Parloa is a Conversational AI platform for AI technology in customer dialogue and is the ideal answer to increased customer expectations for service quality on more and more channels. Large companies such as ERGO, Decathlon, Swisslife, and the German Red Cross automate their most important communication channels with Parloa. This allows customer concerns, primarily on the phone, to be identified within seconds and repetitive tasks to be automated. Instead of generating data silos, their customers optimize several service channels simultaneously thanks to unified training data.
Deliverect is a subscription-based service that integrates third-party online ordering platforms like Uber Eats, Deliveroo, Glovo, and Doordash into restaurants’ point-of-sale systems, automating the inbound online order flow through a single point and eliminating the requirement for restaurant staff to monitor multiple devices and manually re-enter orders into their existing system.
At Prepr, we believe impact with content equals business value. We strongly believe that data is mission-critical in this process. That’s why we’ve developed the world’s first headless CMS with a built-in personalization engine. An all-in-one solution that allows businesses to create exceptional customer experiences that engage and convert. Currently, we’re the only headless CMS that truly enables forward-thinking companies to maximize the impact of their content. Not only by creating, managing, and publishing content but also by personalizing customer experiences. For this, our CMS includes features such as lean customer profiles, real-time segments, and content targeting. All while lowering development costs and accelerating time-to-market due to a simpler, leaner platform.
ValueBlue's collaboration platform speeds up Agile Business Transformation for CIOs and Enterprise Architects across the globe. In 2022, 170+ customers like AS Watson, Randstad, and Wyndham Hotel Group plan and manage transformation based on real data insights and business impact. With offices in EMEA, the USA, and APAC, the company has enjoyed 50%+ year-over-year growth over the past four years. For more information, please visit: http://www.valueblue.com/
Passendo is an international technology company specialized in Programmatic Email Advertising (PEA). Predominantly addressing publishers and advertisers, this start-up helps publishers to create new revenue streams and advertisers create brand awareness by transferring all advantages of modern advertising technology to the by far more targeted and secure environment: the traditional email!
Foleon is a content creation platform that makes it easy for anyone to create interactive content that is 100% on brand. They provide B2B companies with an intuitive drag & drop editor and interactive Foleon Doc format that empowers them to create bespoke digital content experiences that are engaging, intelligent, and scalable. Most companies are still wasting time, money, and energy on publishing their most valuable content in ineffective legacy formats. PDFs are a headache to produce, a bore to read, and totally void of reader insights. Foleon, on the other hand, offers a modern format that is easy to create, highly engaging, and full of the intelligence you’ve been missing. Founded in Amsterdam with locations in the US and Europe, Foleon is on a mission to empower companies to create the content their audience craves.
Salonkee is a software development company that provides software for customer management and POS systems. They serve the hair and cosmetics sectors. Their software services include warehouse management, business development statistics, and marketing.
At Apicbase, we focus on the 30% to 35% of food and beverage related costs in a food business by save time and money, and bring peace of mind when it comes to Risk & Compliance (Allergens, HACCP, Nutriscore...). We make staff training more efficient and help you to scale your business consistently. For that we developed a platform solution to help F&B Managers manage the entire back-of-house operations of their restaurant business, dark kitchen, hotel or catering business. So they can make data-driven decisions to optimize inventory, cost control, planning, procurement, and profitability.
Deliverect is a subscription-based service that integrates third-party online ordering platforms like Uber Eats, Deliveroo, Glovo, and Doordash into restaurants’ point-of-sale systems, automating the inbound online order flow through a single point and eliminating the requirement for restaurant staff to monitor multiple devices and manually re-enter orders into their existing system.
SwipeGuide focuses on mobile-first frontline training and visual job tools for the manufacturing sector.
Dexter offers forecasting and dispatching solutions based on AI and cloud-based technology, increasing efficiency and lowering costs. It provides load and imbalance time-series forecasting throughout the mid-term and short-term trading cycles. To provide the most accurate forecast possible, Dexter combines large amounts of different external data sources (such as weather data) with customer data (historic time-series). The forecasting engine runs in the cloud and can easily onboard and connect with existing IT infrastructure.
Filestage is a web application to share, review and approve media content with teams and clients. Instead of sending emails back and forth, reviewers annotate their comments and change request directly inside the file. Revisions in Filestage are easy, efficient and clearly documented.
