Aberdeen Ranks the Top 100 Tech Companies
May 19, 2008 Timothy Prickett Morgan
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The consultants at Aberdeen Group, now a division of market researcher and mail list builder Harte-Hanks, have just finished up a massive research project to put together the Annual State of the Market Report for the information technology sector. As part of the report, Aberdeen’s experts have used customer input to create a ranking of the top 100 most influential technology companies. The 2008 edition of the report, which costs a whopping $1,995 for 161 pages of arts and charts and analysis, is available at this link, if you happen to have some extra budget money lying around. The data in the report, according to Aberdeen, is based on data from over 550,000 companies surveyed over 2.5 million times, supplemented by over 35,000 senior-level interviews. (Harte-Hanks also owns Computer Intelligence, which used to have a brilliant relational database of information for data centers in the United States, Canada, and Europe and which I used to have unlimited access to when dinosaurs were hanging around smoking cigarettes on street corners and bad-mouthing mammals.) It took Aberdeen five years to put this data together, apparently. Exactly what is in this report is unclear. The company did not say. It did, however, provide the top 100 tech company listing as a teaser to get people interested: 1. Microsoft 35. i2 69. Xerox 2. Oracle 36. EDS 70. Front Range 3. SAP 37. QAD 71. Internec 4. IBM 38. Ariba 72. Manugistics 5. Cisco 39. CA 73. Palm 6. Hewlett Packard 40. Epicor 74. Unisys 7. Dell 41. Juniper 75. Yahoo! 8. Salesforce.com 42. Sprint/Nextel 76. 3com 9. EMC 43. Tata Consulting 77. ABB 10. Sun Microsystems 44. ADP 78. CANON 11. Google 45. Fujitsu 79. Capgemini 12. RIM (Blackberry) 46. Intuit 80. Informatica 13. Siemens 47. Manhattan Associates 81. Interwoven 14. Adobe 48. Novell 82. McKesson 15. AT&T 49. Red Prairie 83. Mincom 16. Apple 50. SunGard 84. Mitel 17. Sage 51. Telstra 85. Netsuite 18. Infor 52. BMC 86. Omniture 19. Nortel 53. BT 87. Progress 20. Avaya 54. CSC 88. Rackspace 21. Red Hat 55. Skype 89. SPSS 22. Motorola 56. Infosys 90. Syntel 23. Verizon Wireless 57. NetApp 91. Teradata 24. Dassault 58. Symantec 92. T-Mobile 25. Accenture 59. Huawei 93. Toshiba 26. Sony Ericsson 60. IFS 94. Websense 27. Alcatel - Lucent 61. Microstrategy 95. Servigistics 28. AutoDesk 62. Aruba 96. Genesys 29. Intel 63. CDW 97. Logility 30. SAS 64. Concur 98. Kronos 31. Citrix 65. Exact 99. Rockwell Automation 32. Nokia 66. Hitachi 100. Checkpoint Systems 33. PTC 67. Qlikview 34. Lawson 68. Vonage It is incredibly difficult to make a ranking of tech companies–in this case meaning telecom and services as well as information technology suppliers and Web 2.0 firms as well–so this is inherently interesting. I think it would be equally interesting to throw the company logos out and rank the top 100 influential technologies in use by corporations. If I get bored some day, I might start that and ask you all for some help.
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