Canadian Software Companies

01 Communique

01 Communique is a Canadian technology company based in Mississauga, Ontario. The company develops integrated communications software and services. 01 Communique specializes in providing remote access to information stored on a Desktop PC over the Internet. Generally this is referred to as PC remote access software or PC remote control software.
Accpac

Accpac is a vendor of accounting, Customer relationship management and business management software. Primarily serving small and medium sized businesses, Accpac attracts customers due to its use of Web Services as platform for business application deployment. Its company name is sometimes used interchangeably with the name of the products, although it is part of The Sage Group.
ActiveState

ActiveState is a Canadian proprietary software company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia that develops, sells, and supports cross-platform development tools for dynamic languages such as Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Tcl, as well as language distributions and enterprise services. Popular products from ActiveState include ActiveState Komodo, an integrated development environment (IDE) for dynamic languages; the Perl Dev Kit (PDK), productivity and deployment tools for Perl programmers; and the Tcl Dev Kit (PDK), productivity and deployment tools for Tcl programmers. Language distributions include Perl (ActivePerl), Python (ActivePython), and Tcl (ActiveTcl) for AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, and Windows.
Adventus Incorporated

Adventus Incorporated is a Canadian IT company founded in 1996 specializing in educational software. Based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Adventus is a recognized leader in music learning software. In 1996, Adventus began designing piano software that allowed MIDI instruments to communicate with a computer.
Aimetis Corp.

Aimetis Corp. is a software company offering integrated intelligent video management solutions for security surveillance and business intelligence applications. According to market analysts, Frost & Sullivan, the company is a global leader in intelligent video technology and is propelling the adoption of video analytics as an integral component of video management solutions. Aimetis products are based on innovative, open technologies that provide customers with a single platform for migrating from analog video to intelligent IP video surveillance solutions.
Algorithmics Inc.

Algorithmics Inc. is a Toronto, Ontario based company that provides enterprise risk management solutions and services to financial institutions. Founded in 1989, Algorithmics employs over 700 people in 18 global offices, and serves more than 300 clients around the world. In January 2005, Algorithmics was acquired by Fitch Group, which is also the parent company of Fitch Ratings. Fitch Group is a subsidiary of Fimalac, S.A., an international business support services group listed and headquartered in Paris, France.
Angoss

Angoss Software Corporation (Angoss) (TSX-V: ANC), headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, with offices in the UK and Australia, is a provider of predictive analytics systems. Angoss provides predictive analytics solutions for its clients using both software licensing and on demand subscriptions.
Anthony Macauley Associates

Anthony Macauley Associates, or AMA, is a Canadian software developer that creates and implements product solutions designed for the needs of departments and agencies at all levels of government. Located in Victoria, British Columbia, with a branch office in Ottawa, Ontario, AMA specializes in public sector program management and operations.
Arius3D Foundation System

Arius3D Foundation System, headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, is a hardware and software company that manufactures a high resolution 3D color laser scanner, and develops point cloud editing and processing software called Pointstream. The company was formed in 2000 when the National Research Council of Canada awarded Arius3D the exclusive worldwide right to commercialize it's patented high resolution 3D synchronous color laser scanning technology.
Audiokinetic

Audiokinetic Inc. is a Canadian software company based in Montreal, Quebec that develops audio solutions for the video game industry. By streamlining production, Audiokinetic's middleware allows sound designers and audio programmers to create more immersive environments.
BioWare

BioWare Corp. is a Canadian electronic entertainment company founded in February 1995 by Ray Muzyka, Greg Zeschuk, and Augustine Yip. It is based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. BioWare specializes in creating computer and console video games and has become famous for highly praised and successful computer role-playing games such as Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights, which won multiple awards. They have also made several successful console role-playing games: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire, Mass Effect, and most recently, Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood. The former three games were later ported to the PC.
CARIS

CARIS (Computer Aided Resource Information System) is a software company that develops and supports geomatics software for land and marine applications.

