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  • Park ‘N Fly Speeds Up Development Cycles by 29% with Dynatrace

    Automatic and intelligent observability drives faster innovation and improved customer experience, despite travel industry disruption

    WALTHAM, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Software intelligence company Dynatrace (NYSE: DT) today announced Park ‘N Fly, the leading off-airport parking provider, is using Dynatrace® to accelerate development cycles and deliver exceptional digital experiences across mobile and web apps, and airport kiosks.

    Travel in the United States fell by more than 60% last year. To succeed in this challenging and competitive industry, Park ‘N Fly increased its investments in digital innovation, which included migrating to a cloud-native architecture based on Kubernetes and Microsoft Azure. Automatic and intelligent observability delivered by Dynatrace has enabled the company’s digital team to tame the complexity of this constantly changing IT environment and innovate faster.

    “Working without Dynatrace is like going cave diving without a light – we’re just not able to see what’s around us, and can’t map our technologies,” said Ken Schirrmacher, Senior Director of Information Technology at Park ‘N Fly. “With Dynatrace, we’ve cut through the darkness to make sense of our complex environment and gain rich, real-time insights into how our efforts to enhance digital performance are impacting business outcomes.”

    Park ‘N Fly’s team has been able to develop new digital services faster and with more confidence due to Dynatrace’s precise, AI-powered insights and continuous automation. By automatically identifying anomalies that have true business impact, and alerting when problems occur, Dynatrace has enabled the team to resolve issues before customers are ever impacted. In addition, Dynatrace’s automation dramatically reduces manual-intensive tasks, through continuous discovery, and automatic configuration and instrumentation. As a result, Park ‘N Fly has been able to accelerate development cycles by 29% on average, including a 43% improvement during its busiest two-week sprint.

    “Dynatrace allows us to innovate much faster, which has been instrumental in the launch of major new customer-facing features for our mobile app, particularly our Come Get Me and Shuttle Tracker features,” continued Schirrmacher. “Dynatrace’s AI capabilities have given our digital teams the confidence to try new things, knowing they can quickly assess the business impact of their changes and resolve any issues, instead of spending days or weeks trying to understand the outcomes of their efforts.”

    Visit our Customer Stories page for more details on how Park ‘N Fly has increased speed of innovation and optimized the customer experience with Dynatrace.

    About Dynatrace

    Dynatrace provides software intelligence to simplify cloud complexity and accelerate digital transformation. With automatic and intelligent observability at scale, our all-in-one platform delivers precise answers about the performance and security of applications, the underlying infrastructure, and the experience of all users to enable organizations to innovate faster, collaborate more efficiently, and deliver more value with dramatically less effort. That’s why many of the world’s largest enterprises trust Dynatrace® to modernize and automate cloud operations, release better software faster, and deliver unrivalled digital experiences.

    Curious to see how you can simplify your cloud? Let us show you. Visit our trial page for a free 15-day Dynatrace trial.

    To learn more about how Dynatrace can help your business, visit https://www.dynatrace.com, visit our blog, and follow us on Twitter @dynatrace.

  • ServiceNow to Acquire Intellibot to Help Businesses Automate Any Workflow

    Intellibot brings rich talent and IP to extend automation and RPA capabilities within the Now Platform

    SANTA CLARA, Calif. — March 23, 2021 – ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW), the leading digital workflow company making work, work better for people, today announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Intellibot, a robotic process automation (RPA) company based in Hyderabad, India. Intellibot extends ServiceNow’s core workflow capabilities by helping customers automate repetitive tasks for intelligent, end-to-end automation. ServiceNow intends to build Intellibot’s capabilities natively into the Now Platform to enable customers to more easily integrate with both modern and legacy systems to drive productivity and strengthen existing artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) efforts.

    “ServiceNow is the platform of platforms for the workflow revolution, offering powerful end-to-end automation capabilities that allow customers to streamline business decisions and unlock new levels of productivity,” said Josh Kahn, SVP of Creator Workflow Products at ServiceNow. “Our customers represent nearly 80 percent of the Fortune 500, and the vast majority are trying to drive automation across a mix of legacy and modern applications. With Intellibot, we will extend ServiceNow’s ability to help customers connect systems so they can easily automate workflows and drive productivity.”

