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  • SwaggerHub Experiences Record Growth as Businesses Rely on Digital During Pandemic

    Multiple international standards bodies and ecommerce enterprises are rapidly digitizing and prioritizing API development and adoption

     

    SOMERVILLE, Mass. — Dec. 10, 2020 — SmartBear, a leading provider of software development and quality tools, announced record growth in 2020 for its SwaggerHub API development platform as companies accelerated digital initiatives and fast-tracked API adoption due to the pandemic. In the 2020 State of API Report released by SmartBear in August, developers expressed a strong preference for SwaggerHub, the team-based, integrated API design and documentation platform built on OpenAPI/Swagger.

    APIs defined the new digital era of 2020, as organizations worldwide have had to rely on digital tools to reimagine how we live and work amidst a global pandemic,” said Joanna Schloss, Vice President of Product Marketing at SmartBear. “SwaggerHub, with its OpenAPI spec foundation, accelerated and almost doubled its growth from the previous year and has continued to set the standard for API development globally.”

    SwaggerHub is the integrated API development platform built for teams, from small development shops to large multinational enterprises, to drive standardization and secure collaboration throughout the API lifecycle. Where Swagger is designed to meet the needs of the individual developer, SwaggerHub fosters API collaboration and standardization across multiple teams.

    The industry’s leading API design and documentation platform marked numerous accomplishments this year. Early on, SwaggerHub was named a 2020 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Full Life Cycle API Management. It also won the 2020 API Award for Best in API Infrastructure.

    SmartBear also announced the integration of its API quality platform, ReadyAPI with SwaggerHub in October. Streamlining the process of logging into SwaggerHub from ReadyAPI and storing information for re-use when performing actions against SwaggerHub, the integration yields the most comprehensive, powerful API tooling for all stages of the API lifecycle.

    Last month, SmartBear released SwaggerHub extension for Visual Studio (VS) Code, expanding the development options for API designers. It is now available in addition to SwaggerHub Code Editor, SwaggerHub Visual Editor, and SwaggerHub CLI Tool.

    Globally, development teams use SwaggerHub to bring high quality applications to market faster, including more than 100,000 API practitioners in more than 40,000 organizations and 200,000 API projects. In addition, the Swagger/OpenAPI open source initiative, supported by SmartBear, also saw record growth in 2020. Average monthly downloads grew from approximately 300k per month in 2019 to 400k per month in 2020 and continues to climb.

    For more information on SwaggerHub, visit: https://swagger.io/tools/swaggerhub/.

    About SmartBear
    At SmartBear, we focus on your one priority that never changes: quality. We know delivering quality software over and over is complicated. So our tools are built to streamline your process while seamlessly working with the products you use – and will use. Whether it’s TestComplete, Swagger, Cucumber, ReadyAPI, Zephyr, or one of our other tools, we span from test automation, API design, collaboration, performance testing, test management, and more. Whichever you need, they’re easy to try, easy to buy, and easy to integrate. We’re used by 15 million developers, testers, and operations engineers at 24,000+ organizations – including world-renowned innovators like Adobe, JetBlue, FedEx, and Microsoft. Wherever you’re going, we’ll help you get there. Learn more at smartbear.com, or follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook.

     

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  • Bionic Emerges from Stealth with $17 Million in Funding to Empower Enterprises with Application Intelligence

    Battery Ventures and Cyberstarts Leads Investment in Application Intelligence Platform that  Helps Enterprises Control Application “Chaos”

    PALO ALTO, California – December 10, 2020 – Bionic, the application intelligence company, today emerged from stealth with $17 million in funding and an innovative platform that gives enterprises the ability to understand and control the chaos created by the onslaught of application changes pushed to production every day.  Bionic is already helping IT, operations, and security teams at global financial services and technology companies operate and protect applications more efficiently than ever before, doing in minutes what previously took days or weeks.

    Founded in 2019 by CEO Idan Ninyo and CTO Eyal Mamo, Bionic has raised a total of $17 million in funding. The Series A round was led by Battery Ventures’ investors Dharmesh Thakker and René Bonvanie. Thakker is a Battery General Partner while Bonvanie is an Executive in Residence and CMO Emeritus of Palo Alto Networks. As part of the investment, Bonvanie joined Bionic’s Board of Directors which currently includes early investors Gili Raanan of Cyberstarts, and Michael Fey, former president of Symantec and Blue Coat. Additional investors in Bionic include Don Duet, former CTO at Goldman Sachs, Sameer Jain, former CIO of Barclays, and Ariel Maislos, founder of Passave and Anobit.

