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Zabbix is an open-source monitoring software tool for diverse IT components, including networks, servers, virtual machines (VMs) and cloud services. Zabbix collects and displays basic metrics.

Zaius offers a B2C CRM that eliminates the gap by bringing customer data and campaign ececution together in a single platform, empowering marketers to engineer the repeat purchase. Zaius is backed by Matrix Partners, Insight Venture Partners, Underscore VC, and Leaders Fund. Headquartered in Boston, MA.

Zapier is a global remote company that allows end users to integrate the web applications they use. Although Zapier is based in Sunnyvale, California, it employs a workforce of 250 employees located around the United States and in 23 other countries.

Zayo Group Holdings, Inc., or Zayo Group, is a publicly traded company headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, with European headquarters in London. The company provides communications infrastructure services, including fiber and bandwidth connectivity, colocation and cloud services. Zayo's primary customer segments include data centers, wireless carriers, national carriers, ISPs, enterprises, and government agencies.

Zcash is a cryptocurrency with a decentralized blockchain that provides anonymity for its users and their transactions.

Company that manufactures and sells marking, tracking, and computer printing technologies

ZEDO, Inc. is a platform offering high impact formats. Known for technical innovation and ability to scale, ZEDO offers publishers products and services - including ad serving - and high impact formats with 99% viewable impressions. ZEDO also serves advertisers through ZINC, a suite of high impact formats including video and native ads on premium sites. Founded in 1999, ZEDO is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, and Phoenix, and development centers in Russia and India. As the largest independent ad server and the developer of high impact video formats for mobile devices, the company is distinguished by its global reach and technology leade

Zeek, formerly known as Bro, is an open-source software framework for analyzing network traffic that is most commonly used to detect behavioral anomalies on a network for cybersecurity purposes.

Zelle is a fast, safe and easy way to send and receive money with friends and family at different banks.

Zen Internet is an Internet service provider based in Rochdale, England.

Building software for better customer relationships

Zenefits is a company based in the United States that offers cloud-based software as a service to companies for managing their human resources, with a particular focus on helping them with health insurance coverage.

Zensar Technologies, a subsidiary of RPG Group, is a global information technology services and business process outsourcer headquartered in Pune, India. Founded in 2001. Domain: https://zensar.com/

The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping is a not-for-profit, independent research- and development center working with industry players across the energy- and shipping sectors to develop solutions and viable decarbonization pathways for shipping globally. The Zero-Emission shipping mission is an ambitious alliance between countries, the private sector, and research institutes to develop, demonstrate, and deploy zero-emission fuels, ships, and fuel infrastructure.

Zero client, also known as ultrathin client, is a server-based computing model in which the end user's computing device has no local storage.

Zero moment point is a concept related with dynamics and control of legged locomotion, e.g., for humanoid robots. It specifies the point with respect to which dynamic reaction force at the contact of the foot with the ground does not produce any moment in the horizontal direction, i.e. the point where the total of horizontal inertia and gravity forces equals 0 (zero).

A switch feature that allows the devices to be provisioned and configured automatically, eliminating most of the manual labor involved with adding them to a network.

Zero Trust is a security concept and threat model that no longer assumes that actors, systems or services operating from within the security perimeter should be automatically trusted, and instead must verify anything and everything trying to connect to its systems before granting access.

Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) is a category of technologies that provides secure remote access to applications and services based on defined access control policies. Unlike VPNs, which grant complete access to a LAN, ZTNA solutions default to deny, providing only the access to services the user has been explicitly granted. It is important to understand the security gaps and benefits ZTNA solutions can provide organizations as more remote users join the network.

A method of budgeting in which all expenses must be justified for each new period.

A bond issued at a deep discount to its face value but pays no interest.

A zero-day attack is also sometimes defined as an attack that takes advantage of a security vulnerability on the same day that the vulnerability becomes generally known.

A zero-day threat is a threat that exploits an unknown computer security vulnerability.

ZeroFox is a cyber security company that provides cloud-based software as a service for organizations to detect risks found on social media and digital channels, such as phishing, malware, scams, impersonator accounts, piracy, counterfeit and more. Headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. Founded in 2013. Operating as ZeroFox.

Zerto's virtual data replication software for VMWare, Hyper-V, Azure & AWS ensures disaster recovery & IT Resilience for virtualized & cloud datacenters

Zeta Global is a customer lifecycle management marketing company which was founded in 2007. Zeta offers companies a suite of multichannel marketing tools focused on creating, maintaining and monetizing customer relationships. Headquartered in New York, NY.

Zettle by PayPal is a financial technology company founded by Jacob de Geer and Magnus Nilsson, and is now owned by PayPal. Launching its first app and service in 2011, the company offers a range of financial products including payments, point of sales, funding and partners applications. Founded in 2010. Headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

Ziegler is a privately held investment bank, capital markets and proprietary investments firm. Specializing in the healthcare, senior living and education sectors, as well as general municipal and structured finance, enables us to generate a positive impact on the communities we serve. Headquartered in Chicago with regional and branch offices throughout the U.S., Ziegler provides its clients with capital raising, strategic advisory services, fixed income sales & trading and research.

