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Globant – Reinventing Businesses With Their Innovative Ideas.

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The time is always running, and there are lots of changes that occur with every passing second. These changes are necessary for life and for the improvement of lifestyle. This is the same motto of Globant, a software company based in Luxembourg. The company always talks about reinvention and walking with the time, accepting all the changes. Globant helps its peers to transform their work conditions using digital and cognitive means. The company is just twenty years old but had made a special place in the IT industry through its innovative ideas and unique products. Since the ideas are based on new technologies, AI and behavior-based science are the prime technologies that it uses to build its software. Globant is not only a good service provider but it is also a great employer supporting a self-mastery work culture for its employees to help them grow their skills while working at Globant.

About Globant

Martín Migoya, Guibert Englebienne, Martín Umaran and Néstor Nocetti are behind the idea of Globant. The company was founded in 2003, establishing its headquarters in Luxembourg City. It is a software development company, and its primary area of service includes Software Development, Infrastructure Management, Mobile application development, Social Networks Development, Mainframe Migration, etc. Apart from Luxembourg, Globant has established offices in Argentina, the U.K, Canada, the U.S., India, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Spain, Chile, Uruguay, Romania, France, etc. The company trades as a public company on New York Stock Exchange with the ticker name GLOB. As per the year 2020 records, the company is home to over 25000 employees and had made annual revenues worth US$814.1 million for the same financial year.

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The Founding

Four friends, Martín Migoya, Guibert Englebienne, Martín Umaran and Néstor Nocetti, conceived the idea of Globant, while sitting in a bar. They founded the company in 2003 in Luxembourg, putting up some funds from their personal savings. Just in one year, they opened their first international office in the U.K. in 2024, and in 2005, they opened their second Development GOV Center in Argentina, leading to the opening of multiple development centers in different parts of Argentina in the further years. Later, the company established its multiple offices in different pasts of American, Asian, and European continents. The company was also named the Endeavor Entrepreneur in 2005.

In 2007, Globant acquired the CMMI certificate, and the next year, it closed a financing round worth US$13MM, Riverwood Capital and FTV Capital being the prime investors. The same year, the company had hired over 100o employees globally. By 2010, Globant had opened eight studios, and it had expanded into industries like gaming, big data, cloud computing, creative and social, consumer experience, enterprise communication and mobile engineering, etc.
Globant had started to get recognition for its work from the very beginning, and Global Services Magazine had named it Global Services Magazine in 2005, whereas Gartner recognized it as a Cool Vendor in Business Process Services 2010. Globant was also featured as one of the world’s top 10 most innovative companies in South America by FastCompany. In 2014, the company went public on NYSE.

The further expansion of Globant included some major acquisitions, including Accendra (2008), Openware (2008), Nextive (2011), Clarice Technologies (2015), PointSource (2017), Ratio (2017), Small Footprint (2018), Avanxo (2019), Belatrix Software (2019), BiLive (2020), grupoAssa (2020), Xappia (2020), CloudShift (2021), Habitant (2021), Walmeric (2021), etc.

The CEO at Globant

Martín Migoya is one of the co-founders and the CEO of Globant. Martin went to La Plata University to pursue a bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering and completed his master’s degree in Business Administration from CEMA University.
Migoya is recognized as a global leader and one of the most successful entrepreneurs. Under his leadership, Globant has seen extended growth. Martin has won multiple awards for his work in the software industry, including Endeavor Entrepreneur in 2005, one of the most distinguished Argentine businessmen of 2009, America Economía Magazine’s Excellence Award 2009, Konex Award as one of the most innovative entrepreneurs of 2008, and Emerging CEO of the Year 2013, etc. In 2005, he became the CEO of Globant.

MongoDB Inc.

MongoDB Inc. – Providing Flexible Options To Build Modern Database.

