The Consulting Report is pleased to announce The Top 50 Services Firms of 2022. The firms on this year’s list are among the most experienced and respected in the IT industry. These organizations provide their clients with software development, cloud migration and integration, data analytics, and application development, among many other services.
Dataprise stands out from the rest by providing holistic IT services to its clients across the U.S. The 300-strong team specializes in cloud services, help desk support, security solutions, and more. Based in Irvine, CA, DynTek provides IT services like systems integration and security risk management to its clients primarily in the finance, energy, and healthcare industries. And in addition to the digital transformation services it provides, ANS Group heavily believes in corporate social responsibility and is dedicated to addressing community needs.
This year’s awardees may be similar in that they provide IT-related services, but they are each unique in the way they design and deliver their solutions. These exceptional firms bring unmatched service and support year after year, and deserve recognition for their sustained high performance. Please join us in celebrating The Top 50 Services Firms of 2022.
1. DXC Technology
Location: Ashburn, VA
DXC is not an acronym. Instead, the company's name is a reference to its identity as a force multiplier (X) for digital transformation (D) of its clients (C), who are enabled to seize the opportunity that change presents with DXC. To achieve its goal, DXC helps companies around the globe run their mission-critical operations while modernizing IT, optimizing data architectures, and ensuring security and scalability across public, private, and hybrid clouds.
DXC was formed in April 2017 when the Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company (HPE) spun off its Enterprise Services business and merged it with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC). At the time of its birth, DXC already boasted some hefty numbers: with 170,000 employees working to bring in annual revenues of $25 billion. While maintaining headquarters in Ashburn, Virginia, the multinational giant operates in 70 countries, including the likes of India, the Philippines, Eastern Europe, and Vietnam.
2. Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Location: Spring, TX
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company built to transform businesses by helping customers connect, protect, analyze, and act on all their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. HPE’s more than 60,000 employees serve customers across six divisions from offices in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and Oceania.
HPE was formed on November 1, 2015, as part of the splitting of the Hewlett-Packard company. In June 2018, HPE launched a hybrid cloud service called GreenLake Hybrid Cloud, built on top of HPE's OneSphere cloud management SaaS console, offered under its brand HPE GreenLake. GreenLake is designed to provide cloud management, cost control, and compliance control capabilities while running on Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. GreenLake includes cloud data services for containers, machine learning, storage, computing, data protection, and networking through a management portal called GreenLake Central.
3. CGI
Location: Montreal, QC
Founded in 1976, CGI is among the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world. They are insights-driven and outcomes-based to help accelerate returns on their customers’ investments. They work across 21 industries from 400 locations worldwide, providing comprehensive, scalable, and sustainable IT and business consulting services that are informed globally and delivered locally.
CGI offers a variety of proprietary solutions to its customers, including Aromi, its enterprise resource planning system; CGI AgileIQ Suite, which provides a tightly integrated set of tools that enable teams to define, build, test, and deliver applications with unprecedented velocity, control, and uncompromised quality; and CGI Atlas360, a global, multi-lingual solution that allows CGI’s clients to outsource their customer relationship processes in order to enhance the customer experience, increase efficiencies and cost-effectiveness, and improve time to market.
4. General Dynamics Information Technology
Location: Falls Church, VA
For over 50 years, General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) has been a leading innovator in the technology and IT space. Today the firm supports some of the most complex government, defense, and intelligence projects across the country. Headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, GDIT is a business unit of General Dynamics, an aerospace and defense company that employs more than 100,000 people worldwide and generated $38.5 billion in revenue in 2021.
Among the many offerings in its robust portfolio, GDIT offers strategy, technology solutions, and mission services — including partner ecosystem, technology delivery models, AI, cloud, cyber, and data analytics. As of 2014, Information Systems and Technology represented 34% of General Dynamics' revenue. However, in 2018, this percentage increased when General Dynamics acquired information technology services giant CSRA for $9.7 billion and merged it with GDIT.
5. Avanade
Location: Seattle, WA
Avanade is the highly successful result of a joint venture between Accenture and Microsoft. Since its founding in 2000, Avanade has become the leader in the Microsoft services marketplace, with more than 56,000 highly skilled professionals in 26 countries, helping thousands of clients envision and realize their business goals. Avanade is also the largest global partner of Microsoft and has grown its direct business continually through this channel.
Today, the company serves 34% of the Fortune 500 and 46% of the Fortune Global 500. Among its notable awards, Avanade has been recognized as the Microsoft Alliance Partner of the Year 16 times, most recently in 2021. More recently, in April 2022, Avanade announced the building of its first U.S.-based engineering center in Tampa, Florida, which will be adding around 500 new jobs in the engineering, data, and software development fields over the next three years. Avanade, which is named after a portmanteau between avenue and promenade, is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
6. Inetum
Location: Saint-Ouen, France
Inetum is an agile IT services company that provides digital services and solutions as well as a global group that helps companies and institutions get the most out of digital flow. In a world of perpetual movement in which needs and usages are constantly being reinvented, the Inetum group is committed to innovating, adapting, and staying ahead. With its multi-expert profile, Inetum offers its clients a unique combination of proximity, a sectoral organization, and solutions of industrial quality. Operating in more than 27 countries, Inetum has nearly 27,000 employees and generated revenues of €2.2 billion in 2021.
