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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FordDirect | Automotive | 450 | $65M | United States | Apache Software | Apache Spark | Analytics and BI | 2021 | n/a | In 2021, FordDirect deployed Apache Spark to support Analytics and BI workloads. The implementation centered on PySpark development inside a Databricks environment to construct end to end data pipelines that serve FordDirect Apache Spark Analytics and BI data engineering and analytics functions. Engineers developed Databricks notebooks in PySpark that used Spark SQL and the Spark Streaming API to perform data migrations and complex data transformations. The implementation relied on DataFrame APIs to transform incoming records, and Delta tables were created and populated to serve as the canonical sink for transformed datasets and for performing join operations across dataframes. The pipeline architecture integrated blob storage as the input source, Kafka clusters as the streaming layer, and Delta Lake storage as the sink, with Apache Spark orchestrating both batch and streaming processing. Spark Streaming handled continuous ingestion from Kafka while Spark SQL supported analytical queries against Delta tables, aligning the solution with enterprise Analytics and BI use cases in the data engineering function. Operational governance emphasized job scheduling and monitoring within the Databricks environment to handle millions of records. Jobs were scheduled to control processing cadence and monitoring of notebook runs and job results provided the primary mechanism for pipeline health and failure detection. | |
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LADbible Group, part of LBG Media | Media | 450 | $85M | United Kingdom | Chartbeat | Chartbeat | Analytics and BI | 2022 | n/a | ||
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Professional Services | 450 | $260M | United States | Snowflake | Snowflake Data Warehouse | Data Warehouse | 2020 | n/a |
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Professional Services | 450 | $75M | United States | Dreamdata | Dreamdata Revenue Analytics | Analytics and BI | 2024 | n/a |
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Professional Services | 450 | $75M | France | Dreamdata | Dreamdata Revenue Analytics | Analytics and BI | 2023 | n/a |
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Professional Services | 450 | $260M | United States | Umami | Umami | Analytics and BI | 2024 | n/a |
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Consumer Packaged Goods | 450 | $75M | United States | SAP | SAP BW (Business Warehouse) | Data Warehouse | 2007 | n/a |
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Consumer Packaged Goods | 450 | $75M | United States | SAP | SAP BusinessObjects | Analytics and BI | 2007 | n/a |
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Transportation | 450 | $73M | United States | SAP | SAP Crystal Reports | Analytics and BI | 2014 | n/a |
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Retail | 450 | $65M | Finland | RELEX Solutions | RELEX CO2 Analytics | Analytics and BI | 2025 | n/a |
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