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The first programming language was the biggest step towards the growth we see in the IT industry today. Starting from C, C++, then Java, we have come a long way. Today, with more flexibility as well as more options, these newly developed programming languages and frameworks reduce the burden for the developers to a large extent. Thus, they can produce products that are innovative and fulfill all the needs of ‘today’. When we are talking about languages, we can’t forget the revolutionary progress in the DataBase industry as well. The past ten to twenty years have been the years of growth for DB as well. Oracle, MySql, and Microsoft SQL have been some traditional database languages we are well aware of. But today, developers have come with more flexible options like MongoDB and CouchDB that are more scalable and agile. The founders of MongoDB are some young professionals who built the language under the company name MongoDB Inc.

About MongoDB Inc.

MongoDB Inc. is a 15 years old company, initially known as 10gen Inc. The company headquarters is based in New York City, U.S., and it offers its services worldwide. It is a publically held company and trades on Nasdaq as MDB. The co-founders of MongoDB include Kevin P. Ryan, Eliot Horowitz, and Dwight Merriman, whereas Dev Ittycheria is the CEO of the company. As of January 2021, over 2500 people worked for MongoDB, and it made annual revenues worth US$590 million for the same financial year. The company is mainly known for its product MongoDB, and it has released nineteen versions of the same. MongoDB Community Server, MongoDB Enterprise Server and MongoDB Atlas are three of its editions.

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Founding MongoDB Inc.

MongoDB Inc. is founded by the same team behind DoubleClick. The founders included Dwight Merriman, Eliot Horowitz, and Kevin Ryan. At DoubleClick, three co-founders worked mostly with databases, where they struggled with its scalability and agility. This struggle led to the idea of founding MongoDB Inc.
In 2007, they started 10gen Inc., which later became MongoDB Inc. Flybridge Capital Partners, RedHat, Intel Capital, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Sequoia Capital and Union Square Ventures were some of the first investors, investing a sum of $81 million in venture capital funding for the establishment of the company. The company first focused on developing a platform as a service-based open-source product for its customers that would use cloud architecture. But later, the plan of the product turned towards building a document-oriented database system, a revolutionary product that was about to change the fate of the company. This system became MongoDB.

The first version of MongoDB came in 2009 as an open-source product, and till 2021, 19 version of the same has been released. By 2010, MongoDB started to expand overseas and opened offices in London, Dublin, Barcelona as well as Sydney. The company had a name change from 10gen Inc to MongoDB Inc., on the name of its flagship product, in August 2013. MongoDB Inc. had its first IPO in October 2017 and went public on Nasdaq. It had its second IPO in the year 2021.

The CEO at MongoDB Inc.

Dev Ittycheria is the current CEO at MongoDB Inc. He is a well-known entrepreneur and a venture capitalist. Dev possesses vast experience of working in the software industry as well.

Dev is a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University. He has worked with companies like AT&T, Teleport Communications Group, Applica, and Breakaway Solutions, in various executive positions. Dev is also the co-founder of BladeLogic and served the company as the CEO as well as the President for six years. He is also been on the board of companies like Signpost, Bazaarvoice, AppDynamics, and DataRobot, etc. In September 2014, Dev joined MongoDb Inc. as the President and CEO.

Wipro

Wipro – India’s One Of The Largest Multinational Conglomerates Founded During The British Period.

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Wipro, founded in 1945, is one of the largest employers in India. It is a multinational company that was featured in Forbes Global 2000 list as well as Fortune India 500 list. It has more than 230,000 employees and has customers around the globe. Only one year after establishing the company, it was taken public in 1946 and was listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and National Stock Exchange of India. Azim Premji, an Indian businessman, and engineer is the main brain behind the company. The current CEO of the company is Thierry Delaporte.

About Wipro

Wipro, though started out as a company for manufacturing vegetable and refined oil, has expanded to many other sectors in the last seven decades. It has launched health care, personal care, lightning products, etc, and offers services such as consulting and outsourcing. Wipro has also been a recipient of many prestigious awards and honors. In 2010, Wipro was given the Microsoft Country Partner of the Year Award for India. After a couple of years, it also ranked 2nd in the list of Global 500 Green companies by Newsweek. Subsidiaries of Wipro are Appirio, Topcoder, Capco, and Designit.

