Technology plays a significant role in the Australian economy, and software is at the heart of the sector’s growth. More than 6,000 software companies call Australia home, according to data from Crunchbase. Here’s an overview of businesses developing platforms and solutions to benefit customers across agriculture, logistics, healthcare and other industries.
Software Companies in Australia to Know
- VelocityEHS
- PagerDuty
- Canva
- Xero
- AgriDigital
- WiseTech Global
- MYOB
- Clinic to Cloud
Top Software Companies in Australia
NextRoll makes marketing software, using advanced data analysis and machine learning to generate marketing strategies. Its two primary products are RollWorks, a B2B platform, and AdRoll, a tool for B2C brands. AdRoll works by targeting audiences to create personalized ads, and is used by e-commerce, finance and nonprofit clients. The company runs a flex-in person workspace in Sydney for its Australian team.
Technology company, Snap, has developed products like Snapchat, Spectacles and Bitmoji. The company is headquartered in Santa Monica, California, and has 17 office locations, including Sydney. Employees enjoy an 80/20 work model, with team members spending 80 percent of their time in office, and the remaining 20 percent remote.
Businesses use HiBob’s software platform to streamline their people management operations and ensure a quality employee experience. The technology includes features for onboarding, payroll, collecting feedback, logging hours, approving time-off requests and conducting performance reviews.
PagerDuty makes IT software, including the PagerDuty Operations Cloud, which optimizes incident response, consolidates software needs, reduces risk and automates processes. Its incident management products use AI in operations to make incident triage more efficient, and its runbook automation takes manual tasks and turns them into automated protocols. In Australia, the company maintains an office in Sydney.
Flywire’s software enables global payments. Its platform lets businesses take advantage of a vast network of banking partners to ensure secure transactions in more than 140 currencies. Flywire also offers multiple integration methods so businesses can establish a payment experience that best meets their needs.
IDeaS serves the hospitality industry with software products that perform revenue management functions like tracking how money moves in and out of a corporation. Its products include unique features for boutique, economy, extended stay, full-service and resort hotels, and are built using a foundation of revenue science, advanced mathematics, machine learning and AI. In Australia, the company’s headquarters is in Sydney.
Canva offers a user-friendly design platform for creative content, visual communications materials and other brand and design assets. Geared toward people in creative, marketing, media and publishing fields, the software is also very popular with students. The platform offers extensive templates and a drag-and-drop dashboard that enables people with limited skills to quickly create professional designs.
WiseTech Global is a logistics tech company that makes software for international logistics. Businesses use its CargoWise platform to manage and organize supply chains. It features solutions for customs compliance, international e-commerce, carrier connectivity, global data and other industry-specific areas of concern in the supply chain space.
Qualtrics was the first company to define the space of experience management, which uses data collection and analysis strategies to measure and adjust customer and employee experiences. In the ongoing effort to improve how customers engage and react not only to products and services, but to their overall relationship with a company, Qualtrics offers a survey-based toolkit for brands to use in soliciting direct feedback on their interactions with team members, products and digital assets.
Zone & Company has built a suite of tools to support and uplevel the functions of the NetSuite business software ecosystem. Within NetSuite, Zone & Company clients can integrate the two software brands seamlessly, adding functions and features to the base NetSuite services that allow for increased optimization. Tools like a scanner for invoices that can automatically generate vendor payments allow for low-touch finance processes.
CSC works with businesses across the globe. It offers software products and expertise that cover areas such as fraud protection, business permits and licensing, property tax obligations and global subsidiary management. The company has Australian operations in Sydney and Melbourne.
Clinic to Cloud’s medical practice management software is a cloud-based patient experience system for general practitioners, specialists and clinical staff. The suite of products includes a patient portal that can be accessed from anywhere and an app with tools like letter dictation, schedule viewing, image uploading and in-practice communications.
Xero’s online accounting software is designed to serve small businesses. Its product features include capabilities for accepting online payments for invoices, managing payroll processes, keeping track of inventory and monitoring financial health analytics. Xero also offers solutions for bookkeepers and accountants including Xero Workpapers for managing compliance workflows and Xero Practice Manager for overseeing workflows.
Datadog makes a monitoring and security platform that provides organizations with visibility that encompasses all of their IT infrastructure and applications. The technology supports use cases like cloud migration, DevOps transformation, security analytics and IoT performance monitoring. The global company has an Asia-Pacific hub based in Sydney.
ServiceNow’s AI-powered platform offers solutions to optimize workflows for IT operations, app development, employee engagement and finance and supply chain management. For example, the company’s IT service management product helps IT teams quickly troubleshoot and resolve technical issues.
VelocityEHS makes products for managing client environmental health and safety compliance. EHS initiatives and standards contribute to safe and productive working environments, reduce inefficiencies from employee unwellness and improve employee experience. VelocityEHS products use AI to manage specific aspects of EHS, like chemical management for hazardous ingredient footprints and job safety analysis.
AgriDigital makes agtech software built for functions like managing machinery, grain on industrial-scale farms, inventory tracking and commodity grain trading. The software also supports optimizing on-site operations like crop storage and managing harvests using data to drive growth. The company’s solutions support more than 11,000 agribusinesses around the world.
MYOB’s business management software covers an array of important processes, including tax preparation, invoicing, payroll, inventory management and financial performance tracking. It serves small and medium-sized businesses in addition to enterprise clients. MYOB aims to provide its customers with solutions that encompass all their business needs.
