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CONTENTS Microsoft Adobe Twilio Genesys Nutanix MathWorks Qualtrics Cvent Snowflake Zscaler Pure Storage UiPath GitHub MongoDB Dropbox Databricks Altimetrik Datadog Slack Dynatrace Toast Box Procore Smartsheet

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Coupa Software Progress Zoho Infobip Mulesoft Rapid7 Asana Anaplan New Relic Jamf SPS Commerce Samsara Appian Diligent SailPoint Miro SonicWall BlackLine DataRobot Relativity Phreesia Klaviyo Seismic Kinaxis Snyk Intercom

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CONTENTS Ping Identity Podium Tricentis Mediaocean Planview WalkMe Lucid Gainsight Domo Corel Dataiku Acquia Sprout Social Intermedia Druva PagerDuty Fastly Highspot Pendo.io Xactly ActiveCampaign MURAL FinancialForce WatchGuard Technologies

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ForgeRock Redis Clari Amplitude Tecsys iterable Replicon Couchbase Cloudbeds Amelia (Formerly IPsoft) CircleCI airSlate Pipefy Celigo Notarize Cisive Piano WorkWave Ridgeline Appspace SYSPRO Pantheon LeanData Jivox Arcoro Librestream

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M Category: Business Processes Location: Redmond, WA

icrosoft, a multinational software giant or a tech titan, continues to shape how we work, study, play, and conduct business in the digital world as one of the world's most prominent information technology architects. The company has shaped the software industry as we know it, from its modest origins in 1975 to its current stature as a household name. With locations in numerous nations worldwide, it boasts more than 180,000 people and generated $168 billion in revenue in 2021. Throughout its exceptional team’s five-decade history, Microsoft has smashed countless records and won numerous awards. The business has achieved many milestones over the past few years, including its $1 trillion market cap in 2019 and $600 billion worldwide brand value. Activision Blizzard and Nuance Communications, makers of speech recognition software, were two of the Redmond-based innovator’s most recent purchases. Microsoft is still working on getting cutting-edge technology like Windows 11 S.E.S.E. into K–8 schools worldwide as part of its commitment to digital education.

ech giant Adobe serves millions of people worldwide as one of the leading software providers in the world. Since its founding in 1982, the business has mainly been recognized for its software solutions for creativity and multimedia. A few of its well-known goods are Photoshop, Acrobat Reader, and Creative Cloud. More than 26,000 people work at Adobe as of 2022, with roughly 40% of those based in San Jose, California, where the company's headquarters are still. Adobe also maintains field offices in approximately 30 American, Asia, and Europe nations. It also conducts sizable development activities in India. Adobe, a longtime provider of conventional software solutions, played a crucial role in developing the desktop publishing sector. Since then, the business has experienced great success by adjusting to market changes and pioneering the move to the cloud and subscription-based business models. Between 2015 and 2019, its income more than doubled, helped by these digital initiatives. More recently, in the second quarter of its fiscal year, Adobe generated a record quarterly revenue of $4.39 billion in its fiscal year 2022.

Category: Publishing Location: San Jose, CA

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Category: Cloud Management Location: San Francisco, CA

eading businesses today rely on Twilio's customer engagement technology to create real-time, individualized interactions with their clients. Voice, text, chat, video, and email communication channels are virtualized through APIs that are straightforward enough for any developer to use yet strong enough to power the most demanding apps on the planet. The startup received early support from companies like Airbnb, Home Depot, Uber, and Walmart thanks to its capacity to significantly improve communication. The San Francisco-based business, founded in 2008 by Jeff Lawson, Evan Cooke, and John Wolthuis, employs more than 5,000 people across 26 offices in 17 different countries. After years of growing its private capital, Twilio went public in June 2016 and opened trading with a 92% gain on the first day. It has since maintained this pace into 2022 and produced another excellent quarter to start the year, with first-quarter revenue coming in at $875 million, or a 48% year-over-year increase. The platform has 268,000 active client accounts as of March 31, 2022, up from 235,000 in the previous year.

enesys, founded in 1990, a privately held software company with headquarters in Silicon Valley, supplies customer experience (CX) and call center technologies to mid-sized and big companies. Genesys, led by Chief Executive Officer Tony Bates, plans more than 70 billion client interactions for businesses across more than a hundred nations. More than 1,300 specialists worldwide work for the company and produce cutting-edge “Experience as a Service” solutions.

Category: Customer Management

Location: Daly City, CA

Several acquisitions have helped Genesys expand throughout time, notably the 2021 purchase of LogMeIn’s Bold360 portfolio of digital engagement tools. The business was valued at $21 billion after raising $580 million in the capital, led by Salesforce Ventures, in the same year. The company considers empathy one of its primary corporate values and intends to keep integrating it into its efforts to undergo digital transformation.

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Category: Cloud Management Location: San Jose, CA

ne of the biggest cloud computing firms in the world, Nutanix is regarded as one of the top providers of software-defined storage and cloud services. Dheeraj Pandey, Mohit Aron, and Ajeet Singh founded Nutanix 13 years ago, giving customers the tools to increase the effectiveness of their systems. It has accomplished its aim admirably, switching from hardware to subscription software last year and bringing in $1.4 billion in income. Rajiv Ramaswami, Nutanix’s new president and chief executive officer, is in charge of more than 6,000 software professionals, also referred to as “Nutants” within the business. It has consistently been praised as one of the top tech workplaces in the world by publications like Fortune and The Washington Post, and it most recently received the Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice award for distributed files and object storage as hyper-converged infrastructure software. Recent notable acquisitions have improved the company's ability to deliver and monitor applications to the cloud, including Netsil, Minjar, and MainFrame2.

ne of the most well-known names in high-end computing and data processing continues to be the private corporation MathWorks. Since the 1970s, when Cleve Moler developed M.A.T.L.A.B. as free software for academics, the company has been responsible for some of the most significant advancements in mathematical computing. It has since grown into an eminently successful software company with a team of over 3,000 employees working in 16 countries and annual revenue of close to $1 billion.

Category: Data Management & Analytics Location: Natick, MA

From its headquarters in Natick, Massachusetts, MathWorks has become a market leader in promoting deep learning, IoT, and A.I.A.I. advancements. MathWorks organizes an annual online conference called MATLAB EXPO to highlight new uses for its renowned M.A.T.L.A.B. and Simulink products. Jack Little, the company’s chief executive officer and co-founder, who created the first iterations of M.A.T.L.A.B. and turned it into the powerhouse it is today, serves as its leader.

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Category: Customer Management Location: Seattle, WA/Provo, UT

he twenty-year campaign of excellence for open, global enterprise acceleration by Qualtrics is still going strong. Ferrari, Coca-Cola, and Samsung are three of the 16,000 brands that have used the company’s cutting-edge experience management platform. With approximately 5,000 employees throughout its dual headquarters in Provo and Seattle and its other branches in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and Australia, Qualtrics has expanded significantly since its establishment in 2002. With its cutting-edge customer experience management solutions and unwavering commitment to tackling pressing societal issues, most notably it’s ground-breaking “5 for the Fight” initiative to find a cure for cancer, Qualtrics continues to make waves in the industry. A new Community Pulse program that intends to assist local governments in engaging with their residents more compassionately is one of the company’s investments in its future.

ounded as a two-person startup in 1999 just outside of Washington, D.C., Cvent has expanded to over 4,500 workers worldwide and is still run by Reggie Aggarwal, the company’s founder, and C.E.O., more than 22 years later. When Cvent first launched, it served as a platform for online event registration, making it simpler for businesses to schedule corporate meetings after relying for a long time on manual processes. Tens of thousands of customers now utilize Cvent's powerful SaaS platform to organize, promote, and carry out exciting events of all sizes, including hybrid and virtual events.

Category: Event Management

Location: Tysons Corner, VA

Cvent provides organizations with a single source of truth to better understand and enhance their event marketing, spending, attendee engagement, R.O.I., and more by powering practically every event an organization conducts or attends. A worldwide marketplace where event professionals work with venues to create engaging, impactful experiences is created by hotels and venues using Cvent’s technologies to connect and interact with more planners to promote their group and corporate travel business. Cvent helped their clients navigate enormous change throughout the pandemic and provided free access to industry publications, best practice webinars, and their Cvent Academy (a comprehensive training and certification program) to assist industry experts and promote recovery. October 2022 | GlobalBiz Outlook

Category: Cloud Management Location: Bozeman, MT

nowflake is a cloud-based data platform offered as a SaaS solution with a completely new SQL query engine created in 2012 and formally debuted in 2014. Its cutting-edge architecture was only designed for the cloud, so it cannot be used on-premises. Snowflake offers the user all of the features and capabilities of an enterprise analytic database and a host of other unique features. Snowflake, initially constructed on top of Amazon Web Services (A.W.S.), is now accessible via Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. Since its inception, the cloud database and management company has advanced significantly. The retired former C.E.O. of ServiceNow, Fran Slootman, assumed leadership of Snowflake in May 2019. The business was placed #1 on Forbes Cloud 100 that same year. One of the most extensive software I.P.O.s in history, Snowflake’s initial public offering (I.P.O.) in September 2020 raised $3.4 billion and allowed the firm to go public.

scaler, a cloud security firm founded 15 years ago, provides a platform for companies to safely convert their networks and apps for a mobile-first and cloud-first world. The Jay Chaudhry and Kailash Kailash-founded company is situated in San Jose, California, and is well renowned in the market for its cutting-edge technology. It currently has more than 275 issued and pending patents. The company’s core services, Zscaler Internet Access and Zscaler Private Access establish quick, secure connections between users and applications regardless of device, location, or network. All of its services are 100% cloud-delivered.

Category: Cybersecurity Location: San Jose, CA

The business runs the most prominent cloud security platform in the world, which is used in more than 185 nations and shields thousands of companies and government organizations from cyberattacks and data theft. The business raised $192 million in March 2018 when it started trading on the Nasdaq. Zscaler won the Stevie Award for Most Innovative Tech Company of the Year the following year.

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Category: Data Management & Analytics Location: Mountain View, CA

roducer of hardware and software for all-flash data storage in the world of data center-grade solid-state storage services, Pure Storage is a rising star. Major companies, including Toyota Financial Services, Roblox, Domino’s, and NASA, depend on the company to support their most cutting-edge and data-intensive business processes. With innovative cloud infrastructure and business transformation solutions, Pure Storage offers a path ahead for future development and expansion when clients like ServiceNow reach the limits of what existing old storage strategies can manage. The end of 2021 saw the release of Pure Storage’s new, larger version of its crown jewel FlashArray, an enterprise-grade storage system equally appropriate for the most extensive databases and cloud-native apps. The business is in the top 1% of B2B enterprises and has a single top-tier data layer for all of its 9,500 clients.

he top class of B2B software called UiPath, created by Romanian businessmen Daniel Dines and Marius Tîrcă automates repetitive digital operations that are often done by people. It benefits the government, financial, healthcare, and banking institutions. Users have access to pre-built automation components that may be used to automate normal activities thanks to a technology that blends APIs and A.I.A.I. computer vision, which simulates how humans scan computer screens.

Category: Business Processes Location: New York, NY

Since its founding in 2005, UiPath has established offices, among others, in London, Bangalore, Paris, Singapore, and Tokyo. UiPath went public on April 21, 2021, after filing a confidential I.P.O. application in December 2020, raising $1.3 billion in one of the biggest-ever U.S.U.S. software I.P.O.s. UiPath previously held the titles of #2 overall and #1 tech firm in the Financial Times FT1000 rating of the nation’s fastest-growing businesses in 2020. For the second year running, the company was ranked #3 on the Forbes Cloud 100 list that same year.

