We all have heard of big name software companies but what are some unusual software companies that makes millions every year which we might not have heard of?
In the GIS space there's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esri It's like the Microsoft Office of creating and analysing spatial data. 1 billion USD revenue, 3000 employees and private owned, making the owner a billionaire (net worth estimated 8 billion USD).
We use QGIS in our research environments because it’s free, open source, and is cross-platform. It’s the only fully featured GIS suite that Mac/Linux users can use that I’m aware of. Always looking for suggestions though.
I work for CCC IS, we make software to help collision repair facilities and auto insurers estimate the damage to your vehicle and the needed repair… only in the US, only private vehicle auto insurance… $7B market cap
Sorry to hear. Don't bill on a project basis, bill on a hourly basis or daily basis for custom solutions, and it might make sense to bring on outside expertise because there are quite a few footguns. Either way there will be a learning experience.
ServiceNow has quite a miserable user experience, but I guess their enterprise sales game is strong. They’re selling to C-levels, not us peons who actually use it.
I’d disagree. All ticketing systems suck. The pretty ones are only pretty when they are simple one function affairs.
ServiceNow sucks less than their competitors and dominates the market as a result. If you think it’s bad, Remedy or whatever the HP product was called was exponentially worse.
Today we provide a range of data solutions for over 25,000 customers and over 200,000 users across 121 countries. Which is a whole lot of solutions for anyone who’s counting.
I'm not spruiking here but it's a handy bit of kit for anyone pulling (say) land lease boundaries and tenement data from hundreds of different local government | state formats to integrate into a single XXX database (PostGres, MS, etc).
They're currently expanding from ~$70 M / year to a goal of $250 M / year .. but this is likely more through market expansion than software development.
Fugro is not a famous software company, arguably not even a software company .. but they have a lot of in house geospatial, geophysical, software ranging from firmware to desktop applications.
I have very mixed feelings about Fugro and haven't worked for them (having turned down a very good offer) but they did absorb a rather large chunk of my own personal codebase.
Probably have heard of it if you ever walked into a gas station, but Arizona Iced Tea has been kept a small company and yet they are profitable. Although some retailers charge more for it, the company has always had $0.99 on the can and it has never changed, even through inflation.
