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Our experiences are likely to be different, and barring actual surveys and research, is subjective and based largely on our own impressions and perceptions of which companies are in the news or making news in this segment.- Amazon (AWS) (Scalable on demand infrastructure)
- Appirio (On demand acceleration products and services)
- Astadia (Business consulting and SaaS solutions)
- Bluewolf (On demand software deployment services)
- Boomi (SaaS integration),
- CohesiveFT (Realtime custom (virtual) server build),
- Constant Contact (Marketing)
- FreshBooks (Billing and invoice management)
- Google Apps (Productivity Tools – Gmail, Gtalk, GCal, GDocs, GSites)
- Intacct (On Demand Financial applications),
- Intuit (Financial Software)
- Joyent (Scalable on demand infrastructure)
- LongJump, (PaaS for SaaS rapid application development),
- Model Metrics (Force.com site development and cloud services integration),
- NetSuite (On demand, integrated business management software)
- Salesforce (CRM and Force.com development platform)
- Vertica (Analytics database for cloud computing)
- Zoho (Productivity Suite)
- Zuora (Subscription billing for the cloud – more extensive than paypal – support Salesforce.com enterprise and pro editions), and
- 37Signals, (Best known for its BasecampHQ project management software, and Highrise contact management software).
Industry focused mentions go to:
- Practice Fusion (EHR – Electronic Health Records),
- Basic Gov (Permits, inspections, code enforcement), and
- Imonggo (POS – Point of Sale retail)
Clearly this isn't an all inclusive list of all the excellent work being done by numerous companies in this segment, but simply a list of those gaining my mind share. Who's gaining on yours?
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