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Category: I.T.I.T. Management Location: San Francisco, CA

he open-source Git framework is used by Microsoft subsidiary GitHub to host websites for software development and version control. The world’s largest and most cutting-edge development platform, GitHub, was founded in 2008 by software engineers and business owners. It allows millions of developers and businesses to build, ship, and maintain their software. More than 83 million developers and four million businesses, including 90% of the Fortune 500, are supported by the corporation. GitHub was founded with just personal funds, and Microsoft purchased the company in 2018 for $7.5 billion. The platform debuted its Copilot A.I.A.I. tool in 2022, offering developers insights and recommendations inside their code editor. Students learning to write code can use the utility for free, which is generally accessible to all developers.

n innovative developer database platform is a crucial tool in today's data-driven environment, and MongoDB continues to provide just that. The company’s flagship products, Atlas, Enterprise Advanced, and Community Edition, enable organizations worldwide to leverage the revolutionary power of data by working with clients in financial services, communications, healthcare, and other crucial areas. MongoDB, first introduced in 2007 in partnership with online advertising business DoubleClick, uses cutting-edge technology to assist customers with their most challenging problems.

Category: Data Management & Analytics Location: New York, NY

MongoDB has rapidly developed into a well-known landmark in the online working environment. The business supports a database platform downloaded more than 265 million times by users in 100 different countries with a team of more than 4,000 software and data specialists working out of offices in 29 other countries. It is famous for its efforts in social responsibility and community engagement. Collaborating with philanthropists Bright Funds, it donates money to significant projects to its staff.

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W Category: Data Management & Analytics Location: San Francisco, CA

ith its file hosting platform and service, Dropbox, a cloud storage and management provider, has set the bar for cloud-based storage and collaboration since 2008. Chief Executive Officer Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi launched Dropbox, a company with headquarters in San Francisco, to develop a more user-friendly productivity tool to aid businesses and people in staying organized. The firm has more than 700 million registered users in 180 countries, and it has a market value of more than $8 billion. Dropbox has successfully transitioned to a remote-first workplace in the wake of the epidemic, supported by a workforce of more than 2,500 professionals. The business has also won many honors and awards, including a spot-on Fast Company’s list of the “Top 10 Most Innovative Companies” for 2022.

atabricks is an open-source distributed computing framework that offers users automated cluster management. Databricks was founded in 2013 as a UC Berkeley lab project and today has a staff of about 3,000 people. With its Delta Engine, a data lake analytics tool that is allegedly up to eight times faster than Apache Spark, the company has built a reputation. It operates in Brazil, Singapore, Australia, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Canada, and Japan. The company became a pioneer in fusing the “three pillars of observability” to enable digital transformation and cloud migration in 2018 when it made its log management software available to the public.

Category: Data Management & Analytics Location: San Francisco, CA

Beginning in 2021, the business offered integration with Google Cloud's BigQuery platform and Kubernetes Engine as part of a partnership. The company completed the eighth round of investment in August of that year totaling $1.6 billion, giving it a revised valuation of $38 billion. Two months later, it acquired German no-code business 8080 Labs for its data exploration tool, bamboolib, its second acquisition. October 2022 | GlobalBiz Outlook

Category: Business Processes Location: Southfield, MI

he Altimetrik journey began in 2012 when Raj Vattikuti founded the business to challenge the traditional method used by companies to build digital products and generate immediate, substantial results. Many businesses are struggling to leverage the potential of data and technology and create a collaborative culture, which has prevented them from moving forward with digital enablement efforts. By rethinking the conventional unwieldy big bang method that is prone to falling short of expectations, Altimetrik has assisted clients in overcoming obstacles for the past ten years. Altimetrik dispels the idea that creating a digital business is expensive, complicated, and time-consuming by adopting an end-to-end collaborative strategy and providing quick, bite-sized results. A growing list of prominent worldwide brands that the company is delighted to name clients and consistent double-digit revenue growth are both results of the company’s digital business philosophy. Demand has dramatically increased as businesses of all sizes respond to customers’ growing thirst for digital goods and services, driven by a strong global need for digital business enablement. Altimetrik partners with top Fortune 500 companies, midsize businesses, and startups to increase their agility and power through continuous innovation and rapid experimentation that accelerates growth and profitability. Altimetrik has development centers worldwide and more than 5,500 motivated practitioners.

atadog was established in 2010 by Alexis Lê-Quôc and Olivier Pomel, who met while working at Wireless Generation and shared a passion for streamlining and simplifying system monitoring. The software from Datadog has been optimized for use with contemporary apps, giving operators and developers an easy-to-understand but comprehensive view of their infrastructure. A targeted alarm system that acts before significant issues arise across the whole stack is one of the features, along with customized dashboards with real-time interaction, in-app communication capabilities, and other features. Datadog has expanded its scope to include data analytics, enabling sophisticated yet simple visual visualizations for meter, log, and A.P.M. data. With the help of its network performance monitoring, it offers visibility into network flows across various contexts and delivers immediate data on dependencies and performance.

Category: I.T.I.T. Management Location: New York, NY

More than 150,000 enterprises have signed up as clients for the business, including well-known digital firms like Spotify and Facebook, who use Datadog's services to keep an eye on both physical and cloud-based servers. The number of its employees has increased significantly; at the end of last year, about 3,200 “Datadogs” were working there. The company’s enterprise value increased from $2 billion to nearly $10 billion in just two years. Before its 2019 I.P.O., Cisco offered to buy Datadog for $7 billion, which the firm declined.

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Category: Collaboration and Development Location: San Francisco, CA

lack Technologies is the organization behind the communication hub relied upon by hundreds of thousands of users worldwide. Slack is used by well-known companies like Target, Netflix, and the U.S.U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to keep their staff engaged and developing at the pace of the modern workplace. Stewart Butterfield, a co-founder of Flickr, founded a firm named Tiny Speck at the beginning of the company’s incredible journey. A 2019 initial public offering and many changes to the company’s business plan later, Salesforce acquired the company for $28 billion in 2021. Slack maintains its perennially well-liked application from its headquarters in San Francisco and foreign operations in Dublin, London, New York, Vancouver, and other significant world capitals. The business has revealed ambitions to expand its ecosystem for digital-first cooperation into new industries, including government work, where GovSlack will serve as the new, extra-secure digital headquarters.

ynatrace is a multinational software development firm headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts that offers an A.I.A.I.- and automation-based software intelligence platform. The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform employs its in-house A.I.A.I. engine, Davis, for companies and government organizations worldwide to monitor and optimize application performance, development and security, I.T.I.T. infrastructure, and user experience. Current Senior Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer Bernd Greifeneder, a seasoned businessman named inventor of 20 Dynatrace patents, started the company in 2005.

Category: I.T.I.T. Management Location: Waltham, MA

Dynatrace is a publicly traded business with a market cap of around $12 billion and annual revenue of over $929 million. More than 3,600 workers in North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa power the business. It received three honors from Comparably in 2022 for Best Global Culture, Best Company Outlook, and Best Places to Work in Boston.

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Category: Business Processes Location: Boston, MA

group of friends who were fed up with how long it can take to pay for one’s check at a restaurant or bar came up with the initial concept for Toast. The company’s creators, Steve Fredette, Aman Narang, and Jonathan Grimm, developed a smartphone app that allows users to open a tab at a restaurant and link a credit card to it to address this issue. Toast, introduced in 2012, currently offers mobile payments, promotions, customer loyalty programs, and social features connected with restaurants’ existing P.O.S. systems. Approximately 62,000 restaurants, ranging in size from neighborhood cafés to large chains, are currently using the cloud-based restaurant management platform. Toast added server-started ordering and a service area-specific digital menu to its list of recent enhancements. The company went public in September 2021, following many investment rounds and a valuation of about $5 billion. Its market capitalization was almost $20 billion, making it one of the biggest U.S. I.P.O.s of 2021. In 2022, Toast launched a new office in Dublin, Ireland, and declared that it had acquired Sling, a communication, and management solution, adding to its success.

aron Levie and Dylan Smith launched Box in 2005, a company that creates and sells cloud-based document management, collaboration, and file sharing applications for enterprises. It started concentrating on consumers, but about ten years ago, it changed to a business user focus. The business created tools that allow Box to be integrated via APIs into popular business apps. A revamped version of the Box service with technical upgrades was released in 2011 to handle large numbers of commercial users. It also included new collaborative tools and modifications to the user interface. In 2012, the company released solutions that are now well-liked for HIPAA compliance at healthcare organizations, and this is when they started building industry-specific capabilities for highly regulated industries.

Category: Business Processes Location: Redwood City, CA

The market success of Box has prompted an international expansion that has seen the opening of offices in London, Berlin, Tokyo, and numerous other locations. Box has about 2,200 employees and approximately 41 million users, constituting 6.5% of the market for software that aids in managing, sharing, and collaborating on digital files. A few years ago, the business acquired the startup for electronic signatures SignRequest after purchasing the search engine Butter.ai. During the pandemic, it released a new feature called Collections that provides users with customization control over their individual folder structures to improve the convenience of remote work.

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he leading global developer of construction management software is Procore Technologies Inc. Procore was founded in 2002 by C.E.O. and founder Craig “Tooey” Courtemanche to connect everyone involved in construction on a worldwide platform and enhance their lives.

Category: Business Processes Location: Carpinteria, CA

The platform of Procore links important project stakeholders to solutions. Procore has created products exclusively for the building sector, including solutions for owners, general contractors, and specialty contractors. Procore can link everyone on one platform and provide unlimited storage, open APIs, and a single source of accurate and timely data because of its complete user and support strategy. The company assists the construction industry in building smarter by lowering risk, boosting efficiency, improving communication, increasing profits, and providing intelligent insights that help customers run better businesses. It has more than 11,000 customers and 1.6 million annual users in more than 125 countries. More than a million projects totaling $1 trillion in construction have been finished using the Procore platform. Thanks to its extensive selection of partner solutions that effortlessly integrate with Procore’s platform, the App Marketplace gives construction professionals the freedom to connect with whatever suits them best. Procore has offices worldwide and is headquartered in Carpinteria, California.

ased in Bellevue, Washington, Smartsheet is a publicly traded software development business known for its renowned modern work management platform. Established in 2005, the company quickly grew from a small team to a 3,000-person workforce dedicated to revolutionizing how businesses of all sizes expand and automate their operations. 90% of Fortune 500 organizations utilize its platform to implement and manage their processes by the needs of the contemporary workplace.

Category: Collaboration and Development Location: Bellevue, WA

Smartsheet has experienced astounding year-over-year growth of 43% this year, and given that its chief executive officer, Mark Mader, has said that a significant amount of its revenue comes from abroad, it appears that additional international expansion is in the works. The business frequently appears on lists of the most incredible places to work, and in 2021 it was recognized as the best firm for women, the best company in Seattle, and the best business for work-life balance by Comparably.