The company was founded in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada in 1979 as Universal Systems Ltd. and was a spinoff from research into data structures and computer-aided cartography at the University of New Brunswick's Department of Survey Engineering (now the Department of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering).
Chemical Computing Group

Chemical Computing Group is a software company specializing in research software for computational chemistry, bioinformatics, cheminformatics, docking, pharmacophore searching and molecular simulation. The company's main customer base consists of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, as well as academic research groups. It is a private company that was founded in 1994; it is based in Montreal, Canada. Its main product, MOE, is written in a self-contained programming system, the Scientific Vector Language, SVL.
Cognos

Cognos (formerly Cognos Incorporated) is an Ottawa, Ontario based company which makes business intelligence (BI) and performance management software. Founded in 1969, Cognos employed almost 3,500 people and served more than 23,000 customers in over 135 countries. Cognos was originally known as Quasar and adopted its current name in 1982. On January 31, 2008, Cognos was officially acquired by IBM.
Corel Corporation

Corel Corporation is a Canadian computer software company headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.

Corel was founded by Michael Cowpland in 1985, who intended it to be a research laboratory ("Corel" is an abbreviation of "Cowpland Research Laboratory"). The company saw great success early in the high-tech boom of the nineties with the product CorelDraw, and became, for a time, the biggest software company in Canada. Corel made many early investors very wealthy, but its strong growth did not last. It attempted to compete with Microsoft after acquiring the WordPerfect software in 1996, but it failed badly. Corel was forced to lay-off large numbers of employees and Cowpland came under investigation by the Ontario Securities Commission for insider trading.
DataMirror

DataMirror Corporation provides real-time data integration, protection, and Java database solutions. Founded in 1993, DataMirror is headquartered in Markham, Ontario, Canada with offices worldwide. DataMirror has over 2100 business customers in such industries as healthcare, retail, telecommunications, and financial services.
Elluminate

Elluminate, Inc. is a privately held, multinational software company headquartered in Calgary, Canada, and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States. The company provides live eLearning and web collaboration solutions for academic and corporate markets.
ESI Entertainment

ESI Entertainment Systems Inc. (TSX: ESY) is a tech company specializing in software for the gaming industry. The company headquarters is in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. ESI is made of three subsidiaries: ESI Citadel, ESI Integrity, and ESI Playline.
Explorer Software

Explorer Software is a canadian based independent software vendor founded in 1984. Their flagship product is Contract Manager, a construction accounting software suite. The software is written in ProvideX, a language that is a later development of BASIC. The database optionally runs on Microsoft SQL Server - or by default on the ProvideX Keyed File database, which is very fast!
Filehold

Filehold is a manufacturer of Integrated Document Management (IDM) Software. Integrated Document Management is a term used to describe the technologies, tools, and methods used to capture, manage, store, preserve, deliver and dispose of 'documents' across an enterprise. In this context 'Documents' can be used to describe a myriad of information assets including images, office documents, graphics and drawings as well as the new electronic objects such as Web pages, email, instant messages and video.
Gnosis Games

Gnosis Games, a division of Threewave Software, is a casual game development studio in Vancouver, Canada. Gnosis Games is best known for creating #1 casual games such as Private Eye, Paparazzi, and Candace Kane's Candy Factory, which was nominated as “Best Casual Game” by the Canadian Awards for the Electronic & Animated Arts (ELANs) in 2008.
Groove Games

Groove Games is a Canadian developer, publisher of computer and video games. Established in 2001 Groove Games has published more than 20 retail game titles on the PC, Xbox, and PlayStation2 platforms.

Recently, Groove Media Inc. launched a software platform, SkillGround, on SkillGround.com. A unique and ground-breaking endeavour, SkillGround.com is the first site to allow visitors to download retail-quality games absolutely free and play against competitors of similar skill levels for fun, or for cash. SkillGround.com currently hosts multiple genres including: first person shooter, racing, sports and fighting.
Hummingbird Ltd.

