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We are excited to announce the Top Rated Office Suites for 2019! Top Rated awards showcase today’s top-of-the-line products in Office Suites based solely on user feedback and satisfaction scores. These awards make the voice of the market the primary decider into the industry’s best products. Top Rated awards are the most trusted in the industry because they are never influenced by analyst opinion, the vendor’s size, popularity, or status as a TrustRadius customer. So without further ado… Here are the winners: G Suite G Suite is an office suite by Google. In addition to the typical productivity tools, G Suite also includes email, document storage, identity management, online surveys, and meeting tools. Half (50%) of the G Suite users on TrustRadius are from small businesses. Reviewers appreciate that G Suite excels at collaboration and that it is an economical solution.  “We use G Suite across the entire organization. We utilize Gmail, Calendar, Drive (Docs, Sheets, Slides) and Meet. It allows us to collaborate as teams and have easy access to the information we need for our organization to be successful… We love using G Suite!” – Verified User | Director in Human Resources | Computer Software Company Microsoft Office […]

We are excited to announce the Top Rated Document Management Systems for 2019! Top Rated awards showcase today’s top-of-the-line products in Document Management Systems based solely on user feedback and satisfaction scores. These awards make the voice of the market the primary decider into the industry’s best products. Top Rated awards are the most trusted in the industry because they are never influenced by analyst opinion, the vendor’s size, popularity, or status as a TrustRadius customer. So without further ado… Here are the winners: PDFelement PDFelement is a document management system that allows users to convert and sign documents in addition to creating and editing them. Other key PDFelement features include the ability to create fillable PDF forms and then export the filled data into a spreadsheet. A significant portion (65%) of PDFelement users on TrustRadius are from small businesses. Reviewers like PDFelement because it is a cost effective solution and it has a simple user interface.  “I am a novice PDF software user. This software is intuitive and very easy to navigate. I am discovering new features all the time and am having very little trouble learning how to use them. There are other, more experienced, users in my […]

We are excited to announce the Top Rated Expense Management Software for 2019! Top Rated awards showcase today’s top-of-the-line products in Expense Management Software based solely on user feedback and satisfaction scores. These awards make the voice of the market the primary decider into the industry’s best products. Top Rated awards are the most trusted in the industry because they are never influenced by analyst opinion, the vendor’s size, popularity, or status as a TrustRadius customer. Here are the winners: Expensify Expensify is an expense management software that has intelligent automation built in. Receipt entry is efficient with mobile receipt capture via a mobile app. Expensify can then automatically categorize and submit that expense for reimbursement. Expensify has impressive integration with travel partners, corporate credit cards, and accounting software. More than half (57%) of Expensify users on TrustRadius are from mid-sized companies. Reviewers recommend Expensify for its integration capabilities. “At Numerify, we use Expensify to log all expenses, from entertaining clients, to transportation, to travel related meals, and more. We also use a travel booking software, which has seamless integration with Expensify so that all of our airfare and hotel expenses automatically sync with Expensify, which makes it very convenient.” […]

We are excited to announce the Top Rated Prototyping Tools for 2019! Top Rated awards showcase today’s top-of-the-line products in Prototyping Tools based solely on positive user feedback and satisfaction scores. These awards make the voice of the market the primary decider into the industry’s best products. Top Rated awards are the most trusted in the industry because they are never influenced by analyst opinion, the vendor’s size, popularity, or status as a TrustRadius customer. Here are the winners: InVision Invision is a design and prototyping platform. Its layered, vector-based drawing interface lets users create and customize their designs. It includes a timeline view for customizable animations and in-window animation previews. The tool also supports mobile layouts and gestures. Review, commenting, and collaboration tools help teams brainstorm, give feedback, and sign off on finished designs.  A little over a third (35%) of InVision users on TrustRadius are from midsize companies. Reviewers value InVision’s depth of interaction choices, granular inspection tools, and robust collaboration features. “It is a great collaboration tool, where our clients, developers and [ux]—designers can mark out thoughts at any point of the project and respond and share their opinions. I love that I can hand off the […]