Objective Platform provides marketing measurement solutions to plan and optimize across channels and campaigns. They help measure, plan, and optimize clients marketing investments. They use modeling to attribute business outcomes to media investments and other relevant factors.
Mediatool is the all-in-one planning, execution, tracking and reporting tool for media and marketing campaigns. Increase productivity with streamlined delivery and better collaboration across all your marketing activities. Grow revenue with confidence, using real-time performance data to optimise investment. Hundreds of tangible benefits, one better way of working. Forget spreadsheets and get to know Mediatool.
Deliverect is a subscription-based service that integrates third-party online ordering platforms like Uber Eats, Deliveroo, Glovo, and Doordash into restaurants’ point-of-sale systems, automating the inbound online order flow through a single point and eliminating the requirement for restaurant staff to monitor multiple devices and manually re-enter orders into their existing system.
ValueBlue's collaboration platform speeds up Agile Business Transformation for CIOs and Enterprise Architects across the globe. In 2022, 170+ customers like AS Watson, Randstad, and Wyndham Hotel Group plan and manage transformation based on real data insights and business impact. With offices in EMEA, the USA, and APAC, the company has enjoyed 50%+ year-over-year growth over the past four years. For more information, please visit: http://www.valueblue.com/
At Apicbase, we focus on the 30% to 35% of food and beverage related costs in a food business by save time and money, and bring peace of mind when it comes to Risk & Compliance (Allergens, HACCP, Nutriscore...). We make staff training more efficient and help you to scale your business consistently. For that we developed a platform solution to help F&B Managers manage the entire back-of-house operations of their restaurant business, dark kitchen, hotel or catering business. So they can make data-driven decisions to optimize inventory, cost control, planning, procurement, and profitability.
Deliverect is a subscription-based service that integrates third-party online ordering platforms like Uber Eats, Deliveroo, Glovo, and Doordash into restaurants’ point-of-sale systems, automating the inbound online order flow through a single point and eliminating the requirement for restaurant staff to monitor multiple devices and manually re-enter orders into their existing system.
TaxModel offers tax software and services that improve the efficiency of foreign tax procedures. They offer direct tax solutions that are intended to benefit the sector as much as possible. They offer TP services that are supported by technology.
PlayPass offers a wristband that enables event organizers to manage crew, artists, and crowds. Made with an integration of RFID and NFC technology, it creates new ways for the public to interact with brands at events, both in person and via social media. The company’s products also facilitates cashless payments, accreditation management, access control, and brand activation and social media. PlayPass was founded by David De Wever and Dale Hofkens in December 2012 and is based in Antwerp, Belgium.
REXai provides artificial intelligence to help online companies move away from traditional rule-based tools for customer journey personalization to self-learning strategic solutions. They have the ability to interpret the intent of their visitors through their behavioral data in real-time while aligning with the set business goals when automatically predicting which items or content to show across the entire customer journey.
Foleon is a content creation platform that makes it easy for anyone to create interactive content that is 100% on brand. They provide B2B companies with an intuitive drag & drop editor and interactive Foleon Doc format that empowers them to create bespoke digital content experiences that are engaging, intelligent, and scalable. Most companies are still wasting time, money, and energy on publishing their most valuable content in ineffective legacy formats. PDFs are a headache to produce, a bore to read, and totally void of reader insights. Foleon, on the other hand, offers a modern format that is easy to create, highly engaging, and full of the intelligence you’ve been missing. Founded in Amsterdam with locations in the US and Europe, Foleon is on a mission to empower companies to create the content their audience craves.
DataStories International they are on a mission to help people understand what matters in their data. The sole reason we develop technology for predictive analytics and data viz is to help decision makers focus on what's actually important
Roadmap is a travel platform that provides an intelligent, personal, and branded interface to the travel program. Roadmap is a well-designed, more compliant, truly traveler-centric support system that leads to a higher value for travelers and travel managers, powered by a digital travel assistant. The solution is fully customizable and branded to the corporate
SwipeGuide focuses on mobile-first frontline training and visual job tools for the manufacturing sector.