    ServiceNow recently delivered the Now Platform Quebec Release to help enterprises accelerate their digital transformation by innovating quickly, being more agile, and operating more productively within a new world of work hastened by COVID. Intellibot will complement these capabilities, extending ServiceNow’s existing AI and ML, integrations, low-code development, process mining, process automation, NLX, chatbot, and virtual agent capabilities.

    “We are proud to join forces with ServiceNow as it continues to invest in powerful end-to-end automation capabilities to make the world of work, work better for people,” said Srikanth Vemulapalli, CTO and co-founder of Intellibot. “Our RPA combined with ServiceNow workflows will help businesses better connect disparate systems to accelerate innovation and thrive in a new world of work.”

    Expanded footprint in India

    This acquisition supports ServiceNow’s broader commitment to the Indian market, which represents one of the company’s fastest growing markets. The company plans to develop two new data center facilities in India by the first quarter of 2022. These new data centers will meet local data residency requirements, form part of ServiceNow’s advanced high-availability architecture, and will continue to support the scalability of the company’s cloud services. India hosts ServiceNow’s second largest research and development center and is a growing talent hub for the organization. ServiceNow plans to double its staff in the country within the next three years.

    Intellibot was founded in 2015 by CEO Raghu “Alekh” Barli, CTO Srikanth Vemulapalli, and COO Kushang Moorthy. ServiceNow expects to complete the acquisition of Intellibot in Q2 2021. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

    To learn more about ServiceNow’s automation capabilities, visit the ServiceNow blog.

    Use of Forward-Looking Statements

    This press release contains “forward–looking statements” about the expectations, beliefs, plans, intentions and strategies relating to ServiceNow’s acquisition of Intellibot, general business direction and plans for expansion in India, and growth markets. Such forward–looking statements include statements regarding future data centers, growth, expansion, product capabilities and offerings and expected benefits to ServiceNow. Forward looking statements are subject to known and unknown risks and uncertainties and are based on potentially inaccurate assumptions that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expected or implied by the forward-looking statements. If any such risks or uncertainties materialize or if any of the assumptions prove incorrect, our results could differ materially from the results expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements we make. We undertake no obligation, and do not intend, to update the forward-looking statements. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in any forward-looking statements include, without limitation, the inability to assimilate or integrate Intellibot’s technology into our platform; unanticipated expenses related to Intellibot’s acquired technology; potential adverse tax consequences; disruption to our business and diversion of management attention and other resources; potential unknown liabilities associated with Intellibot’s business; unexpected delays and difficulties in opening and maintaining the data centers; changes in the competitive or regulatory landscape in India; and uncertainty whether sales will justify these investments. Further information on factors that could affect our financial and other results is included in the filings we make with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time.

    About ServiceNow

    ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) is making the world of work, work better for people. Our cloud-based platform and solutions deliver digital workflows that create great experiences and unlock productivity for employees and the enterprise. For more information, visit: www.servicenow.com.

    © 2021 ServiceNow, Inc. All rights reserved. ServiceNow, the ServiceNow logo, Now, and other ServiceNow marks are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of ServiceNow, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries. Other company names, product names, and logos may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.

     

  • Logi Analytics Provides New Reporting Experience for HI-IQ

    HI-IQ equips platform with new analytics and reporting dashboard functionality to empower interventional radiology end users

    MCLEAN, Va. –– March, 22, 2021 –Today, Logi Analytics, the leading provider of embedded analytics solutions for software teams, and HI-IQ, which provides solutions for a diverse range of interventional radiology needs, announce a new partnership to provide reporting capabilities for quality assurance through HI-IQ Insight.

    For interventional radiology departments, having reports on information such as procedure volume, adverse events and complication rate trends are critical to improving quality of care and obtaining additional resources. HI-IQ and Logi Analytics’s partnership provides interventional radiology departments a reporting tool that presents this data using visualizations and charts, allowing users to gain insights by filtering data down and only pulling what is relevant to them.  Through the HI-IQ Insight platform, HI-IQ plans to implement embedded analytics into workflow management and inventory functionalities in the near future.

    “For IR professionals, it is beneficial to track trends happening within their department to improve quality and develop a plan to better serve patient and staff needs. For example, a spike in complications may be attributed to a multitude of reasons such as sicker patients or a case mix that is different from prior months. Without a great analytics tool, these abnormalities may not have been apparent,” said Emily DeMerchant, President at HI-IQ. “Through Logi Analytics, we were able to embed analytics into our existing HI-IQ platform so IR end users can pull trend reports and highlight the key information needed to adjust or adhere to their current processes and improve patient care without having to leave the HI-IQ platform.”