Zift Solutions increases channel sales and boosts marketing impact by delivering a superior technology platform, strategic insight and global channel support. Leading channel marketing organizations around the world leverage our cloud-based platform to automate co-branded marketing, empower collaborative selling and measure results with powerful analytics. Headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Zimbra Collaboration, (formerly known as the Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS)) is a collaborative software suite that includes an email server and a web client. Products include Zimbra Network Edition and Zimbra Open Source. It is offered by the company Synacor.

Zimit is a cloud-based configure price quote (CPQ) solution that caters to the enterprise services industry. Features include solution catalogs, guided selling, automated proposals, quote analytics and more. Zimit provides users with the functionalities that allow them to add resources, products and managed services. Headquartered in Deerfield Beach, FL.

Zimperium (also known as Zimperium, Inc.) is a mobile security company. Services include a mobile security platform build specifically for enterprise companies that offers mobile endpoint security, mobile application security, and threat intelligence. Headquartered in Dallas, TX. http://www.zimperium.com/

Zingle is a software solution which enables businesses to communicate with customers through text messaging. It was acquired by Medallia.

Zintro (www.zintro.com) is an online platform and marketplace which enables companies to source and engage highly specialized experts (SMEs, industry participants, consultants, contractors and job candidates). Zintro’s 138,000+ experts span thousands of areas of expertise across industry sectors, geographies and job functions.

Zions Bancorporation, or Zions First National Bank (NASDAQ: ZION), serves individuals, small-to middle-market businesses, nonprofits, corporations and institutions, by providing a wide range of traditional banking and innovative technology services. Zions Bank is a division of Zions Bancorporation, N.A., one of the nation's premier financial services companies, with total assets exceeding $65 billion. Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. Founded in 1873. Website zionsbank.com

ZipPay, Inc. provides state of the art mobile applications with connectivity to mobile hardware and cloud services to help business (small and mid size) to transform how they do their day-to-day business. The company is passionate to solve unmet needs of customers and build applications and devices that help their bottom line. Headquartered in Santa Clara, CA. zippaymobile.com

Zmags, Inc., a shoppable content company, provides media marketing solutions.

Zocdoc is a New York City-based online medical appointment booking service that allows people to find and book medical care. The service is free for patients, and doctors pay to advertise their appointment slots. Headquartered in New York, NY.

Zoho provides a cloud software suite and SaaS applications for businesses.

Zoho Analytics enables users to analyze data from a wide variety of data sources through the easy to use data connectors. Zoho Analytics provides powerful options to model and prepare data. This enables users to structure, transform & clean data sets for effective and easy analysis & reporting.

Zoho Books is online accounting software that manages your finances, automates business workflows, and helps you work collectively across departments. Zoho Books handles accounting tasks so users can focus on their business.

Zoho Recruit is a one-stop solution to sourcing hurdles, tracking inefficiencies, collaboration problems and software complexities faced by recruiters.

ZoneAlarm is an internet security software company that provides consumer antivirus and firewall products. ZoneAlarm was developed by Zone Labs, which was acquired in March 2004 by Check Point.

Zoning is a method of urban planning in which a municipality or other tier of government divides land into areas called zones, within which certain land uses are permitted or prohibited. Zones may be defined for a single use, or may combine several compatible uses.

Zoom Video Communications is a company operating from San Jose, California that provides remote conferencing services using cloud computing.

ZoomInfo is a subscription-based software as a service company based in Waltham, Massachusetts that sells access to its database of information about business people and companies to sales, marketing and recruiting professionals.

Zoot is a global provider of advanced decision management and data acquisition solutions for organizations worldwide. Headquartered in Bozeman, MT. Domain: zootsolutions.com

A UK online personal finance peer-to-peer lending company founded in 2005

Zscaler is a global cloud-based information security company that provides Internet security, web security, next generation firewalls, sandboxing, SSL inspection, antivirus, vulnerability management and granular control of user activity in cloud computing, mobile and Internet of things environments.

Zuora is an enterprise software company that designs and sells SaaS applications for companies with a subscription business model.

A global insurance company which is organized into three core business segments: General Insurance, Global Life and Farmers

Zycus is a leading global provider of complete Source-to-Pay suite of procurement performance solutions. Our comprehensive product portfolio includes applications for both the strategic and the operational aspects of procurement - eProcurement, eInvoicing, Spend Analysis, eSourcing, Contract Management, Supplier Management and Financial Savings Management.

Zylo delivers insights and automation, empowering you to discover, optimize, and govern your investments in SaaS. Headquartered in Indianapolis, IN.

ZypMedia is a programmatic platform that connects advertisers to local audiences on streaming platforms. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA.