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Recent Reports

DataOps: a passing buzzword, or the engine of the data-driven enterprise?

Spotlight - August 14, 2018

While mainstream adoption and understanding of the term DataOps is still in its infancy, we are seeing wider adoption of the underlying trends as enterprises move toward a more agile and automated approach to data management.
Matt Aslett

CloudCheckr optimizes cost, security and compliance for multi-cloud governance

Impact Report - August 14, 2018

The cloud management platform monitors multiple cloud environments and makes actionable recommendations for streamlining cost, improving security and ensuring standards compliance. Traction in the public sector and with AWS and Azure MSPs has fueled continued growth.
Jean Atelsek

Sapience Analytics aims to drive productivity with workforce analytics

Impact Report - August 14, 2018

The software startup is focused on workforce analytics, and its tracking technology seeks to drive productivity improvements by reducing distractions and context-switching, a growing problem for knowledge workers.
Raul Castanon-Martinez

Kofax strengthens its digital transformation proposition

Impact Report - August 14, 2018

The company positions its portfolio as delivering services for four key value propositions that support digital transformations: robotic process automation, information capture automation, financial process automation and customer onboarding automation.
William Fellows

Rigado combines devices, gateways and apps in 'edge as a service' package

Impact Report - August 14, 2018

The company has over five million connected IoT devices and has added to its hardware connectivity with a managed edge gateway and software stack called Cascade. This allows customers to run containerized applications across IoT use cases such as asset tracking, cold chain and smart building services, with managed deployment and security updates from the cloud.
Ian Hughes

MSPs, Compute and Storage vendors: looking to understand private cloud value?

Analyst Note - August 14, 2018

Owen Rogers

DataRobot adds time-series analysis, courts developers for automated machine learning

Impact Report - August 13, 2018

The machine learning automation pioneer is preparing to unleash an add-on to its platform for times-series analytics. Additionally, DataRobot has shed light on its acquisition of Nexosis, which the firm recently snagged to address developers' automated machine learning needs.
Krishna Roy

Less design thinking, more design doing: Infosys opens Berlin Studio

Impact Report - August 13, 2018

In order to co-create with clients, close proximity is critical, so while offshore resourcing remains the core business engine for Infosys, it is also increasingly investing in workspaces in North America, Australia, the UK, Germany and Benelux.
Katy Ring

Mesosphere steers data-intensive story to multi-cloud operations and the edge

Impact Report - August 13, 2018

The company continues its focus on data-intensive applications and data services in its latest DC/OS release, but now supports management of them across multiple clouds and in edge computing.
Jay Lyman

Nxtra Data is preparing for accelerated growth in cloud and datacenter business

Impact Report - August 13, 2018

Positioning itself as the 'single gateway' for enterprises, Nxtra is investing further in automation technology and back-end integration capabilities. Operating as an integrated unit provides Nxtra the scale to invest in product innovation and helps to streamline its decision-making process.
Agatha Poon

M&A in cloud CPM space poised for uptick

M&A Insight - August 13, 2018

About this time last year, we posited that corporate performance management was at a crossroads. One direction involved further M&A. The other involved a public exit. One year later, we suspect that further CPM-driven dealmaking will win out over IPOs, as business application vendors acquire CPM specialists to expand their portfolios and solidify their cloud credentials.
Krishna Roy

More work on the way for infrastructure teams, but AI and ML give a helping hand

Spotlight - August 10, 2018

Our research shows that the workload is likely to increase for IT teams, while in most cases, the size of the teams themselves won't be growing. AI and ML capabilities in infrastructure products are one way in which better tools will help close this personnel gap.
Henry Baltazar Liam Rogers

Cleafy takes to the cloud to reduce fraud for online businesses

Impact Report - August 10, 2018

Since the cloud is the source of increased fraud risks for web-facing application product lines, it's natural that website security and antifraud protection also be located in the cloud. Cleafy SaaS 1.0 is a cloud-based security service that merges customer and application intelligence to reduce fraud rates associated with online financial transactions.
Eric Ogren

Arrcus thinks it's already time for a new generation of white-box switch

Impact Report - August 10, 2018

The startup has emerged as yet another contender in the still-unproven market for white-box networking. Arrcus offers a network operating system, just as Cumulus Networks and Pica8 do: it's not a neglected market. But Arrcus believes it has a fresher take by using protocols written from scratch and taking advantage of the emerging trend of data modeling.
Craig Matsumoto Eric Hanselman

ZEPL scores $5m in funding, cements enterprise collaborative data science strategy

Impact Report - August 10, 2018

The startup is looking to take its business to the next level in the wake of its $5m series A1 funding. ZEPL also has a freshly minted version of its offering that serves enterprise collaborative data science needs.
Krishna Roy

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