Inetum’s solutions portfolio is made from a well-balanced combination of the best-in-class third-party enterprise and sector-specific solutions and proprietary IPs in selected niches; in vertical sectors like the public sector, insurance, and healthcare, but also in cross domains like time and activity or document management, among others. The company’s service portfolio comprises a wide-coverage end-to-end service set extending from personalized consulting to industrialized full-outsourcing services, solutions integration, and business development, combining innovation-based differentiation with automation-based efficiency.
7. ZS Associates
Location: Evanston, IL
ZS Associates is a global management consulting firm that was founded in 1983 by two Northwestern University professors who developed sales force alignment models using the world’s first personal-computer-aided territory mapping system. While ZS continues to offer sales force alignment service to this day, much of its incredible success during the past 35 years is due to the firm's ability to leverage advanced analytics and leading-edge technologies to create innovative solutions for some of the top companies in the world.
Headquartered in Evanston, Illinois, ZS now has more than 12,000 employees in 35 offices worldwide. Often associated with healthcare and biotech, the firm serves a broad range of industries, offering services in the areas of consulting, technology, operations, software, and integrated solutions, among others. No stranger to awards, in 2019, the company was chosen by Forbes magazine as one of America’s best management and consulting firms.
8. Tietoevry
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Tietoevry Oyj (Tieto prior to June 2019) is a Finnish IT software and service company providing IT and product engineering services. Tietoevry has approximately 24,000 experts globally who specialize in cloud, data, and software, serving thousands of enterprise and public-sector customers in more than 90 countries in the energy, forestry, banking, and healthcare sectors.
Tietoevry creates purposeful technology that reinvents the world for good, and it prides itself on working with its customers to develop digital futures where businesses, societies, and humanity thrive. The company has a strong Nordic heritage and global capabilities based on its core values of openness, trust, and diversity. It provides its customers with three specialized service businesses; 1) Tietoevry Create accelerates customers’ digital agendas with global design, cloud, data, and software engineering capabilities, 2) Tietoevry Transform drives enterprise-wide transformation across business processes, applications, and infrastructure utilizing automation, cloud, and data capabilities, and 3) Tietoevry Connect is a multi-cloud platform and managed services business ensuring resilience, security, and compliance for customers’ business.
9. BT Global Services
Location: London, England
BT Global Services was founded in 2000 and now has locations in 180 countries, serving global multinational organizations around the world with its security, cloud, and networking services. It helps organizations move to the cloud, turn collaboration into part of the culture, improve contact centers, transform customer service, and simplify networks with security built-in, not bolted on. BT is led by a team of passionate and talented executives, chosen for their experience and ability to bring both global and local expertise.
When transforming businesses, BT knows the best approach is less talk and more action —whether it’s connecting the most remote locations, reinventing entire systems, or fixing the unfixable. With over seventy years of delivering security services to companies across every stretch of the world, they’ve seen it all and solved it all. BT has formed strategic partnership arrangements with various companies — like Cisco, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, DELL, and Oracle — to deliver world-class end-to-end service for its customers.
10. Claranet
Location: London, England
Based in London, cloud services and modernization support provider Claranet is recognized as one of the premier managed service providers in the world. For companies working in media and entertainment, retail, and housing and construction, Claranet has become the trusted name in the worlds of cloud services, cybersecurity, and modern workplace transformation. Given the firm’s remarkable track record, it’s no surprise that Claranet can count more than 10,000 business customers across Europe and the Americas.
Claranet’s workforce of more than 2,500 digital experts has garnered the firm an impressive series of accolades since its founding in 1996. As only one out of five companies on Earth that have audited MSP certifications from Microsoft, AWS, and Google Cloud, Claranet has occupied a position in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for seven years running. Claranet is proud to count among its clients companies such as UNICEF UK, Currency Cloud, and Spendology, who have praised the IT services provider for enabling their continued survival and growth through its rapid, flexible solutions.
11. Westcon-Comstor
Location: Tarrytown, NY
With annual revenues of nearly $3 billion, technology provider and specialist distributor Westcon-Comstor is transforming the global supply chain network. Founded in Tarrytown, New York, the company leverages its 30+ years of distribution experience and high-tech solutions to create business value by effectively connecting the world’s leading IT vendors with a channel of technology resellers, systems integrators, and service providers.
Today, with teams operating in 70+ countries, that cover six continents, Westcon-Comstor provides services to more than 170 countries. This increasing global reach has yielded tremendous financial gains for the firm, which reported its global revenue to be $2.89 billion during the 2022 financial year, a rise of 11.8% compared to the previous year. Furthermore, Westcon-Comstor is poised to continue its dramatic economic climbing as it focuses on portfolio expansion with software and subscription-based solutions.
12. NWN Corporation
Location: Boston, MA
NWN Corporation is a leading Cloud Communications Service Provider (CCSP) focused on transforming the customer and workspace experience for commercial, enterprise, and public sector organizations. The company offers solutions-as-a-service that help organizations securely work from anywhere. NWN Corporation provides its more than 7,000 customers across North America with integrated cloud communications, security, contact center, managed devices, connectivity, and advanced technology solutions.
Over the past three years, President and CEO Jim Sullivan has transformed NWN Corporation into a national technology powerhouse with 1,200 employees delivering over $1 billion in sales bookings while doubling revenue in 2021. The company has consistently been recognized as a “Best Place to Work” and a “Fastest Growing Company in Boston.” Sullivan has also been recognized twice by Ernst & Young as an Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist in 2021 and 2022.