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Category: Finance & Accounting Location: San Mateo, CA

oupa, a company founded in 2006 by Dave Stephens and Noah Eisner, helps businesses keep track of and exercise proper control over their resources and capital. With executive dashboards, cost management, and alerts in a full suite, its various SaaS tools assist in managing purchases, invoices, and expenses. Coupa, which employs over 3,000 people today, was created with the help of Amazon Web Services and is based on the Ruby on Rails (RoR) framework. The business gained notoriety for signing contracts with well-known clients, including Walmart and the U.S.U.S. House of Representatives. The business expanded the capabilities of its platform with AI-powered supply chain design in 2020 after acquiring LLamasoft. The company added E.S.G. options to its B.S.M. platform in 2021 to streamline supply chains and lower CO2 emissions. It unveiled Coupa Ventures, a new venture capital fund, in 2021. It also introduced its Sustainable Business Spend Management software to assist business owners with their sustainability endeavors.

rogress is committed to advancing business in a technologically advanced environment by assisting organizations to fuel momentum, drive quicker innovation cycles, and quicken the pace of their ascent to success. Progress helps clients to design the apps and experiences they need, deploy them where and how they want, and manage everything safely and securely. Progress is the trusted provider of the best products to develop, deploy, and manage high-impact applications. Progress has spent more than 40 years transforming its product portfolio to prioritize client demands through innovation fueled by large R&D expenditures. Progress purchased Kemp in 2021 as part of its commitment to a comprehensive expansion strategy guided by acquisition, expanding its lineup of industry-leading technologies in DevOps, Application Development, Data Connectivity, and Digital Experience to include Application Experience Management (A.X.A.X.). The success of hundreds of thousands of businesses, including 1,700 software vendors and 3.5 million developers, depends on Progress.

Category: Collaboration and Development Location: Burlington, MA

Progress promotes charitable giving to the community and to causes related to social and environmental challenges as a business that supports inclusivity and diversity as core principles. It has created a close-knit culture that is nurturing and based on respect, trust, and collaboration due to its inclusivity, social responsibility, and leadership. According to the Boston Business Journal and Inc. Best Places to Work lists, the company was listed on Forbes’ list of America’s Best Midsize Employers in 2022.

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Category: CRM Location: Chennai, India

he flagship product of the Indian multinational technology business Zoho is the Zoho Office Suite. Sridhar Vembu and Tony Thomas created the privately held business in 1996. They did so from a small apartment in an Indian neighborhood named “AdventNet.” The billion-dollar company now employs approximately 13,000 people across seven offices, including its corporate headquarters outside Austin in Del Valle, Texas, and its worldwide center in Chennai, India. One of the most productive software firms in the world, Zoho is known for its highly respected online office suite and has a hand in practically every aspect of software development and web-based business tools. This comprises web-based business tools and I.T.I.T., such as an I.T.I.T. management software suite and an Internet of Things (IoT) management platform. The multinational I.T.I.T. company generated a profit of more than $255 million during the 2021 fiscal year on sales of more than $728 million.

nfobip, a global pioneer in omnichannel engagement with over 2,100 workers, powers various messaging channels, tools, and solutions for cutting-edge customer engagement, authentication, and security. Infobip, a Croatian company founded in 2006, offers a single customizable interface as part of a scalable and user-friendly communications platform as a service (CPaaS). The business provides services to mobile network operators and enterprises, including banks, social networks, corporations, non-profits, and government agencies.

Category: I.T.I.T. Management Location: London, England

One Equity Partners provided $200 million in capital finance to Infobip in 2020, giving the business a $1 billion valuation. Oracle Advertising and Customer Experience clients may now coordinate consumer contact tools utilizing Oracle Digital Assistant, thanks to the company’s recent announcement that its products are now available on the Oracle cloud marketplace in 2022.

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Category: Cloud Management Location: San Francisco, CA

he organization behind the standout Anypoint Platform integration tools, Mulesoft, is currently the king of software integration. Ross Mason and Dave Rosenberg founded MuleSource as a middleware and communications provider in 2006. Since then, the business has become a mainstay in the integration platform as a service market (iPaaS). With the Anypoint Platform, clients of all sizes can control how they scale and expand their businesses by connecting their applications and business equipment to the most recent data. Mulesoft recently acquired Servicetrade to further out its unified platform solutions after being acquired by Salesforce in a $6.5 billion deal in 2018. The business received recognition for being a leader in the enterprise iPaaS and entire life cycle API management segments of the Gartner Magic Quadrant. Mulesoft recently unveiled a new Universal API management system to address the complex problem of API sprawl that has become pervasive in the modern workplace.

n organization cannot afford to cut corners regarding cybersecurity, and Rapid7 takes pleasure in providing the best cybersecurity solutions supported by cutting-edge technology. With products designed for vulnerability management (InsightVM), orchestration and automation (Threat Command), threat intelligence (Threat Command), and cloud security, the company’s Insight platform are specialized to handle every facet of digital security that any enterprise would need (InsightCloudSec).

Category: Cybersecurity Location: Burlington, MA

In addition to its headquarters in Boston, where Rapid7 has 2,000 employees, they also have operations in Belfast, Singapore, and four other foreign cities. The company reported excellent 2021 revenue north of $500 million, which was significantly above Wall Street projections and represented a significant increase from the prior year. Rapid7 received Visionary designation from Gartner for application security testing for a second consecutive year, and an independent research firm has calculated the company’s return on investment at an astounding 549%.

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Category: Collaboration and Development Location: San Francisco, CA

sana, a company founded in 2008 by Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein, launched its first product for sale in April 2012. The company provides teams with expert software-based coaching to coordinate workflows, from routine tasks to massive enterprise efforts. Teams can build projects, allocate work to peers, set deadlines, and communicate openly about tasks using the all-in-one platform. The features My Goals, Automatic Progress Updates, and new connectors for Google Workspace and Figma were added last month. Asana is trusted by around 130,000 clients and millions of teams to manage business goals, product launches, and marketing campaigns. The business released its annual Anatomy of Work Index in April 2022. This analysis examined the attitudes and actions of more than 10,000 knowledge employees worldwide to identify differences and long-term trends in the modern workplace. A month later, the business and Align Technology joined in introducing Asana Smiles for Align, giving Invisalign-trained dentists in the U.S.U.S. access to a configurable workflow that streamlines manual procedures and keeps track of chores during patients’ treatments. As a result, the number of customers who spent up to $50,000 annually increased by more than 100%.

uy Haddleton, Sue Haddleton, and Michael Gould formed Anaplan in 2006; the company’s current headquarters are in San Francisco. The paid service provides business planning tools and data organization to assist businesses in making decisions that affect the entire operation, from H.R.H.R. to finance. To eliminate ineffective and expensive processes, Anaplan’s comprehensive platform is made to replace solutions that are incompatible in terms of communication. Among the several cloud-based connectivity businesses that achieved unprecedented success due to the global pandemic-related paradigm shift toward work from home, it can be listed.

Category: Cloud Management Location: San Francisco, CA

This hot streak continued in the first quarter of 2022 when the company’s total revenue totaled $169.2 million, up 30.3% from the previous year. Additionally, it has increased hiring; it currently has about 2,200 workers. Thoma Bravo, a private equity group, said in March 2022 that it had reached a binding agreement to buy the business for a little over $10 billion. After a brief renegotiation, the contract was finalized in June.

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Category: Cloud Management Location: San Francisco, CA

ew Relic offers the best cloud-based software for application and web performance monitoring, positioning itself as engineers’ ultimate authority on data. Among the many well-known firms that employ the potent New Relic, one cloud-based observability technology is Adobe, TopGolf, and InBev. New Relic enjoys offering its clients’ organizations flexible economic performance monitoring with full-stack observability and all-in-one data analysis. Chief Executive Officer Bill Staples, a former member of the global engineering team at Adobe, is in charge of New Relic. Under his direction, the San Francisco-based business has acquired Pixie Labs and defined a cutting-edge new core strategy for the New Relic One platform. The business was recently recognized as the Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for application performance monitoring suites, and its innovative Partner Stack program, which debuted in 2022, is anticipated to offer its more than 1,000 partners new training and resources.

he Minneapolis-based software company Jamf, which holds the title of reigning industry expert in all things Apple, works with more than 62,000 businesses globally to make their Apple devices as strong and safe as possible for their operations. Zach Halmstad, an I.T. expert at the University of Wisconsin—Eau Claire, co-founded the business more than 20 years ago. Jamf, which started off small, has quickly developed into a global powerhouse, with more than 30 offices spread around the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Significant relationships with companies like Salesforce and Scrive and most of the top players in technology and banking, as recognized by Forbes and Fortune, have been made possible by the company’s device management and security successes. Numerous new software products and services from the company have been released this year, enabling SMBs and large enterprise clients to manage their critical technology. The company is well-positioned for future success with a recent $300 million fundraising round and more than 100,000 members of its Apple administration network, Jamf Nation.

Category: Tech Service Location: Minneapolis, MN

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Category: Business Processes Location: Minneapolis, MN

PS Commerce was established in 2001 to improve supply chain processes for global retail partners. SPS, a Minnesota company, based in Minneapolis, offers partners, suppliers, and third-party logistics companies’ cloud-based supply chain management software. While on-premise software vendors have historically provided services to clients, SPS was a pioneer in cloud-based electronic data interchange (EDI). The company offers its trading partners a full range of software solutions in the meanwhile, as retail evolution continues to feed the need for automation. Order management, progress tracking, invoicing, and search functionality are essential. More than 105,000 businesses from a range of industries have so far selected SPS as their retail network. In April 2010, the business went public on the Nasdaq. In addition to its headquarters in Minneapolis, it has offices across the globe in Beijing, Hong Kong, Sydney, Melbourne, Toronto, and Kyiv. Officials from the corporation declared in April 2022 that SPS had grown its sales for 85 straight quarters.

amsara, a cloud computing and AI development business has quickly become one of the most significant companies for vehicle monitoring, offering next-level mastery of everything related to the internet of things (IoT). The company is run by Chairman, Co-Founder, and Chief Executive Officer Sanjit Biswas from its headquarters in San Francisco, and it employs more than 1,600 throughout its offices across North America and Europe. Samsara went public in December 2021 after acquiring unicorn status in 2018 and rising swiftly to it.

Category: Cloud Management Location: San Francisco, CA

Samsara is used by thousands of clients to deploy and manage more than one million IoT devices globally. Samsara uses the more than four trillion data points gathered over the last year. The company doesn’t want to rest on its laurels and adds hundreds of new features to its products yearly. This commitment has helped the company get recognition as one of Forbes’ AI 50 2021 and a Best-Led Company Honoree by Inc.

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M Category: Business Processes Location: McLean, VA

ichael Beckley, Robert Kramer, Marc Wilson, and Matthew Calkins, the latter of whom hold the position of Chief Executive Officer, created Appian Corporation in 1999. The company develops and offers a low-code automation platform both domestically and abroad. Forms, workflows, data structures, reports, user interfaces, and other software components that need manual coding can all be created automatically using the company’s platform. Its close to 1,800 personnel provide their well-earned knowledge to the financial services, government, life sciences, insurance, manufacturing, energy, healthcare, telecommunications, and transportation sectors. The company’s cloud subscription revenue for the fourth quarter of 2021 surged 39% yearly to an astounding $51.2 million. About two years ago, the initial version of Appian AI, which enabled AI capabilities on the companys platform, was published. In 2020, the business finished acquiring Jidoka Robotic Process Automation (RPA) platform supplier Novayre Solutions SL. Process mining company Lana Labs was also bought, giving its low-code software package an extra selling point because process mining helps businesses increase efficiency and save costs.

iligent, a provider of SaaS solutions for governance, risk, compliance, and ESG, is the world leader in modern governance. Diligent provides transformational leaders with the technology, insights, and confidence they need to have a greater impact and lead with purpose, serving more than 1 million users from more than 25,000 customers worldwide. The company's platform uses robust analytics, robotic process automation, and unparalleled industry data to give leaders pertinent risk, compliance, audit, and ESG in one location. To improve results, leaders can meaningfully modernize their governance practices thanks to this single source of truth, which provides them with a comprehensive view of their organization, the capacity to make better decisions, and a platform where they can work together securely effectively. The inhabitants of Diligent are forces for good. They are altering how their clients conduct business, which impacts how businesses are managed. Leaders can make better decisions for their organizations—and the world—thanks to Diligent.

