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AVEVA – Innovating The 3D Design Software Industry.

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Late, but still, people have started to recognize the importance of sustainability. The very topic has been a concern for almost every industry, and they are trying to improve the ecosystem by adopting sustainable habits. In fact, the various software companies also make sustainability the basis for the development of their products. One such company is Aveva, a software company based in the UK. The company works on problems using high-end technology as well as considering the ecosystem so that they deliver sustainable solutions to their clients. The company majorly focuses on the process, batch and hybrid industries.

About Aveva

Aveva Group plc is a British IT consulting company, with its headquarters based in Cambridge, England, UK. The company is a multinational and trades as a Holding company. Aveva is primarily working as an IT consulting firm but also provides its services in industries like CAD/CAM Software, Enterprise Asset, Management, Manufacturing Execution, System Enterprise Solutions, etc. The company has a history of more than fifty years, where the UK Ministry of Technology and Cambridge University had established it as a separate IT department. Aveva is listed on the London Stock Exchange, and as of 2021 records, it made annual revenues worth £820.4 million, while over 6000 people are currently employed at Aveva.

Founding Aveva

The story of the establishment of Aveva dates back to 1967 when the UK Ministry of Technology founded a CAD Centre at Cambridge, England. The department received funds from the government and acted as a research institute for the latter. The main aim of the research centre was to develop computer-aided design techniques. Dick Newell and Martin Newell are a few of some famous people who were part of this CAD research centre. Arthur Llewelyn was the first director at the centre.

Being the research centre for CAD technology, the company successfully performed multiple experiments that added to the technology. One of Aveva’s most successful products came in 1976, i.e., Aveva PDMS. The very product changes the course of the CAD design industry. In the next two years, the company launched the world’s first 3D plant design project.

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In 1983, the CADCentre became a private company, and Dr Bob Bishop was appointed as the managing director of the company. In the next ten years, Aveva worked on a new version of its software and developed the world’s first full-colour, shaded plant design in 1992, along with the world’s automatic clash detection system. In 1998, Aveva launched a new feature called Aveva Global for the existing software that made it easy for the people sitting in different locations to work on a single project online, making the software world’s first plant design system for concurrent global projects execution. In 2012, the company brought a new project named Aveva Everything 3D, and the next year, it launched Aveva E3D Insight.

Apart from project development, Aveva grew through major acquisitions that included Tribon Solutions (2004), Realitywave, Inc. (2005), iDesignOffice Pty Ltd (2009), MARS (2010), ADB Systemer AS (2010), LFM (Light Form Modeller, 2011), Global Majic Software, Inc. (2012), 8over8 Limited (2015), OSIsoft(2020), etc.

The CEO at Aveva

Peter Hertweck is the Chief Executive Officer at Aveva. He has got a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from Metz University, France and Saarland University, Germany, as well as an MBA from the Wake Forest University School of Business. Peter has also been a Harvard Business School Advanced Management alumnus.
Peter started his career at Mitsubishi, Japan as a software engineer. In the further years of his career, he handled multiple executive positions in various well-known companies, such as Factory and Process Automation and Schneider Electric, etc. Before joining Aveva as the CEO in 2021, he was also one of the board of directors of the company.

ceridian

Ceridian – A Leading Provider Of Human Resource Software Across Several Continents.

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Ceridian is a publicly-traded software company that exclusively develops human resource software and products. It was launched 30 years ago and currently, its headquarters is based in Minnesota, US. Ceridian is popular in the USA and it has also established an international market in Australia, Europe, Mauritius, and Canada. The company currently has 6,000 employees and the company’s recent focus is on its Dayforce platform (launched in Mauritius two years ago). Dayforce is a very successful product suite of the company that integrates that combines every purpose from payroll to workforce management in a single cloud solution.

About Ceridian

Ceridian is a human capital management company and its full name is Ceridian HCM Holding Inc. The company’s main flagship product became Dayforce in 2012 after the acquisition of the company. It provides several necessary HR features like payroll, talent management, employee benefits, etc. From recruiting to retirement, It helps in managing the entire employee lifecycle with the help of Dayforce.

