A report released Tuesday by the Aberdeen Group puts more than 40 information technology vendors with healthcare products among the top 100 most influential technology companies over the past five years.
The annual state-of-the-market report, spanning five years, 550,000 locations and more than 2.5 million interviews, identified the top technology vendors having the greatest impact.
Aberdeen's list includes software, hardware and service providers, with 11 of the top 13 providing healthcare IT products. Microsoft, SAP and IBM were the top three companies, followed by Cisco, HP, Dell, EMC, Sun Microsystems, Google, RIM (Blackberry) and Siemens.
The report did not say how much healthcare IT factored into placing the companies among the top 100 most influential companies.
Mobility was identified in last year's Aberdeen report as the number one technology growth area, and it was well represented in the top 100 companies, the report said. This year, mobility took a back seat to business intelligence and analytics as having the greatest impact over the next three to five years, Aberdeen found.
The report identified that organizations are most likely to select a technology solution by total cost of ownership, product functionality, vendor stability, market specific knowledge and experience, domain or industry expertise and reputation.
Aberdeen is a provider of fact-based research and market intelligence. According to company officials, its model of primary research reflects the actions and views of the end user community. The company plans to conduct more than 240 benchmark studies in 2008.
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