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The world's top computer software companies are listed here, featuring corporate logos when available. This list includes the largest and most profitable businesses, from major corporations like GameStop and Eicon to smaller firms. Whether you're looking for job opportunities or wondering what the biggest companies are, this list covers the most famous and successful computer software companies globally.

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    01 Communique

    01 Communique is a Canadian technology company based in Mississauga, Ontario. The company builds integrated communications software and services. 01 Communique offers remote access to information on a Desktop PC over the Internet. People call this PC remote access software or PC remote control software.

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    29West

    29West Inc., now a business unit of Informatica, is a computer networking software company based near Chicago, specializing in Message Oriented Middleware. 29West has offices in the Chicago area, New York City, London, and Tokyo. Competitors for 29West include TIBCO Software, Tervela, Solace Systems, and IBM. Informatica bought 29West on March 22, 2010, and continues to develop and sell its products as "Ultra Messaging". Banks, trading firms, and exchanges use 29West's products.

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    4i2i Communications

    4i2i Communications Ltd. supplies semiconductor IP cores, software, and board-level solutions for video coding, error correction coding, and broad-band modems. Headquartered in Aberdeen, Scotland, the company also has offices in Edinburgh, Scotland, and San Jose, California, USA. 4i2i specializes in video compression technology and sells video IP cores. 4i2i video cores include High Profile H.264 decode and encode supporting HDTV resolution video. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory uses 4i2i video codec IP to help astronauts transmit digital video pictures.

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    ABBYY

    ABBYY is an international software company. It provides optical character recognition, document capture, and language software for PC and mobile devices. Most ABBYY products, like ABBYY FineReader, help people change paper documents into digital data. ABBYY also offers language products and services.

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    Ability Plus Software

    Ability Plus Software is a software development company. It founded in 1991 to develop and market Ability branded products: Ability Office, an office suite for Microsoft Windows, and Ability Plus, an integrated package running under DOS.

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    Accelrys

    Accelrys is a software company based in the United States with offices in Europe and Asia. It offers software for chemical, materials, and bioscience research across the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, consumer packaged goods, aerospace, energy, and chemical industries. Dassault Systèmes bought Accelrys in April 2014, making it a wholly owned subsidiary.

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    Access Accounting Ltd formed in 1991 to provide accounting software to UK and Irish mid-market businesses. In June 2009, Access Accounting and related interests merged into Access Group.

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    Accordent Technologies makes software for streaming media creation and management. Its headquarters sit in El Segundo, California. Sales and development offices exist in Seattle, London, New York, Atlanta, Dallas, and Austin. Accordent created tools that sync streaming video with PowerPoint slides. Hoovers lists Accordent as a private company with over 50 staff. It reported $11 million or more in revenues in 2007. Over 1500 clients worldwide use its products, including 150.

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    ACE*COMM Corporation offers operations support systems (OSS) and mobile apps for telecom providers and businesses.

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    ACL Services Ltd. is based in Vancouver, Canada. The company supplies data analytics, governance, risk management, and compliance software and consulting for risk and audit management. Their main analytics tools are called one of "the most widely used" data extraction tools. Laurie Schultz became the company's new Chief Executive Officer in September 2012.

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    Acornsoft was the software division of Acorn Computers. It published software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. Acornsoft also made games, educational titles, extra computer languages, and business/utility packages. These included the word processor VIEW and the spreadsheet ViewSheet, supplied on ROM and cartridge for the BBC Micro/Acorn Electron, and standard in the BBC Master and Acorn Business Computer. Hermann Hauser, Chris Curry, and David Johnson-Davies, author of the first ga, formed Acornsoft in late 1980.

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    Acronis

    Acronis International GmbH is a private Swiss firm providing data protection globally. Acronis builds software for backup, disaster recovery, and secure file sharing and data access. Founded in 2003, most Acronis customers are small and medium-sized enterprises with several hundred employees. Acronis offers complete backup and recovery for physical and virtual setups, Windows and Linux servers, and multiple hypervisors. AnyData Technology powers Acronis, delivering data protection for specific workloads.

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    Actuate Corporation

    Actuate Corporation is a public company offering reporting, analytics, and customer communication software. It is based in San Mateo, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley. The company created the open source Eclipse BIRT business data reporting project in 2004, launched by the Eclipse Foundation. Actuate software helps businesses and OEMs globally serve customers in finance, government, manufacturing, telecom, and healthcare, among others. Actuate has offices across the.

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    AdaCore makes open source tools and expertise for building mission-critical, safety-critical, and security-critical software. Flagship products include the GNAT Pro and SPARK Pro development environments, plus the CodePeer automatic code reviewer and validator. GNAT Pro, AdaCore's main product, is commercial-grade open source Ada development. It supports all Ada versions and offers professional consulting, training, and maintenance services. AdaCore software products use either the GPL or GMGPL license.

