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Recent Reports

Blockchain's promised technical and industrial revolution must first overcome hurdles

Spotlight - September 22, 2017

Blockchain seems to be the talk of the town, promising to revolutionize technologies and industries with overwhelming disruptive force. Less talked about are its weaknesses and challenges, which need to be overcome first.
Carl Lehmann Csilla Zsigri

FitPay targets wearable OEMs for contactless payment integration

Impact Report - September 22, 2017

As wearable OEMs seek to increase device utilization and differentiation, adding contactless payment capabilities is emerging as an attractive strategy. FitPay caters to this growing market opportunity by providing a Visa- and Mastercard-certified platform that provides OEMs with an onramp to integrate payment functionality into their devices.
Jordan McKee Scott Denne

Atlassian reaffirms business strategy and focus on teamwork at Summit 2017

Impact Report - September 22, 2017

An emphasis on R&D and a 'no sales' approach have contributed to the company's success. Key announcements at Summit 2017 indicate that it intends to maintain its business model to keep the momentum post-IPO.
Raul Castanon-Martinez Melissa Incera

Siemens Mindsphere IoT platform to expand infrastructure choices

Impact Report - September 22, 2017

The company is accelerating investments in its Mindsphere IoT OS platform to extend its digital twin tools from the realm of design, production and performance testing to the 'real world' use cases of industrial IoT.
Brian Partridge

Mapping the artificial intelligence-based analytics landscape

Spotlight - September 22, 2017

Machine-learning algorithms are fast becoming a bedrock of analytics. But with so many vendors peddling AI-based offerings - and hype at full throttle - the sector can be hard to navigate. In this report, we segment it to provide some clarity.
Krishna Roy

Another 'down round' IPO?

M&A Insight - September 22, 2017

Another unicorn is set to gallop onto Wall Street, as MongoDB has put in its IPO paperwork. The open source NoSQL database provider plans to raise $100m in the offering, on top of the $311m it drew in from private-market investors over the past decade. As has been the case in other recent tech offerings, however, some of those later investors in MongoDB may well find that the IPO represents a 'down round' of funding.
Brenon Daly

Total cost of ownership in private cloud: guidelines for buyers

Spotlight - September 21, 2017

This year's private cloud index finds a market for cloud, where public, private, managed and unmanaged options can all be the best option when it comes to TCO. How can buyers understand the options with such complexity? Our guidelines can help.
Owen Rogers Jean Atelsek

data Artisans delivers proprietary application manager for Apache Flink

Impact Report - September 21, 2017

The company founded by the developers of the Apache Flink stream processing platform has announced the launch of dA Platform 2, which includes Flink itself, as well as a new application manager.
Matt Aslett

Cloudera pours IoT data into its enterprise management platform

Impact Report - September 21, 2017

The data management and analytics provider is enabling insight into data generated from devices, which is where businesses begin to understand the value of their IoT investment and can make actionable decisions.
Christian Renaud David Immerman

New Relic better serves modern orgs with machine-learning advances, distributed tracing

Impact Report - September 21, 2017

The vendor's broadening offering serves an increasingly wide set of potential customers. Its challenge now is to ensure that the market understands the full breadth of its offering.
Nancy Gohring

Polycom launches new conferencing products to refresh its portfolio in the cloud era

Impact Report - September 21, 2017

The well-known provider of audio and video conferencing technology is launching new products, with a view toward staying up to date with evolving market and technology trends.
Raul Castanon-Martinez

Google's smartphone redial

M&A Insight - September 21, 2017

Less than three years after unwinding its Motorola acquisition, Google has reached for another smartphone asset, this time with a more tactical approach and a smaller price tag.
Scott Denne

IoT security firm Bastille Networks raises $27m in series B funding

Analyst Note - September 21, 2017

Patrick Daly Scott Crawford

Toshiba names new Bain consortium as flash buyer

Analyst Note - September 21, 2017

Tim Stammers

More PE love for IAM: K1-owned Core Security picks up SecureAuth

Deal Analysis - September 20, 2017

Identity and access management has been fertile ground for private equity over the past few years, and the latest PE-driven IAM deal is K1-backed Core Security's acquisition of authentication and IDaaS vendor SecureAuth for an estimated $225m.
Garrett Bekker Brenon Daly

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