International Business Machine (IBM) is an American company with headquarters in New York. IBM is listed at number 43 on the Forbes list with a Market Cap of $162.4 billion as of May 2017. The company's operations span over 170 countries and is an employer. largest with about 414,400 employees.

IBM sold about $79.9 billion and made a profit of $11.9 billion. In 2017, IBM held the most enterprise-generated patents for 24 consecutive years.

IBM is the largest supplier of Big Data related products and services. IBM Big Data solutions provide features such as data warehousing, data management, and data analytics.

There are many sources from where this data comes and it is accessible to all users, Business Analysts, Data Scientists etc. DB2, Informix, and InfoSphere are popular IBM database platforms that support Big Data Analytics. There are also well-known analytical applications from IBM such as Cognos and SPSS.

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Founded: 1911
Revenue: USD 77.14 billion
Headquarters: Armonk, New York, United States

Website: https://www.ibm.com/

Number of employees: 352,600

Salesforce is engaged in the design and development of cloud-based enterprise software for customer relationship management. Its solutions include sales force automation, customer service and support, marketing automation, digital commerce, community management, collaboration, industry-specific solutions, and salesforce platform.

The company's Customer 360 platform provides a single source of customer data that connects across systems, apps, and devices to help companies sell, service, market, and conduct commerce from anywhere.It focuses on cloud, mobile, social, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI), enabling companies to transform their businesses. It also allows third parties to use the platform and developer tools to create applications and additional functionality that run on its platform.

Customers use Sales to store data, track leads and progress, forecast opportunities, gain insights through analytics and relationship intelligence, and provide quotes, contracts, and invoices. It helps to connect their service agents with customers at any touchpoint.

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Founded: 1999
Revenue: USD 17.1 billion
Headquarters: San Francisco, California, United States

Website: https://www.salesforce.com/

Number of employees: 49,000

Oracle is an American multinational computer technology corporation. Oracle provides fully integrated cloud applications, platform services to more than 420,000 customers and 136,000 employees across 145 countries. It has a market capitalization of $182.2 billion and revenue of $37.4 billion according to the Forbes list.Oracle is the largest corporation in the Big Data field, it is also famous for its leading database.

Oracle takes advantage of big data in the cloud. It helps organizations define their data strategy and approach including big data and cloud technology.It provides a business solution that leverages Big Data Analytics, applications, and infrastructure to provide insights into logistics, fraud, and more. Oracle also offers Industry solutions that ensure your organization takes advantage of the opportunities of Big Data.

Oracle Big Data industry solutions address growing needs for different industries like Banking, Healthcare, Media, Public Sector, Retail, and more. There are many technology solutions such as Cloud Computing, Application Development, and System Integration.

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Founded: 1977
Revenue: USD 39.50 billion
Headquarters: Redwood City, California, United States

Website: https://www.oracle.com/

Number of employees: 135,000

SAP is the largest business software company founded in 1972 with its headquarters in Walldorf, Germany. It has a Market Cap of $119.7 billion with a total employee base of 84,183 as of May 2017. According to the Forbes list, SAP has revenue of $24.4 billion and a profit of about $4 billion with 345,000 customers.

It is the largest enterprise application software provider and the best cloud company with 110 million cloud subscribers.SAP provides many Analysis Tools but its main Big Data Engine is the in-memory HANA relational database. This tool integrates with Hadoop and can run on 80 terabytes of data.

SAP helps organizations turn large amounts of Big Data into real-time insights with Hadoop. It allows for distributed data storage and advanced computing power.

SAP products:

• SAP predictive analytics
• SAP IQ
• SAP businessobjects BI

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Founded: 1972
Revenue: USD 32.5 billion
Headquarters: Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Website: https://www.sap.com/

Number of employees: 100,330

VMware is an American publicly traded software company, is listed on the NYSE under the ticker symbol VMW. Dell Technologies is the majority shareholder.. VMware has a market capitalization of $37.8 billion as of May 2017. According to Forbes data, the company has about $7.09 billion in revenue.

VMware is famous for its cloud and virtualization but today it is becoming a big player in Big Data. Big Data Virtualization enables simpler management of Big Data infrastructure, delivers fast results and is very cost effective. The advantages of VMware Big Data are simplicity, flexibility, cost-effectiveness, agility and security.

It has a VMware vSphere Big Data Extension product that allows us to deploy, manage and control Hadoop deployments. It supports Hadoop distributions including Apache, Hortonworks, MapR, and more. With the help of this extension, resources can be used efficiently on new and existing hardware.

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Founded: 1998
Revenue: USD 8.97 billion
Headquarters: Palo Alto, California, United States
Website: https://www.vmware.com/
Number of employees: 24,200