Category: Data Management & Analytics Location: New York, NY

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Category: Cybersecurity Location: Austin, TX

eading provider of identity security services, SailPoint offers automated identity verification and access management to major enterprise clients using the most recent developments in machine learning. The company is best known for its identity and access management software, SailPoint Predictive Identity, which provides complete lifecycle management and compliance for all business technologies while ensuring that the correct people have access at the appropriate time. Mark McClain, Co-Founder and CEO of SailPoint founded the company in 2005. Since then, SailPoint has expanded from its original Austin headquarters to include London, Paris, Amsterdam, Pune, and Singapore locations. Customers from T-Mobile to Humana have utilized SailPoint solutions to maximize their workforce while scaling user access to the scale of their businesses. Its core platform allows integration with popular apps, including Microsoft, Salesforce, and Amazon Web Services. SailPoint was called one of the best places to work by Glassdoor, Built-In, and others among the finest to work for.

iro is a leader in digital planning and visualization and is best known as the firm behind the collaborative online whiteboard tool used by 35 million people worldwide. 99% of the Fortune 500 trust Miro’s ground-breaking whiteboard software, including Cisco and Deloitte. Co-Founder and CEO Andrey Khusid turned the modest notion of RealtimeBoard, which was first shown in 2011, into an essential tool for cooperation.

Category: Collaboration and Development Location: San Francisco, CA

More than 1,700 people are employed by Miro, which has offices in the major capitals of London, Tokyo, and New York, as well as San Francisco and Amsterdam. Last year, the business generated $300 million in revenue, reportedly valued at $2 billion. The company unveiled a new developer platform and a new set of capabilities and connectors created for the upcoming generation of hybrid work at its annual Miro Next conference.

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Category: Cybersecurity Location: Milpitas, CA

onicWall has been at the forefront of cybersecurity for more than 30 years. The business, originally known as Sonic Systems, was established in 1991. It provides highly effective real-time breach detection and prevention solutions and the tremendous resources of more than 17,000 active SonicWall partners. Service providers, data centers, significant distributed corporations, and governmental organizations are among its clients. Initially a Silicon Valley-based private business, it was bought by Dell in 2012 before being transferred to its present owners, private equity firm Francisco Partners and hedge fund Elliott Management. The business reported good financial results for 2021 despite a challenging economic environment, with a 33% rise in new client growth. The company's cloud-delivered goods and services have seen a 36% year-over-year growth. Additionally, in 2021, SonicWall received Frost & Sullivan's annual Global Competitive Strategy Leadership Award.

ince their manual accounting procedures are no longer viable, businesses turn to BlackLine. By automating financial close, accounts receivable, and intercompany accounting processes, BlackLine’s cloud-based financial operations management platform aids large enterprises and midsize businesses across all industries in transitioning to modern accounting. Therese Tucker, a former CTO of SunGuard Treasury Systems, founded the company in 2001 to displace outmoded Excel spreadsheets with various accounting-specific solutions. BlackLine, currently run by CEO Marc Huffman, is a market leader with close to 3,900 clients, including Coca-Cola, Domino’s, Dow, eBay, Nasdaq, and SiriusXM.

Category: Finance & Accounting Location: Woodland Hills, CA

The business recently announced the global release of its “Modern Accounting Playbook” (MAP), a solution package built on best practices to assist companies in quickly implementing BlackLine’s industry-leading accounting automation platform and guiding them through a tried-and-true process to achieve a stress-free financial close. More than 500 businesses in North America have already successfully employed the solution package, and it is now accessible to mid-market customers in EMEA and APAC. The company expanded its Solution Provider Partner Program to include BlackLine MAP across EMEA and APAC to further its focus on promoting market and client success. BlackLine partners internationally with renowned companies like Accenture, Capgemini, Deloitte, EY, KPMG, and SAP to further penetrate the combined $28B+ opportunity in the financial closure, accounts receivable, and inter-company automation industries.

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Category: Data Management & Analytics Location: Boston, MA

o democratize access to AI, DataRobot was established in 2012, and it has since developed into a market leader in AI cloud services. DataRobot, founded by data scientists Jeremy Achin and Tom de Godoy, offers a unique unified platform and an AI-native strategic success team to assist clients in quickly converting data into value. This enables organizations to leverage the transformational power of AI. DataRobot raised $300 million in Series G fundraising in 2021 at a valuation of $6.3 billion post-money under the direction of Chief Executive Officer Dan Wright. The firm intends to use the additional funding to promote platform innovation and expand its go-to-market teams, with Sutter Hill assisting with hiring plans. It has over a thousand workers who work in offices around the Americas, Europe, Southeast Asia, and the Asia-Pacific.

elativity, a Chicago-based software company, has more than 300,000 users in 50 different countries and is one of the most well-known brands in legal and compliance. Relativity Trace technology, which uses a communication surveillance platform driven by next-generation AI, is essential for upholding tight internal compliance with laws about insider trading and other potentially sensitive activities. The American Lawyer’s AM LAW 200 and the U.S. Department of Justice are two notable businesses that use Relativity's software.

Category: Business Processes Location: Chicago, IL

Relativity has won multiple honors from business organizations for its efforts to make businesses of all sizes compliant with all appropriate regulatory authorities, including nine Cybersecurity Excellence Awards in 2022. Additionally, The Chicago Tribune has consistently listed it as one of the best places to work in Chicago for the past ten years. RelativityOne, the company’s Microsoft Azure-supported eDiscovery platform, received an array of new product capabilities this year, according to the company.

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Category: CRM Location: Raleigh, NC

hreesia, a publicly listed Software-as-a-Service business with headquarters in Raleigh, North Carolina, has more than 17 years of experience boosting productivity and enhancing user experiences for healthcare businesses around the nation. The main goal of Phreesia, a company established in 2005 by Chaim Indig and Evan Roberts, is to improve the healthcare experience for patients, workers, and clinicians. By automating the registration, providing patients with flexible payment options at the time of service, enhancing appointment scheduling, addressing care gaps, engaging patients in their care, and providing them with the cutting-edge, convenient digital experience they expect, Phreesia supports its clients. Through a sophisticated platform of apps for health systems, hospitals, physician offices, and federally qualified health centers, Phreesia now facilitates more than 100 million patient visits yearly (FQHCs). The Patient Activation Measure®, regarded as the gold standard for evaluating patients' knowledge, abilities, and confidence to self-manage their care, was recently licensed to Phreesia by Insignia Health, LLC. The research and insights company KLAS has honored Phreesia Best in KLAS for Patient Intake Management, making it the fourth year that healthcare experts have ranked Phreesia as the best intake provider. Additionally, Phreesia was recently included for the sixth time on Modern Healthcare's list of the Best Places to Work in Healthcare in 2022.

laviyo, a Boston-based provider of marketing services, is a leader in using consumer data to produce outcomes for small and large organizations. With the help of Klaviyo’s paid marketing platform, more than 265,000 firms have used the company's services to expand their operations and enhance consumer relationships, with notable trailblazers like Bonobos, Unilever, and Taylor Made revolutionizing their customer engagements.

Category: Marketing Location: Boston, MA

With timely and vital market insights for clients in various industries over the past few years, Klaviyo has distinguished itself from the competition. The company is also trying to combine its services with important e-commerce platforms like Shopify and Salesforce Commerce Cloud. The company has recently won awards, including Marketing Partner of the Year at the Australian Vendors in Partnership Awards and a fourth consecutive inclusion on Inc. Magazine’s Best Workplaces List. Additionally, in honor of his contributions to business technology and advocacy for equity and inclusion, the company’s CEO, Andrew Bialecki, was nominated to The Boston Globe’s Tech Power Players 50 list this year.

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Category: Data Management & Analytics Location: San Diego, CA

eismic, a San Diego-based data management company, is in charge of giving large and small businesses alike the tools they need to grow their income and outfit their teams for success. The company, which started as a small startup in 2010, today boasts more than 1 million subscribers across 100 countries. It is known for its Seismic Enablement Cloud, a comprehensive enablement platform with essential features for content automation, sales content management, buyer engagement, and strategy and planning. Seismic has closed a successful $170 million fundraising round to support its continued expansion into new markets as part of its ongoing aim to offer business enablement through data to every corner of the world. For the fourth consecutive year, the company has been named to the Deloitte Fast 500 list, following a historic year that saw the company surpass the $250 million revenue milestone and introduce the training project Enables.

ome of the top multinational corporations in the world rely on subscription-based management solutions from Canadian software giant Kinaxis, which specializes in supply chain management, sales and operation planning, and related fields. Initially known as Cadence Computer, the business was established in 1984 by Duncan Klett. Following its IPO in 2014, it has expanded to a staggering $250 million in yearly revenue, employing more than 1,100 people across 13 worldwide offices.

Category: Business Processes Location: Ottawa, ON

RapidResponse, a subscription-based program from Kinaxis that helps partners including Ford, Raytheon, Nissan, and P&G digitally alter their supply chains, is the company’s most well-known product. In recent years, the company has led innovation in AI for solving real-world problems, and its third-party platform integration has helped revolutionize the creation and administration of third-party industrial applications. Kinaxis has received numerous accolades for its noteworthy achievements in the software business from international industry associations, most recently from Gartner, SDC Executive, and a Digital Innovation Award from Ventana Research. October 2022 | GlobalBiz Outlook

Category: Cybersecurity Location: Boston, MA

he need for businesses like Snyk is increasing dramatically as cybersecurity gains importance across almost all industries. Snyk is a platform for testing and securing web applications established in 2015. It is intended to assist businesses in identifying and resolving vulnerabilities in open-source code, containers, and libraries throughout the development process. More than 1,200 companies utilize cybersecurity technology globally, including market giants like Asurion, Google, Intuit, MongoDB, New Relic, Revolut, and Salesforce. Snyk has received multiple awards, including inclusion on the Forbes Cloud 100 for 2021, the CNBC Disruptor 50 for 2021, and the designation of Visionary in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant. The scale of the business grows along with the platform’s demand. The Boston-based company employed 1,375 people as of May 2022, based in Tel Aviv, Ottawa, Zurich, and London. Bloomberg stated in December 2021 that the business was getting ready for an IPO in 2022. Following a Series F investment round in September 2021, Snyk saw some significant financial advances, with the firm valued at an astounding $8.5 billion.

ver 25,000 businesses use Intercom’s enterprise communication products, produced in Silicon Valley. Its platform allows companies like Microsoft, Amazon, and Atlassian to interact with their consumers successfully. The privately held business, founded in 2011, employs close to 1,400 people across offices in the US, UK, and Australia. Intercom has raised more than $240 million in funding and was valued at over $1 billion in 2018; the company's value may have grown tenfold since then. The business has won honors and recognition, including a spot on the Forbes 2021 Cloud 100 list, where it has appeared five times in a row. Investors, including Kleiner Perkins, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Social Capital, have funded it.