We are excited to announce the Top Rated Sales Acceleration Software for 2019! Top Rated awards showcase today’s top-of-the-line products in Sales Acceleration Software based solely on positive user feedback and satisfaction scores. These awards make the voice of the market the primary decider into the industry’s best products. Top Rated awards are the most trusted in the industry because they are never influenced by analyst opinion, the vendor’s size, popularity, or status as a TrustRadius customer. So without further ado… Here are the winners: LeadFuze LeadFuze is a lead generation tool. Users can search for leads by role, industry, location,  tech stack information, number of employees, and advertising budget. It can also search for leads within specific companies or domains. Fuzebot, an automated lead generation tool, automatically crawls LeadFuze’s data sources and can return daily lists of leads, including verified emails, phone numbers, and social profiles. LeadFuze integrates with CRMs like Salesforce and HubSpot to automatically import leads. A large majority (80%) of LeadFuze users on TrustRadius are from small businesses. Reviewers appreciate LeadFuze’s automatic lead generation tools and detailed filtering. “LeadFuze is best for building lead lists on a regular basis. The ability to ‘niche down’ is very […]

We are excited to announce the Top Rated Appointment Scheduling Software for 2019! Top Rated awards showcase today’s top-of-the-line products in Appointment Scheduling based solely on user feedback and satisfaction scores. These awards make the voice of the market the primary decider into the industry’s best products. Top Rated awards are the most trusted in the industry because they are never influenced by analyst opinion, the vendor’s size, popularity, or status as a TrustRadius customer. Here are the winners: Acuity Scheduling Acuity Scheduling is an online appointment scheduling product that allows businesses or individuals to automate the scheduling process. Create meetings with multiple attendees in multiple time zones with ease with a scheduling product. Acuity offers integration with a plethora of applications, including accounting and invoicing clients, email marketing products, analytics, CRM, video conferencing, invoicing, and more. Most (90%) of Acuity users on TrustRadius are employed by small businesses. Users like Acuity because it integrates well with many calendar applications and because it gives the user a lot of options to help manage overbooking.  “Acuity Scheduling is used to schedule many types of appointments at my company. Thanks to its two-way API sync with Google Calendar and real-time updating, we […]

We are excited to announce the Top Rated Enterprise Content Management Software for 2019! Top Rated awards showcase today’s top-of-the-line products in Enterprise Content Management Software based solely on user feedback and satisfaction scores. These awards make the voice of the market the primary decider into the industry’s best products. Top Rated awards are the most trusted in the industry because they are never influenced by analyst opinion, the vendor’s size, popularity, or status as a TrustRadius customer. Here are the winners: M-Files M-Files is an ECM solution that manages data by connecting to, not replacing, existing systems in use by the company. It uses metadata to organize data based on what the data is, not where it is stored. It uses AI to help automatically categorize and organize this data. M-Files still allows for document workflows and task tracking. Choose a cloud based, local install, or hybrid solution for your company. A little more than half (52%) of M-Files users on TrustRadius are from mid-sized companies. Reviewers appreciate M-Files for its mobile application and its search capabilities. “M-Files is being using by the whole organization to store, retrieve, revise and approve documentation. The system uses metadata properties allowing users […]

We are excited to announce the Top Rated Sales Engagement Platforms (SEPs) for 2019! Top Rated awards showcase today’s top-of-the-line products in Sales Engagement Platforms based solely on user feedback and satisfaction scores. These awards make the voice of the market the primary decider into the industry’s best products. Top Rated awards are the most trusted in the industry because they are never influenced by analyst opinion, the vendor’s size, popularity, or status as a TrustRadius customer. Here are the winners: SalesLoft SalesLoft is a platform for sales engagement and conversational intelligence. It offers account prioritization features, helping sales representatives identify and personalize outreach to high-impact leads while automating outreach to low-impact accounts. Engagement tracking tools help teams understand which messages perform best. SalesLoft’s conversation intelligence system transcribes calls, tags important content, and allows users to share recorded conversations. Sales teams can use its cadence and workflow toolset to automate, optimize, and track interactions with customers. A majority (54%) of SalesLoft users on TrustRadius are from midsize companies. Reviewers value SalesLoft for its campaign organization features, integration with CRM software such as Salesforce, and detailed analytics. “SalesLoft eliminates a lot of the manual tasks we had to previously perform…You can […]

