The insideBIGDATA IMPACT 50 List for Q3 2020

The team here at insideBIGDATA 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 Q2 2020 (in order of the most impactful)

#1 NVIDIA – Inventor of the GPU for AI workloads [NASD: NVDA]

#2 H2O.ai – Open Source Data Science and Machine Learning Platform

#3 Google AI [NASDAQ: GOOGL] [+1]

#4 Intel AI – Harnessing silicon designed specifically for AI [NASDAQ: INTC] [+1]

#5 DataRobot – Automated Machine Learning [+2]

#6 Microsoft AI [NASDAQ: MSFT] [+2]

#7 Domino Data Lab – Data Science Platform

#8 Amazon Web Services – Cloud based machine learning, database, container, and storage NEW

#9 Snowflake – Cloud Enterprise Data Warehouse

#10 Dell EMC [NYSE: DELL]

#11 Kinetica – GPU Database

#12 SAS – Analytics, BI, and data management [+3]

#13 Teradata [NYSE: TDC]

#14 HPE [NYSE: HPE]

#15 Pure Storage [NYSE: PSTG]

#16 Anaconda – Python Data Science Platform [+2]

#17 TigerGraph – Graph database and analytics platform

#18 AtScale – Adaptive analytics fabric

#19 Alegion – Human in the loop AI training data platform

#20 DataDirect Networks – AI and Deep Learning Storage

#21 Databricks – Unified analytics platform [+7]

#22 OmniSci– GPU database

#23 Dremio – Data-as-a-Service platform

#24 StreamSets – Where DevOps meets data integration

#25 Ople – Engineered Intelligence

#26 Loop AI Labs – Cognitive computing

#27 Qlik – Data Analytics and Data Integration [+5]

#28 Binah – Automatic data science engine

#29 Cazena – Big data platform as a service

#30 TIBCO – Integration, analytics and event-processing software

#31 Salesforce Einstein AI – Smart CRM assistant

#32 Guavus – Real-time big data analytics [+2]

#33 Brytlyt – GPU Database

#34 Neo4j – Graph database [+2]

#35 MongoDB – Cross-platform document-oriented NoSQL database [NASDAQ: MDB]

#36 SkyMind – Enterprise deep learning

#37 deepsense.ai – Big data science

#38 Kyndi – Explainable AI platform

#39 Striim – Real-time data integration

#40 Rulex – Explainable AI platform [+1]

#41 Trifacta – Data wrangling tools [+2]

#42 Cloudera– Enterprise scale analytics platform [NYSE: CLDR]

#43 R2.ai – AutoML [+1]

#44 Run:AI – Virtualization layer for deep learning training [+1]

#45 Kaskada – End-to-end platform for feature engineering and feature serving [+1]

#46 Fiddler Labs – Explainable AI [+1]

#47 Neural Magic – No hardware AI, GPU speeds without GPUs NEW

#48 Diveplane – Understandable AI NEW

#49 explainX.ai – Explainable AI for data scientists NEW

#50 Tecton – Data platform for machine learning NEW

HONORABLE MENTION (newly expanded list in alphabetical order):

Actable AI – No-code data analytics with deep learning NEW

Allegro AI – DL/ML open source platform

Alluxio – Open source data orchestration for the cloud

AnotherBrain – Pioneers of organic AI

Beyond Limits – Explainable AI

cnvrg.io – Operating system for ML and AI

Comet– Self-hosted and cloud-based meta machine learning platform

Confluent – Stream processing with Apache Kafka

DarwinAI – “AI Building AI” technology

Deepgram – Speech recognition

Determined AI – Deep Learning training platform NEW

Digitate – AIOps

Exasol– In-memory analytic database

Gigaspaces – In-memory computing platform

GridGain – In-memory computing platform

Hailo – Specialized deep learning processor for edge devices

HVR – Enterprise data integration software

InAccel – Application acceleration FPGA orchestrator NEW

Incorta – Analyze complex business data

Intuition Machines – Deep learning and visual domain machine learning at scale

Logical Clocks AB – Hopsworks, an enterprise platform for AI

ModelOp – Scale and govern enterprise AI NEW

NetApp – Accelerated AI data pipelines

NtechLab – Augmenting intelligence NEW

Obviously AI – Data science with out code

OctoML – Deploy machine learning models

OpenAI – Ensures AGI benefits all of humanity

Peltarion – Deep learning cloud platform

PredictHQ – Demand intelligence

Qeexo – AutoML at the Edge

Recogni – Real-time object recognition

Sicara – Visual recognition experts NEW

SigOpt– Model tuning automation

Spell – ML and DL platform

Streamlit – Open-source app framework NEW

Contributed by Daniel D. Gutierrez, Managing Editor and Resident Data Scientist of insideBIGDATA. 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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