Collibra delivers an end-to-end Data Intelligence platform to accelerate digital business transformation. Collibra accelerates trusted business outcomes by connecting the right data, insights, and algorithms to all Data Citizens. The company's platform breaks down traditional data silos and opens up organizational data, providing trustworthy business intelligence, enabling users to find the data they need, collaborate on it, and easily understand its meaning. It was founded in 2008 and headquartered in Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium.
Synple is a high-tech company that specializes in creating user-friendly and intuitive web software. The software seamlessly integrates into your companies daily operations. It helps your company leverage your and your partners’ networks in order to consolidate your market position. Their software allocates, proposes and handles collaborative opportunities that benefit both you and your partner. Synple already has a strong presence and clear traction in the Dutch transportation market sporting a wide customer base in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) and Heavy Road Cargo (HRC) industries. The company solutions allow companies to get “pure profit per mile,” and in doing so drive less empty miles, waste less gas, lower operation costs, emit fewer greenhouse gasses, and limit particle pollution.
Oxynade, based in Belgium, offers a unique 100% white label ticketing technology (eTaaS) for ticketing business professionals who are focussed in their own market on multiple verticals such as event organizers (fairs, festivals, conferences, …), venue owners, theaters, theme parks, nightclubs, sport clubs, etc. Oxynade is expanding the white label offering in the European event management ticketing space. This has proven to work in Belgium by partnering with Belgium’s number one multi-purpose multi-venue organiser TeleTicketService, owner of 8 of Belgium’s largest venues (Sportpaleis Antwerp, Lotto Arena Antwerp, etc.) and Golazo (Memorial Van Damme, etc.). Besides Belgium Oxynade is covering already 8 more European countries. All of those partnerships are based on the same Oxynade white label ticketing technology, focused on local ticketing needs and are targeting other segments. Oxynade is not just a technology provider to leading ticketing brands in the market. The company also provides a complete set of backoffice services including payment processing, helpdesk to organizers, call center to ticket buyers and administration. All services are executed “white label” under the brand name of our partners in multiple languages across Europe.
Collibra delivers an end-to-end Data Intelligence platform to accelerate digital business transformation. Collibra accelerates trusted business outcomes by connecting the right data, insights, and algorithms to all Data Citizens. The company's platform breaks down traditional data silos and opens up organizational data, providing trustworthy business intelligence, enabling users to find the data they need, collaborate on it, and easily understand its meaning. It was founded in 2008 and headquartered in Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium.
Foleon is a content creation platform that makes it easy for anyone to create interactive content that is 100% on brand. They provide B2B companies with an intuitive drag & drop editor and interactive Foleon Doc format that empowers them to create bespoke digital content experiences that are engaging, intelligent, and scalable. Most companies are still wasting time, money, and energy on publishing their most valuable content in ineffective legacy formats. PDFs are a headache to produce, a bore to read, and totally void of reader insights. Foleon, on the other hand, offers a modern format that is easy to create, highly engaging, and full of the intelligence you’ve been missing. Founded in Amsterdam with locations in the US and Europe, Foleon is on a mission to empower companies to create the content their audience craves.
The Next Ad is a leading Facebook Marketing Partner and Google Premier Partner specialised in digital advertising. We have innovated Ad Tech to empower companies to increase campaign performance and efficiency. Serving leading e-commerce businesses, we know exactly what to do to get you the best results out of your investment. Fundamentally changing Ad Tech from a “spend” business to an “investment” lifestyle. The Next Ad's Facebook, Instagram and Google advertising tool enables brands of all sizes to easily create, publish and optimise their ad campaigns. Increase campaign performance and efficiency. Whilst our team of certified specialists build strategies with expert knowledge about the advertising mechanisms and based on industry-wide best practices. In close contact with both Facebook and Google, and having early access to the newest developments, we offer a complete package that will enable you to invest in the best performing channel for your business. This is what makes The Next Ad your go-to partner for performance advertising, and our customers’ stories can prove it.
L1NDA is an online work schedule solution that focuses on improving the customers efficiency while making their employees more happy.
iWelcome provides Identity as-a-Service for frictionless privacy-protected consumer services and security-enabled workforce processes. iWelcome is the only European born Identity Platform – headquartered in Europe, backed by European investors and specifically serving customers doing business in Europe. Millions of consumers and hundreds of thousands of employees - across industries like banking, insurance, utility, media & publishing, travel & services, retail/e-tail and Governments & Non-Profit – rely on iWelcome on a daily basis. Analysts like Gartner and KuppingerCole have recognised iWelcome as a worldwide Product and Innovation Leader with “Excellence” ratings. Building truly winning partnerships with its customers, iWelcome offers lowest Total Cost of Ownership and a time-to-service in weeks. Applying Best-of-Breed Private Cloud Technology, customers benefit from both ends: using a SaaS service while not having to share critical resources.
