Software Advice

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Software Advice
Type Public company
NYSE:  IT
Founded2005
FounderDon Fornes
Austin Merritt
Headquarters Austin, Texas
United States
Key people
Blake Clark (General Manager) [1]
Website www.softwareadvice.com

Software Advice is a company that provides advisory services, research, and user reviews on software applications for businesses in over 300 market categories including medical, CRM, HR, construction, business intelligence and marketing automation. [2] [3]

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Co-founded in 2005 by CEO Don Fornes and Austin Merritt, it has been a subsidiary of Gartner since 2014. [4] [5]

History

Software Advice, Inc., formerly known as River Guide, Inc., was co-founded in 2005 in San Francisco, California by CEO Don Fornes and Austin Merritt, the company's former general manager and COO. [6] [4] The company provides advice on different software for buyers in several verticals: construction, medical, retail, property, manufacturing, distribution, electronic health record, CRM, applicant tracking systems, and more. [7] [8] [9] [10] In 2009, the company's headquarters moved to its current location in Austin, Texas. [11] In March 2014, Software Advice was acquired by Gartner, Inc., a global information technology research and advisory company. [2]

The company announced Blake Clark as its new general manager in November 2018. [12] [13]

Product

The company advises buyers on software products via free telephone consultations with software analysts. [2] [14] The Software Advice website gives pricing and demo information on individual systems, as well as market reports based on buyer interactions, and detailed reviews and comparisons. [3] [15] [16] The company's reports have been used as a source of expertise in Forbes, [17] [18] [19] [20] Entrepreneur, [21] Huffington Post, [22] Business Insider, [23] Yelp, [24] Inc., [25] [26] and the Wall Street Journal [27] among others.

Software Advice releases biannual reports to highlight top software products in different categories. [28]   Its FrontRunners for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), April 2019 report analyzed the software that companies use to track information such as inventory management, accounting, and customer relationship management. [29]  In the report, Software Advice used analyzed data to plot the market’s top ERP products graphically, based on Usability and User Recommended. [29] The other FrontRunners reports also base scores on Usability and User Recommended. [30]

Recognition

In 2013, Software Advice was recognized as one of the fastest-growing companies in the U.S. by Inc. Magazine. [16] [31]

In 2016 and 2017, the company was recognized as a Top Place to Work in the Austin, Texas area. [32]

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