Hummingbird Ltd. (previously NASDAQ: HUMC, TSX: HUM) is a subsidiary of Open Text and is a provider of enterprise software solutions. Initially founded as a consulting business in 1984, Hummingbird evolved into a strong player in the connectivity market. Diversifying its business, Hummingbird is now a leading provider of enterprise software solutions. Its enterprise content management (ECM) solutions helps customers to manage the entire lifecycle of enterprise content.
iUpload

iUpload (now Awareness, Inc.) is a content management and corporate blogging software company that creates blogging communities for its clients. A community may be public facing to engage an audience, or internal to the company, serving as a way for staff to communicate and share information and best practices. Companies may also take a comprehensive approach and create both public and internal blogs hosted by iUpload. iUpload's system combines blogging, wiki and content management tools with the IT management capabilities required for enterprise deployment, such as security, workflow, regulatory compliance and integration with existing enterprise applications and other third-party solutions.
Imanet

Imanet is a software company based in Windsor Ontario, servicing the international trade community. Imanet's core products are in the areas of customs brokerage and freight forwarding. Founded in 1989 by Cedomir Bekic, Imanet focuses on developing a highly automated and unified platform tying together customs brokerage, freight forwarding and accounting into one efficient database.
Intelliware

Intelliware is a custom software development services company headquartered in Toronto, Canada. Intelliware is a practitioner of Agile software development practices. Intelliware is engaged as a technical partner by a wide range of local, national and global organizations in sectors that span financial services, E-Health, retail, manufacturing, and government.
Interfacing Technologies

Interfacing Technologies Corporation is a business process management software solution provider located in Montreal, Canada. Interfacing’s software and consultants have served over 400 Global Fortune 1000 and governmental clients worldwide. Their partners include Microsoft, the Object Management Group (OMG), Sun Microsystems, and Oracle Corporation.
Intuit Canada

Intuit Canada is a developer of financial software, including personal finance management, small business accounting and tax preparation software, as well as Web-based services. The company is headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario and has offices in Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal. Intuit Canada employs more than 350 people and is a subsidiary of Intuit.
KING Products and Solutions Inc.

KING Products and Solutions Inc. is provider of solutions for multimedia interactive kiosks with touch screen technology. KING is unique in that it can provide both kiosk hardware and kiosk software offering. KING products is wholly owened Urmet Group, a supplier to the telecommunication market, specializies in public telephony and multimedia terminal equipment and systems.
Late Night Software

Late Night Software Ltd., is a privately held Canadian software company that has produced several award winning applications, utilities, and developer's tools for the Macintosh computer platform. The company was established in 1995. Its president is Mark Alldritt.
MKS Inc.

MKS Inc. (TSX: MKX) is an independent software vendor focused on the enterprise Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) market with its process centric MKS Integrity system. Rather than offering single point products in each of the domains of ALM, MKS has taken a single solution, single repository approach to addressing the challenges of requirements management, development, test management, release management and portfolio management which encompasses project, application and IT operations portfolios. By introducing this approach, the company believes that it solves the many collaborative challenges traditionally associated with managing software development using different tools.
Maestro Technologies

Maestro Technologies is a Canadian software company, which specializes in construction business management and accounting software. Founded in 1989 and headquartered in Varennes, Quebec, Maestro Technologies develops construction business accounting software, encompassing every facet of the construction business, including planning, estimating, project management, inventory control, order planning, accounting, service and contact management. Maestro Technologies is one of a very few software developers to have completely designed and developed a fully integrated solution for the construction business.
Maximizer Software

Maximizer Software provides Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software for small and medium-sized businesses ([SMBs]) through [mobile devices], online or the desktop. More than 120,000 customers use Maximizer CRM software and the company has sold more than 1 million licenses.
MedicLINK Systems Ltd.

MedicLINK Systems Ltd. is a Canadian-based company that incorporated in January 2005. Its head office is based in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. In September 2008, they announced the opening of a Toronto, Ontario based office.
Navarik

Navarik Corp. is a software service provider to the petroleum supply and trading industry. The Navarik Platform is the industry leading, proven, global solution that standardizes and processes trading and supply operational information. Some of the world’s largest oil producers, refiners and shipping companies are using the platform to realize a significant return on investment within the first year of use. The Navarik Platform enables trading and supply operations to make better operational decisions, mitigate risk, and increase productivity.
New Horizon Interactive