We are excited to announce the Top Rated Sales Enablement Software for 2019! Top Rated awards showcase today’s top-of-the-line products in Sales Enablement Software based solely on user feedback and satisfaction scores. These awards make the voice of the market the primary decider into the industry’s best products. Top Rated awards are the most trusted in the industry because they are never influenced by analyst opinion, the vendor’s size, popularity, or status as a TrustRadius customer. Here are the winners: LeadFuze LeadFuze is a lead generation tool. To help teams generate quality leads, its contact search tool can filter by industry, role, location, ad budget, and more. Generated leads can include verified emails, social profiles, and phone numbers, giving the sales team more information to work with. The software’s automated lead generation tool crawls the web daily to find contacts that match search criteria. After verifying email addresses, the new leads are added to the list, helping teams keep a steady flow of sales prospects. A strong majority (80%) of LeadFuze users on TrustRadius are from small businesses. LeadFuze’s ease of use and automatic delivery of high-quality leads make it a top choice for reviewers. “We’re already seeing tremendous engagement […]

**This post was updated on October 9, 2019 to reflect recent changes in the Server Virtualization industry** We are excited to announce the Top Rated Server Virtualization Software for 2019! Top Rated awards showcase today’s top-of-the-line product in Server Virtualization Software based solely on positive user feedback and satisfaction scores. These awards make the voice of the market the primary decider into the industry’s best products. Top Rated awards are the most trusted in the industry because they are never influenced by analyst opinion, the vendor’s size, popularity, or status as a TrustRadius customer. So without further ado… Here are the winners: Scale Computing HC3 Scale Computing HC3 is a server virtualization platform that integrates server, storage and virtualization into a single appliance. HC3 features self-healing tools that automatically identify and fix issues in the infrastructure without downtime. Simplified browser based management reduces the time spent managing the IT interface. Unlike some competitors, Scale Computing HC3 users pay no virtualization software license fees and have no external storage to buy. Most (74%) Scale Computing HC3 users on TrustRadius are from mid-sized companies. Users consistently appreciate that Scale Computing H3’s integrated solution replaces several stand alone solutions, thereby reducing costs.  “We […]

We are excited to announce the Top Rated Relational Databases for 2019! Top Rated awards showcase today’s top-of-the-line product in Relational Databases based solely on positive user feedback and satisfaction scores. These awards make the voice of the market the primary decider into the industry’s best products. Top Rated awards are the most trusted in the industry because they are never influenced by analyst opinion, the vendor’s size, popularity, or status as a TrustRadius customer. So without further ado… Here are the winners: Oracle Database 12c Oracle’s 12c database was the company’s first cloud-ready relational database. It is available free on a developer license, allowing users to download and use the database for development, research, and learning purposes. Released in 2013, Oracle Database 12c remains available and commonly used. It offers multitenant architecture, native JSON, and in-memory column store. On TrustRadius, most reviewers come from enterprises (74%). Reviewers appreciate its ability to handle large quantities of data and superior tools supporting data access control, data warehousing, and other features that set 12c apart such as SQL Developer, Oracle Data Guard, pluggable databases, and its multitenant architecture. “[Oracle Database 12c] supports our primary OLTP functions, as well as BI and warehouse. […]

We are excited to announce the Top Rated Application Performance Management (APM) Software for 2019! Top Rated awards showcase today’s top-of-the-line products in APM Software based solely on positive user feedback and satisfaction scores. These awards make the voice of the market the primary decider into the industry’s best products. Top Rated awards are the most trusted in the industry because they are never influenced by analyst opinion, the vendor’s size, popularity, or status as a TrustRadius customer. Here are the winners: Dynatrace Dynatrace is a cloud-based, full-stack APM platform. It uses a deterministic AI engine at its core to interpret data and perform fault-tree analysis. The platform automatically discovers and monitors microservices, traces performance at the code level, and tracks CI and CD builds. User experience tools analyze user data and emulate user behavior to find and resolve pain points. Dynatrace’s auto-remediation system can optimize performance and fix issues before they become noticeable to users. A large majority (74%) of Dynatrace users on TrustRadius are from enterprise-level organizations. Reviewers praise Dynatrace for its powerful root-cause analysis capability, strong visualization tools, and shareable dashboards. “Dynatrace enables us to stay ahead of our students and know about impending problems before they […]