Category: CRM Location: San Francisco, CA

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Category: Cybersecurity Location: Denver, CO

enver’s Ping Identity, the undisputed identity management software solutions leader, draws on years of experience to assist businesses in detecting fraud and swiftly confirming user identities. It was founded in 2002 and has experienced rapid expansion during the digital work revolution, opening up close to a dozen locations across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. PingID, PingFederate, PingOne, and PingAccess are some of its most notable products, and together they have been acknowledged as a significant part of the design of the global identity metasystem. Ping Identity, which reported revenue of approximately $300 million the previous year, is actively expanding into global information technologies. Cyber Defense, CRN, and Info Security have acknowledged it as best in class for identity and access management, and its chief executive officer and co-founder Andre Durand has received recognition from the APEX Awards for pushing innovation.

odium provides companies worldwide with a solution to repair their reputations and enhance client connections to address the increasingly common problem of how a firm may handle unfavorable customer reviews. Though still a small firm, it was started in 2014 by Co-Founder and CEO Eric Rea in a spare bedroom to support his father's tire business. Since then, it has driven more than 17 million interactions for 100,000 businesses globally.

Category: Customer Management Location: Lehi, UT

Podium has received plenty of praise for its immediate solution to a perplexing modern problem from other companies in the sector. After completing its initial rounds of investment and establishing its first overseas locations in 2018, the business was given the title “Next Billion-Dollar Startup” and was listed among Forbes’ Cloud 100. Podium has also been recognized as one of the most innovative firms in the world by Fast Company, thanks to its practical, state-of-the-art, all-in-one platform.

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Category: IT Management Location: Austin, TX

ranz Fuchsberger and Wolfgang Platz launched Tricentis in 2007. The business offers enterprise software packages for software testing automation and software quality assurance. Tricentis is a fully codeless and AI-driven platform with a fully automated approach that enables enterprises to accelerate their digital transformation by significantly speeding up product releases, cutting expenses, and raising software quality. Tricentis’ more than 2,100 clients are well-known companies, including McKesson, Accenture, Nationwide Insurance, Allianz, Telstra, Dolby, and Vodafone. Tricentis has accomplished several noteworthy feats in recent years, including achieving high double-digit growth in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in 2020. The business also disclosed the acquisition of SpecFlow and Neotys, a considerable increase in the federal sector, and a strategic alliance with SAP. Tricentis also received recognition from Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for five consecutive years and was designated a winner of the Deloitte Technology Fast 500.

ne of the world’s biggest advertising software providers, Mediaocean, is in charge of more than $200 billion in annual advertising expenditures. The business is renowned for its innovative use of artificial intelligence and machine learning to connect businesses and media organizations with their audiences utilizing state-of-the-art technologies for ad purchasing, integration, and management. It was established in 1967 as Donovan Data Systems, and since its 2011 merger with MediaBank and introduction under the Mediaocean name, it has been run by renowned businessman and Chief Executive Officer Bill Wise.

Category: Marketing Location: New York, NY

Mediaocean has announced the acquisitions of media technology companies MBS, 4C Insights, and Flashtalking during the past few years as part of its forceful expansion strategy. The business has won multiple honors for its technological prowess and corporate culture, and last year, it was recognized as a Gartner 2021 Magic Quadrant leader in advertising technology and a G2 Enterprise leader in cross-channel advertising. The company, which has 1,700 workers and 30 offices worldwide, uses tech-forward omnichannel advertising to promote the brands of its 100,000+ clients.

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Category: Business Processes Location: Austin, TX

lanview, a leading provider of enterprise software worldwide, has distinguished itself by continuing to offer the best work and portfolio management tools. With its innovative, agile planning and professional services automation options, its objective is to enable quick, dependable platforms and enterprise success. Since its founding in 1989, the company has consistently innovated and grown. While its headquarters are still in Austin, Texas, the company's original location, leadership has always guided Planview in creative new directions, such as its early adoption of cloud-based software as service products. Planview has undergone significant change over the past few years due to the company’s acquisitions of LeanKit, Spigit, Aptage, Changepoint, Tasktop, and Enrich, which have greatly enhanced its planning and analytics capabilities. With more than 1,000 workers, Gartner has recognized the company as a leader in the market for its use of corporate agile planning tools and project and portfolio management.

he Digital Adoption Platform (DAP) category was invented by Dan Adika, Rafael Sweary, Eyal Cohen, and Yuval Shalom Ozanna when they founded WalkMe in 2011. WalkMe can help you develop interactive tutorials as part of your internal employee training program, or user onboarding flows for new clients. Its code-free platform uses proprietary technology to speed up the digital transformations of many of its clients. More than 2,000 businesses, including 8 of the Fortune 10, trust the platform, which has users in more than 160 countries.

Category: Customer Management Location: San Francisco, CA

The San Francisco-based business has more than 40 industry honors under its belt and ten unique technology patents, with another six pending. This includes being honored for five years running on the Forbes Cloud 100 list. On June 16, 2021, WalkMe went public, valuing the company at $2.56 billion. The business furthermore operates offices in Tel Aviv and North Carolina and its headquarters.

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Category: Collaboration and Development Location: South Jordan, UT

en Dilts and Karl Sun founded Lucid in 2010, and the company has a long history of fostering innovation through visual collaboration and intelligent diagramming technologies. Organizations all over the world are enabled to identify and solve challenges in new ways thanks to the company’s classic Lucidchart product and its more recent Lucidspark. Numerous well-known firms, like Google, T-Mobile, and GE, use the company's software; 96% of all Fortune 500 companies rely heavily on Lucidchart for teamwork. As one might expect, Lucid has been instrumental in the rise of the work-from-home industry, introducing ground-breaking new products like Lucidscale, a cloud visualization tool created to aid businesses in getting the most out of their cloud environment. The company recently announced that Dave Grow, its longtime president, and COO, would assume the role of CEO as part of its ongoing expansion into new foreign markets. Lucid is continuing its effort to assist the engineering of a brighter future from its headquarters in Utah as well as from abroad in Amsterdam and Melbourne.

hrough customer-led growth strategies (Gainsight CS), product-led growth strategies (Gainsight PX), and community-led growth strategies, Gainsight’s market-leading platform assists businesses of all sizes and across all sectors in achieving sustainable growth (inSided). Gainsight simplifies customer success, product, and community engagement teams to scale effectively, achieve alignment, and comprehensively understand their consumers. This helps to boost product uptake, minimize churn, and grow customer communities. Numerous businesses use the program, including approximately 200 publicly traded firms and market giants, including GE Digital, SAP Concur, and Box.

Category: Customer Management Location: San Francisco, CA

Gainsight's CEO Nick Mehta instills the “Golden Rule” attitude in the company’s culture and product as he leads his international workforce. Gainsight recently added many software, fintech, and healthcare IT companies to its formidable customer roster, which already features software giants Adobe, HP, Marketo, and Workday.

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Category: Data Management & Analytics Location: American Fork, UT

omo is a cloud software firm with its main office in American Fork, Utah, specializing in business intelligence (BI) and data visualization solutions. Former CEO Josh James launched Domo in 2010, and since then, it has developed into one of the top BI businesses in the country. Thanks to the company’s low-code platform, anyone can create data apps beyond conventional BI and analytics. John Mellor, a seasoned business leader with more than 25 years of expertise in software and technology development, took over as CEO in 2022. He oversees over 900 individuals working in offices worldwide and is preparing to grow the company’s Utah headquarters. Among its many honors, the company has been voted Best Company to Work For by Utah Business magazine for ten years.

orel, established in 1985 as a research lab by Michael Cowpland, saw early success during the high-tech boom of the 1990s with its flagship product CorelDRAW, growing to become the most prominent software provider in Canada. Later, the business grew, opening significant operations in the US, UK, Germany, Taiwan, China, and Japan. Through a well-established network of international resellers, retailers, original equipment manufacturers, online service providers, and its websites, its products are offered all over the world. Corel’s top-notch products include painter, Corel DESIGNER Technical Suite, PaintShop Pro, VideoStudio, WinDVD, WordPerfect Office, and WinZip.

Category: Publishing Location: Ottawa, ON

Corel KnockOut, Corel Paint It! Touch, Corel Photo Album, Corel Photo-Paint, Corel SnapFire, and CorelCAD are other items in its broad product lineup. The business bought secure remote access technology firm Awingu last month and will include it in its Parallels brand portfolio.

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Category: Data Management & Analytics Location: New York, NY

ataiku has been developing artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science solutions for businesses worldwide since 2013. More than 450 businesses use Dataiku to systematize their use of data and AI, enabling a wide range of use cases, including supply chain efficiency, fraud detection, and preventing customer churn. The business was formed by Marc Batty, Thomas Cabrol, Clément Stenac, and Florian Douetteau, who collaborated to create its distinctive Data Science Studio (DSS). More than 1,200 people worldwide work at Dataiku’s offices in New York, Paris, London, Munich, Sydney, Singapore, and Dubai. At a $4.6 billion value, Dataiku raised $400 million in Series E fundraising in 2021. The company wants to empower businesses with “Everyday AI” by fusing data science and artificial intelligence into routine tasks.

he most ambitious brands worldwide can build meaningful digital consumer experiences thanks to Acquia. The Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP), which has open source Drupal at its core, gives marketers, developers, and IT operations teams at thousands of organizations around the world the ability to quickly create and deploy digital products and services that engage customers, increase conversions and make businesses stand out. Dries Buytaert, the company’s CTO, also developed Drupal, an open-source content management system. To offer infrastructure, support, and services to enterprise organizations utilizing Drupal, he co-founded Acquia in 2007. Since then, the business has expanded to provide a fully featured DXP with Drupal at its foundation. The company was valued at $1 billion when Acquia announced a majority investment from Vista Equity Partners in 2019. The funding helps Acquia continue to develop the first open DXP in the sector and advance its worldwide network.

Category: Data Management & Analytics Location: Boston, MA

Today, the CIOs and CMOs of thousands of global organizations use Acquia’s solutions to gain insights that power superior digital customer experiences to boost conversion, revenue, and customer lifetime value. Customers include leading brands such as Godiva, J. Crew, Johnson & Johnson, Lids, and lululemon, government agencies, colleges, and universities looking to leverage available technology.

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Category: Marketing Location: Chicago, IL

ustyn Howard, CEO of Sprout Social, sought a platform to use social media to engage with customers at the end of 2009. Howard discovered that, although the market catered to consumers on social media at the time, there was a lack of a business solution that would make social media work for businesses. Howard was working for an enterprise software company at the time. As a result, Howard started developing a solution alongside Aaron Rankin, Gil Lara, and Peter Soung. One of the oldest and most established social media management and analytics platforms on the market, Sprout Social was introduced in 2010. Businesses can use its cloud-based platform to operate on popular social media platforms, including Pinterest, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Zendesk. Sprout Social, which has its corporate headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, serves more than 30,000 brands and agencies globally, demonstrating both the market expansion and the acceleration of its growth rate over time. The business declared in September 2021 that it has achieved a significant milestone by surpassing $200 million in annual recurring sales (ARR). In November 2021, the firm introduced S2, the second edition of the platform that serves as the foundation for the current model, expanding its array of reliable services.

ntermedia, a cloud communications firm with its main office in Sunnyvale, California, enables more than 130,000 enterprises to communicate more effectively using voice, videoconferencing, chat, contact centers, security, and other means. Intermedia, a partner-first firm, puts its Customer Ownership Reseller (CORETM) model to work for its more than 7,200 channel partners by enabling them to expand their companies and resell, package, and manage the company's solutions.

Category: Collaboration and Development Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Michael Gold, Intermedia’s chief executive officer since 2011, has led the business to astronomical rises in revenues, operating profits, users, and product offerings. He is a veteran of the industry. The firm has won numerous accolades, including being named by CRN as one of the “20 Coolest Cloud Software Companies of the 2022 Cloud 100.”