New Horizon Interactive, is an interactive graphics software company, specialized in producing and maintaining MMOGs. It partnered with RocketSnail in making Club Penguin, a site which generated significant revenues.
North Plains Systems

North Plains Systems is a provider of Digital Asset Management solutions. It is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. North Plains Systems produces a range of Digital Asset Management solutions suitable for groups ranging in size from small work groups to multi-national enterprises.
Nulogy

Nulogy is a software company based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, that develops specialized operational intelligence software for challenging problems in the field of supply chain management.
Open Text Corporation

Open Text Corporation (TSX: OTC NASDAQ: OTEX) is a Canadian high-tech company based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. It produces and distributes computer software applications designed to enable enterprise content management solutions for large corporate systems. Its flagship technologies are, Livelink ECM - Enterprise Server and Livelink ECM - Archive Server, both core of many ECM products. It employs over 300 people in its Waterloo office and over 2800 people worldwide. It is a publicly traded corporation.
Panorama Software

Panorama Software is an Canadian software and consulting company specializing in business intelligence. The company was founded by Rony Ross in Israel in 1993; it relocated its worldwide headquarters to Toronto, Canada in 2003.
Platform Computing

Platform Computing is a privately held software company that is primarily known for its job scheduling product, Load Sharing Facility (LSF). It was founded in 1992 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and is currently headquartered in Markham, Ontario with several local offices across the United States, Europe and Asia.
Richmond Sound Design

Richmond Sound Design Ltd. is a theatre sound design and show control systems and software developer and manufacturer. It was founded in 1972 by Charlie Richmond. The company began as a manufacturer of specialty mixers and theatre sound design consoles. It is a leader in digital audio and show control software and hardware for live entertainment.
Serence

Serence is a Canadian corporation, primarily known for its KlipFolio desktop dashboards or widgets. The company is headquarterd in Ottawa, and is best known in Canada, the USA, and Germany.
Simba Technologies

Simba Technologies is a supplier of standards-based data access solutions located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Simba Technologies specializes in connectivity for ODBC, JDBC, OLE DB for OLAP (ODBO) and XML for Analysis (XMLA). The company’s products include a JDBC/ODBC SDK, an OLAP/ODBO/XMLA SDK, a SQL to MDX adaptor, an ODBO to XMLA bridge and other data connectivity products.
Simbiosys

SimBioSys (short for Simulated Biomolecular Systems) is a Toronto based chemistry software company focusing on structure based drug discovery and retrosynthetic analysis tools. It has established a strong reputation as one of the leading developers of flexible docking applications, virtual screening methods and computer aided organic synthesis design.
SkyLine Aviation Software

SkyLine Aviation Software, Ltd. is a Winnipeg, Manitoba-based software engineering company specializing in designing reservation systems and logistical software for mid-sized Canadian airlines. SkyLine was founded in 1996, with the introduction of its first system for the now-defunct Skyward Aviation, and was incorporated in June 2002.
Strategic Information Technology

Strategic Information Technology (SIT) Limited develops and sells banking software to banks, trust companies, credit unions, building societies, manufacturers and franchisors. SIT was formed in 1988 and is located in Stouffville, Ontario, Canada.
Toon Boom Animation

Toon Boom Animation Inc. is a Canadian software company, which specializes in animation production software. Founded in 1994 and based in Montreal, Quebec, Toon Boom develops animation and storyboarding software for film, television, web animation, games, mobile devices, and training applications. In 2005, Toon Boom was granted a Primetime Emmy in Engineering.
TransGaming Technologies

TransGaming Inc. is a company specialized in video game portability technology. The company has its head office in Toronto and a research hub in Ottawa. It was founded by Gavriel State, who ran the Linux product division at the Corel Corporation.
Waterloo Maple

Waterloo Maple Inc. is a privately held Canadian software company, headquartered in Waterloo, Ontario. It operates under the trading name Maplesoft and is best known as the manufacturer of the Maple computer algebra system.
WebTrain

WebTrain Communications provides web conferencing services for educational training, business meetings, presentation webinars and live auctions. WebTrain is a privately-held Canadian company established in 1999.