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Founding Days

Mohamed Premji incorporated Wipro in Alamner, India as Western Inia Products. Later, the company’s name was abbreviated to Wipro. The company initially became a manufacturer of various kinds of cooking and edible oil under the trade names of Kisan, Camel, and Sunflower. The company was slowly growing and it was in 1966 that Mohamed Premji passed away giving the reigns to his son, Azim Premji. He became the Chairman of the company only at the age of 21. It was under Azim Premji’s leadership and guidance that took Wipro into the IT industry, for what it is famous today. It was during the 1970s that Company gradually started finding opportunities in the IT and computing industry. So, in 1977 the company’s name was changed from Western India Vegetables Products Limited to Wipro Products Limited.

After the IT industry, Wipro also expanded its product line by introducing beauty products, hydraulic cylinders, and industrial cylinders. In 1989, the company started a partnership with General Electric for expanding into the healthcare sector by manufacturing diagnostic and imaging products. The company also launched its fluid power division and toiletries product line for babies. In 1995, the company also set up an overseas design center for international clients. By the end of the decade, the company acquired Wipro Acer and introduced new products like Wipro SuperGenius personal computers. The company also started offering internet services in India after starting a joint venture with a Dutch company. In 2000, Company got listed on New York Stock Exchange.

Expansion and Success

The next decade started with a huge success as Wipro became the first software company in India to be ISO 14001 certified. Wipro started a new product line of CFL under the brand name Wipro Smartlite. The company also partnered with Intel for i-Siksha. Wipro also started acquiring several companies starting with cMango Inc in 2006, Oki Techno Centre Singapore Pte Ltd (OTCS) in 2007, and establishing an R&D partnership with Nokia Siemens Network.

In 2008, the company entered into the clean energy business and acquired the global oil and gas division of SAIC. Some of the other companies that Wipro acquired in the following years are Promax Applications Group, Appirio, Rational Interaction, Capco, etc. Recently, Company has also partnered with IBM software systems to launch its 5G solutions. It also expanded its business to Bangladesh a few years ago and extensively invested in the European market.

About Azim Premji

Azim Premji is the founder chairman of Wipro who took responsibility for the business after his father passed away. He was born in a Gujarati Muslim family in Bombay. Azim Premji completed his graduation from Standford University and returned back to India immediately and started working for the company. In 2005, he received Padma Bhushan for his contribution to trade and commerce.

Inspur

Inspur – The Third Largest Server Providers In The World.

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There have been times when many things were considered impossible, like having a personal computer in every household or people walking and talking on the phone at the same time. And, looking at the past twenty years, these have been the most amazing years for the IT industry, as in those two decades we have moved from PCs to laptops, from landlines to smartphones, and multiple people are able to work on the same project on the cloud without being at the same place. Cloud computing, big data, and artificial intelligence are the current hot topics, and companies working on them are doing the most innovative work of all. Inspur Group Co. Ltd. is one such company that is using its innovative ideas to improve the cloud and server technologies to achieve excellence.

About the Company

Inspur or the Inspur Group is the cloud computing and big data IT conglomerate that has been in the industry for the past 77 years. It was founded as Langchao but had a name change in 2006 with the name Inspur. The company belongs to the IT industry working on computer hardware, software, and servers. The major products by the company include cloud computing, servers, storage, artificial intelligence, etc. Venezolana de Industria Tecnológica, C.A. is one of the subsidiaries of company, and its various working divisions are Inspur Information, Inspur Software, Inspur International and Huaguang Optoelectronics. The company is a publically traded company and trades on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, Shenzhen Stock Exchange, and Stock Exchange of Hong Kong. As per the 2015 records, the company made revenues worth 63.2 billion yuan for FY2015.

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The Founding

Inspur Group was founded in 1945 in Shandong, China, and has its headquarters based in the same city. The company has four wings, i.e., Inspur Information, Inspur Software, Inspur International, and Inspur Huaguang, which works on technologies like cloud data centre, cloud services & big data, smart city, and smart enterprises. Though the company is 77 years old, it started its technology journey 40 years ago.

