Today Amalgam Insights publishes its latest Vendor Smartlist to support the Chief Information Officer, Global Wireless Expense Management Leaders for 2022. This report addresses the pain points organizations experience in trying to effectively manage the cost of employee smartphones, tablets, and …
Taking a More Analytic Approach to Wordle The hottest online game of January 2022 is Wordle, a deceptively addictive online game where one tries to guess a five-letter word starting from scratch. Perhaps you’ve started seeing a lot of posts …
On January 13, 2022, Observable raised a $35.6 million Series round led by Menlo Ventures with participation from existing investors Sequoia Capital and Acrew Capital. This round increases the total amount raised by Observable to $46.1 million. Observable is interesting …
Observable raises a $35 million B round for data collaboration Read more »
IT Cost Management is one of the core practices at Amalgam Insights. This practice focuses on tracking both vendors and product offerings that help enterprises fight off the IT Rule of 30, Amalgam Insights’ observation that every unmanaged IT category …
If you would like your announcement to be included in Amalgam Insights’ weekly data and analytics roundups, please email lynne@amalgaminsights.com. Acquisitions and Partnerships Alteryx Announces Acquisition of Trifacta Yesterday, January 6, Alteryx announced that it has acquired Trifacta for $400M …
January 7: From BI to AI (Alteryx, Databricks, Fractal, Meta, Qlik, Trifacta, WEKA) Read more »
Amalgam Insights is working on a new website experience for you in 2022 to help with your Technology Expense Management, Data and Analytics, and Business Planning Management challenges. In the meantime, if you need to reach us, please contact Hyoun …
Product Launches and Enhancements IBM to Add New Natural Language Processing Enhancements to Watson Discovery On November 10, IBM revealed new natural language processing enhancements planned for IBM Watson Discovery. Business users will be able to train Watson Discovery to …
November 12: From BI to AI (Domino, H2O.ai, IBM, Informatica, Tableau) Read more »
On October 5, Domino Data Lab announced a $100 million F round led by private equity firm Great Hill Partners and joined by existing investors Coatue, Highland Capital, and Sequoia Capital. Domino Data Lab is a company we have covered …
Domino Data Lab Raises $100 Million F Round to Enable the Model-Driven Enterprise Read more »
On October 4th, 2021, NetApp announced a definitive agreement to acquire CloudCheckr, a market leader in cloud financial and operational optimization. NetApp positions this acquisition as accretive to its agreement to acquire Spot (now called Spot by NetApp post-acquistion) in June 2020 to support hybrid cloud optimization and usage management. This Market Alert explains why NetApp agreed to purchase CloudCheckr and provides recommendations for cloud professionals seeking to make a decision on purchasing or evaluating a cloud cost, cloud optimization, or Cloud FinOps (Financial Operations) solution.
Reluctant shareholders have put the kibosh on Zoom’s intention to buy contact-center-as-a-service provider Five9. The deal would have amounted to almost $15 billion. But it was an all-stock deal. As it turns out, Five9 shareholders weren’t such fans of that …