Aptly known as the "Customer Company," Salesforce has a mission to build bridges between companies and customers, fostering meaningful connections that drive business success. Based in San Francisco, California, Salesforce is the global leader in customer relationship management (CRM) software. This Knowledge Leader recognizes that...
Tech giant Microsoft is on a mission to use technology to solve some of the world's most pressing problems. From improving accessibility for people with disabilities through AI-driven solutions like Seeing AI, to democratizing education through platforms like Microsoft Teams, the company is leveraging its...
Based in Yokohama, Japan, Lasertec makes advanced inspection tools for semiconductor manufacturing. Using optical technology, its systems find defects too tiny to be seen by the human eye. In the semiconductor manufacturing process, defects may appear first on the photomask layer of a chip. If...
Akamai Technologies has deployed the most pervasive, highly distributed content delivery network in the world. With about 345,000 servers in about 135 countries, the Akamai Edge platform delivers and protects content for the majority of the major media, software and cloud computing companies operating today....
Shopify is a leader in commerce solutions that allow merchants to set up online stores and sell their products. The firm’s tools power millions of entrepreneurs in more than 175 countries including brands as large as Netflix, Allbirds, and Tupperware. The firm was founded in 2006...
Salesforce is the No. 1 provider of customer relationship management (CRM) software in the world. Its flagship Customer 360 platform is designed to help businesses identify prospects, close deals, service customers and drive future growth. The firm was founded in 1999 in a small San Francisco...
OneSpan makes digital authentication software for corporate cybersecurity. With technologies including multi-factor and passwordless authentication, transaction authorization, and e-signatures, its products have helped prevent billions of dollars in fraud. Founded in 1984, in Chicago, Illinois, as Vasco, the fledgling cybersecurity consulting company soon acquired ThumbScan, inventor...
Netscout delivers cybersecurity software and services that protect large corporate networks from attacks, optimize performance, and navigate near-constant upgrades to adapt to the latest technology trends. In addition, Netscout is a tier 1 operator of 5G, assisting carriers to launch new 5G networks and protect...
Headquartered in Brookfield, Connecticut, Photronics is a world leader in the critical photomasks used to manufacture semiconductor wafers. Photomasks are those glass or quartz plates that contain microscopic images of electronic circuits. They are unique to each customer’s design, confidential, and manufactured in layers of...
For more than 100 years, Belden has been a leader in designing and manufacturing the cables and wires connecting the infrastructure that controls our roads, buildings, factories, energy supplies and homes. Founded in 1902 by Joseph C. Belden in Chicago, Illinois, the firm’s first breakthrough...
Headquartered in Spring, Texas, with offices around the world, Hewlett Packard Enterprise helps businesses realize the power of their enterprise data. This means they engineer and sell all the computing tools, storage, software, and services to harness a company’s data from the cloud, as they...
Headquartered in Brisbane, Australia, TechnologyOne is Australia’s leading enterprise software company. The firm’s flagship product is an enterprise resource planning software platform called the SaaS platform--SaaS being short for “software as a service.” The benefit of SaaS is there is no hardware or software to...
Seiko Epson makes printers and printing solutions for everywhere from the home to office to large industrial settings, projectors and smart glasses, manufacturing robots, sensors, powders and films for semiconductor and automotive factories, and, last but not least, classic Seiko watches. Founded in 1941 in Japan,...
Global instruments leader Shimadzu was founded in 1875 in Kyoto, Japan, when Buddhist altar craftsman Genzo Shimadzu had a dream to build educational chemistry and physics instruments to promote a widespread understanding of science in society. Since the equipment didn’t exist yet in Japan, he...