Inspur built China’s first PC in 1983. It also started to make servers in the early 90s, where it released a series of computers for China and the international market. In 1993, the company built China’s first micro-server. Later, in 2005, the company received investments from Microsoft as well as signed a contract with VMware to work on the emerging cloud computing technology. In the same year, the company also won the top prize in the “Information Industry Major Technological Invention Award”. The company also acquired Qimonda AG’s research division in 2009 for a sum of around US$4 million.

Inspur introduced China’s first 32-socket high-end fault-tolerant computer in 2011 and became the world’s fifth company to make such computers independently. In 2015, the company recorded annual revenues worth 63.2 billion yuan. It also joined multiple open computing organizations as a member, including SPEC (Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (2014), OpenStack (2014), OCP Open Compute Project ( and 2017), ODCC (Open Data Center Committee), etc. The major clients of the company include big-name enterprises and many governments belonging to more than 100 countries and regions.

The CEO at Inspur

Sun Pishu is the current CEO of Inspur. He is a native of Shandog Province and was born in 1962. Sun Pishu has been working with Inspur since the time it was called Langchao. In 1996, he became the General Manager and the next year, the Deputy Routine President of Langchao Group. Sun Pishu also served the company as the Vice President for a long time. It is Sun Pishu’s leadership that the company has become the number one server provider in China and number third in the world.

New Relic

New Relic – A Cloud-Based Software Company Specializing In Application Performance Management.

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In the 21st century, cloud computing has become a real catch in the IT industry. With large data to store securely and transfer between different employees in a company, cloud storage has become quintessential. Many existing businesses have expanded their solution range to provide cloud storage as a service and startups exclusively providing cloud-based software have also been established. New Relic is one such startup that develops and delivers cloud-based software. Lew Cirne established New Relic in 2008 which is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, United States.

About The Company

New Relic is a cloud-based software company that develops a range of innovative software to help different companies help their performance. With the help of New Relic software, a company can track the performance of its service, website, and application. This helps the companies to understand the problem and fix it more efficiently to create a better user experience. Apart from the real-time monitoring of the web and application data, the software also provides support for custom-built plugins. New Relic appointed its new CEO this year, Bill Staples who replaced Lew Cirne, the founder and former CEO of the company.

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Success In The Second Attempt

In 2008, Lew Cirne founded the software company New Relic and he named it so after an anagram of his name. Lew Cirne, from a very young age, had an entrepreneurship niche and wanted to start his company. While he was in high school, he planned and attempted to start a company to productize a game but unfortunately, it wasn’t successful. Later, when he went to college at Dartmouth, he successfully landed a job at Apple. But, the fever of entrepreneurship still bugged him and he left Apple after three years.

Lew thought it will be better for him to join a small company and learn about the length and breadth of an early-stage startup. So, he joined a company called Hummingbird which then was a team of 300 members. Being part of a small company allowed him to explore other divisions of the business apart from engineering. After a couple of years, Lew successfully founded Wily but it wasn’t a full stop. On the search for new technology, Cirne ended up starting another successful startup, New Relic.

History of New Relic

After founding New Relic in 2008, the company hosted its first round of funding five years after and raised $80 million. Some of the major investors included Benchmark Capital, Allen & Company, Insight Venture Partners, Trinity Venture, Tenaya Capital, etc. After this funding round, the valuation of New Relic became $750 million. After receiving this fund, the company invested in launching Android and iOS native mobile apps for its software analytics platform. Next year, New Relic landed another $100 million funding from BlackRock Inc, Passport Capital, and Wellington Management. In late 2014, New Relic became a public company.

Last year, the company hired Bill Staples as the new Chief Product Officer whose responsibility of leading the product management team, engineering, and driving the company’s platform strategy. After Bill Staples joined the New Relic team, restructuring of the costing model took place which resulted in some layoffs. Only after a year of joining the company, Bill Staples got promoted to CEO and took the place of Lew Cirne.

About The Founder

Lew Cirne is a Canadian-American technologist and entrepreneur who is famous for founding Wily Technologies and New Relic. He majored in Computer Science from Dartmouth College and joined Apple straight after graduating. Being in Silicon Valley, his dream to become an entrepreneur was triggered. He realized he can barely teach himself any entrepreneurial skills by being part of such a massive company. So, he joined a small company called Hummingbird Communications and after two years founded Wily. He is one of those entrepreneurs who broke the myth that startups are not for post-thirty people.