13. Navisite
Location: Andover, MA
Navisite is a trusted digital transformation partner for growing and established global brands. Through its highly specialized teams, industry solutions, business process expertise, and application services, it provides the capabilities and practical guidance customers need to modernize, build, and support more agile, resilient, and expanding businesses. Its strategic advisory and transformation services advance innovation with comprehensive cloud, enterprise application, data management, intelligent automation, and cybersecurity solutions, empowering customers to navigate change and meet new demands at any point in their journey.
Every step Navisite has taken — from multiple acquisitions to its expanding service portfolio to its people — has been about providing the global capabilities, customer-centric solutions, and flexible approaches that are specifically rightsized for the needs of mid-market and smaller enterprise companies. Navisite can help with everything from managing the day-to-day to accelerating digital transformation. It is platform-agnostic, and its people have deep expertise across major cloud providers, enterprise applications, and digital technologies. When a company partners with Navisite, they’ll help build a custom-tailored solution that works best for any goals at any point in the company’s journey.
14. InfoBeans
Location: Danville, CA
Founded in 2000, InfoBeans is a publicly listed digital transformation and product engineering firm that designs, builds, and sustains enterprise-grade software to fulfill its clients’ most ambitious business aspirations. The company continuously strives to deliver value accretive services around design, innovation, and engineering to resolve their most complex business problems using cutting-edge technology. Its operations are strengthened by partnerships with Salesforce, ServiceNow, Microsoft, UiPath, and Automattic — as well as a staff of over 1,400 experts and professionals.
Led by Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder Mitesh Bohra, InfoBeans operates across offices in the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. It was recognized as a “Great Place to Work” by the Great Place To Work Institute, India, in 2021 and 2022, and is ranked among India’s “Growth Champions 2022” by The Economic Times and Statista.
15. Improving
Location: Plano, TX
Based in Plano, Texas, Improving is a leading software development company that offers advanced technology consulting and training across our fourteen locations throughout North America. Improving is a complete IT services firm, offering training, consulting, recruiting, and project services. Its innovative solutions and processes have helped hundreds of clients across the globe realize their tactical and strategic business objectives. As a result, the company’s 1,000 employees have accumulated extensive technology and management experience in several industries, including financial services, energy, travel, retail, government, and more.
Since 2007, Improving has been steered by Chief Executive Officer Curtis Hite, whose nearly 30 years of experience has been invaluable. The company boasts awards and accolades including several “Best Places to Work” lists across Texas and Ohio, as well as by Inc. Magazine.
16. Charter
Location: Victoria, BC
Charter was founded in 1997 by Paul Chandler, who ran it for years from a converted barn in Victoria, Canada. Under Chandler's leadership, Charter has emerged as one of Canada's foremost information technology (IT) network providers to clients operating some of the most critical networks in the country. Today, Charter serves its clients by helping them build, maintain, and operate secure, high-performance communications networks and data center infrastructures.
Generally, Charter's clientele ranges from medium-to-large regional organizations, but also includes the likes of international corporations and provincial governments. The firm, which has grown into a powerhouse since its early days, has notably achieved double-digit growth every year since its incorporation. In 2016, Charter acquired Vancouver-based Boardwalk Communications. This allowed Charter to build itself into a 1,000+ person team, with offices in Victoria, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Regina, and Toronto.
17. Infostretch
Location: Santa Clara, CA
With over 18 years of experience, Infostretch is a pure-play digital engineering services firm that delivers custom solutions in various digital technologies, such as the Internet of Things, digital marketing, digital strategy, data analysis, DevOps, cloud computing, and mobility services. Backed by Goldman Sachs & Everstone Capital, Infostretch works with both large enterprises and emerging innovators. Services provided by the company include helping companies accelerate their digital initiatives, offering clients digital assurance testing, and providing artificial intelligence-powered predictive robots. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Santa Clara, California with additional operations in New York, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, London, and India.
Meanwhile, in April 2022, Infostretch announced that it had completed its merger with the Technosoft Corporation, which is doing business as Apexon, which is a long-time customer of Infostretch. The combined company, with revenue approaching half a billion dollars, represents a digital engineering services powerhouse. The founders of Infostretch—Rutesh Shah and Manish Mathuria—are continuing to serve now on the Board of Directors as Vice Chairmen.
18. Core BTS
Location: Indianapolis, IN
Award-winning IT consultants and managed service provider Core BTS is an Indianapolis-based facilitator of business transformation solutions. Core BTS counts major regional clients such as Kroger Health, Trek, and Bob Evans among its satisfied customers who were advanced to the new era of digital commerce through its professional digital modernization services. The company’s areas of expertise are manifold, but in addition to its notoriety with cloud migration and optimization services, it is particularly known for its security, networking, and modern workplace offerings.
First established in 2004 as Convergence Technologies, Core BTS has stricken a wide array of partnerships in its tenure as a top-notch provider of technical support. Its acquisitions of Blue Chip Consulting Group, Skyline Technologies, and Aptera Software in recent years have enabled the firm to offer its clients enhanced cloud services, data analytics, and application development. Core BTS is a frequent awardee on CRN’s MSP 500 list, and was an award winner at Cisco Partner Summit 2021.
19. Lohika
Location: San Mateo, CA
Lohika is a provider of premium software development and consulting to top technology companies as well others seeking breakthrough innovations. The company is headquartered in San Mateo, California, and was founded in 2001 by venture investors including Altos Ventures and Draper Richards. Today, Lohika is part of the Altran Group. Lohika’s engineers are adept in all major technology platforms and possess unrivaled development skills and real-world experience.