Apart from Dayforce, Ceridian has solutions for a wide range of sectors from healthcare to entertainment. Company has also received several awards on various grounds such as Gender Equality Index 2022 by Bloomberg, Top HR Product 2020, Great Place to Work, etc. This year, Ceridian has also appointed Leagh Turner as the Co-CEO (sharing the position with David Ossip) and also as a member of the company’s Board of Directors.

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History of the Company

In 1992, Ceridian was established as a result of restructuring Control Data Corporation (CDC) which was one of the biggest US-based computer companies in the 1960s. The company was originally formed as an information services company. After it was spun out of CDC, many CDC businesses were operated under the brand name of Ceridian. Until 2007, Compay was listed on New York Stock Exchange but then it was acquired by a private equity firm. Thomas H. Lee Partners and Fidelity National Financial (FNF) got the ownership of Ceridian for $5.3 billion. Ceridian started gaining a lot of importance in the payroll market because it was the time when all-cloud HCM software solutions were rising in the market and Company grasped the opportunity, especially with Dayforce.

In March 2012, Ceridian acquired Dayforce, a SaaS application appropriate for all HR purposes. Ceridian’s HR solutions started flourishing after acquiring Dayforce and in 2013 it decided to its HCM and payment businesses. After a few months and several transactions, the separation was finally completed in October 2013. The company decided that its payment business will be operated under the name “Comdata” and the HCM business will be operated under the name “Ceridian HCM.” The company decided to hold the brand name for its HCM product suite because it has already become very popular among customers as Ceridian. In the same year, David Ossip became the CEO of the company. It again decided to go public in 2018 and hence filed an IPO and raised over $400 million. Recently, Ceridian has also acquired a few companies. They are Riteq, an Australian-based workforce management enterprise (2019), an Asian HCM called Excelity Global Solutions (2020), and Ascender HCM (2021).

About Control Data Corporation

CDC was a very reputed computer firm because during the 1960s this company had some of the world’s fastest computers. Seymour Cray, a supercomputer architect also worked for the company but he left to establish Cray Research in the 1970s. After the company entered in the 1980s, it started facing huge loss and thus most of the business and manufacturing unit of the company was shut down. Rest whatever was left came under the brand name Ceridian.

David Ossip – CEO

David Ossip is the current CEO and Chairman of Ceridian. He founded Dayforce in 2009 and when it was acquired by Ceridian, he joined the company. David also founded Workbrain before he became a part of Ceridian. He also served as the Chairman of LifeWorks for two years and Advisory Board Member of OMERS Ventures for four years. David went to the University of Toronto followed by Harvard Business School.

HashiCorp

Mitchell Hashimoto And Armon Dadgar Came Up With The Idea While Working On Project At University.

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Cloud technology has helped companies simplify their business infrastructure. The cloud is not only easy to access, but it is also secure to put data on the cloud and keep working as one used to do in the pre-cloud era. Cloud computing has not only eased out the working for the businesses but also provides new opportunities as well as chances to experiment for the software geniuses. HashiCorp is also a result of some experimentation by its founders Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar, who found their interest in emerging cloud technology and built a million dollars empire for them. HashiCorp is one of the leading software companies that develop open-source tools and commercial products to work with cloud-computing infrastructure for developers.

About HashiCorp

HashiCorp is a ten-year-old software company, with its headquarters based in San Francisco, California. The company works on the freemium business model and is known for the development of open-source tools and products that help the developers to run and connect with the cloud-computing infrastructure with the most ease and security. Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar are the founders of the company, whereas, David McJannet leads the company as the CEO.
HashiCorp is a publically traded company and trades on Nasdaq as HCP. The product list from HashiCorp includes both open-source and proprietary products, such as Vagrant, Packer, Serf, Consul, Terraform, Vault, Nomad, Sentinel, Boundary, Waypoint, etc. Apart from San Fransisco, the company has established offices in various parts of the US, India, Europe, Canada, and Australia, etc. As per the 2022 data, over 1500 people are working at HashiCorp.

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Founding HashiCorp

The beginning of the HashiCorp includes the same university student story. Mitchell Hashimoto and Armon Dadgar, the two co-founders of HashiCorp, were the students at University of Washington and met each other at the same university in 2008. The two worked together on the same cloud technology-based project. While working on the project, both had become aware of the potential of cloud computing. After graduating from the university, they moved to San Fransisco, where Mitchell founded HashiCorp in December 2012. Armon joined the company as the co-founder in July 2013.

The co-founders started the company with the idea to provide businesses with tools that would help them deploy and connect their applications to the cloud (or multiple connected clouds), seamlessly and securely. By January 2014, the company started to grow in terms of manpower. In December of the same year, the company held a rounding of Series A funding and raised $10.2 million in the capital.

The next year in September, HashiCorp held its first HashiConf in Portland. In September 2016, the company had another Series B round of funding, where it raised $24 million in capital. By June 2017, the number of employees for the company had reached 100 people. The company went international when it opened its first overseas office in Europe in 2017. The same year, the company hosted another round of funding raising $40 million. HashiCorp established one of its subsidiaries named KK in Japan, which was the first HashiCorp office in Asia.
In the Series D round of funding held in 2018, the company raised $100 in the capital, and by the mid of next year, the employee count of the company expanded to 500 people. With the Series E round of funding in 2020, the company raised $175 million and added 500 more employees working for it worldwide. Alongside the employee count, the customer count was also reaching 1000 people by the same year.
In November 2021, HashiCorp had its first IPO, and it went public on NASDAQ, valued at $13 billion.

The CEO at HashiCorp

David McJannet is the current CEO at HashiCorp. He has got over twenty years of experience working in the software industry, including cloud technology. Before joining HashiCorp in 2016, he has been an important part of companies like GitHub, Hortonworks, VMware, Microsoft, etc. David joined HashiCorp when there were only 30 people in the team, and today, under his leadership, the team has grown to be 1500 people.

Globant

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.

Tyler Technologies

Tyler Technologies, the company formed from three government-owned businesses.

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Tyler Technologies was originally established as Saturn Industries in 1966. Currently, it is a publicly-traded company based in Plano, Texas and it provides software to the United States public sector. It has a total of 17 offices across the US and one in Toronto, Canada because it has expanded its service there as well. The founder of the company is Joseph F. McKinney and the CEO of the company is H Lynn Moore Jr. Tyler Technologies was initially Tyler Corporation and it changed its name in 1999. Entering the 21st century, the company made plenty of accusations (more than 15 companies).

About Tyler Technologies

Tyler Technologies mainly offers its software to the public sector. There is a total of eight categories of software it offers. They are appraisal and tax services, financial, records and documents, school, courts and justice, data and insights, planning, regulatory, and maintenance, and public safety. In each of these categories, there is much software for varieties of purposes. The company has also received several awards and accolades in the last five decades. Tyler Technologies has been awarded “Best Places to Work” awarded by several magazines like Mississippi Business Journal, Albany Business Reviews, The Washington Post, etc. It was also featured in Forbes and Fortune several times, especially for fast growth and innovation.

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History of Tyler Corporation

Born in 1966 as Saturn Industries, Joseph F. Kinney is the main brain behind this successful enterprise. Tyler Technologies, today, was born out of three government companies, Ling-Temco_Vought. McKinney bought these three companies and then merged them to form Tyler Technologies. The company’s name changed from Saturn Industries to Tyler Corporation after it bought an iron pipes manufacturer, Tyler Pipe. The acquisition took place in 1968 and soon it became the parent company’s main source of annual revenue. Hence it was later renamed Tyler Corporation.

After three years of being in business, Tyler Corporation was already a huge success. Hence in 1969 the company decided to go public and got listed on the New York Stock exchange. The company’s name was officially changed to Tyler Corporation in 1970. It was after almost two decades that Tyler Corporation started developing software for the various government bodies of the US. In the late 1990s, Tyler Corporation started making acquisitions. In 1998, it acquired three companies. They are Business Resources Corporation, Interactive Computer Designs, and The Software Group Inc.

Major Events

The current name of the company, i.e., Tyler Technologies was adopted in 1999 changing it from Tyler Corporation. Tyler Technologies, till 2021, has acquired several companies. After acquiring three companies consecutively in 1998, it acquired a series of companies in 1999. They include Eagle Computer Systems, Micro Arizala Systems, Process Incorporated Computer Center Software, Gemini Systems (a subsidiary of Essex Technology Group), and Cole Layer Trumble Company. After the acquisitions in the late 1990s, the company again started acquiring from 2003. It acquired a Washington-based company called Eden Systems and a Portland-based company called GBF Information Systems in 2003. In 2006, it acquired three companies, namely, MazikUSA Inc, IL, and TACS. The company acquired Versatrans, Olympia Computing Company, PulseMark, Wiznet, Advanced-Data Systems, and more in the next few years.

In recent years, apart from acquiring several companies, Tyler Technologies has also extended its partnership to mane state bodies. In November 2021, it extended a 22-years contract in the State of Utah for digital government and payment solutions. In Troy, Michigan, the company was named a top workplace in 2021 for the fifth consecutive year. In February 2022, it acquired US eDirect.

About the CEO

Lynn Moore Jr is the CEO of Tyler Technologies since 2018. He joined the company in 1998 as a legal in-house counsel and from there, he became secretary of the Board of Directors. He also served in the company as an Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer. The main of the company currently under Moore’s leadership to the transition of the solutions provided the company to the cloud. Moore holds a degree in Economics from Georgetown University.

Endava

Endava – Multinational Software Development Company Named After Two Companies Merged In 2000.

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Endava is a multinational software development company that emerged in 2000. It was formed as a result of a merger between two companies, Concise and Compudava. Endava mainly operates in various European countries and Latin America. The client offices of the company are located in Western Europe and North America whereas the delivery offices are located in Eastern Europe and Latin America. The headquarters of the company is based in London, UK. Endava offers ample solutions to its clients and some of them are user interface design, strategy consulting, Internet of Things, agile software development, and various automation solutions.

About Endava

Endava was established with the main goal to redefine the relationship between people and technology. The company offers its solutions to a vast field of companies including financial services, telecommunications, healthcare sector, retail, etc. Endava fuels the digital transformation for its clients and also accelerates the performance of the dynamic digital platforms. Endava currently has more than 10,000 employees at various locations of the world such as Australia, Denmark, Germany, Netherlands, Singapore, etc. Though the company’s major delivery offices and close-to-client offices are located in Europe and America, they have also extended the market to various Asian countries.

Endava’s recent spotlight is on the project APAC, that is, remaining digital across the Asia Pacific. Endava’s growth in the Asian and Australian markets started a bit late as compared to the European and American markets. The company is also working in association with other companies like Santander, Citizen, pollinate, etc. Endava has also formed Endava Private Equity Group from a merger with Intuitus Advisory. This body was formed particularly to offer digital advice throughout the entire investment life cycle.

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History of the Company

In 2000, Endava was formed in Chișinău, Moldova. After the two companies merged, the joint company was named Endava Group. The company has made several accomplishments in the past two decades. It has also made several acquisitions to broaden the market and acquired different client profiles. In mid-2015, Endava acquired a Serbia-based company called Power Symbol Technology. Later that year, It also acquired a company called Nickel Fish Design, an agency for UX and design. In 2016, the company acquired Integrated Systems Development Corporation which had an existing market in Netherlands, Bulgaria, and Romania. This acquisition broadened the client base of the company.

A few years ago Endava acquired Velocity Partners, a company headquartered in the US, and delivery offices in Latin America. It was mainly an agile software solution provider. In 2018, Endava established a partnership with Bain & Company. And in the same year, it also filed an IPO and started trading in the New York Stock Exchange. The company also became a principal partner in the FinTech Alliance, which was launched by the UK government. In 2019, the company decided to open two new marketplaces in different regions of Romania. Last year, Endava acquired a Brooklyn-based company called FIVE which is a design and marketing agency. It recently acquired another company called Levvel LLC. Endava has also recently announced that it is targeting to achieve net-zero emissions as an organization.

Awards & Recognitions

In 2010, Endava was featured in Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA and also in the list of 500 fastest-growing companies in EMEA. In 2011, It became one of the top 50 European Growth Companies and in the same year, the CEO of Endava, John Cotterell was was selected as the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year. It also received Digital Impact Awards for the “Best use of mobile and portable devices.” The company was named as one of the top 100 digital agencies across the globe by Econsultancy in 2013. The Romanian market of the company is very strong and it won the “Brand of the Year” award in Romania for two consecutive years.

John Cotterell – CEO

John Cotterell founded Concise in 2000 which merged with Compudava to form Endava. So, he is a part of a company from the very beginning and made it a very successful and impactful business. He started his career in the computer service industry with Capgemini and currently, he has more than 30 years of industry experience.