    “Enterprise application environments are becoming increasingly complex as the pace of development only continues to accelerate. Bionic is all about controlling application chaos. We do that by delivering a holistic view of all applications and their architecture, closing visibility gaps while enabling action and policy enforcement,” said Bionic CEO and co-founder Idan Ninyo.

    “Application architectures are rapidly transforming, and IT, operations, and security teams are hard pressed to ensure proper governance,” said Bob Laliberte, Practice Director and Senior Analyst at ESG. “Bionic delivers application intelligence across any architecture, infrastructure, or location. Legacy manual methods of obtaining application visibility are simply not up to the task, requiring countless hours of manual effort that is essentially wasted, as the results are outdated as soon as they are completed. Bionic is delivering a continuously updated, single source of truth for the entire application environment.”

    Bionic’s application intelligence platform is the first in the industry to automatically reverse engineer applications, delivering a comprehensive inventory with architecture and dataflows, monitoring critical changes in production, and enabling developer guardrails to enforce architecture. Bionic is agentless and works across all environments, from on-premises monolithic applications to hosted cloud-native microservices. Fully automated and deployed within minutes, even in the largest enterprises, Bionic is enabling IT and security teams to take control of application chaos.

    “Very few enterprises have a handle on their applications. Bionic has built a platform that is truly unique, using automation and advanced reverse engineering capabilities to deliver the pervasive visibility and controls enterprises need to reduce operational risk and remediate security gaps of applications before they are deployed to production,” said Gili Raanan, general partner and founder for Cyberstarts and Sequoia Capital (Israel).

    “Our business is becoming dependent on our ability to continuously release new software and enterprise applications. Automatically understanding the architecture of applications enables organizations to enforce secure architecture at scale and streamline compliance audits,” added Matthew Mccormack, CISO at a global pharmaceutical company.

    “Very few IT, operations, or security team members can tell you how many applications there are, let alone how they work. Manual approaches to investigate and understand applications are slow, incomplete, and rife with guesswork. Since slowing down development is not an option, Bionic was founded to empower IT and security teams so they can control the chaos,” said René Bonvanie, Battery Ventures Executive in Residence and CMO Emeritus of Palo Alto Networks.

    Bionic’s application intelligence platform is available today. For more information, please visit www.bionic.ai.

    About Bionic

    Bionic, the leader in application intelligence, gives enterprises control over the chaos created by the onslaught of new and updated applications pushed to production every day. The company’s agentless platform empowers teams to manage, operate and protect applications more efficiently than ever before, doing in minutes what previously could not be done in months. Bionic works across all environments, from on-premises monolithic applications to hosted cloud-native microservices, is completely automated, and deploys within minutes, even in the largest enterprises. Founded in 2019, Bionic is based in Palo Alto, CA and Tel Aviv. For more information, please visit Bionic at www.bionic.ai or follow us on Twitter @bionic_aip, LinkedIn and Facebook.

     

  • Tasktop Enhances Tasktop Viz™ with New Data Analytics and Automation Features

    Bridging the optimization gap between software teams and business leadership with real-time visibility and data analytics across end-to-end value streams

    VANCOUVER, BC., December 9, 2020 – Tasktop, the value stream management company creating the universal integration and visualization standard for value stream management, today announced significant enhancements for Tasktop Viz™, the company’s solution for connecting software delivery to business outcomes. This new set of data analytics features provide instant results through real-time, data-driven metrics, as well as on-demand expert advice for anyone within a large organization to make informed decisions and deliver desired business outcomes.

    “Tasktop customers are benefiting from our 14 years of expertise in aligning software development and business through innovation,” said Nicole Bryan, Chief Product Officer at Tasktop. “We are dedicated to delivering the best-in-class solution for helping traditional companies deliver software with the speed and efficiency of digital natives, providing value to their customers even as tools and workflows evolve. Tasktop Viz was specifically designed to give our customers actionable visibility into complex workflows with minimal effort, and these new features further strengthen our offering.”