Mall-Connect is an the pre-shopping, shopping, and post-shopping experience with digital engagement. Our ultimate goal is to increase footfall and store revenues by converting anonymous visitors into loyal members of your shopping center.
CustomerGauge is a Customer Success SaaS platform that uses Net Promoter to measure and report on customer feedback in real-time. It sends over one million emails a month on behalf of its customers, across 140 countries and 32 languages, and because it already has all the pieces in place – end-to-end and fully integrated – a program can be up and running much faster than comparable in-house programs.
Foleon is a content creation platform that makes it easy for anyone to create interactive content that is 100% on brand. They provide B2B companies with an intuitive drag & drop editor and interactive Foleon Doc format that empowers them to create bespoke digital content experiences that are engaging, intelligent, and scalable. Most companies are still wasting time, money, and energy on publishing their most valuable content in ineffective legacy formats. PDFs are a headache to produce, a bore to read, and totally void of reader insights. Foleon, on the other hand, offers a modern format that is easy to create, highly engaging, and full of the intelligence you’ve been missing. Founded in Amsterdam with locations in the US and Europe, Foleon is on a mission to empower companies to create the content their audience craves.
Called the "LinkedIn of EDI" by some, Nallian's iPaaS is a Data Sharing Platform that helps companies that are part of the same value network to operate efficiently as an agile network, by selectively sharing and using each other’s ERP data. Enabling Open Data for Companies: What Dropbox does for documents, Nallian does for structured operational data. Such data was historically buried in ERPs. Nallian allows owners to selectively publish parts of that data so that business partners can synchronize processes and get visibility on the whole instead of only on their own silo, leading to collective performance improvements. The packaging as a Community-in-a-box helps visionary companies to lead data sharing initiatives within a community of business partners. Nallian took 3 years to build the Platform. Currently, strongest adoption comes from logistic hubs, logistic networks, and shippers that dream of bundling their outbound logistics to drive efficiencies and sustainability. Sample implementations are BruCargo's Cargo Community Hub, and a leading FMCG's initiative CargoStream.
24i is an industry-leading global TV app developer with award-winning technology that helps customers develop and deploy apps faster and more efficiently on all devices, screens and platforms. 24i empower broadcasters, content owners and operators with future-proof and flexible tools to create and monetize personalized TV apps, while accelerating time-to-market and reducing cost. 24i's technology framework powers the digital experience for leading brands around the world, including RTL, Fox Sports, Viacom, Sinclair Broadcasting Group, Globo, RTÉ, NPO, Fuse Media and many more, delivering state-of-the-art OTT apps, designed to maximize ROI, create seamless consumer experiences and build personalized engagements across all platforms, turning viewers into fans. 24i Media is headquartered in Amsterdam, with offices in Los Angeles, Buenos Aires, Madrid, Copenhagen, New York and Brno.
Vector Fabrics licenses programming tools to unlock the performance potential of the multicore platforms. The world is going multicore with two, four, and up to hundreds of processors on a chip. Performance and power consumption are critical to the success of software vendors in mobile, automotive, networking and industrial markets. Yet software is not written to take advantage of more than one single core. Often, the anticipated speedup of parallel execution is not reached. The code modifications actually slow down the program. In addition, manual optimization leads to field recalls due to data races and related multicore programming errors. Vector Fabrics technology thoroughly analyzes the dynamic behavior of the software. Their products detect critical bugs in the dynamic behavior such as data races and potential deadlocks. The predictive profiling technology gives the programmer the insight how to change the software to fully use the parallel hardware.