    “The HI-IQ Insight platform is the perfect example of why embedded analytics is essential in healthcare. Without the ability to quickly and easily track data such as adverse events and complication rates, record status and service volume, IR departments are left scrambling to improve quality of care and revise processes blindly,” said Charles Caldwell, Vice President, Product Management at Logi Analytics. “Our solutions empower end-users to act upon data in real-time, creating an entirely new reporting experience for healthcare workers.”

    “It’s no secret that there are scarce resources in the IT department and they are looking to downsize software. Traditional Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) don’t hold a candle to what HI-IQ Insight can do. With the information that you can extract from HI-IQ Insight, it is just taking reporting in IR departments to another level,” said Douglas Sutton RN, MSN, Manager Interventional Radiology, Ultrasound Sound and Radiology Nursing Services at the University of Vermont Medical Center.

    For information on Logi Analytics, visit www.logianalytics.com. For more information on HI-IQ, visit www.HI-IQ.com.

    About Logi

    Logi Analytics empowers the world’s software teams with the most intuitive, developer-grade embedded analytics solutions, along with a group of dedicated people invested in your success. Logi leverages your existing tech stack, so you can quickly build, manage, and deploy your application. And because Logi supports unlimited customization and white-labeling, you have total control to make the application uniquely your own. Over 2,200 application teams have trusted Logi to help power their businesses with sophisticated analytics capabilities. Logi Analytics was recently awarded the 2020 “Best Business Intelligence Solution” Proddy award by Product School, in addition to being named a leader in Business Application Research Center’s (BARC) BI & Analytics Survey 21 across several categories, including Operational BI, Embedded BI, and Cloud BI.

    Logi Analytics is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, with offices in Ireland, England, Ukraine, and China. Learn more about what’s possible with Logi at LogiAnalytics.com.

    About HI-IQ

    HI-IQ was designed by volunteers from the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) and provides solutions for a diverse range of interventional radiology needs. First developed in 1993 as a means of capturing QA data, HI-IQ has evolved into the centerpiece tool for managing IR workflow. Today, HI-IQ is solely marketed and developed by ConexSys Inc., the healthcare division of Custom Computer Specialists, under the exclusive advisory guidance of the Society of Interventional Radiology.

  • ConnectALL Announces Promotion of Noted Value Stream Leader Lance Knight to Role of President and Chief Operating Officer

    ATLANTA, March 19, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — ConnectALL LLC, a leading provider of value stream management (VSM) solutions, today announced that Lance Knight has been promoted to its newly created role of President and Chief Operating Officer effective March 1, 2021. In that position, Knight will serve as the senior executive for ConnectALL, reporting to the Board of Directors of ConnectALL.

    Executive responsibility and leadership for all ConnectALL products will be consolidated underneath Knight’s leadership, and he will be central to the most important product, technical, client and employee operational decisions for ConnectALL and all of its VSM software platform and products.

    “Lance has been a pivotal force since the first generational development of ConnectALL, and he has guided its evolutionary product excellence ever since,” said Brett Taylor, CEO of Goldfinger Holdings, Inc., parent company of wholly-owned subsidiary ConnectALL.

    “I am very pleased we have Lance leading ConnectALL on our path to dominance in the emerging VSM marketplace. I am confident he will transform ConnectALL to even greater success,” added Tom Stiling, Chairman of the ConnectALL Board of Directors

    Knight has shepherded the ConnectALL VSM offering since its inception, overseeing its evolution through three successively powerful, feature-rich versions and earning ConnectALL numerous DevOPS and VSM excellence awards. ConnectALL was named SD Times 100 Best in Show, Value Stream Management Category in both 2019 and 2020. It was also cited as a “Strong Performer” Among Value Stream Management Solutions in the Q3 2020 Forrester Wave and recognized by Gartner as a Representative Vendor in the 2020 Market Guide for DevOps Value Stream Management Platforms report.

    “In 2017, I saw an opportunity to team with Brett Taylor and convert ConnectALL into a world-class value stream management company,” said Knight. “Choosing this partnership brought the right team together to fill a void and help business leaders achieve maximum velocity and performance with their software projects.”

