#9 Oracle

Brand value: $26.9 billion

1-year change: 4 percent

Oracle is the second largest software maker in the world, after Microsoft. The company’s database management solutions are used by over 400,000 customers in 145 countries around the world. Oracle’s cloud-based and hardware solutions simplify IT for a vast variety of industries including, banking, construction, communications and public sector. The software giant is also committed to advancing technology education around the world. The Oracle Academy and Oracle Education Foundation work together with NGOs and educational organizations every year to support thousands of schools.

#8 Cisco

Brand value: $27 billion

1-year change: 3 percent

Cisco Systems designs, manufactures and sells products related to networking, communications and the information technology industry. Cisco recently changed their tagline to “Tomorrow Starts Here” which goes hand in hand with “Internet of Everything”, a concept which according to Cisco will bring together people, processes, data and things to make networked connections more important. Cisco expects 40 million devices to be connected to the Internet at the end of 2020.

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