Bill Poulos of Profits Run, Inc. Announced 5 Tech Companies to Watch in 2018
WIXOM, Mich., July 26, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Bill Poulos, President and Co-Founder of Profits Run, Inc., announced five tech companies to watch in 2018. Even as the market moves sideways, Poulos shared that these five companies have positioned themselves to take advantage of a world that's becoming more and more dependent on the internet and cloud computing. On July 20, 2018, Poulos published the article "5 Tech Companies To Watch In 2018". In the article Poulos disclosed, "These companies have risen substantially over the last year however, in many ways they still have great potential over the long term."
Poulos named PTC, Inc. (formally known as Parametric Technology Corporation) the first of the five tech companies to watch this year. Poulos shared that the main product offerings are "ThingWorx, which is a platform to develop and deploy industrial Internet of Things (IoT) applications and augmented reality experiences, and KEPServerEX solution to provide communications connectivity for industrial automation environments to connect, manage, monitor, and control disparate devices and software application." The price of PTC, Inc. has double over the last year. Bill continued, saying that "the market for the IoT is still wide open and has huge potential in the future."
Company number two analyzed by Poulos is Salesforce.com, Inc. Bill explains, "The company offers Sales Cloud to store data, monitor leads and progress, forecast opportunities, and gain insight through analytics and relationship intelligence, as well as customer contact solutions to deliver quotes, contracts, and invoices." In addition to Sales Cloud, Bill shares the company also offers "customer services solutions under the product Service Cloud to help clients with customer service and customer support solutions, including scheduling, trading and managing jobs in real-time. In addition to these products, they offer Marketing Cloud, Commerce Cloud, and Community Cloud allowing companies a suite of products to better manage and analyze customer interactions." The price of Salesforce has grown over 50% in the last year. Bill believes that Salesforce.com, Inc. is a company to back and explains, "selling to and retaining good customers is critical to both online and traditional business, making CRM applications more critical for the future."
Adobe Systems Incorporated landed in spot number three of Poulos' list of five tech companies to watch this year. Bill reveals that "Adobe is a worldwide provider of software solutions for individuals, small and medium sized business, and large enterprises to create, publish, promote, and monetize their digital content." The company's flagship product is named Creative Cloud, but Bill reveals their customers include "content providers, web application developers, digital media professionals, marketing departments of all size, or just about any business or enterprise that does any publishing or online video." Bill stated that Adobe is a "worldwide leader in everything published online and the world in only becoming more dependent on high quality online publishing solutions."
The fourth company to watch is F5 Networks, Inc. Bill shares "F5 Networks is a software infrastructure company that specializes in application delivery networking technology for the delivery of web applications, including the security, performance and availability serves, data storage management and other network and cloud resources." This includes products like web-based firewall security, network load balancing, and acceleration and global enterprise network management. Poulos continued, "As the world becomes more dependent on large scale cloud-based networks, F5 Networks is well situated for growth."
The last company Poulos suggests people watch in 2018 is NetApp, Inc. Bill stated, "NetApp, Inc. provides software solutions, hardware systems, and services to manage and share data on location, or on private or public network clouds worldwide. Offering Cloud data storage, and data management including, enterprise cloud data synchronization and data backup services. NetApp also provides software and hardware maintenance, education, and training services as well as enterprise support solutions." Bill reveals that NetApp is certainly a company to watch. He shares "their stock price has doubled in the last year and as more and more networks and things are connected to internet cloud networks, NetApp is well positioned to take advantage of this growth into the future."
Bill Poulos co-founded Profits Run, Inc. He is President of the company. Poulos has been investing in the markets since the early to mid 70s. He has become a veteran investor and market analyzer. He is a retired automotive executive (General Motors), philanthropist, and published author. Poulos is in the midst of creating a site dedicated to showing the youth of America successful African American entrepreneurs, in hopes of giving kids great role models to inspire them to do great things with their lives. Bill has written multiple books, including "Simple Options Trading For Beginners: How to trade options from A to Z explained in plain English" and "The 5 Most Dangerous Trends Threatening Your Portfolio". He earned his MBA, as a finance major, from the University of Michigan. Earlier in life, he received a bachelor's in engineering from GMI (General Motors Institute). Poulos and his wife live in Michigan. Together they have three children.
About Profits Run, Inc.
Profits Run, Inc. was established in 2001. The company's name originated from, "Cut your losses and let your profits run", a popular saying amongst traders. Profits Run's mission is to help educate folks on simpler ways to invest that utilize proper risk management methods. The company was founded by Bill Poulos and his son Gregory Poulos.
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