Amdocs

Amdocs was founded in 1982 by Morris Kahn and Boaz Dotan, originally emerging from the Golden Pages (Aurec Group) in Israel. While headquartered in Chesterfield, Missouri, the company maintains its core engineering and operational center in Israel. Amdocs has been publicly traded on the NASDAQ under the ticker DOX since its 1998 IPO and employs roughly 30,000 people globally. The company focuses on billing, customer relationship, and network operations software for telecommunications and media providers. Recently, Amdocs inaugurated a massive new campus in Ra'anana, Israel, though it also executed global workforce reductions in 2023 and 2024 affecting thousands of employees, including hundreds in Israel.

Amdocs specializes in Business Support Systems (BSS) and Operations Support Systems (OSS). The software manages the intricate billing pipelines, CRM interfaces, and network operations for massive telecom operators (Tier-1 and Tier-2) such as AT&T, T-Mobile, and Vodafone. Sold primarily through long-term enterprise contracts and managed IT services, the company handles the core legacy systems of telcos. A major technical focus today is migrating these on-premise, highly customized deployments to public cloud infrastructures (AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure) and enabling 5G network monetization.