48 Worcester Business Journal • Book Of Lists 2015 www.wbjournal.com
Top software and hardware companies
Ranked by number of local employees as of April 2015
Name
No. of local
employees/
Total employees Annual revenue Description Head of company
Year
founded
1
EMC Corp.
176 South St., Hopkinton 01748
508-435-1000 • www.emc.com
9,400
DND
$24.4 billion
Information infrastructure products such as data storage
and protection, cloud, security and content management
Joseph M. Tucci
Chairman & CEO
1979
2
IBM Corp.
550 King St., Littleton 01460
800-426-4968 • www.ibm.com
3,400
1
379,592
$92.8 billion IT software and services
Virginia M. Rometty
Chairman, president & CEO
1911
3
Hewlett-Packard
153 Taylor St., Littleton 01460
DND • www.hp.com
2,525
2
302,000
3
$111.5 billion Computers
Meg Whitman
President & CEO
1939
4
MathWorks
3 Apple Hill Dr., Natick 01760
508-647-7000 • www.mathworks.com
2,100
3,200
$800 million Software
Jack Little
President & co-founder
1984
5
Intel Massachusetts
75 Reed Rd., Hudson 01749
978-553-1411 • www.intel.com
1,276
107,000
$52.7 billion Semiconductors
Brian Krzanich
CEO
1968
6
Cisco Systems Inc.
500 Beaver Brook Rd., Boxborough 01719
978-936-0000 • www.cisco.com
1,065
4
70,112
5
$47.1 billion Networking equipment
John Chambers
Chairman & CEO
1984
7
eClinicalWorks
2 Technology Dr., Westborough 01581
508-836-2700 • www.eclinicalworks.com
880
3,800
$333 million Healthcare IT
Girish Navani
CEO & co-founder
1999
8
AMD
90 Central St., Boxborough 01719
978-795-2500 • www.amd.com
400
9,700
6
$5.5 billion (net revenue) Computing hardware
Lisa Su
President & CEO
1969
9
Cognex Corp.
1 Vision Dr., Natick 01760
508-650-3000 • www.cognex.com
385
1,483
$486 million Barcode readers and machine system readers manufacturer
Robert Willett
President & CEO
1981
10
ADP
123 Felton St., Marlborough 01752
508-573-9000 • www.workscape.com
363
54,100
$12.6 billion HR software
Carlos A. Rodrigez
President & CEO
1949
11
SimpliVity Corp.
8 Technology Dr., Westborough 01581
855-788-4636 • www.simplivity.com
322
500
DND Hyperconverged infrastructure for IT
Doron Kempel
Chairman & CEO
2009
12
CA Technologies
100 Staples Dr., Framingham 01702
800-225-5224 • www.ca.com
267
11,565
$4.5 billion
Software planning, development, management and
security
Michael Gregoire
CEO
1976
13
Stratus Technologies Inc.
111 Powder Mill Rd., Maynard 01754
978-461-7000 • www.stratus.com
244
485
$200 million
Platform, software and cloud products and services for
downtime prevention
David C. Laurello
President & CEO
1980
14
SeaChange International Inc.
50 Nagog Park, Acton 01720
978-897-0100 • www.schange.com
200
703
$115.4 million
Multiscreen television and OTT (over-the-top) software and
services for cable, broadcast, telco and mobile video service
operators, and video content owners.
Jay Samit
CEO
1993
15
ExaGrid Systems Inc.
7
2000 W. Park Dr., Westborough 01581
800-868-6985 • www.exagrid.com
104
153
DND Data protection and storage software
Bill Andrews
President & CEO
2002
16
Centage Corp.
24 Prime Pkwy., Ste.101, Natick 01760
508-948-0088 • centage.com
60
65
DND Budgeting, planning and forecasting software
Barry Clapp
President & COO
2001
17
RedTail Solutions, Inc.
112 Turnpike Rd., Ste. 201, Westborough 01581
508-983-1900 • www.redtailsolutions.com
25
DND
DND
EDI cloud service that enables B2B commerce for mid-sized
companies.
Bob Gleason
President & CEO
2000
17
Verisae
8
112 Turnpike Rd, Westborough 01581
508-490-8600 • www.verisae.com
25
260
Verisae does not share
revenues numbers
Connects facility management, field service and the
Internet of Things through its cloud-based platform
Jerry Dolinsky
CEO
1999
Source: Individual companies, news reports. Notes: DND = Did Not Disclose.
1
Data are from 2012; company did not respond to survey.
2
Data are from 2011; company did not respond to survey.
3
Data are from Oct. 31, 2014
4
Approximate
5
Approximate, from February 2015
6
Worldwide employee number is approximate, as of Dec. 27, 2014
7
Data are from 2013; company did not respond to survey.
8
Verisae acquired ViryaNet (former name) in June 2014
- Compiled by: Roger Magnus and Heide Martin, rmagnus@nebusinessmedia.com