    Prior to joining ConnectALL, Knight was SVP Management Consultant at LeadingAgile, Inc, a company dedicated to helping larger, more complex organizations achieve better business outcomes through the systematic application of agile delivery methods across the entire enterprise. There, he developed a new business unit around agile tooling and implementation to align with the firm’s enterprise transformation strategy. Additionally, as a vice president at TaskTop, Knight introduced value stream management practices and was a key contributor to building their VSM go-to-market strategy.

    Knight is a member of the Forbes Business Council and has been a featured speaker at DevOps, Agile and other industry conferences. He has also authored dozens of articles and papers and has participated in podcasts and interviews that explore value stream management, software flow, governance and other critical aspects of attaining software excellence.

    ABOUT CONNECTALL LLC
    ConnectALL is a value stream management company dedicated to helping customers achieve higher levels of agility, traceability, predictability and velocity. ConnectALL’s services and solutions help organizations to connect people, processes and technology across the software development and delivery value stream, enabling companies to align digital initiatives to business outcomes and improve the speed at which they deliver software. ConnectALL’s value stream management solutions and services allow companies to see, measure and automate their software delivery value streams. ConnectALL has been recognized as “Best in Show” in the Value Stream Management category of the 2020 SD Times 100 and recognized by numerous third-party analyst firms as a key player in value stream management. Visit us at https://www.connectall.com.

  • OpenText Migrate Achieves AWS Outposts Ready Designation

    OpenText Migrate is trusted by enterprise customers and global systems integrators to move complex, integrated, mission-critical systems

    Waterloo, ON – 2021-3-18 – OpenText™ (NASDAQ: OTEX), (TSX: OTEX), today announced that that OpenText™ Migrate (formerly Carbonite Migrate) has achieved the AWS Outposts Ready designation, part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Service Ready Program. This designation recognizes that OpenText Migrate has demonstrated successful integration with AWS Outposts deployments. AWS Outposts is a fully managed service that extends AWS infrastructure, AWS services, APIs, and tools to virtually any datacenter, co-location space, or on-premises facility for a truly consistent hybrid experience.

    “We know the importance of helping customers and organizations to more easily migrate their applications and data to a modern cloud infrastructure,” said Joshua Burgin, General Manager, AWS Outposts, Amazon Web Services, Inc. “With OpenText Migrate, customers can seamlessly migrate to a modern cloud infrastructure while still keeping those applications on premises using AWS Outposts.”

    OpenText Migrate allows organizations to easily migrate physical, virtual and cloud workloads to AWS infrastructure including AWS Outposts with minimal risk and near-zero downtime. Customers can orchestrate every stage of the process with OpenText Migrate via finely tuned automation options to deliver:

    • Continuous data replication that minimizes downtime and enables fast cutover
    • Unlimited testing of the new environment without disrupting operations
    • Downtime reduced to minutes or seconds as you cut over to the new server
    • Data, files and system settings that are replicated reliably

    The AWS Outposts Ready designation signifies that OpenText Migrate is generally available and fully tested on AWS Outposts with strong support and clear deployment documentation. It also shows that OpenText Migrate has been successfully integrated with AWS services, and that OpenText can help AWS customers evaluate and use their technology productively, at scale and varying levels of complexity.

    “OpenText Migrate provides a reliable and repeatable way to move critical workloads of any size,” said OpenText Chief Product Officer Muhi Majzoub. “Migrate ensures safe, predictable cutover windows, minimizing the chance of downtime that is commonly associated with moving large quantities of data. Our team is dedicated to helping companies migrate their mission-critical workloads to leverage the agility, breadth of services, and pace of innovation that AWS provides.”

    For more information on OpenText Migrate, click here.

    About OpenText

    OpenText, The Information Company™, powers business transformation through market leading information management solutions, on-premises or in the cloud. For more information about OpenText (NASDAQ: OTEX, TSX: OTEX) visit www.opentext.com.

