Helping to make up for the loss, the city has steadily, if quietly, become a center for new technology, particularly software. Notably, the cloud computing company Salesforce, based in San Francisco, announced a plan last year to expand its 1,600-person work force in Indianapolis by another 800 employees. Salesforce already had a toehold in Indianapolis with its 2013 acquisition of the software marketing company ExactTarget for $2.5 billion. Local tech entrepreneurs and real estate specialists hope the company’s expansion will help attract more technology companies. Another Indianapolis company in the city’s tech vanguard was Interactive Intelligence, founded in 1994.

Source: New York Times January 17, 2017 17:19 UTC