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50 Fastest-Growing Software Companies

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006, 5:28 pmManoj Ranaweera

Below is a list of 50 fastest growing publicly held business software companies, based on year-on-year growth compiled by Baseline. According to Baseline, most of the companies at the top, do not sell software in the traditional sense - they follow the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model, similar to ebdex. As you would have expected, all of these companies are US based.

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Rank	Company	Category	Annual growth
1	Click Commerce^†1	Supply chain management	128.2%
2	Omniture	Web site analytics	108.1%
3	Synchronoss Technologies	E-commerce for communications providers	99.4%
4	Knova Software^†	Knowledge management	88.8%
5	Open Solutions^†	Financial data processing, Internet banking	80.8%
6	Tecsys^†2	Supply chain management	78.0%
7	Salesforce.com³	Customer relationship management	75.7%
8	WebSideStory^†	Web site analytics	74.6%
9	Viewpoint^†	Internet marketing management	74.1%
10	Kintera^†	Customer relationship management	72.5%
11	DealerTrack^†	Auto dealer management	71.6%
12	Sonic Solutions^†4	Multimedia	64.1%
13	SXC Health Solutions^†	Health-care data processing	63.8%
14	Opsware^†3	Network and systems management	61.6%
15	Emageon^†	Medical imaging	61.1%
16 (tie)	Symantec^†4	Storage management, security	60.4%
16 (tie)	Comarco³	Wireless network monitoring	60.4%
18	Peerless Systems³	Printing and imaging management	56.7%
19	Workbrain	Workforce management	55.7%
20	Retalix^†	Supply chain management	52.4%
21	Smith Micro Software^†	Wireless computing	52.1%
22	Top Image Systems^†	Document imaging and management	50.4%
23	Logility^†2	Supply chain management	50.3%
24	Evolving Systems^†	Telecommunications operations management	49.8%
25	Autonomy^†	Search and retrieval software	48.3%

Rank	Company	Category	Annual growth
26	Corel^†5	Graphics, word processor	46.9%
27	InterVideo^†6	Multimedia	46.7%
28	Vital Images^†	Medical imaging	43.2%
29	Online Resources^†	Internet banking	43.1%
30	Digital River^†	E-commerce	43.0%
31	FalconStor Software	Storage management	42.7%
32	Kenexa^†	Recruiting and performance management	41.8%
33	Red Hat^†7	Linux operating systems	41.7%
34	RightNow Technologies^†	Customer relationship management	41.1%
35	Neoware^†8	Thin-client computing	40.6%
36	Saba^†9	Learning and talent management	39.0%
37	Voxware⁸	Speech recognition	37.9%
38	CyberSource⁸	Electronic payment	37.6%
39	SumTotal Systems^†	Learning management	35.8%
40	CryptoLogic	Internet casino management	35.5%
41	Bitstream	Publishing and fonts	34.6%
42 (tie)	CDC^†	Enterprise resource planning	34.1%
42 (tie)	Quality Systems⁴	Health-care management	34.1%
44	Taleo^†	Talent management	33.7%
45	Websense	Internet content filtering, Web security	32.9%
46	Witness Systems^†	Workforce management, call center applications	31.2%
47	Art Technology Group^†	E-commerce	31.0%
48	Netsmart Technologies^†	Health-care management	30.9%
49	F-Secure^†	Antivirus	30.8%
50	Scientific Learning	Education	30.2%

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2 comments:

Adrian McEwen, Tuesday, October 10th, 2006, 9:33 pm

What do you mean by “all of these companies are US based”? Although they have a presence in the US, Autonomy are a UK company based here in Cambridge.
Manoj Ranaweera, Wednesday, October 11th, 2006, 9:59 am

You are right. Oversight on my part. They are not listed in US by brokerages there seem to trade in Autonomy shares. Perhaps this is why it was included.

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