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    Certain statements in this press release may contain words considered forward-looking statements or information under applicable securities laws. These statements are based on OpenText’s current expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections about the operating environment, economies, and markets in which the company operates. These statements are subject to important assumptions, risks and uncertainties that are difficult to predict, and the actual outcome may be materially different. OpenText’s assumptions, although considered reasonable by the company at the date of this press release, may prove to be inaccurate and consequently its actual results could differ materially from the expectations set out herein. For additional information with respect to risks and other factors which could occur, see OpenText’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and other securities filings with the SEC and other securities regulators. Unless otherwise required by applicable securities laws, OpenText disclaims any intention or obligations to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

    Copyright © 2021 OpenText. All Rights Reserved. Trademarks owned by Open Text.  One or more patents may cover this product(s). For more information, please visit https://www.opentext.com/patents.

  • Digital Guardian Extends Endpoint DLP to Microsoft Teams, Slack, Skype, and Zoom

    Digital Guardian meets customer demand for greater visibility and control of top communications and collaboration apps

    WALTHAM, Mass., March 18, 2021 – Digital Guardian, a leader in data loss prevention (DLP) and managed detection and response (MDR), today announced the release of DLP policy packs for top business communications and collaboration applications, Microsoft Teams, Skype, Slack, and Zoom.  The new policy packs help Digital Guardian customers enable secure communications and collaboration wherever employees are working by monitoring and controlling sensitive data sharing within these solutions.

    The policy packs are free to all Digital Guardian customers and allow greater control over messages, file sharing and user actions in these increasingly popular applications. Using real-time, rule-based actions provided in the policy packs, system administrators can automatically block users from sharing confidential or sensitive files on both corporate and personal collaboration app accounts. Administrators can customize these rules to fit the needs of their organization. For example, they may permit authorized users to share sensitive files on organization-approved collaboration applications or simply warn users that they are about to share sensitive information.

    “The work-from-anywhere environment has necessitated greater use of collaboration apps putting strain on IT teams to manage the increased risk of data egress,” said Ben Cody, Senior Vice President, Product Management. “With the addition of Digital Guardian’s collaboration policies, we’re enabling busy security analysts to easily regain control of their users’ messaging behavior and mitigate risky data sharing.”

    Essential Communications & Collaboration Use Cases Covered

    The new policy packs cover these popular applications and use cases:

    Microsoft Teams

    • Control all file uploads to MS Teams (teams.exe).
    • Control classified file uploads to MS Teams (teams.exe).
    • Control file uploads to MS Teams (teams.exe) from the user’s online OneDrive account.
    • Control MS Teams (teams.exe) chats that contain classified content.

    Slack

    • Control all file uploads by Slack (slack.exe).
    • Control classified file upload by Slack (slack.exe).
    • Control Slack (slack.exe) chats that contain classified content.

    Zoom

    • Control file downloads in Zoom (zoom.exe).
    • Control all file uploads in Zoom (zoom.exe).
    • Control classified file uploads in Zoom (zoom.exe).
    • Control Zoom ability to share screen.

    Skype

    • Control all file uploads to Skype (skype.exe).
    • Control classified file uploads to Skype (skype.exe).
    • Control Skype (skype.exe) chats that contain classified content.

    These policies are available at no cost to all Digital Guardian customers and included as part of the existing Windows DLP Control Policy Pack. Customers can access the content packs on the Content Server and can download documentation by visiting the Digital Guardian support portal and searching for the Content Server User Guide.

    About Digital Guardian

    Digital Guardian is no-compromise data protection. The company’s cloud-delivered data protection platform is purpose-built to stop data loss by both insiders and outsiders on Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems. The Digital Guardian Data Protection Platform performs across the corporate network, traditional endpoints, and cloud applications. For more than 15 years, we have enabled data-rich organizations to protect their most valuable assets with a choice of SaaS or fully managed deployment. Digital Guardian’s unique policy-less data visibility and flexible controls enable organizations to protect data without slowing the pace of their business. To learn more please visit: https://digitalguardian.com/

     

     

  • Harness Commits New Dev Experience to its Continuous Integration Open Source Community

    Harness CI Community Edition (aka Drone) now includes pipeline execution visualizations, live debugging capabilities, and enterprise-grade security and governance

    SAN FRANCISCO – March 18, 2021 – Harness, the leading platform for software delivery, today announced major updates to its open source module, Harness Continuous Integration (CI) Community Edition (formerly Drone.io). Along with a new dev experience and user interface designed to mirror Harness’ industry-leading Software Delivery Platform, today’s release provides open source contributors with new pipeline execution visualizations, advanced governance and security controls, and live CI pipeline debugging capabilities, to build and test code in record time.

