Carnation Software

Carnation Software was founded in 1989 by Rich Love. It is a family owned company that develops and sells Macintosh software and service. The job it does: building software for you when nothing off the shelf fits.

Who is it for? Mostly companies with a specific process to automate. As a small company team themselves (11 to 50 people), they tend to serve customers of a similar scale best. You will probably talk to the people who build it, which is great until you need 24/7 support.

Carnation Software is based in Driftwood, Texas. More on carnationsoftware.com.

Our checklist for this category: portfolio relevance, who owns the code, and how they handle changes. A short pilot with your real data tells you more than any demo.

If you have worked with Carnation Software, tell the next buyer what you paid and what surprised you. That is the part of this page we cannot write.