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Recent Reports

NetApp buys StackPointCloud for container orchestration

Deal Analysis - September 18, 2018

The company has been bolstering its role in customers' hybrid cloud deployments over the past few years and its latest acquisition should support this goal. StackPointCloud's focus on Kubernetes adds cloud-friendly container orchestration capabilities to NetApp's portfolio.
Liam Rogers Tim Stammers Jay Lyman

VMware pursues its ever-expanding network strategy

Impact Report - September 18, 2018

The company is expanding its Virtual Cloud Networking capabilities to support workloads in a variety of application environments on-premises, in the cloud and in the branch. The competitive impact will be felt by many vendors.
Mike Fratto

Security service ideas: vulnerability scanning and assessments

Spotlight - September 18, 2018

Too often, vulnerability scanning is sold and executed as an annual, one-time task usually producing the same results year after year because it is unable to address the issues discovered. However, it gives providers a rounded view of the customers' security posture and an opportunity to offer additional services to meet their needs.
Aaron Sherrill Dan Thompson

RichRelevance puts AI at the center of personalization

Impact Report - September 18, 2018

Bridging the gap between marketing and commerce clouds, RichRelevance is taking personalization to a wider audience by embedding it more deeply into the background of campaign orchestration and making it a default component of the martech stack.
Keith Dawson Sheryl Kingstone

POPin teams up with Microsoft to enable crowdsourcing

Impact Report - September 18, 2018

Microsoft recently added a free access tier to Teams workplace collaboration software, expanding access to Teams beyond existing Office 365 subscribers, and it has signed a partnership deal with POPin to bring crowdsourcing to users of Teams.
Katy Ring

UiPath raises $225m series C round at $3bn valuation in hot RPA software market

Analyst Note - September 18, 2018

Nick Patience

Anaplan plans its IPO

Debut IQ - September 17, 2018

Having watched a rival get snatched off its IPO path, Anaplan has revealed its paperwork for an upcoming offering. The financial and operational planning vendor, which has been on our list of IPO candidates for a couple of years, looks likely to join this year's relatively long list of strong debuts by enterprise software companies.
Krishna Roy Brenon Daly

Maturation and innovation: further adventures in stream processing and integration

Spotlight - September 17, 2018

Event and stream processing has come of age in recent years as a variety of open source projects have brought the benefits of stream processing to a mainstream audience. Recent announcements suggest a maturing ecosystem.
Matt Aslett

Indegy raises funding to go with new platform capabilities and key partnerships

Impact Report - September 17, 2018

The company has raised $18m of new funding to help fuel its global expansion. On top of the funding, Indegy has made a number of additions to its product portfolio, including broader support for IT assets in the operational network that provides visibility into IT asset operations.
Patrick Daly

Movere scours IT environments to support cloud readiness, compliance and optimization

Impact Report - September 17, 2018

The company's namesake SaaS product offers a detailed, customizable view of on- and off-premises Windows and Linux workloads for planning migrations, cutting costs, auditing compliance and tuning performance. Top-tier partnerships with Microsoft and AWS have helped cement its enterprise credibility, while its recent SOC2 Type-II certification guarantees security of sensitive data.
Jean Atelsek

Preferred primary cloud partners in Southeast Asia: an end-user perspective

Spotlight - September 17, 2018

As governments in Asia-Pacific harness the power of digital innovation, they are rewriting the rules of competition and opening doors for a new breed of provider. Here we take a closer look at vendor preference from an end-user perspective, using survey data from 451 Research's hybrid IT survey.
Agatha Poon

Two different companies, two different exits

M&A Insight - September 17, 2018

Maybe Anaplan can pull off what its rival Adaptive Insights failed to do: make it to Wall Street. The two CPM vendors put in their IPO paperwork just four months apart, but the outcomes for the two companies are looking very different. As we pencil it out, Anaplan's IPO exit could well be worth $1bn more than Adaptive Insights' M&A exit.
Brenon Daly

The Apple Watch ECG is a vital sign for adoption of remote health monitoring

Analyst Note - September 17, 2018

John Spooner

Lots of deals but few bargains as acquirers shop for e-commerce software

Sector IQ - September 14, 2018

In the wake of Adobe's acquisition of Magento, few sizeable e-commerce software targets remain for would-be buyers. The dearth of independent companies that develop software to power online selling has already led to high valuations and could lead to premium multiples for those that remain.
Scott Denne Jordan McKee Sheryl Kingstone

Alcide aims high to seek role as a full-stack offering for cloud-native security

Impact Report - September 14, 2018

Fast-changing cloud environments have led to ongoing efforts by security and DevOps teams to support the same technology and interact efficiently. How to maintain security yet not hamper innovation? Alcide positions itself as a security layer for cloud-native applications that facilitates visibility, control and day-to-day operations for both security and DevOps teams.
Fernando Montenegro

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