    Today’s software development and engineering teams waste hours of valuable time and resources waiting on pipeline builds, only to scramble to find a solution when one breaks. To mitigate this frustrating and time consuming cycle, Harness enhanced its marquee open source CI module, with a series of updates that allow developers to quickly respond to failures and create a shorter path back to innovation. Rebranded as Harness CI Community Edition, if a build does break, the developer is now presented with a link to the failed CI server allowing them to debug with ease.

    “Following the acquisition of Drone, Harness made it our mission to provide the OSS community with the investment and tools they need to simplify and accelerate software delivery,” said Brad Rydzewski, CEO and founder of Drone.io. “We’re proud to not only deliver on that message and meet the needs of today’s overburdened engineer, but do so with features that surpass proprietary vendors.”

    Today’s news marks Harness’ first major contribution to the open source software community following its acquisition of Drone in August 2020. Since Drone was founded in 2013, it has earned more than 100 million downloads from DockerHub, boasts 50,000 active monthly users, and is the most ‘liked’ CI/CD project on GitHub with 21,319 likes – 5,500 more than Jenkins, 13,000 more than Spinnaker, and 18,000 more than Jenkins-X. Additional updates to Harness CI Community Edition include:

    • New Dev Experience: A sleek, modern user interface designed to match other Harness product modules creates a smooth transition for developers working between Harness modules.

    • Pipeline Execution Visualizations: Developers can understand exactly what pipeline steps are executing, when, and in what order – all using a visual map. This is an easier and faster way of tracking complex pipelines than reviewing them as text in log files.

    • Live CI Pipeline Debugging: Debugging builds that work on developers’ computers and not on the CI server can be a time consuming and difficult undertaking. With live CI pipeline debugging, developers can solve build failures occurring on CI instances quickly.

    • Enhanced Governance & Security: Managers no longer need to add users and control access to pipelines via a command line or the API. The CI system is managed in a faster and less complicated user interface that is also scalable.

    Harness will continue to invest, innovate and support the open source community with additional OSS announcements planned for 2021. To learn more about Harness CI Community Edition, visit https://harness.io/.

    About Harness

    Based in San Francisco, Harness is the only end-to-end platform for complete software delivery designed to provide a simple, safe and secure way for engineering and DevOps teams to release applications into production. Harness uses machine learning to detect the quality of deployments and automatically roll back failed ones, saving time and reducing the need for custom scripting and manual oversight. Harness customers include NCR, Kohl’s, Discover Financial, Nationwide Insurance and McAfee. Follow Harness on Twitter or try Harness for free at harness.io.

  • Immersive Labs Chooses Global Channel-First Strategy With 50 New Partners And Transparent Structure

    Fast-scaling Human Cyber Readiness company, funded by Goldman Sachs and Summit Partners, accelerates with simple, flat-structured channel program

    BOSTON, MA — March 18, 2021 — Immersive Labs, the company empowering organizations to increase, measure and demonstrate human cyber capabilities, today unveiled its channel-first approach. With 50 new partners, a ‘tier free’ program designed to cut out complexity, and a new partner portal, the company will use it to springboard into primary territories worldwide, including North America, South America and EMEA.

    The Immersive Labs Partner Program focuses on simplicity and is offered in a flat structure with no complex ‘precious metals’, caveats or overly prescriptive guidelines. In addition to this transparent approach, partners get access to a new portal for tracking and registering activity as well as also offering training, marketing assets and special events.

    The global partner program aims to increase the growing number of organizations using Immersive Labs to increase, measure and demonstrate human cyber capabilities.

    With a platform that upskills security, engineering and senior management teams, as well as helping hire relevant diverse talent, Immersive Labs improves and measures specialist cybersecurity skills across the entire organization.  Customers currently include Citigroup, Daimler, Bain Capital and KPMG, amongst many others.

    “Threat actors continue to up their game across the board, making it more important than ever to ensure the skills levels of an organization’s defenders, responders and decision makers keep pace,“ said James Hadley, CEO of Immersive Labs.  “These skills are still in critical shortage around the globe, which is why we are growing at a strong pace, a demand we hope our channel partners can help us fulfill.”

    “We designed a channel program specifically to help us fulfill demand in a low-friction, simple to implement strategy,” said Jake Alosco, Senior Director Global Channels at Immersive Labs. “As organizations look to transform and develop a culture of security training, our channel partners are incentivized with an easy ramp-up, quick selling techniques, and no barriers to entry.”

