Top 100 Most Influential Tech Vendors
To come up with its list of 100 top tech vendors, the Aberdeen Group asked 4,645 respondents within the Fortune 1000 and the Fortune Global 500 to name the top three technology companies that have had the most influence on their business performance in the past year. Here is the list of the top 100 hardware, software, and service provider companies identified.
[SOURCE: 2008 ABERDEEN REPORT: STATE OF THE MARKET, RELEASED MAY 13, 2008 BY THE ABERDEEN GROUP]
1. Microsoft
2. Oracle
3. SAP
4. IBM
5. Cisco
6. Hewlett-Packard
7. Dell
8. Salesforce.com
9. EMC
10. Sun Microsystems
11. Google
12. RIM (Blackberry)
13. Siemens
14. Adobe
15. AT&T
16. Apple
17. Sage
18. Infor
19. Nortel
20. Avaya
21. Red Hat
22. Motorola
23. Verizon Wireless
24. Dassault
25. Accenture
26. Sony Ericsson
27. Alcatel - Lucent
28. AutoDesk
29. Intel
30. SAS
31. Citrix
32. Nokia
33. PTC
34. Lawson
35. i2
36. EDS
37. QAD
38. Ariba
39. CA
40. Epicor
41. Juniper
42. Sprint/Nextel
43. Tata Consulting
44. ADP
45. Fujitsu
46. Intuit
47. Manhattan Associates
48. Novell
49. Red Prairie
50. SunGard
51. Telstra
52. BMC
53. BT
54. CSC
55. Skype
56. Infosys
57. NetApp
58. Symantec
59. Huawei
60. IFS
61. Microstrategy
62. Aruba
63. CDW
64. Concur
65. Exact
66. Hitachi
67. Qlikview
68. Vonage
69. Xerox
70. Front Range
71. Internec
72. Manugistics
73. Palm
74. Unisys
75. Yahoo!
76. 3com
77. ABB
78. CANON
79. Capgemini
80. Informatica
81. Interwoven
82. McKesson
83. Mincom
84. Mitel
85. Netsuite
86. Omniture
87. Progress
88. Rackspace
89. SPSS
90. Syntel
91. Teradata
92. T-Mobile
93. Toshiba
94. Websense
95. Servigistics
96. Genesys
97. Logility
98. Kronos
99. Rockwell Automation
100. Checkpoint Systems
Additional information on the report can be found at http://www.aberdeen.com/2-0/campaigns/14-aberdeen-report-2008-landing-page.asp.
