Traditional industries going digital

Traditional industries going digital is the software of industries that ran on paper, people and long habit well after banking and shopping moved online. This Domain of the product-companies collection holds the companies that build software for property and construction, for schools, colleges and learners, for lawyers and legal teams, for governments and nonprofits, and for farms. Many of them build in India for builders, school districts, law firms and city halls in America, like Procore Technologies, Pearson, PowerSchool, Wolters Kluwer and OpenGov, and beside them stand India's own companies, from exam-coaching apps and home-interior platforms to farm start-ups. The buyers are careful and slow to change, so much of the software is old and long-lived, and the newest work is AI that reads, writes and explains.

The engineering centres that property firms, a law firm and nonprofits run for themselves in India, each a GCC (global capability centre), are told separately. (More on them in Parent Industry 10, Inside hotels, airlines, property firms and the rest, and on agricultural giants like Cargill in Parent Industry 4, Inside the manufacturers and carmakers, in the GCC collection.) The large publishers of legal and professional information, like Thomson Reuters and RELX, belong to Domain VIII, Gaming, streaming and media.

The Domain's five Industry Verticals move from the building to the classroom, the courtroom, the city hall and the farm, in Proptech, Edtech, Legaltech, Govtech and nonprofits, and Agritech. Every company named in this Domain has posted software engineering jobs in India.

Proptech

Proptech is the software of buildings, from the construction site to the finished home. Its companies plan and track construction, run property and facilities, apartment societies and coworking spaces, list homes and service mortgages, and design interiors, like Procore Technologies, Trimble Inc., MRI Software, Mygate and Livspace, and more is on the Proptech page.

Edtech

Edtech is the software of learning, from the entrance exam to the first job. Its companies build exam-coaching apps, digital curricula, school and university systems, language and writing apps, bootcamps, career platforms and new colleges, like Pearson, PowerSchool, ALLEN Digital, NxtWave and BOLD, and more is on the Edtech page.

Legaltech

Legaltech is the software of legal work, from the contract to the courtroom. Its companies build contract software, legal research and AI assistants, matter management for legal departments and law firms, eDiscovery and online legal services, like Wolters Kluwer, Icertis, Harvey, Onit and DISCO, and more is on the Legaltech page.

Govtech and nonprofits

Govtech and nonprofits is the software of public service. Its companies build systems for city and county governments and for nonprofits and associations, and some nonprofits build software themselves, like OpenGov Inc., Tyler Technologies, Granicus India, Momentive Software and eGov Foundation, and more is on the Govtech and nonprofits page.

Agritech

Agritech is the software of the farm and the business around it. Its companies watch fields from satellites, serve the sellers of seed and crop chemicals, advise farmers and build robots for the field, like SatSure, AGDATA, Digital Green and Niqo Robotics, and more is on the Agritech page.

Where the verticals meet

Student housing joins the home to the campus. StarRez and SpaceBasic build the software that runs hostels and university residence halls, so they sit in Edtech and appear in Proptech too, and University Living, a co-living company, rents beds to students who go abroad to study. Campus life is property as much as it is education, and the colleges that buy admissions and timetable systems also buy room bookings and maintenance.

The public good joins the city to the farm. Digital Green, a nonprofit, sits in both Govtech and nonprofits and Agritech, because its AI adviser answers farmers' questions in their own language. eGov Foundation builds open software that Indian cities and states share, and SatSure sells its satellite readings of fields to governments as well as to banks and insurers. In India much of the software of public life is built by nonprofits and shared openly, while in America cities and counties buy it from companies like OpenGov and Tyler Technologies.

For an engineer, the Domain is joined by long-lived software and careful buyers. Property, legal, government and agribusiness software has long been built on the Microsoft stack, so .NET engineers are far more common in four of the five Industry Verticals than at a typical product company, while learning happens in the browser and on the phone, so Edtech hires Node, frontend and mobile engineers. AI that reads, writes and explains reaches every vertical, in legal research assistants like Harvey's, writing tools like QuillBot, the construction-AI start-ups that measure a job from images, and the farmer's adviser. The door for juniors differs widely, wide in Edtech and at Procore, and narrow in Legaltech and in government software.

That is Domain XI, Traditional industries going digital, from the building site and the classroom to the courtroom, the city hall and the farm.