Apps Purchases: 10+ Million Software Purchases
Founded in 2010, APPS RUN THE WORLD is a leading technology intelligence and market-research company devoted to the application space. Leveraging a rigorous data-centric research methodology, we ask the simple B2B sales intelligence question: Who’s buying enterprise applications from whom and why?
Our global team of 50 researchers has been studying the digital transformation initiatives being undertaken by 2 million + companies including technographic segmentation of 10 million ERP, EPM, CRM, HCM, Procurement, SCM, Treasury software purchases, aggregating massive amounts of data points that form the basis of our forecast assumptions and perhaps the rise and fall of certain vendors and their products on a quarterly basis.
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| Logo | Customer | Industry | Empl. | Revenue | Country | Vendor | Application | Category | When | VAR/SI | Insight | Insight Source |
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D. M. Keith Ltd | Automotive | 152 | $24M | United Kingdom | Pinewood | Pinewood DMS (ex. Pinnacle DMS) | Dealership Management | 2018 | n/a | In 2018, D. M. Keith Ltd implemented Pinewood DMS (ex. Pinnacle DMS) as its primary Dealership Management platform. The vendor was chosen after evaluating four other major DMS providers including CDK, with selection driven by demonstrable improvements in operational efficiency for front office and customer-facing personnel at the dealership. The Pinewood DMS deployment focused on core Dealership Management capabilities, configuring front-end sales workflows, service workshop job management, parts inventory controls, and CRM-oriented customer touchpoint processes. Pinewood DMS was instrumented to standardize daily workflows, automate routine transaction steps, and provide structured operational procedures for sales advisors and technicians, aligning system configuration with retail and service process needs. Rollout covered the D. M. Keith Group retail estate in the United Kingdom, concentrating on dealership operations for the company that is the UKs largest Škoda retailer. Governance emphasized workflow change across sales and service functions, with operational processes redefined to embed system-driven steps, and staff adoption prioritized to realize the stated outcome that the system revolutionised workflows and made the business more efficient and more effective. | |
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Pebley Beach Limited | Automotive | 40 | $8M | United Kingdom | Pinewood | Pinewood DMS (ex. Pinnacle DMS) | Dealership Management | 2018 | n/a | In 2018 Pebley Beach Limited implemented Pinewood DMS (ex. Pinnacle DMS) for Dealership Management. The deployment positioned Pinewood DMS as the central applications platform for dealer operations at Pebley Beach Limited, directly supporting customer management, vehicle stock control and service workflow orchestration under the Dealership Management category. Pebley Beach has benefited from vendor delivered continuity, with Dominic Threlfall, Managing Director, using Pinewood DMS for over 20 years and receiving hundreds of free system updates through that period. Those updates included enhancements such as Hyundai 360 integration, extending the Pinewood DMS connection to manufacturer data flows and retail network services. Functional coverage at Pebley Beach included showroom sales, aftersales workshop scheduling, parts inventory and dealership accounting, aligning the Dealership Management application with core business functions across the UK site. Governance centered on in-house stewardship by senior management for configuration and update acceptance, with the system serving as a one stop solution for dealership workflow consolidation and operational continuity according to the managing director's endorsement. | |
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Automotive | 200 | $50M | Germany | Nakisa | Nakisa Lease Administration | Lease Management | 2018 | n/a |
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Automotive | 120000 | $29.5B | United States | SAP | SAP Vehicle Management System (VMS) | Automotive ERP | 2018 | n/a |
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Automotive | 29 | $6M | United States | aACE Software | aACE business management | ERP Financial | 2018 | n/a |
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Automotive | 120 | $24M | United States | AcctVantage | AcctVantage ERP | ERP Financial | 2020 | n/a |
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Automotive | 150 | $15M | United Kingdom | ACTouch | ACTouch ERP | Manufacturing ERP | 2019 | n/a |
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Automotive | 250 | $30M | United Kingdom | Advanced Retail Management Systems | ARMS | Retail Management | 2008 | n/a |
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Automotive | 100 | $2M | United States | Advent Resources | Advent DMS | Dealership Management | 2011 | n/a |
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Automotive | 200 | $3M | United States | Advent Resources | Advent DMS | Dealership Management | 2015 | n/a |
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