Software Product-based Company
A Software Product-based Company is a company that develops and distributes software-based products.
- Context:
- It can (typically) employ Software Product Engineers and Software Designers.
- It can (often) be a Industry-Specific Software Company, such as a Healthcare Software Company or Finance Software Company.
- It can range from being a Consumer Software Company to being an Enterprise Software Company.
- It can range from being a Startup Software Company to being a Mature Software Company.
- It can have Software Product-based Company Financial Measures, such as Software Company CapEx.
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- Example(s):
- Start-up Software Company:
- OpenAI, 2023, for OpenAI, Inc..
- Microsoft 1977, for Microsoft, Inc..
- Salesforce, 2009, for Salesforce, Inc..
- Adobe, 1982, for Adobe, Inc..
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- Mature Software Company:
- Microsoft, 2027, Microsoft, 2017, Microsoft, 2007, and Microsoft 1997, for Microsoft, Inc..
- Salesforce, 2019, for Salesforce, Inc..
- Adobe, 2022, Adobe, 2012, Adobe, 2002 for Adobe, Inc..
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- Domain-Specific Software Company:
- Healthcare Software Company, such as: Epic Systems Corporation and Cerner Corporation.
- Finance Software Company, such as: Intuit, Inc. and FIS Global.
- Educational Software Company, such as: Blackboard Inc. and Instructure, Inc. (Canvas).
- Manufacturing Software Company, such as: Autodesk, Inc. and Dassault Systemes.
- Legal Software Company, such as: Clio (Themis Solutions Inc.) and Relativity (kCura Corporation).
- Ecommerce Software Company, such as: Shopify Inc. and Magento (Adobe Inc.).
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- Start-up Software Company:
- Counter-Example(s):
- See: For-Profit Company, Software Package, Consulting Company, Services Company.
References
2011
- (Andreessen, 2011) ⇒ Marc Andreessen. (2011). “Why Software Is Eating The World." Wall Street Journal, August 2011.
- QUOTE: We believe that many of the prominent new Internet companies are building real, high-growth, high-margin, highly defensible businesses. ...
... My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy. ...
- QUOTE: We believe that many of the prominent new Internet companies are building real, high-growth, high-margin, highly defensible businesses. ...