A Stanford research project turned data analysis into something you could do by dragging a field. Now, inside Salesforce, Tableau is testing how much of that conversation an AI agent can carry.
Before a loan goes bad, someone has to read the documents. Moody's Analytics has built a business around making that work faster, more connected, and harder to overlook.
The copier made Xerox a household name. Keeping documents, devices and businesses moving is the much bigger job it wants today.
A gas detector, a surgical instrument, a broken store fixture. Fortive has built a business around the small things that decide whether the big things work.
A cementing business built with a borrowed wagon now connects pumps, sensors, software, and crews. Its most interesting product is the time an oil company gets back.
The technology industry loves a launch. CGI makes its living in the years that follow, when banks, utilities and governments need the machinery to keep working.
FIS bought its way to the merchant counter. Now it has returned to the bank behind the card - with a $13.5 billion acquisition and a sharper idea of who its customer is.
Finding a software flaw is easy to celebrate. Getting it fixed is the harder business Veracode has spent two decades learning to sell.
A hospital bed, a cargo claim, a power bill. ComTec Information Systems builds the connections that turn scattered information into something people can use.
A hospital counted its connected devices. Armis found roughly twice as many. Inside the cybersecurity company that turned an incomplete inventory into a $7.75 billion acquisition.
The hard part of online video starts after you press publish. 3Play Media built a business around the words, voices, and visual details that let more people in.
A wind turbine can travel halfway around the world. Its chemical safety paperwork has to keep up. Inside 3E, the company turning a mountain of regulatory detail into decisions people can use.
A manufacturer’s ringing phones reveal the business behind Futurism: connecting the systems, software, and people that growth pulls apart.
A container terminal can run out of room while wasting the space it has. Navis built a software business around that puzzle - and the expensive little moves nobody wants to make.
An elephant alert, a student record, an insurance policy. Three very different problems reveal the same business: helping information reach the people who can use it.
A building model, a factory invoice, an energy dashboard. Stridely Solutions works where useful software meets the messy business of getting things done.
A forecast, a factory, a shipment. KGS Technology Group is building software for the awkward spaces between them - while keeping its consulting business close at hand.
A public ledger can show where money went without telling you who moved it. Chainalysis built a business closing that gap - and is moving from reconstructing crypto crime to interrupting it.
A hotel can change its software only if it can keep being a hotel. HotelKey built its business around that awkward little condition.
A payroll calculation can be perfect while the money is still missing. Papaya Global built its business around closing that gap, one country, currency, and bank account at a time.
A shift looks simple until pay rules, union agreements and real life arrive. WorkForce Software built its business around those exceptions - and ADP paid about $1.2 billion to bring it inside.
Getting into an app is only half the security problem. Skyhigh Security focuses on what happens next: where sensitive information goes, who uses it, and what leaves with them.
FatBrain built its AI pitch around a simple idea: a small business should learn from businesses like it. Its insurance tools show the appeal. Its acquisition history shows the cost of getting bigger.
A laboratory result is only useful if the right information travels with it. SCC Soft Computer has built its business around that deceptively difficult journey.
A spare part gathering dust. A damaged car waiting for approval. InterraIT builds software for the small delays that turn into expensive habits.
A letter grade made cyber risk easier to understand. SecurityScorecard’s next challenge is getting thousands of companies to do something about it.
A QR code at a vaccination centre. A chemical software team that kept its memory. Inside Shinetech’s bet that the people who stay make the software better.
Moving payroll and finance into Workday is a mountain of small, consequential jobs. TopBloc built a business by finding the ones that should never have been done by hand.
A company can know a great deal about you and still miss the moment you need help. Tealium built a business in that gap - and now wants to close it for AI.
A resort sells a cheeseburger. A warehouse loses a bun. DataWorks connects those two events - and the purchasing, people, and systems in between.