As reported on by media such as CNN and the Wall St. Journal, Aberdeen Group -- "a leading provider of fact-based research and market intelligence" -- recently released its report on the "100 Most Influential Technology Vendors in 2008". The report "showcases the results of five years of research and up to date insight from 4,645 snap-shot survey respondents."
There were a few notable elements in the report:
- EMC is among the Top 10
- My competitive friends pointed out that EMC ranked ahead of Hitachi at #66, Symantec at #58, and Netapp at #57 (makes me think of Heinz 57 ketch-up!).
- Some really well-known tech brands that did not make the Top 10 cut include Google #11; Apple #16; Accenture #25; Sony #26; Intel at #29; and Yahoo #75.
- The average market cap of the members of the Top 10 as of Monday, May 19th was just over $100 Billion.
(MSFT 276B; ORCL 116B; SAP 62B; IBM 175.5B; CSCO 159B; HPQ 118B; Dell 44B; CRM (salesforce.com) 8B; EMC 38B; JAVA (Sun) 10B).
On revenue relative to clout, looks to me like
Salesforce.com and EMC are standouts.
- But maybe most of all I couldn't help but notice how the report referred to EMC: a "technology household name." Can it be?
Then I started to think about it.
- Our hot Mozy on-line back up has almost 1 million consumer customers at this point including the Wall St. Journal's influential Personal Technology reporter Walt Mossberg who has graciously pointed out his pleasure with the offering: http://mozy.com/news
- Our VMware overtook Google as the hottest IPO ever, is tracking to be the fastest growing software company in history -- and sports 100% of the FORTUNE 100 as customers.
- About 37,000 technology professionals left their families, booked flights, endured airports and uncomfortable airplane seats, paid a lot of money and sat/will sit in large conference centers to attend a conference this year put on by either EMC (EMC WORLD), an EMC Division (RSA Conference) or an EMC Company (VMworld). A back-of-the-envelope calculation for what that cost these 37,000 professional in total is about $148 million!
- And then there is the daily experience with the master brand "EMC:" ... to keep it simple, I tell my mom that she can't go through a single hour in a single day without EMC somehow having a role in what she is doing. The car she drives, the phone call she made, the stock she traded, the money she withdrew from her ATM, the package she sent, the bill she received, the show she watched, the stuff she bought with her credit card, the stuff she returned -- chances are EMC had a role in securing, accessing, managing, storing, or protecting the digital bits that make up her daily, personal digital world.
So I guess Aberdeen is on to something. Who am I to argue with 5 years of research and 4,645 survey respondents?
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