The ten most important IT companies for enterprise users

Absrtact: "Information weekly" to the enterprise users the most important ten IT companies. They are indispensable to the day-to-day operation of the enterprise, is the backbone of it buildings, and strategic position is difficult to replace. In the past decade, the editors of Newsweek have interviewed

"Information weekly" to the enterprise users the most important ten IT companies. They are indispensable to the daily operation of the Enterprise, is the pillar of it "mansion", and the strategic position is difficult to replace. Over the past decade, Newsweek editors have interviewed countless corporate executives and asked this question countless times: Who do you think is the most important enterprise in the IT industry? To get into this "most important" list, you need to meet at least the following conditions: large enough to play a pillar role in it "buildings" and its role cannot be easily replaced by other companies.

In line with these standards, after repeated trade-offs, we have listed 10 IT companies that are most important to enterprise users. The main need, although these companies are now in their respective areas of dominance, they may still be replaced by a rising star, think of the flourished Dec and Unisys bar.

1.IBM

For a long time, the "blue giant" IBM is synonymous with IT industry. Until now, IBM's products and services still cover all aspects of the industry, outsourcing, integration, information, software, systems, security, almost one-stop to meet the needs of enterprise users. Guided by its concept of "building a Planet of wisdom" (Smarter Planet), IBM technology plays a vital role in health care, energy development, crime prevention, retail and wholesale, transportation, government management and other departments.

2.SAP

Many enterprises rely on the software produced by SAP Company for Finance, supply chain, production, payroll management and operation. But as my colleague Bob Evans pointed out in an open letter to Hasso Plattner, chairman of the SAP Supervisory board, if SAP wants to stay in position, it must start "Haso Pratna what the customer really needs, not what the company can produce." Plattner promised to renovate the company's bureaucracy and revive its reputation for technological innovation through a shake-up of the management earlier this month.

3. microsoft

Many people think the rankings are too low, while others feel that Microsoft is overrated. So far, while many competitors claim to be able to replace Windows, Office, Exchange, and IE, they are mostly just talking. As my colleague Art Wittmann says, once Microsoft makes the right decision, it can bring "revolutionary changes" to the industry. For example, its launch of the SharePoint software, has become a "company version of Facebook", the company's internal communication, cooperation, control plays a central role, its "Software Plus services" new strategy has been fast and good implementation. Art speaks very well, to understand the important position of Microsoft, just ask yourself this question: "What if there is no Microsoft?" ”

4. Oracle (Oracle)

Oracle is now the world's largest database software company, and this position appears to be "unbreakable". At the same time, through its recently completed acquisition of Sun, Oracle has moved from a single, pure software company to a one-stop supplier of hardware (a global high-end server system, storage System) and software, which will evolve in a similar direction to IBM.

5. Cisco

None of the listed companies has a dominant position in the industry like Cisco, and most of its rivals only dare to dream of competing for the second place in the field of network equipment. Cisco's rankings can no longer rely on the former, because the use of several other manufacturers to piece together the equipment, or could barely make it. In addition to a large market, such as routers and switches, Cisco is now vigorously developing the Unified Network Architecture Data Center (single-fabric), unifying virtualized servers, storage, and networking devices in a Cisco architecture. This will strengthen the importance of Cisco.

6. HP

Hewlett-Packard is the world's largest IT company, but only ranked 6th, because in the minds of the public, HP is still just a manufacturer of PCs and printers, it seems hard to hear something about strategy. But HP is a handful of companies that really do enterprise-class hardware, and HP is starting to make changes. Hewlett-Packard announced a deal with Shell last week that would provide the first of the Fortune 500 companies with a wireless sensing system to locate oil and gas storage sites. If HP can continue to receive such a long-term contract, the future will certainly be higher.

7. Teradata

Teradata is the smallest in the rankings and has an annual income of only 1.71 billion dollars. As a global enterprise-class data warehousing solutions leader, Teradata is committed to helping customers make smarter, more effective decisions that give them the impetus to grow. Large companies such as Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, ebay and Overstock.com owe their success in part to Teradata's competitive intelligence.

8. Vmware

VMware, the world's first virtual machine software company that controls 75% to 80% of the world's market share in the field, has experts predicting that Microsoft will deal with VMware like Novell and Netscape. But in any case VMware is still the leader in this field, and its customers are also very loyal.

9. EMC

Like Cisco in network devices, EMC has absolute leadership in information storage, but, like Cisco, its "store" status is not enough to completely crush its rivals. WMC began buying large software companies (including VMware) years ago, but information storage remains the main source of revenue, accounting for about 76% of its annual income.

10. Major Outsourcing service providers (outsourcer)

Companies such as Accenture, CSC and Wipro will be their most important strategic partners if they need to outsource certain businesses.