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.
Apps Run The World Buyer Insight and Technographics Customer Database has over 100 data fields that detail company usage of emerging technologies such as AI, Machine Learning, IoT, Blockchain, Autonomous Database, and different on-prem and cloud apps by function, customer size (employees, revenues), industry, country, implementation status, year deal won, partner involvement, Line of Business Key Stakeholders and key decision-makers contact details, including the systems being used by Fortune 1000 and Global 2000 companies.
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Southwater Event Group | Professional Services | 469 | $24M | United Kingdom | Zellis | Zellis HCM Cloud | Core HR | 2025 | n/a | ||
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The Grammar School At Leeds | Education | 402 | $38M | United Kingdom | IRIS Software | IRIS Every HR | Core HR | 2025 | n/a | In 2025 The Grammar School At Leeds implemented IRIS Every HR in the Core HR category to centralise people management across the school. The deployment targeted the school workforce of approximately 402 employees and addressed an environment where absence tracking had been maintained in spreadsheets and core HR processes lacked formal structure. The decision prioritized an education-sector focused, secure platform capable of providing employee self service and controlled access for line managers and senior leaders. IRIS Every HR was configured to deliver standard Core HR capabilities including employee self service, absence management, performance management, eLearning and onboarding functionality. The implementation brought structured workflows for return to work interviews and end of year reviews, and established policy confirmation and mandatory training acknowledgements as system-driven tasks. Reporting and real time dashboards were implemented to surface absence trends and compliance status for operational oversight. Operational coverage extended across the HR department, line managers, senior leadership and recruitment teams, and the school integrated Every HR with its IRIS Recruitment usage and newly adopted onboarding module to support the full employee journey. Safeguarding and compliance tracking were specifically instrumented through the eLearning and policy acknowledgement features, ensuring critical policy reads are logged and auditable. Line manager visibility into team records and instant reporting capabilities provided direct operational access to HR data. Governance and process changes included formalising absence workflows, instituting manager led interventions based on identified absence patterns, and moving mandatory training and policy confirmations from manual records to digital completion tracking. The school established routine reporting processes for senior leaders to support strategic HR decisions and made employee self service the primary channel for personal data updates. These governance actions created clearer accountability for HR tasks and manager responsibilities. Outcomes stated by school leadership include improved visibility of colleague absences enabling earlier support interventions, faster and shareable reporting to inform strategic HR decisions, more efficient onboarding and structured learning compliance tracking, and a strong return on investment as reflected in leadership feedback. IRIS Every HR provided the school with centralised, sector specific Core HR tooling that reshaped people management and operational reporting. | |
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Construction and Real Estate | 10480 | $193M | United Kingdom | Workday | Workday HCM | Core HR | 2025 | n/a |
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Manufacturing | 137 | $27M | United Kingdom | IFS | IFS Cloud HCM | Core HR | 2018 | Anthesis |
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Construction and Real Estate | 500 | $100M | United Kingdom | IFS | IFS HCM | Core HR | 2020 | n/a |
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Consumer Packaged Goods | 1000 | $250M | United Kingdom | IFS | IFS HCM | Core HR | 2022 | Platned |
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Consumer Packaged Goods | 352 | $50M | United Kingdom | IFS | IFS HCM | Core HR | 2018 | n/a |
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Professional Services | 25 | $2M | United Kingdom | EmploymentHero | EmploymentHero HRIS | Core HR | 2024 | n/a |
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Professional Services | 40 | $4M | United Kingdom | EmploymentHero | EmploymentHero HRIS | Core HR | 2024 | n/a |
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Communications | 85300 | $26.8B | United Kingdom | SAP | SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central | Core HR | 2019 | Accenture |
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