Rocket Builders announced their 2008 Ready to Rocket list this morning at UBC Robson Square and it looks like their tagline "Tomorrow's Revenue Growth Leaders" is bang-on. According to Rocket Builder's Geoff Hansen, last years's list reported a median revenue growth rate of 75 per cent which blows away the overall IT sector growth rate of 5-6 per cent. This bodes well for the Class of 2008. Hansen also reported that the 2007 list accounted for 300 new hires collectively in BC last year which is a median employment growth rate of 22 per cent. Job hunters take notice, these companies should experiencing a headcount growth spurt in 2008 and will be looking for prospective employees.
The Level produces software to control the creation, localization and delivery of an organization's content for local audiences worldwide. The Company's upcoming Localization Engine product will help large companies streamline content localization, giving executives complete transparency into their content worldwide and resulting in faster time-to-market, increased quality and reduced costs. The Level also...
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Tantalus provides Smart Grid communications technology that enables electric, gas & water utilities to optimize the use resources by automating monitoring & control processes, improving operational efficiency, and delivering the information utilities and consumers need to manage energy intelligently and cost-effectively.
TUNet® – the Tantalus Utility Network – is deployed at utilities throughout North America...
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Contigo is a leading provider of location-based services using wireless and GPS technology for asset-tracking, fleet management and personal safety applications. Contigo’s patent-pending platform enables companies and consumers to monitor the assets, vehicles, personnel and loved ones important to them 24/7 via the internet. Contigo’s solutions are distributed across the U.S. and Canada through Contigo’s network...
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Elastic Path Software provides a flexible ecommerce platform that gives enterprises the capabilities and control to deliver innovation in a complex environment. The Java-based platform enables integration with SOA environments and rapid development of custom features. Enterprises can now quickly adapt ecommerce tactics to gain a competitive advantage. Companies such as Aeroplan, Time Inc, and Samsonite use Elastic...
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Vivonet is a Software as a Service Provider (SaaS)… that processes millions of transactions every month for customers in the hospitality and retail sectors across Canada and the United States. Growing at over 100% annually, our mission is to enable, acquire and organize the world’s retail transactions into the world’s most trusted source of retail performance information.
Enable: Vivonet provides on-demand...
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Digital Payment Technologies (DPT) is an innovative leader in the design, manufacture, and distribution of electronic pay stations, management software, and online services for the parking industry. DPT products provide complete financial tracking, control, and reporting on parking revenue collected by cities, municipalities, universities, parking management companies, private operators, and national parks, from...
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90 Degree Software, Inc. has developed Radius - an innovative reporting solution built on Microsoft's Windows Vista(tm) and Microsoft Office 2007(tm) that enables all users to quickly create, reuse and securely share reports giving them immediate value through increased productivity and lower costs.
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NetApp creates innovative products—storage systems and software that help customers around the world store, manage, protect, and retain one of their most precious corporate assets: their data. We are recognized throughout the industry for continually pushing the limits of today’s technology so that our customers never have to choose between saving money and acquiring the capabilities they need to be successful.
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Colligo Networks is a leading provider of offline collaboration solutions for mobile professionals. Its award-winning software extends the use of applications like Microsoft SharePoint (r), IBM Lotus Notes (r), and CaseWare (r) into offline settings where users often have no access to the Internet or corporate servers. Colligo is a Microsoft Gold Certified ISV partner and IBM Business Partner. Its solutions are...
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GaleForce Solutions extends Microsoft Dynamics CRM, providing an out-of-the-box customer relationship management (CRM) solution for the financial services industry, including banks, credit unions, and wealth management, investment banking, and capital markets firms. GaleForce CRM for Financial Services delivers industry-specific customer insight, sales and marketing automation, and reporting. GaleForce Solutions...
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GenoLogics is a genomics LIMS software company servicing the life sciences market. The company’s flagship product, the GenoLogics LIMS, was designed specifically to meet the unique challenges of the next-generation genomics laboratory. Today, GenoLogics is well positioned to meet the future information management needs of the next-generation genomics lab with a LIMS that delivers a useable, scalable and adaptable...
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QuIC is a global solutions provider for risk management, pricing and financial analytics. The QuIC Platform (tm) provides speed, accuracy and flexibility for pricing and risk calculations regardless of volume or complexity. QuIC technology delivers scalable, dynamically extensible and user-customizable solutions, by creating a seamless calculation fabric available to multiple recipients throughout the enterprise....
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RewardStream is a marketing technology company specializing in the deployment and optimization of loyalty and rewards-based marketing programs that align and motivate consumer and channel behavior with targeted business objectives. RewardStream services clients in the financial services, retail, telecommunications, health care, IT, and manufacturing sectors.
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Vision Critical is a leader in the development, marketing and deployment of online research software in North America. The company''s innovative tools - custom panels, interactive surveys, private communities, and 3D Web environments - help organizations make critical decisions that positively impact their bottom line. Vision Critical is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada and has offices in Toronto, Calgary and...
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At Sutus we are focused on providing Small Businesses with the complete office communication and IT solution needed to effectively compete in today’s market. We have bundled together the three vital applications businesses require; voice, data and networking into one affordable enterprise-quality solution that is uniquely simple and easy to install and manage.
Our solutions are targeted at businesses with 3 to 25...
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Strangeloop designs, builds, installs, and supports hardware and software solutions that accelerate the performance of websites and web-based applications.
Founded in 2006, Strangeloop’s original product offering was the Strangeloop AS1000, a delivery-focused accelerator for ASP.NET. In 2010, the company launched Site Optimizer, a next-generation solution that offers a powerful set of features that work together...
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Layer 7 Technologies is a leading services governance vendor whose turnkey solutions feature sophisticated runtime governance, agent-less Web services management and industry-leading XML security. Founded in 2003, Layer 7’s products include the SecureSpanTM family of XML appliances, which help organizations address security, visibility and governance issues. Layer 7 enables organizations to monitor, adapt and...
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At airG, we develop mobile communities and wireless social networking products that resonate with the hip and trend defining 18 – 30 demographic. We’re working with industry leaders such as Verizon, Sprint Nextel, AT&T, Bell Canada and T-Mobile to define an entirely new way of interacting on your mobile phone. In our ideally situated office in the heart of downtown Vancouver, we’re creating products that enable...
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Rob is the President of Techvibes Media Inc. and Editor-in-Chief of Techvibes.com.
His diverse background includes stints in International Trade Finance, Web Development, and Enterprise Software and he is a graduate of the University of British Columbia, British Columbia Institute of Technology, and Simon Fraser University.
When not running Canada's leading technology media property, Rob can...
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Rocket Builders announced their 2008 Ready to Rocket list this morning at UBC Robson Square and it looks like their tagline "Tomorrow's Revenue Growth Leaders" is bang-on. According to Rocket Builder's Geoff Hansen, last years's list reported a median revenue growth rate of 75 per cent which blows away the overall IT sector growth rate of 5-6 per cent. This bodes well for the Class of 2008. Hansen also reported that the 2007 list accounted for 300 new hires collectively in BC last year which is a median employment growth rate of 22 per cent. Job hunters take notice, these companies should experiencing a headcount growth spurt in 2008 and will be looking for prospective employees.
