set benchmark for quality services and solutions. We combine our passion for perfection with expert technology ideas to achieve maximum client satisfaction, technology innovation and enhanced time-to-market capabilities.
Chetu is a leading, US-based software development company that provides businesses worldwide with custom technology solutions and software services. As a work-for-hire application development company with over 2, skilled software developers, Chetu combines technological expertise, industry-specific experience, and a passion for excellence to deliver cost-effective, enterprise-grade solutions.
Offring real-time communication with dedicated development teams around the globe, Chetu offers complete transparency and ensures all source codes and IPs are client-owned upon project completion. Sunlight Media is excited about supporting clients with personalized marketing solutions for various mobile and social sectors within the market.
The organization cultivates a variety of unique strategies, helpful and expert-driven content, and creative branding techniques to support organizations such as the City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles Hospitality Training Academy, University of Southern California, and more. Computools is a full-service software company that designs solutions to help companies meet the needs of tomorrow. Our clients represent a wide range of industries, including retail, finance, healthcare, consumer service and more.
Creating value for our clients is our passion and software technology is our forte.
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