The company focuses on software R&D, technologically complicated projects, and long-term partnerships with its customers which include Instartlogic, Lookout, Skype, BuzzFeed, Okta, and Tidemark. Lohika partners with growth-stage technology companies to help them engineer “the next Big Thing.” It collaborates closely with its clients’ engineering organizations to transform them from bottlenecks to growth drivers. Its clients are driven to develop the most disruptive and impressive products and services, and Lohika shares this passion.
20. Netenrich
Location: San Jose, CA
Raju Chekuri founded Netenrich in 2004 after a successful career as an IT entrepreneur, visionary, and business leader in Silicon Valley. He’s led the company’s growth as a SaaS for digital operations while innovating for AIOps and cybersecurity solutions. Now, Netenrich Resolution Intelligence lets companies accelerate and scale their digital business without disruption. The analytics-as-a-service platform connects IT, cloud, and security operations in real time, combining AIOps, automation, and over 15 years of digital ops expertise.
The Resolution Intelligence platform is able to operationalize Google Chronicle to deliver insights and context that speed resolution, promote scale, and keep operations aligned to risk. The open platform takes in data and telemetry from monitoring and detection solutions, and deep analysis performs advanced correlation, investigation, and prioritization to deliver “act-ons” for immediate resolution. Using Resolution Intelligence, organizations are able to higher value from tool investments while scaling operations for elevated performance and resilience.
21. Internap Network Services
Location: Reston, VA
Internap Network Services (INAP) is a global provider of performance-driven, secure hybrid infrastructure solutions, enabling technology leaders to simplify their cloud journeys and accelerate innovation. INAP’s expansive suite of multi-platform cloud, modern data center, optimized network, and intelligent managed services solutions help businesses flexibly and reliably move workloads to the right destination at the right time — reducing risk and maximizing value. Driven by a skilled workforce of over 600 professionals, the company boasts offices across the U.S., Asia Pacific, Europe, and Australia, and 46 global data centers.
Headquartered in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area, INAP is led by Matt Sicoli, President and Chief Executive Officer, who joined the firm in 2019 as Chief Financial Officer. The company serves more than 13,000 clients with the support of partners including VMware, Amazon Web Services, Veeam, and more.
22. ANS Group
Location: Manchester, England
Described as “the U.K.’s fastest moving and most innovative digital and cloud experts,” Manchester-based digital transformation specialists ANS Group is on a mission to bring enterprise-grade know-how and technology available to clients of every size. The company has seen tremendous success for its efforts, being hailed as one of the largest digital transformation providers in Europe and claiming over 7,000 B2B customers of all industries and sizes. ANS offers clients masterful control over all things security, modern work, data and AI, app innovation, and cloud infrastructure.
ANS is an avid supporter of corporate social responsibility, and it has garnered considerable attention for its dedication to addressing community needs through charitable events and donations targeting health, food poverty, and education in particular. The company has faced ongoing market disturbances with aplomb, recently launching an exciting rebranding campaign and an ambitious three-year growth strategy. Chief Executive Officer Paul Shannon introduced this plan at a recent event along with a pledge to continue making the lives of ANS clients easier with a new dedicated customer experience division.
23. Compucom Systems
Location: Fort Mill, SC
Compucom Systems is an industry leader in digital workplace services. It delivers secure, innovative, green digital workplace solutions designed for the way its customers work today —and for how we’ll transform tomorrow. Connecting people, technology, and the edge with a seamless experience, Compucom provides everything that’s needed for real-time collaboration, connection, and support.
Compucom manages the technology that runs some of the world’s busiest enterprises —including 5 of the top 10 Fortune 500 companies. It is driven by technology but powered by people (7,000+ people who have 70,000+ technical certifications and decades of expertise in cutting-edge workplace services). Compucom supports 9+ million devices globally, handles 8+ million contacts each year, has an 85% first-contact resolution rate, and supports 300+ enterprise managed services clients. It has been recognized by the likes of ISG, NelsonHall, Avasant, and Everest Group. In 2022, backed by Variant Equity Advisors, Compucom became an independent entity.
24. Gorilla Logic
Location: Broomfield, CO
Gorilla Logic is a premier nearshore software development partner, providing agile development teams to Fortune 500 and emerging companies, and boasting expertise in the delivery of full-stack web, mobile, and enterprise applications. The company’s Colorado headquarters and nearshore development hubs in Costa Rica, Colombia, and Mexico come together to build high-performance, integrated agile teams with top-quality engineering experts. The company is driven by more than 500 professionals who represent Gorilla Logic and its values: talent, respect, communication, excellence, teamwork, and clients first.
Founded in 2002, Gorilla Logic has been built under the guidance of its co-founders Stu Stern and Ed Schwarz, and has been led by Chief Executive Officer Dan Berg since 2019. The company boasts a diverse array of clients, including Ford Motor Company, DaVita, NBC, and more.
25. Infinity Works
Location: Leeds, England
Few IT services firms can boast the degree of digital engineering muscle as the Leeds-based product engineering company, Infinity Works. Since its founding in 2014, Infinity Works has provided best-in-class guidance for clients navigating what it calls “the new industrial revolution.” Among Infinity Works’ areas of proficiency are full-stack engineering, digital design, and cloud architecture, and its success in these fields has earned recognition as an Advanced Consulting Partner with AWS and Elite Services Partner with Snowflake.