    What’s new in Tasktop Viz:

    • Leading Indicator Analytics: This feature displays directly on the platform’s dashboard, alerting business leaders to problems impacting the speed and productivity of the company’s value streams. There are three key areas that are tracked:

      • Neglected Work in Progress (WIP) helps preserve customer’s trust by alerting business leaders when only a small fraction of committed work is progressing to completion

      • Predicted Flow Time Increase alerts and informs business leaders’ work intake strategy in cases when time-to-market is predicted to increase

      • Months to Complete WIP accurately projects how long existing commitments will take to complete and discourages leaders from extending beyond the value stream’s current capacity

    • Embedded Flow Advisory: Dashboards now include on-demand tutorials and access to advisory from top-notch VSM experts. The embedded flow advisory allows value streams to take action based on the data and remove constraints impeding business value delivery.

    • Smart Model Application: This new automation feature utilizes real-time pattern matching to instantly map hundreds of native artifact statuses to the standardized value stream Flow States that feed into Flow Metrics.

    • Product Portfolio Structures: Similar to planning and reporting tools, this new feature reflects the way portfolios and organizations are structured, so business leaders can view products within their context, navigate to them logically and group them for easy executive visibility.

    “Enterprise agility can be hard to achieve: old habits die hard, even under the glossy new surface of agile operating procedures and cadences, but that can be hard to see and catch,” says Tasktop CEO Dr. Mik Kersten. “Tasktop Viz holds up a mirror to product value streams, making it possible to observe and measure the mechanics for delivering a product to market.”

    Tasktop Viz launched in March 2020 to enable traditional businesses to transform into high-performing tech companies by instantly providing an outside lens for accelerating software delivery.

    For more information about Tasktop Viz, visit www.tasktop.com/viz.

    About Tasktop:

    Tasktop’s value stream management platform enables enterprises to master software at scale. Leading brands, including half of the Fortune 100, use Tasktop to provide real-time visibility into the health of product value streams, allowing them to make better decisions and align with business goals. Tasktop plugs into existing tools and overlays the end-to-end value stream to provide the abstractions, automations, visualizations and forensics needed to practice value stream management on a daily basis.

    For more information, visit us https://www.tasktop.com/.

  • CLSA Deploys GigaSpaces InsightEdge Across Worldwide Data Centers to Power Their Digital Transformation

    InsightEdge Smart Operational Data Store is CLSA’s single source of truth for a full range of algorithmic trading and real-time client facing applications

    New York, NY — December 9, 2020 — GigaSpaces, the leading provider of in-memory computing platforms that drive digital transformation, announced that CLSA, Asia’s leading capital markets and investment group, has deployed GigaSpaces In-Memory Computing Platform for algorithmic trade execution and for all client and exchange-facing management systems.  GigaSpaces InsightEdge Smart Operational Data Store (ODS), a Digital Integration Hub (DIH), reduces algorithmic trading response time and manages 3-4 million transactions per day worth billions of US dollars that are executed in over 12 countries. Founded in 1986 and headquartered in Hong Kong, CLSA operates from 22 cities across Asia, Australia, the Americas and Europe, with access to major Stock Exchanges and the bulk of alternative liquidity venues, providing truly global execution services to clients.

    “GigaSpaces is a high-performance, reliable data source that enables us to innovate and deliver real-time services as part of our digital transformation initiatives,” said Eugene Kanevsky, Co-Head of Trading & Execution Services at CLSA. “The platform processes and stores the firm’s transactional data and provides millisecond response time for our global trading teams and customers, driving business profitability.”

    GigaSpaces’ unparalleled speed and elastic scale is derived from a high performance, distributed in-memory compute and storage engine that co-locates business logic and data in-memory and supports dynamic server-side aggregations. The ACID compliant platform ensures strong consistency which is required for any transactional trading platform.

    CLSA utilizes the platform’s event-driven architecture and unified API layer for all of its applications and analytics which simplifies the system architecture, lowers TCO and accelerates time-to-market.

    “We are proud to serve CLSA and power their innovative digital services and fast-growing business”, said Alon Weinstein, Regional Sales Director at GigaSpaces. “InsightEdge Smart Operational Data Store is designed for today’s cloud-native, real-time application and scaling needs which will support CLSA as they drive their digital transformation initiatives forward.”

    About CLSA 

    CLSA, CITIC Securities’ international platform, provides global investors and corporates with insights, liquidity and capital to drive their growth strategies.  Award-winning research, an extensive Asia footprint, direct links to China, and highly experienced finance professionals differentiate our innovative products and services in asset management, corporate finance, capital, and debt markets, securities, and wealth management.  As the international platform of CITIC Securities (SSE: 600030, SEHK: 6030), China’s largest investment bank, CLSA is uniquely positioned to facilitate cross-border capital flows and connect China with the world and the world to China.

