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Company type | Public company |
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NYSE: IT | |
Founded | 2005 |
Founder | Don Fornes Austin Merritt |
Headquarters |
Austin, Texas United States |
Key people | Blake Clark (General Manager) [1] |
Website | www.softwareadvice.com |
Software Advice is a company that provides advisory services, research, and user reviews on software applications for businesses in over 300 market categories including medical, CRM, HR, construction, business intelligence and marketing automation. [2] [3]
Co-founded in 2005 by CEO Don Fornes and Austin Merritt, it has been a subsidiary of Gartner since 2014. [4] [5]
Software Advice, Inc., formerly known as River Guide, Inc., was co-founded in 2005 in San Francisco, California by CEO Don Fornes and Austin Merritt, the company's former general manager and COO. [6] [4] The company provides advice on different software for buyers in several verticals: construction, medical, retail, property, manufacturing, distribution, electronic health record, CRM, applicant tracking systems, and more. [7] [8] [9] In 2009, the company's headquarters moved to its current location in Austin, Texas. [10] In March 2014, Software Advice was acquired by Gartner, Inc., a global information technology research and advisory company. [2]
The company announced Blake Clark as its new general manager in November 2018. [11] [12]
The company advises buyers on software products via free telephone consultations with software analysts. [2] [13] The Software Advice website gives pricing and demo information on individual systems, as well as market reports based on buyer interactions, and detailed reviews and comparisons. [3] [14] [15] The company's reports have been used as a source of expertise in Forbes, [16] [17] [18] [19] Entrepreneur, [20] Huffington Post, [21] Business Insider, [22] Yelp, [23] Inc., [24] [25] and the Wall Street Journal [26] among others.
Software Advice releases biannual reports to highlight top software products in different categories. [27] Its FrontRunners for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), April 2019 report analyzed the software that companies use to track information such as inventory management, accounting, and customer relationship management. [28] In the report, Software Advice used analyzed data to plot the market’s top ERP products graphically, based on Usability and User Recommended. [28] The other FrontRunners reports also base scores on Usability and User Recommended. [29]
In 2013, Software Advice was recognized as one of the fastest-growing companies in the U.S. by Inc. Magazine. [15] [30]
In 2016 and 2017, the company was recognized as a Top Place to Work in the Austin, Texas area. [31]
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Company type | Public company |
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NYSE: IT | |
Founded | 2005 |
Founder | Don Fornes Austin Merritt |
Headquarters |
Austin, Texas United States |
Key people | Blake Clark (General Manager) [1] |
Website | www.softwareadvice.com |
Software Advice is a company that provides advisory services, research, and user reviews on software applications for businesses in over 300 market categories including medical, CRM, HR, construction, business intelligence and marketing automation. [2] [3]
Co-founded in 2005 by CEO Don Fornes and Austin Merritt, it has been a subsidiary of Gartner since 2014. [4] [5]
Software Advice, Inc., formerly known as River Guide, Inc., was co-founded in 2005 in San Francisco, California by CEO Don Fornes and Austin Merritt, the company's former general manager and COO. [6] [4] The company provides advice on different software for buyers in several verticals: construction, medical, retail, property, manufacturing, distribution, electronic health record, CRM, applicant tracking systems, and more. [7] [8] [9] In 2009, the company's headquarters moved to its current location in Austin, Texas. [10] In March 2014, Software Advice was acquired by Gartner, Inc., a global information technology research and advisory company. [2]
The company announced Blake Clark as its new general manager in November 2018. [11] [12]
The company advises buyers on software products via free telephone consultations with software analysts. [2] [13] The Software Advice website gives pricing and demo information on individual systems, as well as market reports based on buyer interactions, and detailed reviews and comparisons. [3] [14] [15] The company's reports have been used as a source of expertise in Forbes, [16] [17] [18] [19] Entrepreneur, [20] Huffington Post, [21] Business Insider, [22] Yelp, [23] Inc., [24] [25] and the Wall Street Journal [26] among others.
Software Advice releases biannual reports to highlight top software products in different categories. [27] Its FrontRunners for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), April 2019 report analyzed the software that companies use to track information such as inventory management, accounting, and customer relationship management. [28] In the report, Software Advice used analyzed data to plot the market’s top ERP products graphically, based on Usability and User Recommended. [28] The other FrontRunners reports also base scores on Usability and User Recommended. [29]
In 2013, Software Advice was recognized as one of the fastest-growing companies in the U.S. by Inc. Magazine. [15] [30]
In 2016 and 2017, the company was recognized as a Top Place to Work in the Austin, Texas area. [31]