The team here at insideAI News is deeply entrenched in following the big data ecosystem of companies from around the globe. We’re in close contact with most of the firms making waves in the technology areas of big data, data science, machine learning, AI and deep learning. Our in-box is filled each day with new announcements, commentaries, and insights about what’s driving the success of our industry so we’re in a unique position to publish our quarterly IMPACT 50 List of the most important movers and shakers in our industry. These companies have proven their relevance by the way they’re impacting the enterprise through leading edge products and services. We’re happy to publish this evolving list of the industry’s most impactful companies!
The selected companies come from our massive data set of vendors and industry metrics. Yes, we use machine learning to analyze the industry in a detailed manner to determine a ranking for this list. We’re using a custom RankBoost algorithm adapted specifically for the big data community along with a plethora of proprietary data sources. The rankings include an indicator for upward movement in the list and also for companies newly added.
If you’re part of a company that you feel is “impactful” in some critical way please contact us immediately to be added to our database in order to be considered for this list. Companies on the list exhibit technology leadership, strength of offering, proven innovation, positivity of message, quality perception in the enterprise, intensity and frequency of social media buzz, high profile of members of the C-suite, and in the case of public companies: positive financial indicators and stock price, and so much more!
IMPACT 50 LIST for Q4 2021 (in order of the most impactful)
#1 Amazon Web Services – Cloud based machine learning, database, container, and storage [NASDAQ: AMZN] [+2]
#2 NVIDIA – Inventor of the GPU for AI workloads [NASDAQ: NVDA]
#3 Google AI [NASDAQ: GOOGL]
#4 Microsoft AI [NASDAQ: MSFT]
#5 HPE [NYSE: HPE] [+1]
#6 DataRobot – Automated Machine Learning [+1]
#7 Dell Technologies [NYSE: DELL] [+1]
#8 Intel AI – Harnessing silicon designed specifically for AI [NASDAQ: INTC]
#9 Domino Data Lab – Data Science Platform
#10 Databricks – Unified analytics platform [+1]
#11 Teradata [NYSE: TDC] [+1]
#12 H2O.ai – Open Source Data Science and Machine Learning Platform
#13 TigerGraph – Graph database and analytics platform [+1]
#14 OpenAI – AI research laboratory [+6]
#15 Snowflake – Cloud Enterprise Data Warehouse [NYSE: SNOW]
#16 Kinetica – GPU Database
#17 SAS – Analytics, BI, and data management
#18 Neo4j – Graph database [+3]
#19 Qlik – Data Analytics and Data Integration
#20 Anaconda – Python Data Science Platform
#21 Salesforce Einstein AI – Smart CRM assistant [NYSE: CRM]
#22 OmniSci– Massively accelerated analytics and data science
#23 Cloudera– Enterprise scale analytics platform [+1]
#24 Dremio – Data-as-a-Service platform [+1]
#25 TIBCO – Integration, analytics and event-processing software [+1]
#26 MongoDB – Cross-platform document-oriented NoSQL database [NASDAQ: MDB] [+1]
#27 Diveplane – AI explainable, auditable, editable [+4]
#28 StreamSets – Where DevOps meets data integration
#29 SQream – SQL GPU data warehouse [+1]
#30 Neural Magic – No hardware AI, GPU speeds without GPUs [+4]
#31 DataDirect Networks – AI and Deep Learning Storage [+4]
#32 Kaskada – End-to-end platform for feature engineering and feature serving [+4]
#33 explainX.ai – Explainable AI for data scientists [+4]
#34 Fiddler Labs – Explainable AI
#35 cnvrg.io – Operating system for ML and AI [+4]
#36 Esri – GIS mapping software NEW
#37 Truera – Model intelligence platform NEW
#38 Verta – AL and ML deployment & operations for data science teams [+3]
#39 Couchbase – NoSQL cloud database service [+1]
#40 Cazena – Instant AWS data lake [+4]
#41 R2.ai – AutoML [+1]
#42 Trifacta – Data wrangling tools [+3]
#43 Tecton – Data platform for machine learning [+3]
#44 Pinecone – Vector database for ML applications NEW
#45 ModelOp – Scale and govern enterprise AI [+3]
#46 WANdisco – Distributed computing specialists [+1]
#47 Matillion – ETL software for cloud data warehouses [+3]
#48 Plotly – The front-end for ML and data science models NEW
#49 Comet– Self-hosted and cloud-based meta machine learning platform
#50 MariaDB – Enterprise open source database NEW
HONORABLE MENTION – 65 companies (in alphabetical order):
Actable AI – No-code data analytics with deep learning
Ahana – Ahana cloud for Presto
Alegion – Data labeling platform
Allegro AI – DL/ML open source platform
Alluxio – Open source data orchestration for the cloud
AnotherBrain – Pioneers of organic AI
Arize AI – Real-time observability for AI
AtScale – Cloud OLAP for enterprise analytics
Beyond Limits – Explainable AI
Brytlyt – GPU accelerated analytics platform
causaLens – A machine that predicts the global economy in real-time
Chatterbox Labs – AI model insights for trustworthy & fair AI
Cockroach Labs – Builders of CockroachDB
Confluent [NASDAQ: CFLT] – Stream processing with Apache Kafka
Cortical.io – Natural language understanding
Coursera – Massive open online course (MOOC) provider
Cubonacci – Machine learning lifecycle management
DataKitchen – Enterprise DataOps platform
Dataloop – Image and video annotation
DarwinAI – “AI Building AI” technology
Deci – Deep learning platform
Deepgram – Speech recognition
Deeplite – AI-driven DNN optimizer
deepsense.ai – AI solutions for business
Digitate – AIOps
Exasol– In-memory analytic database
Faktion – Operationalize AI
Fero Labs – Using machine learning to optimize factory production NEW
Gigaspaces – In-memory computing platform
Graviti – Data platform to accelerate AI and ML NEW
GridGain – In-memory computing platform
Guavus – Real-time big data analytics
Gurobi Optimization – Mathematical optimization solver NEW
Hailo – Specialized deep learning processor for edge devices
Iguazio– Data science platform
InAccel – Application acceleration FPGA orchestrator
Intuition Machines – Deep learning and visual domain machine learning at scale
Kyligence – Intelligent data cloud NEW
Kyndi – Explainable AI platform
Lightmatter – Photonic computing
Logical Clocks AB – Hopsworks, an enterprise platform for AI
Loop AI Labs – Cognitive computing
Mipsology – FPGA machine learning
Molecula – Feature store
Monte Carlo – Data reliability
Natural Intelligence – AI toolkit
NetApp – Accelerated AI data pipelines
Neuton – AutoML – no-code AI NEW
Obviously AI – Data science without code
OctoML – Deploy machine learning models
Peltarion – Deep learning cloud platform
Perceive – Ergo edge inference processor
Prophecy – Low code data engineering
Pure Storage [NYSE: PSTG] Data storage solutions
Qeexo – AutoML at the Edge
Qumulo – Scale-out storage NEW
Rulex – Explainable AI platform
Run:AI – Platform for AI virtualization and orchestration
Sigmoid – Real-time data analytics
Spell – ML and DL platform
Starburst – Analytics engine for data mesh
Striim – Real-time data integration
Toucan Taco – Data storytelling platform
Tredence – Big data analytics
Yellowbrick – Data warehouse for hybrid and multi-cloud environments
Contributed by Daniel D. Gutierrez, Editor-in-Chief and Resident Data Scientist of insideAI News. In addition to being a tech journalist, Daniel also is a practicing data scientist, author, educator and sits on a number of advisory boards for various start-up companies.
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