Infinity Works was acquired by the top Irish IT services and consulting firm, Accenture, in early 2021, and has dedicated its engineering and cloud delivery expertise to Accenture’s services throughout the U.K. The company is headed by its Founder, Matt Gaffney, who continues as Infinity Works’ Non-Executive Director. Infinity Works maintains numerous offices throughout the U.K., and its team of more than 600 employees has contributed to the firm being named one of the best management consultant firms in the U.K. by The Financial Times.
26. Content+Cloud
Location: London, England
Content+Cloud (formerly IT Lab) is a leading, Microsoft-focused, cloud, digital transformation and managed services provider (MSP) based in the United Kingdom. The company is a premier Microsoft partner with 16 gold competencies, 19 awards, four Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs), and nine advanced specializations. It delivers secure technology solutions, services, and support with a particular focus on Microsoft 365, Azure, and Dynamics 36, helping organizations achieve tangible results.
Founded in 1998, Content+Cloud boasts over 1000 employees and offices located in London, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Reading, Cardiff, and Sheffield, as well as Cape Town, South Africa. Among its many awards and accolades received, the company has been named as one of the world’s premier MSPs in the 2022 Channel Futures MSP 501 rankings. In 2021, the company was acquired by the Advania group, a leading Nordic IT services provider.
27. Esker
Location: Lyon, France
Global cloud platform and software developer Esker is a major figure in the finance and customer service domains. The crown jewel of Esker’s products and services is its signature cloud platform, which provides intuitive, convenient support for procure-to-pay and order-to-cash services, all using the latest in AI-powered software. However, Esker has also developed a following for its application of applying cutting-edge technologies such as AI and robotic process automation to the needs of its clients.
Esker is led by its Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Jean-Michel Bérard. Bérard established the firm in 1985 and currently oversees Esker’s Asia-Pacific subsidiary while representing Esker’s interests in financial and IT circles. This year, Esker has taken more major steps toward the top of its field, announcing recent partnerships with Corpay and Fujitsu Asia. The company is headquartered in Lyon, France, but maintains offices throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas, the latter of which is run from its base in Madison, Wisconsin.
28. Innovecs
Location: New York City, NY
Founded in 2011, Innovecs is a global digital transformation tech company that creates digital solutions powered by innovative technologies and incorporated emerging trends to help businesses transform and grow. The company is headquartered in New York City, with research and development facilities in Kyiv, Ukraine, and offices across the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Australia. Driven by more than 500 expert employees, the Innovecs team has expertise in the fields of supply chain & logistics, retail & ecommerce, healthcare, adtech, fintech, and gaming and entertainment.
Innovecs is led by Chief Executive Officer and founder Alex Lutskiy, whose 30 years of software engineering experience has helped the company grow and excel in its decade-plus existence. The company is a member of the Forbes Technology Council and has been recognized on the Inc. 5000 as one of “America’s Fastest-Growing Companies” in several consecutive years.
29. Madwire
Location: Fort Collins, CO
Madwire was founded in 2009 with the mission of enriching communities by helping small businesses grow. The company is headquartered in Fort Collins, Colorado with offices in Austin, Texas. It provides business management and marketing software and services for SMBs and franchises. Madwire’s brands — which include Marketing 360®, Websites 360®, SpaceCraft™, and Top Rated Local® — enable SMBs to do everything from building a website to accepting payments, managing leads and customers, appointments, online reviews, social media, business listings, content marketing, multi-channel digital advertising campaigns, and more.
Madwire has over 20,000 active paid subscribers and over 4,000 online reviews with an average rating of 4.7+ stars. The company was ranked by Glassdoor as one of the country's Best Places to Work for businesses with 1,000 employees or fewer (#1 overall in 2016). In addition, Co-CEOs JB Kellogg and Joe Kellogg were recognized as Glassdoor's Highest Rated CEOs for three consecutive years (#1 overall in 2016). And, Madwire has made the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Companies list eight years in a row. It currently employs nearly 700 people.
30. MajorKey Technologies
Location: Chicago, IL
In an industry in which every IT firm bills itself as a disruptor, Chicago-area IT services and consulting firm MajorKey Technologies strives to bring harmony to its clients. MajorKey specializes in digital strategy, software development, managed services, and identity access management. With its team of 400 working from its Chicago headquarters as well as an office in Buenos Aires, MajorKey prides itself on its signature enterprise operations service, helping businesses streamline their systems by aligning the goals and methods of all parties through a single technological operating system.
MajorKey has been helping major brands and small startups alike harmonize their digital services for more than 20 years. The firm originally did business under the name Column Technologies and has forged tight partnerships with Amazon Web Services, Atlassian, SailPoint, and more of the top players in the industry. Recently, MajorKey acquired the engineering capabilities of Seattle-based digital engineering firm Valence, and in the last year was named Atlassian’s Partner of the Year in ITSM solutions.
31. Adastra
Location: Toronto, ON
For more than two decades, Adastra has been helping businesses push the boundaries of innovation with the power of data. The Canada-based firm, which was founded in 2000, helps enterprises leverage data by providing cutting-edge solutions in the areas of artificial intelligence, big data, cloud, digital, and governance, among others. To date, Adastra's proven methodologies have been used by clients in more than 45 countries. Some of its key partnerships include Microsoft, AWS, MicroStrategy, and Alteryx, to name a few.
In May 2022, Adastra was named One of Canada’s Best Managed Companies, an award it's received now for 20 consecutive years. Previously, Adastra won the prestigious Czech 100 Best award in the field of Information and Communication Technologies, and was included alongside companies that had a direct impact on the living standards of the Czech population in 2020.
