Information Builders vs Salesforce

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Information Builders
Based on 21 reviews.
Salesforce
Based on 369 reviews.
Overview
Information Builders is a privately held software company, with its headquarters in New York City. Information Builders is known for its business intelligence tools FOCUS and WebFOCUS. Information Builders was founded in 1975 by Gerald D. Cohen, Peter Mittelman, and Martin B. Slagowitz. Their founding product was the database system called FOCUS. Information Builders is one of the world's largest privately held software firms.
Salesforce.com is a cloud computing company headquartered in San Francisco, California. Though its revenue comes from a customer relationship management product, Salesforce also tries capitalizing on commercial applications of social networking through acquisition. As of 2015, it is one of the most highly valued American cloud computing companies with a market capitalization of $50 billion, It is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the S&P 500 index.
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Top Industries
Financial Services Firm
20%
Comms Service Provider
15%
Computer Software Company
15%
Government
6%
Educational Organization
36%
Computer Software Company
12%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Comms Service Provider
6%
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