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Category: Data Management & Analytics Location: San Francisco, CA

ruva is a privately held data management firm that offers SaaS-based data security and management technologies. It was established in Pune, India, and has its corporate headquarters. With over 1,000 workers working in offices worldwide, Druva offers the Data Resiliency Cloud, an industry-standard of at-scale SaaS solutions that provides cyber, data, and operational resilience for every enterprise. Ramani Kothandaraman, Milind Borate, and Jaspreet Singh, the company's chief executive officer, launched it in 2008. Druva received $147 million in Series H fundraising in 2021, valuing the company at more than $2 billion. The company intends to use this additional funding to fund innovation and expansion initiatives while assisting its customers in accelerating their digital transitions. Among other industry honors, the business was recognized as “Best Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Provider” at the 2021 Computing Technology Product Awards.

ew brands are as reliable as PagerDuty regarding SaaS incident response and other crucial cloud computing challenges. The business constantly fulfills its aim to give its 19,000 corporate clients the ideal digital experience from its headquarters in San Francisco and worldwide offices in Toronto, Atlanta, London, Sydney, and Lisbon. PagerDuty has quickly climbed through many rounds of venture funding since its creation in 2009 following incubation at Y Combinator to a successful IPO in 2019 and subsequent international development.

Category: IT Management Location: San Francisco, CA

PagerDuty, a regular honoree on Forbes’ Cloud 100, has received accolades from diversity promotion organizations like Women Impact Tech 100 and Diversity Jobs, as well as recognition from Fortune as one of the best workplaces in the Bay Area. The company is frequently cited as an example of community involvement and inclusion. The corporation has positioned itself to maintain its winning streak with an increased global footprint in Japan and a new entry in its Global Summit Series to promote new industry breakthroughs.

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Category: Cloud Management Location: San Francisco, CA

he online experience is being improved by Fastly to give individuals and enterprises greater control, quicker content, and more dynamic applications. Fastly assists clients in creating, delivering, and securing cutting-edge distributed applications and captivating digital experiences by fusing the fastest global edge cloud network with potent software. Numerous of the most well-known corporations in the world, such as Stripe, The New York Times, and Neiman Marcus, are among Fastly’s clients. Businesses learned long ago that delayed and outdated material can severely affect industries like online retail, travel services, news delivery, and more through diminished engagement as the digital economy started to take root in contemporary culture. The problem of rapidly and securely delivering extremely dynamic and time-sensitive content to individuals worldwide lies with these same corporations. Therefore, Artur Bergman and Simon Wistow founded Fastly to address the apparent efficiency difficulties with traditional CDNs and make it possible to deliver similarly quick, dependable, and secure online experiences worldwide. Fastly was created to return control to developers. The business offers a highly programmable edge cloud platform that gives developers extraordinary real-time control and visibility. Fastly distinguishes itself from conventional methods by dismantling hurdles to creativity and empowering developers to write and deploy code instantaneously at the edge and with a highly accessible, self-service, and API-first model.

ighspot, a Seattle, Washington-based company, provides a unified sales enablement platform powered by AI that is trusted by businesses such as DocuSign, General Motors, Verizon, and others. By combining native content and advice, training and coaching, and engagement intelligence—all supported by actionable analytics—the platform offers revenue teams a single solution to enhance customer conversations and produce repeatable revenue. Chief Solution Architect Oliver Sharp, Chief Product Officer David Wortendyke, and Chief Executive Officer Robert Wahbe launched Highspot in 2012.

Category: Customer Management Location: Seattle, WA

Highspot completed a Series F round of investment in 2022, raising $248 million with a $3.5 billion post-money valuation. The company, a multinational corporation supported by a multicultural workforce of more than 800 experts, consistently ranks among the Best Places to Work in Fortune Magazine and Glassdoor.

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Category: Data Management & Analytics Location: Raleigh, NC

endo.io is software that enhances the functionality of its users’ applications. It enables its clients to create better user interfaces for contented and effective users. The goal of Pendo is to improve the software experience for everyone. A new generation of businesses that put the product at the center of everything is now possible because of its product experience platform, which enables enterprises to quickly and efficiently turn product intelligence into action. Most giant corporations worldwide are among its clients, such as Verizon, Morgan Stanley, LabCorp, OpenTable, Okta, Salesforce, and Zendesk. Pendo wants to help product and digital executives worldwide succeed through Mind the Product and customer communities, sponsored events, and podcasts. Pendo helps businesses produce 30% more high-quality leads, cuts customer churn by 5%, and helps businesses retain clients, all of which enable businesses to lower costs. Pendo is aware that your IT stack contains more waste than any other area of your company, but it can change that. The business has offices all around the world, and its headquarters are in Raleigh, North Carolina.

actly, an Intelligent Income organization with locations worldwide and its main headquarters in Los Gatos, California, has assisted millions of sellers and businesses to exceed their revenue goals. Leaders use Xactly’s technologies to develop revenue streams for long-term success by looking beyond the current quarter. In 2005, Chris Cabrera established Xactly intending to challenge conventional wisdom. Xactly leads the market by being brave, having the grit and courage to transform, and being the first ICM vendor to use SaaS. It embarked on its journey to assist its clients with “Incent Right, Sell More.” It has changed through time from ICM to SPM with the goals of “Inspiring Performance” and “Unleashing Human Potential.” In 2016, Xactly went public on the NYSE; in 2017, the PE company Vista acquired it for $564 million. Xactly achieved 86% growth in FY22 due to outstanding leadership, a focus on the customer experience, and widespread adoption.

Category: Data Management & Analytics Location: Los Gatos, CA

Xactly’s vision is constantly changing since business today is different than it was even a few years ago, with organizations trying to expand despite disruption. It aims to help its customers in this challenging environment unlock the potential of its sellers and every dollar in its pipeline. The 17 years of proprietary data and artificial intelligence are combined in simple-to-use applications on the Xactly Intelligent Revenue Platform. Machine forecasts are accurately produced by combining sentiment, process, and trend analysis. It is simple to identify and put into action revenue plans, quotas, and territory improvements. Quick calculations of even the most complicated compensation schemes keep sales representatives motivated and on task. Thanks to these unique characteristics, the Xactly Intelligent Revenue Platform is the only product to synchronize seller behavior with boardroom strategy.

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W Category: CRM Location: Chicago, IL

ith its cutting-edge customer experience automation (CXA) platform, Chicago-based ActiveCampaign, founded in 2003 by Chief Executive Officer Jason VandeBoom, has emerged as a leader in customer relationship management (CRM) software. Around 1,000 people work under VandeBoom, which operates in Chicago, Indianapolis, Sydney, and Dublin. The business already generates $165 million yearly and serves more than 145,000 clients worldwide. The ActiveCampaign platform uses machine learning to aggregate and analyze client corporate data and interfaces with well-known entities like Salesforce, Shopify, WordPress, and other well-liked CRM applications. The company received $240 million in a Series C round in April last year, led by Tiger Global and Dragoneer, Susquehanna Growth Equity, and Silversmith Capital Partners. It bought Postmark’s transactional email delivery system this year and its platforms, DMARC Digests and Postmark Labs.

significant rival in collaborative digital whiteboarding, San Francisco-based software startup MURAL presents itself as an authority on solutions for collective intelligence. Users all over the world can design and develop anything they can think of utilizing guided visual approaches thanks to the MURAL Collaborative Intelligence System, an online real-time consulting, innovation, and leadership platform used by 95% of Fortune 100 organizations. Since 2011, the business has operated out of its San Francisco headquarters, with close to 1,000 team members.

Category: Business Processes Location: San Francisco, CA

The beginning of MURAL’s Collaborative Design Institute, a ground-breaking training, and development program for qualified collaboration designers, is on the near horizon. To change how teams’ function in the era of remote work, the company has been collaborating with the LUMA Institute. It has shown great insight into integrating relational intelligence and psychological safety into collaboration design in its solutions.

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Category: Customer Management Location: San Francisco, CA

inancialForce is an enterprise resource planning solution provider based in San Francisco that was established in 2009 and uses the Salesforce platform. With client-centric ERP, professional services automation, and customer success operations solutions, FinancialForce fosters business growth. To extract consumer insights, create cutting-edge experiences, manage a digital business, and achieve agility and resilience enables enterprises to view their customers in full color. Jeremy Roche and Debbie Ashton launched the company in 2009 with funding from UNIT4 and Salesforce. FinancialForce provides services to close to 1,500 clients, supported by more than 750 staff members based in the United States, Europe, and Australia, under the direction of Chief Executive Officer Scott Brown. The business has won many honors and awards from the industry, including the 2021 SaaS Award for “Best SaaS Product for Business Accounting or Finance.”

atchGuard Technologies has been developing tools to safeguard computer networks from external dangers like malware and ransomware since 1996. The business has offices throughout North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America, and its headquarters are in Seattle, Washington. As a network security expert, its goal is to simplify enterprise-grade protection for businesses of all shapes and sizes. WatchGuard is the perfect option for midmarket companies and scattered enterprises because of this philosophy. More than 17,000 security resellers and service providers trust its award-winning products and services to protect more than 250,000 customers throughout the globe.

Category: Cybersecurity Location: Seattle, WA

The business went public in 1999; in 2006, it was bought for $151 million. Since that time, it has proceeded to broaden its influence in the world of cybersecurity by promoting growth through innovation and several acquisitions. From 2016 to 2018, WatchGuard purchased Percipient Networks, a provider of domain name system services, HawkEye G, a threat-detection and response provider, and Datablink, a multi-factor authentication provider. When WatchGuard announced in July 2022 that Vector Capital had finalized a deal to acquire most of the company’s shares from other investors, its garnered media attention.

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Category: Cybersecurity Location: San Francisco, CA

global identity and access management software, ForgeRock was established in 2010. The San Francisco-based business provides consumers, workers, and objects with cutting-edge, all-inclusive identity and access management solutions to quickly and securely access the connected world. After Oracle Corporation acquired Sun Microsystems, a group of former Sun employees created ForgeRock in Norway. ForgeRock started its IPO in 2021 and raised $275 million at a $2.8 billion value. The organization, led by Chief Executive Officer Fran Rosch, intends to advance passwordless authentication techniques, safeguard clients from ransomware assaults, and do other things. The company generates $193.2 million in yearly recurring revenue while employing more than 700 people throughout the globe to serve more than 1,300 clients globally.

nown for supporting a wide range of abstract data structures, Redis has become synonymous with its in-memory data structure store of the same name. Redis, which was first established as Garantia Data before changing its name to Redis Labs, has expanded organically over the past ten years as demand for its open-source in-memory NoSQL database and enterprise services has increased. Redis has deployed more than a million databases to date, and more than 8,500 enterprises rely on it for real-time database services.

Category: Data Management & Analytics Location: Mountain View, CA

Redis, headquartered in Mountain View, California, also has offices in Austin, London, Bengaluru, and Tel Aviv, where it conducts its research and development. The business, which has developed significantly over the past few years, has kept its 700-person, small-but-dedicated staff and $100 million in annual recurring income. Co-founder and CEO Ofer Bengal says the business is considering going public in the upcoming year.