32. Concord
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Launched in 2003, Concord is a leading technology consulting and digital transformation firm based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In addition to its headquarters, the firm has more than 400 employees working at offices in Charlotte and Chicago, as well as delivery centers in Bulgaria and India. Over the years, the consultancy has been able to set itself apart from competitors by focusing on its four core capabilities: digital & user experience, cloud applications & integration, data solutions & analytics, and information security. As a result of this particular focus, the firm has helped its customers unlock business value by solving their most difficult data and technology problems. By all accounts, more growth awaits on the horizon.
Concord, which is a portfolio company of private equity firm H.I.G. Capital, continues to grow in size while serving clients in industries ranging from healthcare and technology to manufacturing and financial services. In April 2022, Concord acquired Evolytics, a data analytics consulting firm that will not only add 70 more invaluable employees to the thriving company but undoubtedly increase the potential to attract new clients with a wider array of offerings.
33. Littlefish Managed IT Services
Location: Nottingham, England
With offices across England, Littlefish Managed IT Services is an award-winning provider of technology services. Littlefish offers a comprehensive range of managed IT, cybersecurity, cloud, and IT consultancy services across the UK to help clients gain a competitive advantage in their IT investments. Its services are delivered by a highly-skilled and experienced team of more than 400 professionals who maintain a user-focused approach.
Since it was acquired by Source24 in 2010, Littlefish has been under the command of Chief Executive Officer Steve Robinson, overseeing significant growth, focusing on world-class service, and creating a sustainable business model. The company has received several awards, including the “Commitment to People Development” from the East Midlands Chamber of Commerce’s Nottinghamshire Business Awards. It has also been awarded the Sunday Times Best Companies 1* Star Accreditation for its outstanding employee engagement.
34. Dataprise
Location: Rockville, MD
Maryland-based strategic managed service provider Dataprise offers a next-level holistic IT service experience to businesses throughout the United States. Boasting a 300-strong team of technical consultants and support staff, Dataprise is consistently honored as one of the best places to work in the IT industry. Among Dataprise’s key areas of expertise are cloud services, help desk support services, security solutions, and strategic IT consulting.
Dataprise has consistently provided top-tier managed IT services to clients since its founding in 1995. Over the last three decades, Dataprise has helped more than 5,000 organizational clients across the country manage their business technology and run their business with speed and flexibility, and it has built a reputation for consistent growth over more than 25 years. Continuing its track record of industry excellence, Dataprise has accumulated substantial accomplishments in recent years, acquiring managed mobility services provider Wireless Watchdogs in 2021. The firm was also recently named one of the top MSSPs in the field by MSSP Alert.
35. Knowledge Services
Location: Indianapolis, IN
When Julie Bielawski started Knowledge Services in 1994, she never guessed that one day her Indianapolis-based company would become the largest government Managed Service Provider (MSP) in the nation. A certified woman-owned business enterprise (WBE), Knowledge Services was started as a computer training facility that partnered with big names like Oracle and Microsoft to provide on-the-job education. When the developing need for temporary IT staffing became apparent, Knowledge Services began exploring vendor management, prompting the development of the solutions it offers today.
Currently, with corporate employees located in several states throughout the U.S., Bielawski's company provides workforce management solutions for federal, state, and local governments. Likewise, in the private sector, its clients have included Ivy Tech, Advantage Health, OneAmerica, Lenscrafters, Papa John’s, and Oracle. Furthermore, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Knowledge Services never lost sight of the company’s enduring mission statement: "Serving Those Who Serve Others." From processing more than 20,000 benefit applications for Indiana natives to expanding vocational rehabilitation services to 4,000 Arizona citizens, Knowledge Services continues to improve outcomes for people from every walk of life.
36. Visual Edge
Location: North Canton, OH
Backed by more than 20 years of technology service and a national network of expert engineers, Visual Edge has established itself as a leading player in the professional services and IT space. The company, which is headquartered in North Canton, Ohio, caters its solutions to small and mid-size businesses across the U.S. The broad field of its specialties include day-to-day IT support, cybersecurity protection, cloud solutions and migration services, business continuity services, and print/copy solutions.
Furthermore, it's managed IT services include 24/7 remote monitoring and administration of networks, service desk, data backup, and data restore. On top of that, the company represents the industry's leading manufacturer of office technology, allowing businesses to get equipment, supplies, and service from a single source. In December 2021, Visual Edge expanded its footprint in the Midwest with the acquisition of Slash Point Sales and Service, an Iowa-based firm that not only adds a broad base of expertise to the Midwest territory but also to the growing national Visual Edge IT brand.
37. eVestment
Location: Atlanta, GA
Founded in 2000, eVestment, a part of Nasdaq, provides institutional investment data, analytics, and market intelligence covering public and private markets. Asset managers and general partners reach the institutional marketplace through its platform, while institutional investors and consultants rely on eVestment for manager due diligence, selection, and monitoring. The company brings transparency and efficiency to the global institutional market, equipping managers, investors, and consultants to make data-driven decisions, deploy their resources more productively, and ultimately realize better outcomes.
Since 2019, eVestment has been led by Chief Executive Officer Gene Luciani, a 10-year veteran of the company and experienced industry professional. To support its clients and employees, the company emphasizes its core values: innovation, excellence, teamwork, integrity, focus, and humility/attitude. The company was acquired in 2017 by Nasdaq, an American financial services corporation.
