Software Product-based Company

A Software Product-based Company is a company that develops and distributes software systems.

• Context:
  • It can range from being a Consumer Software Company to being an Enterprise Software Company.
  • It can have Software Product-based Company Financial Measures, such as Software Company CapEx.
  • It can range from being a Startup Software Company to being a Mature Software Company.
  • It can (typically) be a Industry-Specific Software Company, such as a Healthcare Software Company or Finance Software Company.
  • It can (typically) employ Software Developers and Software Designers.
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• Example(s):
  • Start-up Software Company:
    • OpenAI, 2023, for OpenAI, Inc..
    • Microsoft 1977, for Microsoft, Inc..
    • Salesforce, 2009, for Salesforce, Inc..
    • Adobe, 1982, for Adobe, Inc..
    • ...
  • Mature Software Company:
    • Microsoft, 2027, Microsoft, 2017, Microsoft, 2007, and Microsoft 1997, for Microsoft, Inc..
    • Salesforce, 2019, for Salesforce, Inc..
    • Adobe, 2022, Adobe, 2012, Adobe, 2002 for Adobe, Inc..
    • ...
  • Domain-Specific Software Company:
    • Healthcare Software Company, such as: Epic Systems Corporation and Cerner Corporation.
    • Finance Software Company, such as: Intuit, Inc. and FIS Global.
    • Educational Software Company, such as: Blackboard Inc. and Instructure, Inc. (Canvas).
    • Manufacturing Software Company, such as: Autodesk, Inc. and Dassault Systemes.
    • Legal Software Company, such as: Clio (Themis Solutions Inc.) and Relativity (kCura Corporation).
    • Ecommerce Software Company, such as: Shopify Inc. and Magento (Adobe Inc.).
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Computing Hardware Company.
  • an Infrastructure as a Service Company.
• See: For-Profit Company, Software Package, Consulting Company, Services Company.

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References

2011

• (Andreessen, 2011) ⇒ Marc Andreessen. (2011). “Why Software Is Eating The World." Wall Street Journal, August 2011.
  • QUOTE: We believe that many of the prominent new Internet companies are building real, high-growth, high-margin, highly defensible businesses. ...

    ... My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy. ...

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