2013 was a great year for ApexSQL
- We achieved record breaking revenue growth and added another 600 customers to our family
- We re-designed our website from scratch
- We released major updates to a variety of tools e.g. ApexSQL Log, we released a new tool ApexSQL Audit, and significantly updated and improved our FREE tools, and we released community editions of two of our most popular tools – ApexSQL Diff and ApexSQL Data Diff
- We began work on a new product, ApexSQL Monitor, that should be released in early 2014
- We sponsored 34 community events, in 11 different countries. See our Event page for upcoming events we are sponsoring
- We reached 50,000 Facebook likes, 4,000 GooglePlus +1’s, and 2,000 Twitter followers
- We increased the size of the company including more than doubling our product support team. We also created several entire new departments including Branding, SEO, and Sales Operations
- We finished and posted our company values statement: Working naked
- We had the most successful launch of a commercial product – ApexSQL Audit, which set records for first period revenue
- We achieved some amazing performance breakthroughs in our tools including ApexSQL Log, ApexSQL Diff, and ApexSQL Data Diff
- We won 4 community choice awards including:
- Best Security/Auditing/Compliance Product – ApexSQL Trigger
- Best Database Development Tool – ApexSQL Complete
- Best Free Tool – ApexSQL Refactor
And the bronze Award winner in:
- Best Vendor Support – ApexSQL
- We created a new SQL solutions blog with over 100 in-depth articles
2014 looks to be even better…
We plan on:
- Creating the best collection of add-ins for SQL Server Management Studio and Visual Studio, in the world, and keeping them FREE all through 2014
- Adding FREE Azure support to all of our applications (that we can)
- Adding new tools for Performance monitoring, Test data generation, and Database backup
- Significantly improving ApexSQL Audit – see our sneak peek for more information
- Releasing 2014 versions of all of our tools with SQL Server 2014 support, new interfaces, improved usability/quality/performance, and new features. See What’s Next
- Adding a new DBA bundle, for server licensed tools and price it under $1,999
- Creating a new SQL Server community site with content from SQL community members
We appreciate our customers, community, employees, friends, and family who have helped us achieve this continued success. We remain humble and hungry 😉
January 27, 2014