MaPS SA is the publisher of MaPS System, an innovative solution which enables an efficient management of multichannel marketing based on the centralization and the mastering of all business data. The software features Product Information Management (PIM), Master Data Management (MDM) and Digital Asset Management (DAM) applications. Thanks to its flexibility, the MaPS System platform has already convinced dozens of European companies in the trade, manufacturing, construction and retail industries. Featured clients include Cyrillus Verbaudet, Maisons du Monde, Graines Baumaux, Aubry Gaspard, Bergère de France, Ukal, E.P.I. Center, Thermcross, Knauf, Sycabel, Atita, Uniclima, Gifam, Chausson Matériaux. MaPS SA, an offshoot of the company Prem1um SA, was set up in October 2011 to publish the MaPS System software package and to focus on developing the application and distributing it via a network of integrator partners across Europe. Prem1um previously designed, developed and rented out MaPS in connection with its multimedia marketing activities as a hosted solution for European key accounts after it was first created in December 2005. Prem1um was launched with start-up capital of €150,000, and reached a gross margin of €5,500,000 in 2010. Following the company’s growth and the rollout of multimedia marketing activities, CEO Thierry Muller raised the capital required to set up MaPS SA with financial partners from Luxembourg. MaPS SA is now entirely focused on the publication and development of the MaPS System software suite. Several other collaborators and partners also contribute to the work of MaPS SA, all sharing the core values of this new software publication and development company: an ability to listen to clients’ needs and to offer flexibility, unfailing commitment and high-quality services. Selected in the support program Eurostars for innovative European projects, MaPS SA is supported by the Ministry of Economy of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and by Luxinnovation.
Reasult is a leading software company that optimizes the financial performance of real estate organizations. Our solutions are used by property developers, asset managers, housing corporations and municipalities. Reasult was founded in 2000. Every day since, we design and build state of the art software for the real estate market and we do so with great pleasure and dedication. Because we have a 100% focus on the real estate market we have deep knowledge and understanding of it. All specialists at Reasult have a background in real estate, finance or IT (or a combination of these). Over 60 professional real estate companies in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany are using Reasult software. Within these companies, a total of 1.500 users rely on our products on a daily basis. To ensure the quality of our software solutions, we have them audited on a regular basis by one of the big four audit firms. For our clients this gives them the comfort of having accurate decision making support and for us it means living up to the promise we make to them: real estate in control.
iWelcome provides Identity as-a-Service for frictionless privacy-protected consumer services and security-enabled workforce processes. iWelcome is the only European born Identity Platform – headquartered in Europe, backed by European investors and specifically serving customers doing business in Europe. Millions of consumers and hundreds of thousands of employees - across industries like banking, insurance, utility, media & publishing, travel & services, retail/e-tail and Governments & Non-Profit – rely on iWelcome on a daily basis. Analysts like Gartner and KuppingerCole have recognised iWelcome as a worldwide Product and Innovation Leader with “Excellence” ratings. Building truly winning partnerships with its customers, iWelcome offers lowest Total Cost of Ownership and a time-to-service in weeks. Applying Best-of-Breed Private Cloud Technology, customers benefit from both ends: using a SaaS service while not having to share critical resources.
Flinqer is a collaborative cash management network that connects buyers and suppliers to exchange billing information and make use of accelerated payments and supply chain financing. On the platform vendors gain insight into the expected payment dates of the bills approved by the customers. Afterwards, through an early-payment scheme, customers can pay their invoices to suppliers directly, at certain discounted rates.
Collibra delivers an end-to-end Data Intelligence platform to accelerate digital business transformation. Collibra accelerates trusted business outcomes by connecting the right data, insights, and algorithms to all Data Citizens. The company's platform breaks down traditional data silos and opens up organizational data, providing trustworthy business intelligence, enabling users to find the data they need, collaborate on it, and easily understand its meaning. It was founded in 2008 and headquartered in Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium.
IDES Technologies is a global provider of fraud detection products to solutions providers and transaction processors. IDES develops and markets platform independent software solutions through a network of key Value Added Resellers and OEMs aimed at the financial services market. These products offer an innovative approach to the payment systems world providing significant business benefits.
Vector Fabrics licenses programming tools to unlock the performance potential of the multicore platforms. The world is going multicore with two, four, and up to hundreds of processors on a chip. Performance and power consumption are critical to the success of software vendors in mobile, automotive, networking and industrial markets. Yet software is not written to take advantage of more than one single core. Often, the anticipated speedup of parallel execution is not reached. The code modifications actually slow down the program. In addition, manual optimization leads to field recalls due to data races and related multicore programming errors. Vector Fabrics technology thoroughly analyzes the dynamic behavior of the software. Their products detect critical bugs in the dynamic behavior such as data races and potential deadlocks. The predictive profiling technology gives the programmer the insight how to change the software to fully use the parallel hardware.
