Introducing Company Profiles: Highlighting Today's Cloud Computing Leaders
Cloud computing is defined as much by the companies delivering these new services, as it is by technology or anything else. Our company profiles highlight the leaders in this emerging market, with new ones added weekly.
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Company Profiles
Akamai
Akamai has, almost literally, been at the center of the explosion of the Internet with their solutions to help improve the performance of everything from accessing email, watching a video, or using a web-based application. With the ascendancy of cloud computing, the requirements placed on the...
Appirio
Cloud computing and, specifically, Software as a Service (SaaS) represent an important evolution of technology, computing and business transformation. Benefits such as greater flexibility, capacity on-demand, and lower total cost of ownership are well known to those following on-demand or cloud-...
Aravo
Aravo, founded in 2000, delivers Software as a Service (SaaS) supplier management, risk management, and sustainability management solutions to Fortune 500 and small and medium sized businesses around the world. All of Aravo's solutions leverage the Supplier Information Management (SIM) platform,...
Bluewolf
Cloud computing, in general, and Software as a Service (SaaS) in particular represent a profound evolution of technology and computing. Benefits such as greater flexibility, capacity on-demand, and a lower total cost of ownership are well known to those following the trend. However, without the...
Box.net
Box.net, a software as a service (SaaS) provider of content management, has garnered a lot of press since it was founded in 2005. Creative advertising campaigns, a simple tag-line ("sharing should be simple") and positioning themselves as an alternative to Microsoft SharePoint has all certainly...
Cisco
Cisco, well-known for its success in supplying the bits and pieces that form a company's network backbone, does not lack for ambition. It has built its router and switch business into a $36 billion behemoth, allowing it to invest in related markets, such as consumer products, unified communications...
Dell
Michael Dell has been busy reinventing the company that bears his name. Everyone knows his college dorm-room-to-riches tale, so to discount his vision and drive would be foolish. And, as it turns out, cloud computing is a central piece of his turn-around strategy, along with a push into...
FinancialForce.com
FinancialForce.com is the evolution of financial software specialist CODA 2go and was launched by Unit 4 Agresso, its parent company, in conjunction with the stake from Salesforce.com. It's built on the Force.com platform - Salesforce.com's application development platform as a service (PaaS) - and...
GetApp.com
GetApp.com is organizing the largest vendor independent online marketplace for business cloud-based applications. Businesses of all sizes come to GetApp.com to find, compare and choose from a wide range of enterprise applications efficiently organized and categorized with rich information for easy...
Google Apps
Google began a billboard campaign in early August across four cities -- Boston, Chicago, New York and San Francisco -- to get the word out that Google Apps means business. They called it "Going Google" and stated in clear terms what everyone should know, like "Ah. Going Google means switching to...
HP
HP brings a range of products and services to market for customers who want to take advantage of cloud computing. They offer distinct solution sets for Infrastructure as Service (IaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS). HP has on-demand software and professional services an organization can use to...
IBM
IBM has the breadth and depth from across it's business units -- software, hardware, and services -- to allow it to play a significant role in the advent of cloud computing. They have a wide range of cloud computing offerings across each pillar -- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a...
Keynote Systems
Keynote Systems' on-demand test and measurement solutions show customers, in real-time and from an end-user's perspective, how their web business performs at the application, transaction and infrastructure level. Real-time analysis and trouble-shooting is increasingly important as more companies...
LongJump
LongJump, part of Relational Networks, provides both Software as a Service (SaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) to enterprises, independent software vendors (ISVs), and service providers (SPs). The LongJump Business Application Platform helps companies speed application design, deployment, and...
Microsoft
When Ray Ozzie announced Microsoft's formal entry into cloud computing with the Azure Services Platform he stated, "We have introduced a game-changing set of technologies that will bring new opportunities to Web developers and business developers alike. The Azure Services Platform...gives our...
Monitis
Monitis provides comprehensive systems management and monitoring Software as a Service (SaaS) that can be run in a public cloud like Amazon EC2 or, deployed as an internal, private cloud. Their solutions help reduce application and network downtime, while improving efficiency of IT; Monitis can...
