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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Inchcape | Automotive | 17588 | $12.0B | United Kingdom | Pentana Solutions | Pentana Analytics | Analytics and BI | 2020 | n/a | In 2020, Inchcape implemented Pentana Analytics to aggregate dealer network sales, parts and service data across its automotive dealer operations. Pentana Analytics is deployed as an Analytics and BI capability to centralize performance insights for regional dealer networks and standardize reporting across sales, parts and service functions. The implementation emphasizes a centralized analytics layer that ingests and normalizes transactional and operational dealer data, enabling consolidated KPI dashboards, trend reporting, and scheduled executive reports. Configuration covers role-based dashboards and standardized metric definitions for sales performance, parts availability and service throughput, reflecting common Analytics and BI functional workflows such as data modeling, ETL orchestration, and interactive visualization. The deployment consolidates dealer network data into a single reporting fabric to support commercial, aftersales and operations business functions across regions, enabling cross-dealer comparability and regional performance analysis. Inchcape Pentana Analytics Analytics and BI implementation is structured to operate across dealer operations and regional teams, aligning data semantics and reporting cadence for distributed sites. Governance for the rollout focuses on standardized KPIs and a unified data model, with staged enablement of dealer groups to bring consistency to reporting and control data definitions. Operational governance includes access controls and dashboard ownership to maintain data quality and reporting integrity as the analytics footprint scales across the dealer network. | |
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Inchcape | Automotive | 17588 | $12.0B | United Kingdom | Pentana Solutions | Pentana Data Warehouse | Data Warehouse | 2020 | n/a | In 2020, Inchcape implemented Pentana Data Warehouse. The Pentana Data Warehouse, categorized as Data Warehouse, was deployed to consolidate multi country sales, warranty and service data to support analytics and forecasting across Inchcape's dealer footprint. The implementation followed a standard data warehouse architecture with extract transform load pipelines, a staging area, dimensional modeling and subject area data marts for sales, aftersales, warranty and forecasting. Functional configuration included data quality rules, master data alignment for vehicle and customer identifiers and a reporting layer to support business intelligence and ad hoc analysis, consistent with typical Pentana product capabilities. The Pentana Data Warehouse ingests transactional feeds from dealer systems, warranty processing streams and service records to create a centralized analytics store, without naming specific upstream systems. Operational coverage emphasized sales, service and warranty business functions and extended across Inchcape's multi country operations within the dealer network. Governance centered on centralized data stewardship, standardized ETL workflows and a phased rollout by country to align source schemas and reporting vocabularies. Reported benefits for dealers on Pentana platforms typically include improved BI driven decision making and consolidated reporting, and those reported benefits align with the stated use of Pentana Data Warehouse at Inchcape. | |
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Automotive | 17588 | $12.0B | United Kingdom | Pentana Solutions | Pentana Stamina | Analytics and BI | 2020 | n/a |
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Non Profit | 20 | $1M | United States | Chartbeat | Chartbeat | Analytics and BI | 2015 | n/a |
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Distribution | 50 | $5M | United States | Tableau Software | Tableau | Analytics and BI | 2021 | n/a |
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Insurance | 8400 | $4.6B | Singapore | IBM | IBM Watson Explorer Content Analytics | Analytics and BI | 2017 | n/a |
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Professional Services | 2400 | $1.1B | United States | Microsoft | Microsoft BI (SSRS, SSAS, SSIS, SQL Server Reporting) | Analytics and BI | 2013 | n/a |
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Communications | 1360 | $632M | United States | Domo | Domo | Analytics and BI | 2015 | n/a |
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Banking and Financial Services | 1638 | $110M | India | FinBox | FinBox Account Aggregation | Data Warehouse | 2022 | n/a |
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Professional Services | 25 | $5M | Germany | Yellowfin | Yellowfin BI | Analytics and BI | 2012 | n/a |
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