We are excited to announce the Top Rated Data Warehouse Software for 2019! Top Rated awards showcase today’s top-of-the-line products in Data Warehouse Software based solely on positive user feedback and satisfaction scores. These awards make the voice of the market the primary decider into the industry’s best products. Top Rated awards are the most trusted in the industry because they are never influenced by analyst opinion, the vendor’s size, popularity, or status as a TrustRadius customer. Here are the winners: Snowflake Snowflake is a data-warehouse-as-a-service (DWaaS) product. It supports both structured and semi-structured data, such as CSV, XML, and JSON files. Snowflake scales efficiently, with separate resources for metadata processing and querying. Its pricing for computing, storage, and cloud services are also separated, helping customers fit the service to their needs. Snowflake offers multiple levels of data security, including support for HIPAA needs. A sizable majority (62%) of Snowflake users on TrustRadius are from midsize companies. Reviewers value the product’s zero-copy cloning feature, speed at large scales, and flexibility. “Snowflake is great when you need to store large amounts of data while retaining the ability to query that data quickly. It is very reliable and allows for auto-scaling on […]

We are excited to announce the Top Rated IT Infrastructure Monitoring Tools for 2019! Top Rated awards showcase today’s top-of-the-line products in IT Infrastructure Monitoring Tools based solely on positive user feedback and satisfaction scores. These awards make the voice of the market the primary decider into the industry’s best products. Top Rated awards are the most trusted in the industry because they are never influenced by analyst opinion, the vendor’s size, popularity, or status as a TrustRadius customer.  Here are the winners: Spiceworks Spiceworks is a suite of free IT tools that includes network monitoring capabilities. It collects device information such as uptime, CPU utilization, and memory usage into a single dashboard. Spiceworks can ping IP-enabled devices to verify that they’re online and responsive. The tool also includes in-application notifications and email alerts, which can be customized globally or on a per-device basis. Most (56%) Spiceworks users on TrustRadius are from midsize companies. Reviewers appreciate Spiceworks for its ease of setup and use, free price point, and active community support. “[T]he network monitor has been extremely useful to me. The community of people has answered many questions and helped to guide me through new processes…All around this is a […]

We are excited to announce the Top Rated Open-Source Database Software for 2019! Top Rated awards showcase today’s top-of-the-line product in Open-Source Database Software based solely on positive user feedback and satisfaction scores. These awards make the voice of the market the primary decider into the industry’s best products. Top Rated awards are the most trusted in the industry because they are never influenced by analyst opinion, the vendor’s size, popularity, or status as a TrustRadius customer. So without further ado… Here are the winners: MySQL MySQL is owned and supported by Oracle, yet remains open source and its community edition is free. The Community Edition of MySQL supports the development of relational and NoSQL applications. With MySQL Document Store developers can work with schema-less documents (e.g. JSON), alongside data in tables with rows and columns, flexibly. MySQL Workbench provides a visual tool for data modeling, and other purposes. On TrustRadius, MySQL is the most commonly reviewed open-source database, by users from companies of all sizes. Reviewers enjoy that it is open-source yet frequently patched, very well documented and energetically supported by its large and active community. “We implemented MySQL as part of a LAMP stack for a new website […]

We are excited to announce the Top Rated Integrated Development Environment (IDE) Software for 2019! Top Rated awards showcase today’s top-of-the-line product in Integrated Development Environments (IDE) based solely on positive user feedback and satisfaction scores. These awards make the voice of the market the primary decider into the industry’s best products. Top Rated awards are the most trusted in the industry because they are never influenced by analyst opinion, the vendor’s size, popularity, or status as a TrustRadius customer. So without further ado… Here are the winners: IntelliJ IDEA IntelliJ IDEA is an IDE for Java applications which includes features such as static code analysis, smart code completion, version control, code refactoring, and other conveniences. This software also features inline debugging and test runners for popular testing frameworks. It also supports language injection and cross-language refactoring, and performs automated code fragment duplication detection, and live quick fixes. On TrustRadius, IntelliJ IDEA users come from companies of all sizes. Users describe IntelliJ IDEA as an excellent IDE for Java development that merits its cost with superior debugging and smart code hinting and completion, and easy-to-use code refactoring. “IntelliJ IDEA is used by developers in our organization as the standard IDE […]