Service2Media is an multi platform mobile application development platform provider for B2B, B2E and B2C. The App Lifecycle Platform™ is Service2Media’s multi platform mobile enterprise and consumer application development platform that supports the app portfolio development by Service2Media and licensed partners and customers. The App Lifecycle Platform™ enables users to design multiple apps once, deploy them on multiple devices and evolve them throughout their lives. Customers are AlJazeera, Springer, Elsevier, Rabobank, RTL, Liberty Global and more. The core M2Active platform is positioned as a native runtime platform with open standards for HTML5,and other languages, the platform uses the Lua scripting language and consists of and on Eclipse based IDE the development tool runs on Windows, UNIX or Linux and gives access to the M2Active SDK with native runtimes and API for mobile app development. The entire app lifecycle management, from design to development, to back end integration, and application maintenance and debugging is facilitated by the platform. Service2Media supplies complementary developers training, business process consulting, testing, app store submission etc. Furthermore there is seamless integration with solution partners and technology partners (LBI, SAP, Capgemini, ATOS, Hinttech). The M2Active App Lifecycle platform helps both web and native developers to develop cross platform apps for IOS, Android, BB, Symbian, WP7 and J2ME.
Servoy's professional development and deployment environment enables you to build rich business applications that can be deployed to both the desktop and over the internet -- with one code base. Why code twice? Servoy gives you the power of Java with 10x the productivity and industry standards.
Q-go is a global leader in next generation online customer service, and offers online and mobile customer service solutions for the financial services, airlines and telecommunications industries. Q-go's SaaS-based solution is available in many languages, and is powered by comprehensive, industry-specific domain dictionaries, millions of customer interactions, and the most advanced semantic technology available. The software is available for websites, call centers, intranets, mobile, ATM and virtual assistants, and Q-go offers a guaranteed return on investment (ROI) within six months. Unlike typical search and knowledge-base technology, Q-go's application understands what customers are asking on your website, mobile and other channels, and allows your online customers to ask questions in their own words. It understands what your customers are asking, rapidly deciphers their question grammatically and semantically, and delivers the right answer, the first time. The result is the highest quality customer experience and service, an immediate and guaranteed reduction in costs, a significant increase in self-service penetration, online conversion and real-time customer insight. Q-go customers include leading financial institutions and other globally recognized brands including Air France-KLM, ING, ABN AMRO, BBVA, VISA, Deutsche Telekom, T-Systems, and Movistar. Founded in 1999, Q-go is headquartered in Amsterdam and has additional offices in Barcelona, Madrid, Bonn, Munich, Zürich, New York and San Francisco. Learn more at http://www.q-go.com.
E-Semble designs and develops simulation tools for training and education of safety and security professionals. With the "serious gaming" simulation software, rescue professionals and security teams from public and private safety and security services can be educated. Virtual incident exercises are incidents realistically simulated by computer. Using a joystick, one or more course participants walk around in the simulated world of a virtual incident. Course participants experience a virtual incident scenario as extremely realistic. The stress felt during exercises is considerable, because the problem situations that arise fully match reality. In this virtual world, the course participant can open doors, enter buildings, walk up and down stairs and look into and under vehicles. The vital signs of victims can also be retrieved, for triage purposes.
Anago is a next generation Business Intelligence Solutions vendor for Workforce Management and Financial Performance Management.
Keylane is the market leader in the Benelux for flexible SaaS based solutions that underpin the core processes of life.
Asysco is a leading technology provider for the Unisys mainframe environment. Asysco helps their customers to protect and enhance their investments in mission-critical enterprise applications. The technology and solutions provide the customers with all the tools they need to migrate their legacy applications to an open systems environment, thereby lowering the costs of maintaining existing enterprise applications and speeding-up the development and the time to market of new applications. At the same time, the customers are able to continue to enjoy the unparalleled robustness, security and availability of the traditional mainframe environment. Asysco has over a hundred customers in more than twenty countries around the world. Among them are leading companies in the financial services sector, insurance, retail, manufacturing, wholesale, education and government.