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This era of great disruption—fueled by rapid changes in technology, geopolitical events, and a global pandemic—presents unique challenges to enterprise businesses, and the bigger the ship, the harder it can be to pivot. The 10 companies that Fast Company is honoring in this year’s Enterprise category stood out for innovations designed to help entities adapt to a rapidly changing landscape or protect themselves from emerging threats. Their offerings run the gamut, from self-managing payroll to quantum computing, but all of them aim to empower organizations to meet the new demands of a world now evolving (or deteriorating, depending on your perspective) at the rate of Moore’s law. Cyber security firm GeoComply combats fraud and piracy by making it more difficult for bad actors to fake their locations. Informatica makes massive amounts of disparate data more manageable, Amplitude provides valuable insights into how consumers actually use digital products, and GitHub continues to create new ways to streamline the work developers do to keep the digital world running. Everlaw’s AI-powered platform accelerates e-discovery and helps legal teams construct the fact-driven narratives that win cases. Unqork’s no-code software expedites builds, Paycom provides employees with new visibility into the payroll process and some control over their paychecks, and DocuSign introduced a new function that enables remote notarization as well as the ability to embed computer-coded clauses, a giant step toward a new generation of smart agreements. Fiserv launched a novel product that enables multinationals to handle payments across multiple devices at global scale, and IBM released the first quantum chip to break the 100-qubits barrier.

5.) UNQORK

For expediting enterprise development

In early 2020, Unqork had just established itself as one of New York’s fastest growing startups, closing a $131 million funding round that earned the company unicorn status, when the COVID-19 crisis hit and allowed the no-code software development platform-as-a-service company high-profile opportunities to flex its muscles. Desperate to build coronavirus information portals, officials in both D.C. and New York used Unqork to create reliable sites in just a few days. The burgeoning realm of no-code/low-code development platforms isn’t aimed primarily at non-techies who hear Java and start reaching for the creamer; it’s a way for professional coders to expedite their builds while also alleviating the enterprise from having to devote significant resources to maintaining legacy code. Last year, Unqork launched what it describes as the first-ever no-code marketplace, a library of assets, from preconfigured software snippets to pre-built integrations from partners like DocuSign, Experian, and Twilio, enabling developers to create custom applications. Through the first half of 2021, Unqork increased headcount by 74% while year-over-year revenue grew by 277%.) had just established itself as one of New York’s fastest growing startups, closing a $131 million funding round that earned the company unicorn status, when the COVID-19 crisis hit and allowed the no-code software development platform-as-a-service company high-profile opportunities to flex its muscles. Desperate to build coronavirus information portals, officials in both D.C. and New York used Unqork to create reliable sites in just a few days. The burgeoning realm of no-code/low-code development platforms isn’t aimed primarily at non-techies who hear Java and start reaching for the creamer; it’s a way for professional coders to expedite their builds while also alleviating the enterprise from having to devote significant resources to maintaining legacy code. Last year, Unqork launched what it describes as the first-ever no-code marketplace, a library of assets, from preconfigured software snippets to pre-built integrations from partners like DocuSign, Experian, and Twilio, enabling developers to create custom applications. Through the first half of 2021, Unqork increased headcount by 74% while year-over-year revenue grew by 277%.

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