    Founded in 1986 and headquartered in Hong Kong, CLSA’s global network spans 22 cities across Asia, Australia, Europe, and the United States.  For more information, visit www.clsa.com.

    About GigaSpaces

    The GigaSpaces InsightEdge portfolio delivers fastest, scalable and easiest to deploy in-memory computing platforms to meet the most challenging enterprise data and analytics processing needs for accelerating and scaling real-time applications, analytics and operational BI on any data, at any load, across any environment.

    One-click integrations with on-premise and cloud operational data stores, automatic data modeling, business-policy data tiering and AI-driven autonomous scaling reduce time-to-market and ensure rapid response times and highest performance levels, with lower TCO.
    Hundreds of Tier-1 and Fortune-listed organizations and OEMs across financial services, retail, transportation, telecom, healthcare, and more trust GigaSpaces for powering their mission critical services to optimize business operations, comply with regulations and enhance the customer experience.  GigaSpaces offices are located in the US, Europe and Israel with partners around the globe; serving customers such as Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, CSX, Goldman Sachs, Société Générale, Crédit Agricole, Avanza Bank, SITA, Avaya, Frequentis, CLSA, Groupe PSA and UBS.

    For more information visit www.gigaspaces.com and www.gigaspaces.com/blog/, follow us on Twitter, or visit our YouTube and LinkedIn channels.

  • Axellio and Garland Technology Partner to Mitigate Business Critical Vulnerabilities With Complete Visibility

    Partnership Provides Packet-Level Insights For Real-Time Data Analysis

    Colorado Springs, CO/New York, December 9, 2020 — Axellio, a leading innovator in high-performance network packet capture, storage, and analysis solutions, today announced a technology partnership with Garland Technology, a leading provider of network test access point (TAP), packet broker, and cloud visibility solutions. The joint solution is designed to provide exceptional visibility and analysis of organizations’ network traffic to dramatically improve the detection of cybersecurity threats.

    “Reliable packet level-visibility is essential to obtain accurate results from an organization’s monitoring infrastructure and to get to the root cause of any attack,” said Bill Miller, CEO, Axellio.  “However, as data volume exponentially grows within networks, this is a daunting challenge.  Axellio and Garland have solved this issue through a solution that captures data at extremely high rates without so much as one packet lost.  This eliminates any blind spots in networks, significantly improving their cybersecurity posture.”

    Axellio PacketXpress and Garland Technology’s visibility solutions come together to provide complete traffic data for detailed forensics on events while also buffering the monitoring and analysis infrastructure. Capturing and recording data up to 100Gbps sustained with zero packet loss, the solution extends the useful life of the network and security monitoring and analysis applications while reducing operating costs.

    “The majority of cyberattacks begin within the confines of the network, which is vulnerable to a wide range of risks. Creating end-to-end visibility eliminates dangerous blind spots and improves cybersecurity,” said Chris Bihary, CEO/Co-Founder, Garland Technology.  “We’re excited to work with Axellio to strengthen the security architecture where there may be vulnerabilities within an enterprise, the federal government, and military agency networks.”

    Integration Benefits:

    To eliminate the possibility of blind spots and allow for deep packet analysis, the Axellio and Garland Technology solution captures 100% of the packet data across any infrastructure. Once the data is captured and stored from Garland’s visibility solution of network TAPs and Advanced Aggregators, Axellio PacketXpress streamlines the analysis process, shortening time to resolution, providing rapid access to any pre-or post-event data for forensic analysis.

    Axellio PacketXpress, through its store-and-forward approach, smooths out traffic spikes by distributing captured traffic at controlled rates up to 100 Gbps that would otherwise overload monitoring applications and lead to data loss. This extends the useful life of the monitoring infrastructure, delaying necessary upgrades. For root cause and forensic analysis, Axellio PacketXpress also provides fast access to all packets pre-and post-event, replaying packets of interest to quickly determine the mitigation for any security breach.

    IT Ops and Sec Ops Benefits

    ●      Onboard data store-and-forward to smooth out traffic spikes that otherwise overload applications and lead to data loss.

    ●      Zero packet loss at sustained 100 Gbps for reliable real-time analysis that keeps up with traffic growth.

