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THE 2008-2009 EContent 100 List
37signals
[ www.37signals.com ]
Category: Collaboration
Founded: 1999
Employees: 11
Chief Officer: Jason Fried, CEO
Key Product(s): Basecamp, Backpack, Campfire, Writeboard, Ta-da List, Getting Real Book, Ruby on Rails, Highrise
Acquire Media
[ www.acquiremedia.com ]
Category: Fee-Based Info Service
Founded: 2001
Employees: 95
Chief Officer: Lawrence Rafsky, CEO
Key Product(s): Newsedge.com, NewsEdge v8, Syndication Suite
Adobe Systems, Inc.
[ www.adobe.com ]
Category: Content Creation, Production, & Digital Publishing
Founded: 1982
Employees: 7,317
Chief Officer: Shantanu Narayen, CEO
Key Product(s): Acrobat, Reader, Flash Player, Creative Suite, LiveCycle, Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR)
AdventNet, Inc.
[ www.adventnet.com, www.zoho.com ]
Category: Collaboration
Founded: 1996
Employees: 900-plus
Chief Officer: Sridhar Vembu, CEO
Key Product(s): Zoho, ManageEngine family: Network Performance Management, Datacenter and Server Management, IT HelpDesk, Desktop Management software
Alacra, Inc.
[ www.alacra.com ]
Category: Fee-Based Info Service
Founded: 1996
Employees: 62
Chief Officer: Steven Goldstein, Chairman, Co-founder & CEO
Key Product(s): Alacra Premium, Alacra Book, Alacra Compliance, Alacra Concordance, Alacra Connections, Alacra Current Awareness, Alacra Wiki, Research Recap, The Alacra Store
Alfresco
[ www.alfresco.com ]
Category: Content Management
Founded: 2005
Employees: 100
Chief Officer: John Powell, CEO
Key Product(s): Web Content Management, Document Management, Collaboration, Records Management, Image Management
Apple, Inc.
[ www.apple.com ]
Category: Mobile Content
Founded: 1977
Employees: 21,600
Chief Officer: Steve Jobs, CEO
Key Product(s): Hardware, Software, Peripherals
Atlassian Pty., Ltd.
[ www.atlassian.com ]
Category: Collaboration
Founded: 2002
Employees: 190
Chief Officers: Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar, Co-founders & CEO
Key Product(s): Bamboo, Clover, Crowd, JIRA, Confluence, Crucible, FishEye, JIRA Studio
Attributor Corp.
[ www.attributor.com ]
Categories: Content Commerce, Content Security
Founded: 2005
Employees: under 50
Chief Officer: Jim Brock, Co-founder & CEO
Key Product(s): Digital content monetization platform
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Automattic, Inc.
[ http://automattic.com ]
Category: Social Media
Founded: 2005
Employees: 29
Chief Officers: Toni Schneider, CEO and Matt Mullenweg, Founder & President
Key Product(s): Wordpress.org, wordpress.com, akismet.com, bbpress.org
Autonomy Corp., PLC
[ www.autonomy.com ]
Category: Search Engines & Technologies
Founded: 1996
Employees: 1,400 (as of end of 2007)
Chief Officer: Dr. Michael Lynch, OBE FREng, Co-founder & CEO
Key Product(s): Intelligent Data Operating Layer (IDOL) Server
[Click Here to read Autonomy Corp.’s InFocus Profile]
Awareness, Inc.
[ www.awarenessnetworks.com ]
Category: Social Media
Founded: 1998
Employees: 50
Chief Officer: John Bruce, CEO
Key Product(s): Awareness social media platform
Basis Technology Corp.
[ www.basistech.com ]
Category: Search Engines & Technologies
Founded: 1995
Employees: 55
Chief Officer: Carl Hoffman, CEO
Key Product(s): Rosette Linguistics Platform
Brightcove, Inc.
[ www.brightcove.com ]
Category: Content Delivery
Founded: 2004
Employees: 150
Chief Officer: Jeremy Allaire, CEO
Key Product(s): Brightcove Online Video Platform
CAS
[ www.cas.org ]
Category: Fee-Based Info Service
Founded: 1907
Employees: 1,400
Chief Officer: Robert J. Massie, CEO & President
Key Product(s): Chemical Abstracts, CAplus, CAS Registry, SciFinder, STN, Science IP, STN AnaVist
CentralDesktop, Inc.
[ www.centraldesktop.com ]
Category: Collaboration
Founded: 2005
Employees: 11
Chief Officer: Isaac Garcia, Co-founder & CEO
Key Product(s): Central Desktop
ChangingWorlds, Ltd.
[ www.changingworlds.com ]
Category: Mobile Content
Founded: 1999
Employees: 150-plus
Chief Officer: David P. Moran, B.Sc., M.Sc., CEO
Key Product(s): ClixSmart
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ClearStory Systems, Inc.
[ www.clearstorysystems.com ]
Category: Content Management
Founded: 1989
Employees: 50
Chief Officer: Michael Lam, President
Key Product(s): ActiveMedia, ActiveMedia Essentials, Enterprise Media Server, and PowerDeck
Clickability, Inc.
[ www.clickability.com ]
Category: Content Management
Founded: 1999
Employees: 74
Chief Officer: John Girard, Founder & CEO
Key Product(s): Clickability on-demand Web Content Management Platform (Express, Professional, Enterprise Editions)
Code Green Networks, Inc.
[ www.codegreennetworks.com ]
Category: Content Security
Founded: 2004
Employees: 50
Chief Officer: Daniel Udoutch, CEO & President
Key Product(s): Content Inspection Appliance, Content Inspection Agent
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Collexis Holdings, Inc.
[ www.collexis.com ]
Category: Search Engines & Technologies
Founded: 1999
Employees: 65
Chief Officer: Bill Kirkland, CEO
Key Product(s): Collexis Expert Profiles, Knowledge Discovery Dashboard-Powered by Web of Science, Mediator, biomedexperts.
com, Collexis Peer Reviewer Selector, Grant Management Analysis Dashboard
Connectbeam, Inc.
[ www.connectbeam.com ]
Category: Classification & Taxonomy
Founded: 2005
Employees: 22
Chief Officer: Puneet Gupta, Founder & CEO
Key Product(s): Connectbeam Spotlight
Copyright Clearance Center
[ www.copyright.com ]
Category: Content Commerce
Founded: 1978
Employees: 205
Chief Officer: Tracey L. Armstrong, CEO & President
Key Product(s): Rightslink, Rightsphere
Coveo Solutions, Inc.
[ www.coveo.com ]
Category: Search Engines & Technologies
Founded: 2004
Employees: 50–100
Chief Officer: Laurent Simoneau, CEO
Key Product(s): Coveo Enterprise Search 5.2, G2B for Intranets, G2B for Email, G2B for CRM, G2B for Multimedia, G2B for
Custom Applications
Crisp Wireless
[ www.crispwireless.com ]
Category: Mobile Content
Founded: 2003
Employees: 42
Chief Officer: Boris Fridman, CEO
Key Product(s): mLogic platform, Crisp Wireless Ad Server, Crisp Wireless Ad Platform, MicroSite Builder