38. Broadleaf, Inc.
Location: Manassas, VA
IT services firm Broadleaf, Inc. is a provider of professional information technology services to the U.S. Department of Defense and various Federal Civilian Agencies. An industry standout in logistics, training, acquisition, outreach, and remotely piloted aircraft, among other professional services, Broadleaf’s remarkable success has led to its swift rise up the ranks of Inc. Magazine’s top growing companies, hitting the #20 position on that list in 2021. Broadleaf is headed by its longtime President, Vince Apesa.
A subsidiary of a parent nonprofit Native Hawaiian Organization, Broadleaf was founded in 2009 and is run out of its headquarters in Manassas, Virginia. Working under the auspices of its NHO, Broadleaf is dedicated to benefiting the status of Hawaii and its people through the promotion of STEAM education and technological achievement. Among Broadleaf’s recent achievements in the field of defense-related IT services, in 2022 it was awarded major contracts with the Defense Health Agency and the Air Force Safety Center.
39. GFI Digital
Location: Maryland Heights, MO
Founded in 1999, GFI Digital is a full-service provider of digital technology boasting strategic partnerships with some of the most prominent manufacturers. Led by its founder and Chief Executive Officer Bruce Gibbs, GFI Digital sets itself apart from the competition with its exceptional customer service powered by the hand-selected best service, sales, and implementation teams in the industry. Strategic industry partners include Sharp, Ricoh, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, VMware, and more technology leaders.
GFI Digital is well-respected within the technology world and the recipient of an array of awards and accolades. It has been named a Top Workplace by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch every year since 2017, is a recipient of the Datto Blue Partner Support Award, and boasts certifications from VMware, Cisco, HP Enterprise, Microsoft, and more.
40. STL
Location: Bloomington, IL
STL (an initialism of “Sky’s The Limit”) was founded in 1991 by Katie and Tim Norman in their basement. They dreamed of building a company, driven by a culture of strong Midwestern values, that would provide SMBs with total business packages that now include state-of-the-art Cloud Services, Data Center Services, Managed IT Services, and Cybersecurity Services. STL clients receive the benefits of a professional and scalable IT staff to meet specific operational needs without hiring multiple vendors or creating an internal IT department.
The company’s Data Center allows it to offer Private Cloud, Hosted Email, Virtual Desktops, and Microsoft Office 365 services, and its Cybersecurity experts proactively keep clients’ data safe with early detection and response. A thorough Business Continuity Plan allows STL to implement an effective Backup and Disaster Recovery Plan to make sure its clients are never without access to their data. STL is also a staffing company with 25 years of expertise accommodating staffing needs across the country, for any sized business. Its goal is to identify and qualify the highest caliber candidates for its clients’ ever-changing staffing needs. Whether it’s a certified IT professional, a seasoned business professional, or an experienced skilled laborer, STL is a leading provider of thoroughly vetted, quality candidates.
41. PEAK Technical Staffing USA
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
PEAK Technical Staffing USA has offered contract staffing, contract-to-hire, and direct hire solutions since 1968. As an engineering staffing agency and technical staffing agency, they are experts at placing engineering, engineering support, and IT professionals with employers nationwide. It offers its services via its nine offices in Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Orange County, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Antonio, San Diego, and Sunny Vale.
PEAK offers challenging assignments that are on the cutting edge of technology and present outstanding opportunities for career growth. Its engineering service offering encompasses a variety of specialties that are in demand in the engineering, manufacturing, transportation, defense, aerospace, entertainment, telecommunications, energy/utilities, and petrochemical industries. PEAK's IT service offerings include SOA/Web Services, ERP/CRM, BI/DW, and eBusiness Solutions. The company’s goal is to be the global leader in technical recruiting and staffing solutions that add real business value for its clients while creating professional opportunities for its employees.
42. Lewan Technology
Location: Denver, CO
Founded in 1972, Lewan Technology is a business technology and managed service provider serving Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, and beyond. The company’s print management solutions and IT services teams deliver expertise and offer a single source for its clients’ business technology consulting, implementation, service, support, and supply needs. A world-class customer experience is a top priority for the workforce of over 375 local, tenured sales and support professionals, and executive leadership team.
Lewan has been recognized on CRN's Solution Provider 500 list, for several consecutive years, as one of the top largest technology integrators, IT solution providers, and IT consultants in North America. The company is a Xerox Business Solutions subsidiary, acquired in 1999, driven by the values of passion, teamwork, and accountability.
43. IT Solutions Consulting
Location: Philadelphia, PA
IT Solutions Consulting (ITS) is a leading managed services provider with a focus on proactive and strategic support for small and mid-market businesses. Founded in 1994 by Ted Swanson and headquartered near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, ITS partners with clients to align technology with business goals, secure data and networks, and improve processes through tailored, innovative solutions. In addition to providing comprehensive managed IT services, the company offers cybersecurity, cloud, custom application development, and business intelligence services.
Through 27 years of strategic partnership building and a focus on adopting innovative technologies and improving processes, IT Solutions has transformed from a solo venture start-up in 1994 to the 100% employee-owned, award-winning solutions provider it is today. The company’s employees voted the company one of Philadelphia’s “Best Places to Work 2021” in an annual competition conducted by the Philadelphia Business Journal and Quantum Workplace.
44. Astadia
Location: Boston, MA
Headquartered in Boston, MA, IT services firm Astadia has made a name for itself in the world of digital transformation as “the mainframe to cloud experts.” Astadia helps clients across all sectors bring their business into the modern era, renovating organizations that still run on legacy mainframe applications and delivering the agility and convenience of the cloud. Among Astadia’s key digital business services are offerings in cloud migration, DevOps, automated migration and testing, and of course, mainframe and application modernization.
