As tech giants battle to dominate the business software market – expected to top half a trillion dollars in the next few years – by providing the highest quality products, G2 Crowd’s Best Software 2019 Awards, announced Tuesday, reveal who’s in the lead.

G2 Crowd, the largest and most popular marketplace for business software, unveiled its annual rankings based on reviews by hundreds of thousands of users from all kinds of businesses.

“This isn’t a subjective list by a few people giving their opinions,” CEO Godard Abel explains. “With the highest traffic and engagement, largest selection of products and services, and highest quality data, G2 Crowd is able to harness more than 4 million data points (from 2018 alone), to determine which products and companies are doing the best job of helping businesses reach their potential.”

The Best Software 2019 Awards winners include:

Top Companies:

  1. Google
  2. Adobe
  3. Slack
  4. Mailchimp
  5. Shopify

Top Products:

  1. AWS Lambda
  2. Tableau Desktop
  3. Google AdSense
  4. Splunk Enterprise
  5. MongoDB

For the complete lists, rankings, and additional categories, visit www.g2.com/best.

Criteria: Winners were determined based on the 270,000 reviews left at G2Crowd.com between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2018. All scores are calculated using G2 Crowd’s proprietary algorithms, including for Satisfaction and Market Presence, explained in more detail here.

About G2 Crowd:

G2 Crowd attracts 2 million visitors a month. As TechCrunch explains, “investors believe G2 Crowd is king at the moment,” and value the company at nearly a half billion dollars. One of the highest-funded private tech companies based in Chicago, it was co-founded in 2012 to bring authenticity and transparency to the business marketplace. More than 23 million business buyers around the world have trusted G2 Crowd to gain unique insights when deciding which software and services to purchase. The company has been called the “next Amazon for business” and “Yelp for business software.” The company also offers scholarships to college students who are aspiring entrepreneurs.