We are excited to announce the Top Rated Database-as-a-Service (DBaaS) for 2019! Top Rated awards showcase today’s top-of-the-line products in DBaaS based solely on positive user feedback and satisfaction scores. These awards make the voice of the market the primary decider into the industry’s best products. Top Rated awards are the most trusted in the industry because they are never influenced by analyst opinion, the vendor’s size, popularity, or status as a TrustRadius customer. So without further ado… Here are the winners: Amazon DynamoDB Amazon DynamoDB is a NoSQL database from Amazon Web Services (AWS). It supports both key-value and document-based data models, allowing customers to adapt their database to changing business needs. An automated replication system allows global applications to access data locally, reducing read and write times. DynamoDB also automatically optimizes performance and scales storage as-needed.  A large portion (42%) of DynamoDB users on TrustRadius are from small businesses. DynamoDB’s reliability, integration with other AWS products, and low maintenance make it popular with reviewers. “Since it’s a managed solution we do not have to worry about scaling or the reliability of the database…At the scale we’re operating on, DynamoDB is the ideal solution in terms of pricing, reliability […]

We are excited to announce the Top Rated Data Integration Tools for 2019! Top Rated awards showcase today’s top-of-the-line products in Data Integration Tools based solely on positive user feedback and satisfaction scores. These awards make the voice of the market the primary decider into the industry’s best products. Top Rated awards are the most trusted in the industry because they are never influenced by analyst opinion, the vendor’s size, popularity, or status as a TrustRadius customer. So without further ado… Here are the winners: Oracle GoldenGate Oracle GoldenGate is a data integration solution designed for real-time data. It offers transactional data replication and data comparison across heterogeneous sources and targets. The software can be configured for continuous availability through system upgrades and maintenance. It also includes failover, disaster recovery, and real-time business intelligence features. A large majority (78%) of GoldenGate users on TrustRadius are from enterprise-level organizations. Reviewers value GoldenGate’s heterogeneous replication support, real-time data capture, and overall speed. “[This] is just the best replication solution I have worked with… I love that you can perform changes in almost zero downtime [and] replicate millions of data in sub seconds.” –Verified User | Consultant in Information Technology | Information Technology […]

We are excited to announce the Top Rated SQL Server Performance Monitoring Tools for 2019! Top Rated awards showcase today’s top-of-the-line products in SQL Server Performance Monitoring Tools based solely on positive user feedback and satisfaction scores. These awards make the voice of the market the primary decider into the industry’s best products. Top Rated awards are the most trusted in the industry because they are never influenced by analyst opinion, the vendor’s size, popularity, or status as a TrustRadius customer. Here are the winners: SQL Sentry SQL Sentry is a performance monitoring and troubleshooting tool for Microsoft SQL Server. Its performance dashboard can show both high-level metrics and granular details. The tool includes automatable condition responses that can send alerts and execute commands. SQL Sentry can analyze individual SQL queries, helping administrators find and fix queries that cause bottlenecks. Its deadlock analysis tool helps locate tasks that are competing for resources. A large portion (44%) of SQL Sentry users on TrustRadius are from midsize companies. Reviewers value SQL Sentry’s historical comparison views and strong root-cause analysis features. “SQL Sentry allows us to effectively, efficiently manage many databases in our high volume, highly transactional system. This tool allows us to […]

We are excited to announce the Top Rated Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) Solutions for 2019! Top Rated awards showcase today’s top-of-the-line products in IaaS Solutions based solely on positive user feedback and satisfaction scores. These awards make the voice of the market the primary decider into the industry’s best products. Top Rated awards are the most trusted in the industry because they are never influenced by analyst opinion, the vendor’s size, popularity, or status as a TrustRadius customer. Here are the winners: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. Users can launch instances with a variety of OSs, load them with custom application environments, manage network access permissions, and run images on multiple systems.These capabilities make web-scale computing easier for developers and deployment is relatively easy. Reviewers love the ease of use and provisioning and the auto-scaling capability. The product is used by companies of all sizes, but 43% of reviewers on TrustRadius are from small businesses. “EC2 makes right-sizing your servers a breeze. You can quickly spin up a server in the cloud and if it turns out the vCPU, RAM, or storage space […]