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    Adobe Systems

    Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American multinational computer software company. Adobe is based in San Jose, California, United States. Adobe historically focused on creating multimedia and creativity software. Recently, the company turned toward rich Internet application software development. People know Adobe for Photoshop, the Portable Document Format, and the Adobe Creative Suite, plus its successor, Adobe Creative Cloud. John Warnock and Charles Geschke founded Adobe in February 1982 after leaving Xerox PARC.

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    Advanced Digital Information Corporation made American tape libraries and storage management software. Quantum Corp. now owns it. Their products included hardware like the Scalar robotic tape libraries and software like the StorNext File System and StorNext Storage Manager, a Hierarchical Storage Management system. Apple, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu-Siemens, HP, IBM, and Sun were partners and resellers. Quantum bought ADIC in August 2006.

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    Vladimir Panfilovich, a Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology graduate, founded Agava in 1998. He started a small software development organization. Joblist became Agava's first project in 1999. The website sought jobs and employee selection. Agava began a hosting service in 2000. By 2007, Agava ranked in the top 5 largest Russian hosting companies. Agava has offices in Moscow and branches in Dubna, Bishkek, and Minsk.

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    Agent Logic is a software company based in Northern Virginia. Founded in 1999, the company gained fame for RulePoint, its complex event processing software. RulePoint mixes user logic with data from many sources. Since starting, Agent Logic has provided real-time intelligence for commercial and U.S. national security projects in tough settings. Agent Logic is recognized as one of two top vendors for complex event processing in the intelligence services market. Ventana Research gave Agent Logic the Leadership Award for Operational In

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    Agile

    Agile Software Corporation (NASDAQ: AGIL) helps companies boost profits, speed up innovation, improve quality, support globalization, and meet regulatory rules across the product lifecycle. Agile offers enterprise-class PLM solutions and implementations focused on time-to-value. Companies use Agile to maximize product returns. 3COM, Acer, Bayer, Broadcom, CooperVision, Dell Inc., Flextronics International, Foxconn, GE Medical Systems, Harris, Heinz, Johnson Johnson, Johnson Diversey, Lockheed Martin, McAfee, McDonald’s, Micron, Philips, QUALCOMM, Sharp, Shell, Siemens.

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    Aldon is a Rocket Software business unit. It builds, makes, licenses, and supports software change management products for enterprise application lifecycle management and software change management markets. Aldon is based in Emeryville, California, U.S., with offices in Canada, France, the United Kingdom, Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Middle East. Aldon offers Aldon Lifecycle Manager, Aldon Deployment Manager, Aldon Community Manager, and Aldon CMDB. Aldon puts over 25% of its revenue into research and development.

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    Aldus Corporation made desktop publishing software. The company developed PageMaker, an early desktop publishing product. Aldus honors 15th-century Venetian printer Aldus Manutius. Jeremy Jaech, Mark Sundstrom, Mike Templeman, Dave Walter, and Paul Brainerd founded Aldus Corporation. Aldus Corporation operated in Seattle, Washington. PageMaker launched in July 1985. It used Adobe's PostScript page description language. Output used the Apple LaserWriter, a PostScript laser printer. PageMaker for the PC was released.

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    Algenta Technologies began in 1999. It is a Minneapolis research and development firm. Algenta specializes in data management, integration services, and Internet technologies for government and business computing. The company provides specific products and services focused on data integration and access. The federal government and the University of Minnesota are Algenta's largest clients.

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    Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. is a public American company. It gives physician practices, hospitals, and other healthcare providers practice management and electronic health record technology. Allscripts also supplies patient engagement and care coordination tools, plus financial and analytics technology. The company serves over 180,000 physician users across 2,700 hospitals and 13,000 extended care organizations. Allscripts started in 1986. It is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with other key operations in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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    Allstate Northern Ireland

    Allstate Northern Ireland operates in Belfast, Derry, and Strabane, Northern Ireland. Northbrook Technology became Allstate Northern Ireland on May 7, 2008. Allstate NI provides technology and business services to its parent company, Allstate. The company currently employs about 1500 workers and plans to hire more.

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    Altair Engineering

    Altair Engineering makes product design, development, engineering software, and cloud computing software. James R Scapa, George Christ, and Mark Kistner founded Altair in 1985. Altair had several locations near Detroit, Michigan, USA. It is now headquartered in Troy, Michigan, with offices across America, Europe, and Asia. Altair Engineering created the HyperWorks suite of CAE software products.

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    Alterface Projects manufactures interactive and media-based attractions globally. The company started as a spin-off from the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, focusing on creating interactive systems. Alterface Projects develops entertainment and education setups, including interaction between users and media or physical items. Alterface Projects installs its systems in museums, science centers, and amusement parks. Alterface Projects owns and designs the Salto s.