    For more information on Immersive Labs Channel Partner Program, you can visit www.immersivelabs.com/partners/

    About Immersive Labs
    Immersive Labs is empowering organizations to equip, exercise, and evidence human cyber capabilities. We provide metrics that give security leaders insight into human cyber skills and readiness levels across their organization and improve these through dynamic labs and crisis scenarios which track the threat landscape.  Immersive Labs is backed by Goldman Sachs and Summit Partners and our customers include some of the largest companies in financial services, healthcare, and government, amongst others. For more information on Immersive Labs’ offering, please visit www.immersivelabs.com.

     

  • PagerDuty to Offer European Data Hosting

    PagerDuty responds to European customer growth with regional data solution

     

    SAN FRANCISCO – March 17, 2021 – PagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE:PD), a global leader in digital operations management, today announced plans to offer customers a new European hosting option for data assets, including customer-generated data, based on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

    PagerDuty helps companies manage time sensitive mission critical work and keep digital services always on. It enables teams who build and run digital systems to detect, diagnose and resolve issues fast – using machine learning to pinpoint problems and automate action. Customers include over 60% of the Fortune 100 and the likes of Vodafone, SAP, The Telegraph Group, GE, Cisco and Zoom.

    “SAP is dedicated to maintaining an always-on cloud infrastructure for our customers. PagerDuty’s innovative and agile approach to incident management has helped make this possible by reducing response and resolution times for our Cloud operations teams,” said Elamurian Rajagopal, head of service desk and network operations center at SAP. “We are excited by this new data center option as it adds yet another layer of regional support to PagerDuty’s service offering.”

    European customers using PagerDuty’s European data hosting will be able to achieve the same high levels of reliability they have come to expect of PagerDuty’s leading enterprise class platform and reduce any potential data latency issues.

    “PagerDuty has significantly improved the way we manage our SRE/Support & Operations activities,” said Lucian Craciun, head of technology at The Telegraph. “With aspects of the service now being offered directly from a European location, we are pleased to see continued investment in making this critical service more resilient, robust and performant.”

    PagerDuty’s regional data hosting option enables its growing European customer base, including those in highly regulated markets such as financial services, public sector, and healthcare, as well as Managed Service Providers, to meet the growing demand for PagerDuty’s solutions across the region.

    Sean Scott, chief product officer at PagerDuty comments, “We take data protection very seriously and work with all our customers in the EU and throughout the world to address their needs and concerns while also complying with local policy such as a GDPR. PagerDuty has set the bar consistently high when it comes to service reliability, redundancy and availability with service level agreements, no maintenance windows and three nines availability. This will be no different for EU users who can continue to deliver their customers a perfect experience every time.”

    PagerDuty handles the critical work of keeping digital services running perfectly, in a time when digital is the forefront of how companies serve their customers.

    “In today’s world, the need for resilient cloud-based geographic capacity is of great importance,” said Roy Illsley, chief analyst cloud and data center at Omdia. “PagerDuty’s European data center expansion plan will enable it to meet these needs and deliver a better customer experience. Omdia has seen an increase in demand for cloud-based services as organizations recognize that to meet the new velocity of business change its technology must be both agile and flexible.”

    PagerDuty expects regional services to be available to new customers from the second half of 2021 onwards.

    About PagerDuty, Inc.

    PagerDuty, Inc. (NYSE:PD) is a leader in digital operations management. In an always-on world, organizations of all sizes trust PagerDuty to help them deliver a perfect digital experience to their customers, every time. Teams use PagerDuty to identify issues and opportunities in real time and bring together the right people to fix problems faster and prevent them in the future. Notable customers include GE, Cisco, Genentech, Electronic Arts, Cox Automotive, Netflix, Shopify, Zoom, DoorDash, Lululemon and more. To learn more and try PagerDuty for free, visit www.pagerduty.com. Follow our blog and connect with us on Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and Facebook.