Bill Staples – CEO of New Relic

Before joining New Relic as the CPO in 2020, Bill Staples had working experience in Adobe and worked for 17 years at Microsoft. In both companies, Bill led teams of a huge number of employees to create transformative products and implement innovative strategies.

DATEV

DATEV – A Data Center That Emerged As A Successful German Registered Cooperative Society.

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DATEV is a German-based registered cooperative society. The primary role of DATEV is in the IT industry as it provides technical information services to the accountants, attorneys, and members of the tax department. Founded in February 1996, DATEV was originally a data center that is now famous in the IT industry. Currently, DATEV is known for developing and delivering software directly to end-users. The company is also known for providing consulting services for these occupations. Though DATEV is a leading technology provider in Germany, its main interest lies in the tax market.

About The Company

DATEV mainly provides software for accounting, tax computation, personnel management, business consulting, and company organization. It was founded in 1966 and currently has more than 400,000 customers. The headquarters of DATEV is based in Nuremberg and apart from that, it has 23 other subsidiaries in Germany. More than 8,000 people work for the company in their main office and subsidiaries.

DATEV is a very popular company in Germany such that around 2 million enterprises in the nation use their software to perform financial accounting. More than 11 million payslips are generated every month using the DATEV software. The company also has a data center that is used by both the members of the company and its clients. Data security is the prime focus of every employee of the company.

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History of DATEV

On 14th February 1966, 65 tax consultants from Nuremberg founded DATEV. It was founded as a cooperative self-help organization whose main focus was to facilitate bookkeeping tasks. The main five founding members of the company are Edmund Rudolph, Horst Preißner, Joachim Mattheus, Heinz Sebiger, and Klaus Hartmann. The company initially founded a data center where the accounting data of the members were processed. This was a step up from the primitive punch tape. The DATEV center was opened after the number of members in this organization started increasing rapidly and was finally inaugurated in 1969.

In 1974, Company introduced remote data transmission. First, the data was recorded on magnetic tapes, and then from the employee side, it was transmitted to the DATEV data center via the telephone lines. After a couple of years, the company established its first personal network for transmitting electronic data between tax consultant offices and the DATEV data center. But, the company dismantled the career network in 2002 because by then it was no more an economically viable choice.

Business Growth

In 1972, DATEV formed a joint allegiance with the Japanese company TKC and it was after ten years both the companies document the alliance. TKC is also a data processing service company and the joint partnership aimed to support more tax consultants with electronic data processing. Even today both the companies are tied up through business exchange programs. In the 1990s, Company started establishing its first Information Center starting in Dresden followed by Schwerin, Leipzig, Magdeburg, and Erfurt.

In 1996, one of the founders of DATEV, Dr. Heinz Sebiger retired from the company after 30 years of successfully monitoring the administration. By this time, the company started generated revenue in billions and employed more than 4,000 people. For the next two years, employers and clients in DATEV witnessed the transformation from the DOS system to 32 bit Windows OS.

The 21st century brought several opportunities for DATEV to explore and establish itself in the European market. The company established itself in the Czech Republic, Austria, Hungary, Spain, Italy, and many more. In 2003, the company expanded to Poland as it started a joint venture with Poland-based software manufacturer Matrix. pl S.A. In 2011, the company expanded its data center and included new trending services like cloud computing and data security. In 2021, a new management team was formed at DATEV with Dr. Peter Krug as the new CMO and Prof. Dr. Christian Bär as the new CTO of the company. Dr. Robert Mayr is the present CEO of the company.

Robert Mayr – CEO of Company

Robert Mayr joined DATEV in 2011 as a member of the board of directors as well as head of finances, purchasing, production, and internal data processing. Robert Mayr became the CEO of the company in 2016. Before joining the company, he was the managing partner at Solidaris Revisions GmbH. He also has seven years of working experience at Deloitte, one of the Big Four companies.