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Category: Data Management & Analytics Location: Sunnyvale, CA

o unlock complete activity data stored in important corporate systems, including marketing automation, CRM, email, calendar, phone, content management, and chats, among others, Venkat Rangan and Andy Byrne founded Clari as a linked revenue operations platform in 2013. Numerous sales, marketing, and customer success teams at B2B firms like Qualtrics, Lenovo, Adobe, Dropbox, and Okta have adopted Clari's platform to manage pipelines, audit deals and accounts, anticipate revenues, and reduce churn. With under 730 staff members, Clari supports more than 450 businesses globally, offering superior revenue performance by modernizing revenue operations to enhance relationships, efficiency, and predictability. The company reported the closure of a $225 million Series F investment round at the beginning of the year, increasing its total worth to more than $2.6 billion. Following a $150 million Series E investment at the beginning of 2021, the company’s valuation quadrupled in only two years.

penser Skates and Curtis Liu, the founders of Amplitude, started their business making product intelligence tools in 2012 under the name Sonalight. Since then, they have expanded it to have more than 500 personnel working in offices throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. Amplitude’s proprietary database Behavioral Graph, which compiles and combines behavioral data, is possibly its most well-known product. With the company’s platform, product teams can better understand how customers interact with a product and learn what has the most significant impact on conversion and retention rates. Amplitude Analytics, Amplitude Recommend, and Amplitude Experiment solutions are also available.

Category: Data Management & Analytics Location: San Francisco, CA

The business also offers customer support services for application training, set up during the first implementation, and ongoing maintenance. It uses a SaaS model to provide its application as a subscription service over the internet. Following numerous further fundraising rounds, the business recently got $150 million in its final private investment from the VC firm Sequoia Capital at a $4 billion value.

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Category: Business Processes Location: Montreal, QC

ecsys, a company founded in 1983, creates and markets complete supply chain management software solutions that give users the tools they need to thrive in an omnichannel environment that is changing quickly. Tecsys is at the forefront of supply chain management software as demands of the digital consumer fundamentally alter how supply chains must function. Its products concentrate on areas like warehouse management, transportation management, distribution, supply management, retail order management, financial management, and analytics, and the power hundreds of successful world-class distribution operations worldwide. The company’s main office is in Montreal, Quebec. Tecsys was chosen for the TSX30 for 2021, which honors the 30 best-performing stocks on the Toronto Stock Exchange during the previous three years, with a current market valuation of $680 billion. Looking ahead, Tecsys is set up for even more rapid growth thanks to its transformation into a SaaS firm and its desire to develop the company’s partner ecosystem.

ndrew Boni, the current Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of iterable and a former employee of Google and AdSense, founded the company in 2013. In a short period, Boni transformed his small San Francisco team into a force of more than 700 people spread across four international offices, all of whom were committed to iterable’s mission of improving the relationship between brands and customers through enhanced, customer-first marketing solutions. At the end of 2021, the company’s yearly recurring revenue had surpassed $100 million, an enormous increase of more than 400% from the previous year.

Category: Marketing Location: San Francisco, CA

iterable has established a reputation for having an open-minded, progressive company culture and has lately launched several outreach initiatives to promote diversity in the software industry. Its efforts and community outreach projects with San Francisco Recreation & Parks, Denver Rescue Mission, and other programs have won the company multiple accolades for being a great place to work. With the launch of its U.K. office, the company expanded into European markets, and it hopes that its customer base, which now includes powerful brands in 30 countries, will continue to grow.

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Category: Data Management & Analytics Location: Redwood City, CA

he time monitoring SaaS startup Replicon lives up to its name as “The Time Intelligence Company” from its Redwood City headquarters and several international operations. Its central suite of solutions, which includes time and resource management, global time and attendance, and project expenditure tracking features, assists its clients in 70 countries in making the most of their valuable time and human capital. Raj Narayanaswamy and Lakshmi Raj, the company's co-founders and co-chief executive officers, are in charge. Replicon has received recognition for its quick expansion and creative application of technology numerous times; most recently, it received top marks in the SaaS Awards and the Stevies for its sales and customer service. The Polaris product line, a self-driving solution provider that empowers clients to optimize the effect of real-time data to give suggestions to guide crucial decisions, is one of the company's most recent developments.

t took more than ten years for Couchbase to perfect its easily scalable, high-performance document-oriented database system before Membase and CouchOne merged to establish it in 2011. For Couchbase Server and Couchbase Lite, two open-source, NoSQL, multi-model, document-oriented database software packages for storing JSON documents or a purely key-value database, the firm develops them, offers commercial packages, and offers extensive support. The business has opened operations outside its California headquarters in San Francisco, Austin, Bangalore, and the United Kingdom.

Category: Data Management & Analytics Location: Santa Clara, CA

Unlike traditional databases, Couchbase can handle both structured and unstructured data simultaneously, making it a powerful data cache that enables businesses to utilize one system to do what previously took three. With a cloud-hosted version of their database that debuted on Amazon Web Services last year and has since been made available on Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, a more recent product, Couchbase Capella, is helping the firm breakthrough as a “database-as-a-service.” This achievement undoubtedly contributed to its revenue growth from a year ago to $34.9 million, above the earlier expectation of $32.6 million.

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Category: CRM Location: San Diego, CA

ince its inception in 2012, Cloudbeds’ goal has been to provide a centralized, cloud-based platform for hospitality administration to every facility worldwide. To offer revenue opportunities, optimize operations, and quickly and confidently create exceptional guest experiences, the company seeks to equip independent hoteliers and hosts with the necessary technologies. Whistle, an industry-leading guest engagement solution, was recently acquired by the company, and together they will work to integrate their best-in-class technology to eliminate friction points in the visitor journey through a single platform. After receiving a sizable Series D funding in November 2021, it has strengthened its focus on “more reservations, happier guests” by making three acquisitions and launching several new product offerings to target key pain points for operators and guests. Aiming to help hoteliers improve their operations, the company has nearly tripled in size in the last year to over 400 personnel under the direction of an ambitious product roadmap.

melia, formerly known as IPsoft, is the world’s biggest privately-held AI software provider, offering cognitive, conversational solutions for businesses. Amelia is the name of the company’s AI-based casual digital assistant, which is based in New York City and can be used by companies in every sector. Nearly 400 specialists from the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Australia work for the organization, which is dependable among numerous businesses, including Toyota Financial Services, Resorts World Las Vegas, Telefónica, and others.

Category: Collaboration and Development Location: New York, NY

Amelia has been at the forefront of AI technology innovation since its creation in 1998. Under the direction of its founder and CEO, Chetan Dube, Amelia has received recognition, honors, and awards, such as the Frost & Sullivan 2020 Customer Value Leadership Award in the North American Conversational AI Market and the 2021 Aragon Research Innovation Award for Conversational AI.

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Category: Data Management & Analytics Location: San Francisco, CA

aul Biggar and Allen Rohner founded CircleCI, one of the world’s top continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platforms, in 2011. The company had $315 million in venture capital as of the previous year, valued at $1.7 billion. As a premier supplier of DevOps technologies, CircleCI has unique expertise in the best ways to arrange data to support engineering teams. Companies like Intuit, Apple, Spotify, Facebook, and Twilio frequently hire CircleCI’s 300 staff members to increase engineering team efficiency, deliver better products, and accelerate time to market. Several significant milestones were achieved by the company in an exciting 2020, including the introduction of self-hosted runners (including Arm support) on its cloud platform, the launch of support for AWS GovCloud, becoming the first CI/CD company to offer fully-compensated paid leave for employees recovering from transition-related medical procedures, and the release of an insights dashboard for customers to monitor and optimize their CI/CD pipelines. The cloud-hosted service from CircleCI announced SOC 2 Type II certification in the middle of 2021.

nnovators on teams of all sizes, from SMBs to enterprises, may accelerate their digital transformation with the help of airSlate’s cutting-edge technologies. With the help of the company’s electronic signature, PDF editing, and workflow automation tools, anyone may start their own business within their team and digitally convert their businesses to function more quickly and efficiently. With its main office in Boston, airSlate was established in 2008 to address a straightforward issue that initially had nothing to do with workflows: how to convert PDF files into fillable and editable forms and documents. Millions of people worldwide use the product (pdfFiller) that was born out of that initial attempt today. To enable non-technical people to digitally transform their front and back-office business processes, such as employee and customer onboarding, sales and ordering workflows, and contracts and payments, airSlate has expanded its solutions and no-code workflow automation.

Category: Business Processes Location: Boston, MA

Because of airSlate’s no-code philosophy, time-to-value for its solutions is accelerated, allowing every team member to concentrate on work that will immediately improve the bottom line and the customer experience. Its range of honorable products includes signNow, pdfFiller, and airSlate. The company’s solutions are easily integrated with already available tools and infinitely flexible, allowing no-code developers to unleash their boundless creativity and completely change the digital experience.

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Category: Business Processes Location: San Francisco, CA

he business process optimization experts at Pipefy, one of the fastest-growing software businesses in the job management space, have devoted countless hours to assisting clients in streamlining and automating their workflow processes. Alessio Alionço, the company’s founder and chief executive officer, is a seasoned financial industry professional who created Pipefy to assist organizations in streamlining their internal communications and procedures. Customers using the Pipefy platform include Kraft Heinz, Visa, Toyota, and IBM, and it is utilized in more than 200 nations worldwide. Pipefy, a venture capital darling with support from Trinity Ventures and Insight Partners, ended 2021 with a series C financing intended to accelerate its impending international development. The business is ranked at the top tier of PMI’s Citizen Developer Partner Program and has received a Bronze Stevie Award for its digital process automation solutions.

eligo is an integration platform (also known as iPaaS) that clients can connect to automate various dissimilar business processes. It was established in 2011 by Jan Arendtsz. When developing its platform, Celigo adopted a more specialized strategy than its rivals, swiftly emerging as the market leader for ERP integration. To expand its dominance in data automation, Celigo introduced Integrator IO in 2016, which uses its current platform to integrate non-Netsuite applications. Celigo is on a mission to “allow independent best-of-breed applications to work together as one” and is supported by a staff of over 600 individuals working in 6 offices worldwide.

Category: Business Processes Location: San Mateo, CA

The company has developed an entire integration platform in recent years, complete with multiple levels of integration solutions and additional functionality for the most popular workplace apps. Last month, it hired Asad Siddiqui as its first Chief Information Officer to lead innovative projects for its more than 1,000 customers in the Post-Digital era.

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Category: Data Management & Analytics Location: Boston, MA

ny person or company can lawfully notarize a document online at any time with Notarize, the first online notary platform. To rapidly have a document properly notarized, you must download the app or register online, verify your identity, fill out the paper, and sign in front of a live agent. Notarize was established in 2013 by the company’s current CEO, Pat Kinsel, based in Boston, Massachusetts. It is a pioneer in online notarization, which is quicker, more intelligent, and more secure than notarizing paper documents. Notarize offers trust online around-the-clock for life’s most significant moments, from home buying or selling to adopting a kid. The business has received support from well-known investors, including Wells Fargo and Citi, and it has consistently been recognized as a “Best Place to Work,” including both Fortune and Glassdoor, Inc., in the same year. Additionally, it has been listed as one of Inc. 5000’s Fastest Growing Private Companies and one of Built In’s 100 Best Remote-First Companies for 2022. Having raised $130 million in Series D fundraising in 2021, Notarize had a $760 million valuation, which was a threefold increase from the previous year.

isive is a top provider of background checks focusing on helping highly regulated, risk-averse sectors with high-value employment background checks and industry-specific compliance services. A wide range of clients from the healthcare, financial services, transportation, and other regulated industries are long-term partners of Cisive. Cisive, a company based in Holtsville, New York, was founded in 1977 and has grown to include a wide range of distinct vertical business lines and risk mitigation offerings, such as the core Cisive brand (global and enterprise), PreCheck (healthcare), Driver iQ (trucking and transportation), eVerifile (rail and contractor), Inquiries Screening (government), IntelliCorp (small and mid-market), and CARCO (insurance risk mitigation). Employers who are very wary of employee-related dangers and work in highly regulated industries can get compliant employment intelligence from Cisive’s products.