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  • Incredibuild Announces $140M in Funding as Cloud Transformation Turbocharges Software Development Cycles

    • Investment by Insight Partners follows a year of increased product development and 55% growth in revenue
    • Incredibuild solves the time to market challenge for customers including Microsoft, Amazon, Citibank, Adobe, Disney, Intel, Samsung, EPIC Games, and Nintendo

     

    Tel Aviv, Israel March 17th, 2021. Incredibuild, the software development acceleration platform, today announced a $140 million investment from ScaleUp investor Insight Partners. The investment, which includes both primary and secondary components,  will help expand Incredibuild’s US operations to meet the rapidly growing demand for its software development acceleration technology. The company, which has been profitable from day one, experienced a 55% increase in revenue in the past year as businesses seek the ability to build and ship software versions faster without compromising on quality. Lead investor Insight Partners is joining Fortissimo Capital who acquired Incredibuild in 2018.

     

    Incredibuild provides an out-of-the box platform that harnesses the power of compute to distribute processes across idle power in a network, thereby allowing companies to maintain a competitive edge by releasing better software faster. Built for both the cloud and on-premise environments, Incredibuild helps solve the time to market challenge and reduce compute costs by up to 30%. Over 800 customers, including Microsoft, Amazon, Citibank, Barclays, Adobe, Disney, Intel, Samsung, EPIC Games, and Nintendo, use Incredibuild to accelerate the development cycle, from code compilation to testing to release automation. The investment signals strong confidence in the value of Incredibuild’s technology to its existing customer base, and a promise for continued product innovation and strong customer support going forward.

     

    “In fiercely competitive markets, top quality frequent releases are vital,” said Tami Mazel Shachar, CEO of Incredibuild, who has been accelerating the company’s growth since joining a little over a year ago. “With the new funding, Incredibuild is poised to expand the market opportunity, enabling companies to maintain their competitive edge. With cloud adoption being paramount, we plan to further scale and evolve our software development acceleration platform for development teams and release managers in verticals such as finance, gaming, and the growing AR and VR markets.”

     

    Investor Insight Partners has an impressive track record of scaling up companies in the development space, such as JFrog and Docker. Insight deploys their ScaleUp engine, Onsite, to partner with companies across functional business areas to help them become market leaders. Insight Partners’ Managing Directors Teddie Wardi and Lonne Jaffe and Senior Associate Brad Fiedler will be joining Incredibuild’s Board of Directors.

     

    “We firmly believe that Incredibuild has built a crucial technology for any business that wants to develop better software, radically faster,” said Teddie Wardi, Managing Director at Insight Partners. “With our long history of investing in the development ecosystem, we are confident that Incredibuild will continue to innovate and build upon their recent momentum.”
    “Fortissimo bought Incredibuild in 2018 with belief in the enormous potential of distributed processing,” said Yoav Hineman, Partner at Fortissimo Capital and board member of Incredibuild. “The investment by Insight Partners is a great milestone in delivering unparalleled acceleration for software developers”

     

    About Incredibuild
    Incredibuild turbocharges development with our Virtualized Distributed Processing™ technology that turns every host into a supercomputer with hundreds of cores. Incredibuild seamlessly distributes processes across idle processors in the network on-prem and dynamically allocates cloud capacity based on availability and cost. Using the same code, processes, and tools, developers and managers accelerate product development with 8x faster builds, 80% shorter release cycles, and 4x the number of iterations, consistently releasing better products to market radically faster.

     

    About Insight Partners
    Insight Partners is a leading global venture capital and private equity firm investing in high-growth technology and software ScaleUp companies that are driving transformative change in their industries. Founded in 1995, Insight Partners has invested in more than 400 companies worldwide and has raised through a series of funds more than $30 billion in capital commitments. Insight’s mission is to find, fund, and work successfully with visionary executives, providing them with practical, hands-on software expertise to foster long-term success. Across its people and its portfolio, Insight encourages a culture around a belief that ScaleUp companies and growth create opportunity for all. For more information on Insight and all its investments, visit insightpartners.com or follow us on Twitter @insightpartners.
    About Fortissimo
    Fortissimo Capital Fund is a private equity group, established in 2004, that invests primarily in technology and industrial companies and works with management to expedite growth. Fortissimo raised $1.6 billion across five funds. A few notable portfolio companies that the fund exited include: SodaStream (later sold to Pepsi), Kornit Digital, Diptech (sold to Ferro), Nur Macroprinters (sold to HP), AOD (sold to Primus), Cadent (sold to Align), Biological Industries (sold to Sartorius), and Starhome (sold to Tomia Global).