NetSuite
NetSuite is a provider of Software as a Service (SaaS) business applications that are completely integrated and include ERP/accounting, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and E-Commerce. They're designed for small and medium-sized businesses to run managed key business operations via a single...
New Relic
As much as cloud computing is an evolution of how information technology gets delivered, it's also a convergence of factors that are technological as much as cultural. An example of this is the dramatic increase in the use of Ruby and Ruby on Rails by web developers. Geva Perry hit on this when he...
Oracle
In September 2008, Larry Ellison said, "The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we've redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do. I can't think of anything that isn't cloud computing with all of these announcements." Before finishing, he pulled back a little and...
Pentaho
The open source business intelligence and data integration leader, Pentaho Corporation provides a comprehensive BI suite that includes capabilities for data integration/ETL, modeling, data mining, analysis, reporting and dashboards. The Pentaho BI suite supports the company’s Agile BI initiative,...
PerspecSys
Security and privacy are areas that continue to come up time and again with cloud computing. Storing and sharing sensitive data is central to most people's concerns with cloud-based services. Of course, to be fair, such concerns are always paramount to users whether stored on-premise or not. For,...
Qualys
Qualys is one of the leading providers of on-demand security risk management and compliance management solutions. Security and compliance needs have grown in tandem with the growth of the internet and the drive to open a company to customers, suppliers, partners and employees. Qualys' Software as a...
RightScale
RightScale provides a cloud computing management solution to enable companies to design, deploy, manage, and automate business-critical applications in the cloud, whether in a public (e.g. Amazon, Google App Engine, GoGrid) or private cloud. RightScale's software as a service (SaaS) solution brings...
Salesforce.com
Salesforce.com is probably the best known cloud computing provider in the market by virtue of the fact that they've been so successful as a vendor of on-demand Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Since its inception and founding in 1999 by Marc Benioff, they've helped lead the way in delivering...
Savvis
Savvis was formed by the merger of two companies with several years experience and expertise in high-performance private IT infrastructure and internet services. Initially targeting the financial services industry, they expanded and went public in 2000. Today, Savvis opeates 28 data centers...
Skytap
Skytap is a leading provider of self-service cloud automation solutions for dynamic workloads, including application development, testing, virtual training, ERP migration and sales demonstration projects. Skytap enables users to run enterprise applications unchanged in the cloud, collaborate...
SOASTA
At a recent cloud computing conference, one of the keynote speakers asked how long cloud computing has been around. Most answered a year or two; the correct answer was 10 years with the launch of Salesforce.com. And while many associate cloud computing with Salesforce or Amazon, on-demand CRM, or...
Sonian
Cloud computing is often described as a disruptive shift in the IT landscape. Sometimes that can be misconstrued as a one-time event, rather than a process that will occur over time. In fact, the way cloud computing is transforming how businesses operate can be seen in some very practical ways....
SuccessFactors
SuccessFactors delivers an integrated suite of talent and performance management solutions to organizations of all sizes through the Software as a Service (SaaS) model. Over the years, companies have learned that the most valuable asset they have is their employees. SuccessFactors solutions help...
SugarCRM
SugarCRM bills itself as the leader in commercial open source Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software. SugarCRM is a complete set of integrated CRM applications that cover sales, marketing, support, reporting, mobile, and collaboration. There are three versions available with subscription-...
Taleo
Taleo's value can be assessed in two ways. First, there's the understanding that managing and developing the talent of a organization is critically important to its overall success. Often, companies look at human resources in transactional terms. But, a holistic workforce approach views talent and...
Workday
Workday was founded in 2005 by Dave Duffield, the former founder and CEO of PeopleSoft. They tout their solutions as "the opposite of ERP," meaning they've built their solutions from the ground-up for cloud computing by harnessing the power and flexibility inherent in delivering Software as a...
Zoho
Zoho offers a number of Software as a Service (SaaS) business, productivity, and collaboration applications for individuals, as well as, small and medium-sized businesses. Their suite of office productivity tools consists of many free applications like email, chat, word processing, and spreadsheets...