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    Alterian

    Alterian supplied marketing automation software and services in the UK. Mike Talbot, David Eldridge, and Tim McCarthy founded Alterian in 1997. Alterian began in Weston-Super-Mare, UK, then moved its headquarters to Bristol. Alterian floated on the techMARK index of the London Stock Exchange in 2000. In May 2006, Alterian bought the Email Marketing software vendor Dynamics Direct. In July 2008, Alterian bought Mediasurface, a UK-based Web Content Management software vendor for $35.6 million. In July 2011, Alterian hired Heath Davies as CEO, replacing David Eldridge.

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    Altiris

    Altiris Inc. is a Symantec subsidiary specializing in service-oriented management software for managing IT assets. Altiris also offers software for web services, security, and systems management products. Established in 1998, Altiris is headquartered in Lindon, Utah, United States. Altiris serves over 20,000 customers managing more than 3 million servers and 60 million desktops and laptops. Symantec announced plans to buy Altiris on January 29, 2007, and completed the purchase on April 6, 2007.

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    Amadeus CRS

    Amadeus, a computer reservations system, belongs to the Amadeus IT Group. Headquarters sit in Madrid, Spain. The central database sits in Erding, Germany. Development centers operate in Bangalore, Sophia Antipolis, and Boston. The CRS books airlines, trains, cruises, car rentals, ferries, and hotel rooms. Amadeus also supplies airlines with New Generation departure control systems. The Amadeus IT Group processes transactions for the global travel and tourism industry. The company organizes around two main areas.

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    Amadeus IT Group

    Amadeus IT Group SA serves as an IT Provider for the global travel and tourism industry.

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    Also ranks #8 on List of IT Companies

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    Amebis, based in Kamnik, Slovenia, is the main company in Slovenia for language technologies. Miro Romih manages the company. Amebis publishes machine-readable and encyclopedic dictionaries. It also develops spell checkers, grammar checkers, hyphenators, and lemmatizers for Slovene, Serbian, and Albanian languages. In partnership with the Jožef Stefan Institute, they created the speech synthesizer and screen reader Govorec. They also support the largest text corpus of the Slovene language, FidaPLUS.

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    Amsoft was a wholly owned subsidiary of Amstrad, PLC. Amstrad founded Amsoft in 1984 and re-integrated it with the parent company in 1989. Amsoft provided initial software and service infrastructure for users of Amstrad's home computers, the Amstrad CPC, and the Sinclair ZX Spectrum starting in 1986. Many users first encountered software on an Amstrad home computer through an Amsoft title included in sales bundles.

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    Analytical Graphics

    Analytical Graphics, Inc. makes commercial modeling and analysis software for aerospace, defense, and intelligence groups. Over 50,000 engineers, operators, and analysts worldwide use AGI software. Founded in 1989, AGI has nearly 200 employees. They operate the international headquarters in Exton, Pennsylvania, with satellite offices in Washington, D.C., Colorado Springs, CO, Long Beach, CA, the UK, and Singapore. Paul Graziani is the current CEO.

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    Ancestry.com Inc.

    The Generations Network is an Internet company based in Provo, Utah. It is the world's largest for-profit genealogy company. They operate a growing network of genealogy and family websites. Besides main sites, The Generations Network runs FamilyHistory.com. This site offers basic free information; it mostly links to Ancestry.com. They publish Ancestry Magazine and previously published Genealogical Computing until the magazine stopped in 2006. The company has a presence in the United Kingdom as MyFamily.com, Ltd., with offices in Ha

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    Angoss Software Corporation, based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, has offices in the United States and UK. This company provides predictive analytics systems via software licensing and services. Customers include finance, insurance, mutual funds, retail, health sciences, telecom, and technology industries. Angoss started in 1984. The company traded on the TSX Venture Exchange from 2008 to 2013 under the ticker ANC. In June 2013, Peterson Partners bought Angoss for $8.4 million.

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    Animusic

    Animusic is an American company specializing in 3D visualization of MIDI-based music. Wayne Lytle founded it. The company is incorporated in New York with offices in Texas and California. The company began as Visual Music, changing the name to Animusic in 1995. Animusic compilations use computer-generated animations based on MIDI events. These events drive both the music and the on-screen action, producing corresponding sounds. The music drives the animation; other productions animate figures.

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    Anite plc offers mobile device, infrastructure, and network testing systems for the international wireless market. Anite is listed on the London Stock Exchange.

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    Ansys

    Ansys, Inc. develops engineering simulation software. The company is headquartered south of Pittsburgh in the Southpointe business park in Cecil Township, Pennsylvania, United States. Ansys CFD, a proprietary computational fluid dynamics program, is one of its main products.

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    Anystream is an Internet software company focused on streaming media encoding technology. The company creates scalable software that automates media encoding and transcoding for demanding broadcast and production environments. Anystream's Agility software became standard for streaming media encoding and broadcast transcoding for companies like BBC, Red Bee Media, BskyB, CNet, CNN, AOL, ESPN, Fox News, Foxsports.com, NFL Films, weather.com, and others. In 2004, Anystream was recognized as the industry's largest software-based encoder by market research.

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