Led by Chief Executive Officer Scott Silk, Astadia has helped with more than 300 digital migrations over its three decades in business, working with major brands like Citibank, HP, Air France, DIRECTV, and Deutsche Bank. Astadia has also built major trust among public sector and government institutions, working with the state of Alberta and the city of Miami to modernize their systems and help them save millions previously lost to inefficiency every year.
45. CHR Managed Services
Location: Houston, TX
CHR Managed Services has been a fixture of Houston’s business IT world since it was first launched in 1998. The company is primarily known for its comprehensive managed IT and NOC services, and it has built a reputation among its clients for providing the latest technological capabilities without the need for frequent costly upgrades or maintenance. CHR is also a recognized authority on cloud and IoT management, demonstrating significant proficiency with backup and disaster recovery for businesses in crisis.
The reigning President and Chief Executive Officer of CHR, Arun Pasrija, is frequently recognized by national organizations for his ongoing mentorship among the Houston community related to entrepreneurship and leadership. Through Pasrija’s direction, CHR has built longstanding partnerships with important industry figures including Cisco, HP, and IBM, and is a proud Gold-level Microsoft Partner. CHR has made use of its team’s established technical experience to give targeted, industry-specific guidance to clients in diverse fields such as finance and private equity, oil and gas, education, and healthcare.
46. DynTek
Location: Irvine, CA
Nationally renowned for its offerings in systems integration and security risk management, DynTek can claim some of the most thorough and far-reaching IT solutions in the industry. Working with major enterprises in industries including finance, energy, and healthcare, DynTek delivers top-quality end-to-end IT solutions to meet any organizational need, with particular knowledge of digital business transformations related to infrastructure, cloud solutions, and IT security.
From its headquarters in Irvine, CA, DynTek has forged dynamic partnerships with public sector organizations and major enterprises alike. In addition to holding numerous federal and state government contracts, DynTek has built a reputation as an effective supporter of K-12 educational institutions, using e-Rate and other programs to benefit communities across the region. DynTek is recognized as a top-level partner by major industry technology organizations including Cisco, Citrix, and Microsoft. The firm is a recurring honoree of national lists of elite IT service providers and recently distinguished itself from its competitors by becoming a member of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association.
47. MTA Solutions
Company: Palmer, AK
MTA Solutions has been connecting Alaskans since 1953. It currently operates a vast communications network spanning 10,000 square miles, which is roughly the size of Maryland. Its network withstands harsh weather and the rugged Alaskan terrain to provide critical and reliable communications to strategic military installations, schools, government entities, businesses, and homes throughout the fast-growing Southcentral Alaska region.
MTA creates meaningful solutions to empower its member-owners to live more connected lives. Its mission is to become the leading broadband technology company, to be a forward-thinking cooperative that is large and resourceful enough to answer its customers' needs, but small enough to care deeply and be a partner that delivers, and to continue to pioneer economic development by providing the infrastructure necessary for its communities to thrive and grow together well into the future. It is committed to extending broadband connectivity to parts of its footprint where telecommunications infrastructure would otherwise be infeasible.
48. ISG Technology
Location: Overland Park, KA
ISG Technology is a managed IT support and next-generation technology company based in Overland Park, Kansas, and a member of the Twin Valley family of companies. Founded in 1982, ISG Technology empowers organizations to realize their full business potential with best-in-class technology solutions that enable the digital transformation needed to stay competitive in today's economy. The company achieves its goals by offering a wide array of managed services, cloud and hosting solutions, and infrastructure and professional services.
Led by President and Chief Executive Officer Ben Foster, ISG Technology is a family-owned company with deep roots in the American Midwest. Empowered by more than 150 skilled employees, the company serves over 2,000 clients nationally and globally, with expertise in the education, finance, government, and healthcare industries.
49. Exception
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Based in Edinburgh, Scotland, Exception is a digital transformation company helping organizations deliver innovative digital solutions and services that make a difference. The company’s focus is to leverage the power of technology to achieve high-value strategic outcomes by maximizing its clients’ digital footprint, working together to drive innovation, improve processes, and enhance customer and employee experiences.
Exception’s solutions help customers create opportunities and drive meaningful change through the power of technology, with offerings such as digital transformation, cloud, digital delivery, and engineering services. The company emphasizes values such as meeting and exceeding customer expectations, trust and respect, and lasting collaborative relationships. Exception is also committed to shouldering its responsibility towards the carbon reduction plans for the UK. Specifically, it is committed to achieving Net Zero emissions by 2030.
50. Boston SoftDesign
Location: Newton, MA
As an independent managed services provider, Boston SoftDesign is a regional standout for providing heightened operational efficiency for clients of all sizes. Some of its most high-profile offerings include web and mobile development, cloud migration and integration, infrastructure management, database administration, and ITSM solutions. Boston SoftDesign also specializes in providing round-the-clock support for all technological needs, with dedicated remote network monitoring and 24/7 service desk solutions.
First founded in 1999, Boston SoftDesign has expanded to offer a wide variety of services to major enterprises and small businesses alike. Its team of hundreds is notable for its experience in the world of digital transformation, with each engineer having an average of nine years of experience in the field. A trusted partner of Zendesk, Snowflake, and Amazon Web Services, Boston SoftDesign was recently hailed by the Workato Automation League as a key partner of 2021, and the company struck a new relationship with cloud EDI platform Orderful at the end of last year.
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