United States : 10 Innovative Applications Companies Under $100M to Watch via IDC.Byline: Mamta03 Research firm IDC has a new list you might want to pay attention to: 10 Innovative Application Companies Under $100M to Watch. "IDC has projected 2009 as a year of accelerated adoption of new business models for applications, including software as a service and open source, as well as Web 2.0 capabilities and functionality," says Michael Michael, archangel Michael (mī`kəl) [Heb.,=who is like God?], archangel prominent in Christian, Jewish, and Muslim traditions. In the Bible and early Jewish literature, Michael is one of the angels of God's presence. Fauscette, group vice president, Software Business Solutions, IDC. To pull this list together, they solicited entries from vendors who make enterprise software. Vendors had to meet the financial criteria and demonstrate one or more aspects of three key trends, including Web 2.0 capabilities in the Enterprise, SaaS, BPO BPO Business Process Outsourcing BPO Benevolent & Protective Order (of Elks of the USA) BPO Benzoyl Peroxide BPO Business Process Optimization BPO Broker Price Opinions BPO Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra or open source solutions, and new business models for software use by service providers. The selection critiria came from the IDC's Worldwide Applications 2008 Top 10 Predictions. So who made the list? There are more than a couple of names we recognize, with a particular focus on social computing Social computing is a general term for an area of computer science that is concerned with the intersection of social behavior and computational systems. It is used in two ways. : Jive Software, Telligent, Atlassian, Kaltura and Trampoline trampoline Resilient sheet or web (often of nylon) supported by springs in a metal frame and used as a springboard and landing area in tumbling. Trampolining is an individual sport of acrobatic movements performed after rebounding into the air from the trampoline. Systems Ltd., among others. There's no specific order to the list, in case you are wondering. IDC profiles each of the 10 companies in this 9 page report that'll run you US$ 3500. Interesting to note that Atlassian, Jive and Telligent also made Gartner's Magic Quadrant The Gartner Magic Quadrant is a proprietary research tool developed by Gartner Inc., a US based research and advisory firm. It is designed to provide an unbiased qualitative analysis of a “markets’ direction, maturity, and participants. for Social Software in the Workplace. This is just further evidence of the growing strength of social software in the enterprise and its potential to displace dis·place tr.v. dis·placed, dis·plac·ing, dis·plac·es 1. To move or shift from the usual place or position, especially to force to leave a homeland: content management as a key technology. Copyright : Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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