Six Best IT Companies in Canada

The tech industry in Canada is huge and its growth continues to accelerate as the years pass. In 2007 the tech industry was responsible for 4.4% of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP). The Canadian tech industry saw a huge acceleration in growth throughout 2016 increasing almost twice that of the rest of the economy. The whole Canadian ICT (Information and Communication Technology) sector makes up 3.3% of nationwide employment employing around 594,871 jobs. This big growth in employment during 2016 was mainly due to computer services and software with the services shares of employment increasing from 56% to a staggering 63.4% over the year. The 6 best IT companies in Canada are as follows:

1. SAP

SAP which stands for Systems Applications and Products in Data Processing is a multinational corporation offering business management and customer relations software. The headquarters are in Walldorf, Germany with a huge customer base of more than 335,000! In 2015 SAP brought out SAP S/4HANA business suite which offers customers the latest deployment options including hybrid, on premises and cloud. This has enabled customers to speed up their access to data, reduce their data footprint and get access to faster analytics. As of 2016 an express edition was released for personal computers and cloud computer platforms. This has been hailed the best company launched since its founding. It has an annual revenue of between €6.8 billion to €7 billion which has risen in 2017 by 10% thanks to cloud subscriptions.

2. Paysafe group

Paysafe Group was originally owned by Optimal Payments and Neovia Financial PLC and is a company that specialises in online payments. The headquarters are in the UK in the Isle of Man. The services offered to their customers include Neteller, Skrill, Paysafecard, Payolution and income access which allow customers to make online payments without divulging their personal details to merchants via online payment platforms, pre-paid cards, online money transfers and buy now pay later services. The revenue as of 2016 was $1 billion with a net income of $142 million rising to $538.7 in 2017. They have over 2200 employees worldwide spread over 12 locations.

3. Shopify

Shopify is a company that offers online stores, an alternative e-commerce platform to enable customers to pay for goods and services without having to give their personal and financial details. This Canadian company’s headquarter is based in Ottawa, Ontario. In 2012 it was listed as one of the most innovative companies by fast companies as well as winning the 2014 CEO of the year by Globe and Mail. With over 500,000 merchants since its founding in 2004, Shopify is growing fast and as of 2017 announced they were to integrate with Amazon allowing sellers to use their Shopify stores to sell there. Since this announcement the stock rose very high! The company also has introduced a debit and credit card for their customers to use in traditional brick stores that features Bluetooth facilities for a faster transaction in store. Shopify’s revenue as of 2017 was $580.9 Million thanks to the 1930 employees hard work and dedication.

4. Microsoft

Microsoft has been a popular and trusted company by many businesses and residential customers thanks to their innovative software, electronics, computers, gaming including the Xbox console and additional services including the well-known Microsoft Windows operating system, Internet Explorer and the Edge web browser. By revenue the company was announced as one of the top valuable companies in the world. Founded in 1975 the company developed MS-DOS which allowed them to provide computer operators with a simple programming language. Windows was their next big release creating 3 billionaires and around 12,000 millionaires due to their employee shares in the company. Nowadays the company is more diverse and has acquired numerous corporations including LinkedIn and Skype. Microsoft also offers a huge range of enterprise software including internet search, online chat, cloud computing and software development products like Visual Studio.  The company’s revenue in 2017 was $89.95 billion and they currently have over 124,000 employees’worldwide working on their innovative products and services.

5. Salesforce

In 2016, Salesforce joined very few others by being announced as a highly valued cloud computing company by capitalization. In 2017 they were proud to announce that they were the first cloud company enterprise to get to the $10 billion revenue target. Their current products include cloud services including marketing and commerce as well as cloud platforms computing and social enterprise. The company started out just before the millennium offering software as a service.  At the latter end of 2014 they made an announcement that they had developed a customer success platform as an addition to their services including analytics and mobile applications. Salesforce also have a business to business marketing analytics tool for Facebook. As of 2017 their revenue was announced as $8.39 billion and a workforce of 25,178 employees.

6. Apple

Apple have been around since 1976 as Apple computer company, which was changed to Apple Computer Inc in 1977 until more recently when it became Apple Inc to cover their vast products under the same name including software, online services and technology from computers to tablets and mobile phones. Most notable recent products include iPhones, iPad tablets, iPods and the Apple smartwatch. New innovative products are being released regularly like the HomePod which is a smart speaker and Apple TV allowing you to turn your conventional television into a smart TV. Their devices have the Apple software pre-installed allowing users to download apps, music, software and other services via the App and iTunes stores. The iCloud technology they provide allows users to store information in their cloud storage rather than on their devices. As soon as the company began selling their computers publically their designs and were a hit and as just a few years later came the graphical user interfaces. Of course today they have more competition; however their innovative products and services are still extremely popular. The annual revenue for 2017 alone was $229 billion and they now have a workforce of 123,000 worldwide.