Independant software vendors

Editions Profil, a European, Paris-based private corporation founded in 1989, develops, publishes and distributes software products for multiple activity sectors, both for professionals and for consumers. Editions Profil has built a large catalog of solutions in numerous domains, including the office and productivity sectors. In recent years Editions Profil has especially focused on the design and distribution of tools for computer security and general data protection. Editions Profil notably publishes the security solutions BitDefender and Parental Filter, as well as Farstone solutions, and distributes the Kroll-Ontrack data recovery and MS Exchange server management solutions.

Exalead provides a versatile web search engine which is highly-ranked - right after Yahoo! and Google [source BusinessWeek].
Founded in 2000 by search-engine pioneers, Exalead is an international technology provider for information search and retrieval in organizations of all sizes. Today, Exalead software is used by leading banking and financial services, media, consumer packaged goods, research, retailing, sports, entertainment, and telecommunications companies around the world.

Guidance Software was founded with a clear purpose: to develop solutions that search, identify, recover and deliver digital information in a forensically sound and cost-effective manner. Since the founding in 1997 Guidance Software has moved into network-enabled investigations, enterprise-wide integration with other security technologies, and now, has powerful search and collection capabilities for eDiscovery and other investigations.

Guidance Software's suite of EnCase® solutions provide an enterprise investigative infrastructure that enables corporations, government and law enforcement agencies to conduct effective digital investigations, respond promptly to eDiscovery requests and other large-scale data collection needs, and take decisive action in response to external attacks.

Lingway specializes in the design, development and implementation of linguistics-based software solutions. It was founded in September 2001 by a team of linguists and computer scientists originally from LexiQuest (formerly ERLI), a software editor operating in this field.

Vecsys is is specialized in speech recognition. Vecsys-Research develops speech processing technologies such as multilingual, large vocabulary speech recognition systems for automatic audio indexing applications, as well as related technologies for language identification and speaker recognition.