Category: Data Management & Analytics Location: Holtsville, NY

Customers that engage with Cisive receive background screening services and a genuine relationship from a business that stands behind its work, defends its clients and offers the advice and counsel that top-tier companies require.

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Category: CRM Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands

ublishers, banks, and airlines are just a few businesses that use Piano to analyze and improve their customers’ experiences. Previously, a corporation would require data scientists and engineers to customize those experiences and determine the outcomes, but Piano gives non-technical people access to that ability. The company offers technical procedures that were previously controlled by creative marketers. To be able to report on any digital touchpoint, Piano purchased France-based analytics provider AT Internet in 2021. By sharing customer journey insights, gathering all of their segmentation, personalization, and subscription data in one location, and offering the capability to support custom data analysis, Piano customers can take their businesses to the next level by integrating this robust datastore with a reporting and analytics toolset on top of it. Tinypass, an Amsterdam-based startup, changed its name to Piano in 2015 after acquiring Piano Media, a Slovak paywall company. The business took part in a significant change in digital media that saw it go from being fully ad-supported to being predominately compensated. As an enterprise software provider, Piano is now supporting businesses in other sectors that also need to develop and provide superior customer service. In its 15 offices worldwide, including those in Amsterdam, Paris, Singapore, Berlin, Buenos Aires, New York, and Tokyo, Piano employs more than 650 people. Air France, the BBC, CBS, IBM, Kirin Holdings, Jaguar Land Rover, Nielsen, The Wall Street Journal, and many more are among the company's numerous international clients.

orkWave offers recognizable, market-leading software brands that support its field service provider clientele’s growth, customer satisfaction, and financial optimization. As the industry leader in field service SaaS, WorkWave’s relationship with its clients motivates them to build successful high-growth businesses that provide them a competitive edge in their respective sectors and provide excellent customer service. WorkWave has experienced phenomenal growth in the past year, propelling it through the first quarter of 2022 with a revenue increase of 195% overall year over year and a remarkable software revenue growth of 181%. To grow its leadership and innovation across key service sectors, WorkWave made many game-changing acquisitions, bringing together market leaders from several service industries.

Category: Business Processes Location: Holmdel, NJ

WorkWave has become one of the most significant and innovative payment facilitators, giving embedded financial solutions and instruments to its customers in the United States. It has also emerged as one of the top fintech software businesses. Recently, the business unveiled WorkWave Financial Services, a plethora of financial products aimed at assisting WorkWave users in expanding their businesses and making the most of their money. These products include the company’s pre-existing payment processing functionality. WorkWave introduced its Business Builder Visa credit card as part of this new offering, designed expressly to assist small businesses in establishing a solid credit history in their company’s name and set them up for success in the future. By fusing the strength of their close, mission-critical software-driven customer relationships with the power of financial solutions, WorkWave is developing a new business model that represents how SaaS software companies will operate in the future. This will allow their customers to collectively benefit in ways that they could not do so individually.

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Category: Financial Services Location: Incline Village, NV

he leading cloud platform for investment management is called Ridgeline. It began in 2017 by asking the audacious question, “How can technology make this experience better?” something that it’s legacy vendor competitors could not. Ridgeline is uniquely positioned to offer investment managers cutting-edge technology designed specifically for their sector. Dave Duffield, a brilliant software entrepreneur, founded Ridgeline. Duffield aimed to use his successful playbook of overcoming operational business difficulties with audacious innovation and human connectivity, as he had done with previous enterprise companies Workday and Peoplesoft. With Ridgeline, he is using that formula for the complex requirements of investment management, along with a group of more than 300 technicians and business specialists. Every component of the investment management lifecycle has been entirely redesigned by Ridgeline. Ridgeline effectively eliminates the resource drain, overhead, and operational difficulties associated with managing multiple separate systems and data sets by consolidating the six core functions of the industry (trading and settlement, portfolio accounting, portfolio management, compliance, reporting, and client management) onto a single, cloud-native platform. With its corporate headquarters in Lake Tahoe and offices in Reno, the Bay Area, and Manhattan, Ridgeline is pleased to have created a rapidly expanding, people-focused business that has been named a “Best Place to Work” by Inc. Magazine, Glassdoor, and LinkedIn, as well as a “Top U.S. Startup” by the latter publication.

he platform for communications and workplace administration is called Appspace. It is the first to integrate a current intranet (powered by Beezy), space booking, digital signage, and more into a single, user-friendly platform. Organizations can now replace expensive integrated isolated products and link their physical and digital workspaces.

Category: Workplace Experience Location: Dallas, TX

Appspace is being used by 10 million on-site, remote, and frontline employees at more than 150 Fortune 500 businesses to make work more social and exciting. With straightforward communication and space management features, Appspace’s platform aids businesses in creating unique working experiences. With offices in the United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, and Malaysia, as well as additional professionals in a dozen other nations, it offers international assistance to thousands of customers and aids businesses in modernizing their workplace environments.

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Category: Business Processes Location: Johannesburg, South Africa

YSPRO has supported its customers for more than 40 years by offering specialized software that increases business productivity and equips organizations to manage resource pipelines. Phil Duff, the current Group Chief Executive Officer, founded the business after spotting a void in the accounting software market and seizing the chance by creating SYSPRO in 1978. Since then, the company has offered solutions to over 15,000 authorized businesses on more than 60 continents. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software from SYSPRO, which focuses on vital manufacturing and distribution sectors, is scalable and accessible on-premises, in the cloud, or through both. It is marketed throughout the United States, Canada, Africa, Asia Pacific, Australia, and the United Kingdom through regional distribution centers and a reseller network.

he framework for websites that provide excellent outcomes is called Pantheon. With tools for automation, cross-functional collaboration, and site optimization, Pantheon transforms how digital teams operate and constantly sets the bar for what is possible. To tap into the power of the Internet, modern enterprises choose Pantheon. Teams may continuously develop and optimize using the Pantheon platform to provide more engaging digital experiences. Developers can work more quickly and easily with automated processes, multi-dev environments, and no infrastructure to configure, giving them more time to innovate and providing even more value to the organization.

Category: Collaboration and Development Location: San Francisco, CA

Marketers value the control Pantheon affords them since it allows them to publish content rapidly, roll out new features, and enhance site performance. Additionally, Pantheon’s comprehensive site monitoring, automated backups, unmatched speed, infinite scalability, and uptime give IT the peace of mind they need. Together, these teams are given the freedom to collaborate to quickly design, test, and distribute website improvements with the assurance that their sites will be secure and stable even during the highest traffic peaks. Pantheon’s cloud-native software’s governance, security, and collaboration tools make it simple to safely manage a single website or thousands of websites across numerous teams, all from a single platform. By hosting websites in the cloud for clients, including Stitch Fix, Okta, Home Depot, Pernod Ricard, and The Barack Obama Foundation, Pantheon powers the open web. With Pantheon, web teams can concentrate on what matters most—creating outstanding digital experiences that add value to their organizations.

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Category: CRM Location: Santa Clara, CA

eanData, a pioneering revenue technology (RevTech) software company with corporate headquarters in Santa Clara, California, was established in 2012. The company’s native Salesforce solutions help the most successful marketing and sales teams close more transactions and generate more income quickly. The LeanData Revenue Orchestration Platform, powered by no-code automation, makes it simple for organizations to scale to meet rising demand and go-to-market complexity and is essential to their ability to compete in today’s selling climate. The company’s record-breaking growth in 2021 emphasizes LeanData’s role as an essential part of modern RevTech. LeanData was also recognized by Gartner in 2021 as a Cool Vendor for its support of companies’ efforts to “increase demand, boost win rates, and accelerate deal velocity.” More than 850 of the finest B2B companies in the world currently utilize LeanData, including DocuSign, Gong, Okta, Verizon Media, and Zoom.

ivox is revolutionizing digital marketing by establishing the most individualized connections between brands and their audiences. Jivox’s Dynamic Canvas platform, which uses big data, AI/machine learning, dynamic content optimization (DCO), and identity technologies to improve media performance, increases engagement and digital commerce across sponsored and owned media, generating ROI. For managing targeted ad content delivery, attribution, analytics, and insights across all media and e-commerce platforms, use Jivox Commerce Marketing Cloud, a single technology stack. Sales are boosted by the personalized commerce marketing innovation that results from matching the right products with customers who are most likely to make a purchase.

Category: Marketing Location: San Mateo, CA

Jivox CEO Diaz Nesamoney, a visionary and three-time entrepreneur who was twice named a top 50 SaaS CEO by The Software Report, predicted that digital commerce would be a significant source of revenue and helped Jivox file for and eventually receive the first eCommerce purchase prediction engine patent in the industry in 2020. Following the launch of IQ Blaze, the real-time event processing and analytics infrastructure for gathering consented real-time consumer engagement events from advertisements and content delivered by Jivox, as well as data collection endpoints on a brand’s website or app, Jivox was named one of the Top 25 Data Software Companies of 2022 by The Software Report in February 2022. Jivox’s announcement of 43% annualized recurring revenue growth earlier this year, 96% gross revenue retention, and 140% net revenue retention showed that digital marketing leaders are embracing first-party data-driven customization. Numerous well-known businesses, like Electronic Arts, Marriott International, Mazda, Nestle, T-Mobile, Unilever, and others, trust Jivox.

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Category: HR Processes Location: Scottsdale, AZ

ontractors and construction organizations have unique personnel management demands, and Arcoro provides a suite of modular software that enables them to properly handle them. The only HR technology company specializing in the construction sector is Arcoro, which offers services to assist businesses in recruiting, managing, and expanding their professional, skilled trade, and back office workforces. Application tracking, onboarding, learning management, core HR, benefits, ExakTime time/attendance monitoring, pay management, performance management, and succession planning are all included in Arcoro's suite of modules. Businesses may decide to use some or all of the modules, and many starts with one or two before expanding as their requirements or organizations develop. Arcoro’s modules integrate with other construction technology, such as project management, manpower management, and accounting systems. To guarantee a flawless experience for consumers, Arcoro maintains solid ties with other top providers of construction technology. In North America, Arcoro is relied upon by more than 10,000 contractors and construction firms of all sizes to assist with their HR requirements. Over a million contractors use an Arcoro product to clock in and out daily. Arcoro works hard to provide employees with the most outstanding experience possible, both in the office and on the job.

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ibrestream, established in 2003 and has its corporate headquarters in Winnipeg, Manitoba, changes workforces with cutting-edge AR and AI technologies that scale knowledge across enterprises to improve security, effectiveness, and resilience. Librestream enables remote teams and workers to have immediate access to the information, resources, relevant data, and direction they need to address business challenges with the Onsight augmented reality knowledge platform. The workforce transformation platform is safe, secure, and always trustworthy. It is made to survive challenging conditions and deliver high-quality video with less bandwidth. For Librestream's customers to always have the appropriate tool for every field environment, Onsight includes a variety of specialized software solutions, ranging from Onsight Connect remote expert guidance to Onsight Flow digital work instructions software on mobile devices, wearables, or computers to Onsight Workspace, a specialized content solution for industrial teams. Onsight is designed for businesses and complies with strict security, network, and infrastructure specifications. Today, Fortune 2000 customers use the Onsight augmented reality platform to improve workforce safety, efficiency, and resiliency across various industries with combined annual revenues of $3.2 trillion.

October 2022 | GlobalBiz Outlook

Category: Business Processes Location: Winnipeg, MB, & Raleigh, NC