    ●      Accelerate time-to-root cause with streamlined analysis and fast access to all pre and post events.

    ●      Replay any traffic anytime for repeated scenario analysis or for validation of deployed mitigations.

    ●      Full visibility across your entire network – physical and virtual

    ●      Lowest footprint and cost to performance ratio in the industry.gs, CO, Axellio was spun-out in 2018 from an earlier company with a twenty-yea

    ●      Modular hardware and software configuration for extensible storage, memory, and processing.

    For more information on the Axellio and Garland joint solution and partnership, please visit garlandtechnology.com/axellio.

    About Axellio

    Axellio Inc. is a leading innovator in high-performance network packet capture, storage, and analysis solutions. Located in Colorado Sprinr legacy of innovation in enterprise IT high-performance storage solutions for commercial enterprise as well as aerospace and defense agencies. Axellio developed a unique solution for the most challenging problem in network and security operations: how to capture packets both economically and reliably for detailed analysis while providing efficient access to the data.  Learn more about Axellio at www.Axellio.com.
    About Garland 
    Garland Technology is an industry leader delivering network products and solutions for  enterprise, service providers, and government agencies worldwide. Since 2011, Garland  Technology has developed the industry’s most reliable test access points (TAPs) and packet  brokers, enabling data centers to address IT challenges and gain complete network  visibility. For more information, or learn more about the inventor of the first bypass TAP technology, visit GarlandTechnology.com or @GarlandTech.

  • RapidAPI Expands its Enterprise Hub Platform with New Enterprise Management Capabilities

    New Platform API, enhanced governance, and advanced customization features enable organizations to move to a next-generation API infrastructure

    SAN FRANCISCO- December 9, 2020 – RapidAPI today announced new enterprise management capabilities for RapidAPI Enterprise Hub, a next generation, white-labeled marketplace that enables developers and enterprises to find, connect to, and manage thousands of APIs. RapidAPI Enterprise Hub is a key component of a modern enterprise API infrastructure, integrating seamlessly with existing API gateways and management systems and enabling organizations to manage hundreds to thousands of APIs as well as multiple API types including SOAP, REST, and GraphQL. The latest update to RapidAPI Enterprise Hub includes a raft of enterprise management capabilities that enable organizations to integrate easily with their existing API environment, create enhanced governance and security policies, and customize and brand their white-labeled marketplaces to align with their business objectives.

    “As APIs become the essential tools for building software, enterprises have felt the urgency to evolve beyond their current API infrastructure,” said Iddo Gino, RapidAPI Founder and CEO. “RapidAPI Hub is built for the next-generation of APIs with a centralized platform that scales to support API growth while providing an abstraction layer that unifies an API development environment that often includes multiple API gateways, multi-cloud environments, and a diverse collection of developer tooling. The latest advanced API management capabilities provide the integration, governance, and security features needed to transition to a more efficient software development process that will enable companies to compete and survive in an environment of increasingly accelerating digital transformation and disruption.”

    RapidAPI’s Enterprise Hub can be deployed internally as a centralized hub for internal collaboration among API providers and consumers. Additionally, companies can use RapidAPI Enterprise Hub to develop branded, external marketplaces that enable customers and partners to also find and connect to their APIs. With the additional integrations, governance, customization and security capabilities now available, companies can accelerate innovation and bring software to market even faster and more efficiently.

    New Platform and Event APIs Enable Integration Across the API Infrastructure

    RapidAPI Enterprise Hub’s integration capabilities enable organizations to create an abstraction layer across their entire API environment to integrate to and expose APIs from multiple different API gateways and work seamlessly with existing development tooling. With the Platform and Event APIs, enterprises can build event-driven integrations that can trigger custom business logic. Using these integrations, enterprises can connect actions on RapidAPI Enterprise Hub to third-party gateways, CI/CD tools, management systems, analytics, or applications.

    For example, you can use the Platform API to centralize observability by syncing analytics from multiple gateways, with the ability to drill down to the API level. Or a discussion on RapidAPI’s Hub can trigger the Event API to send a message into a helpdesk system such as Zendesk. Then, the Platform API would be used to communicate a response back to RapidAPI’s Hub. By leveraging these integrations within RapidAPI Hub, the possibilities for integrating your API environment across your entire development pipeline are endless.

    Enhanced Governance Enables Fine-Grained Access Control and Management over API Usage

    New comprehensive governance, security, and management capabilities such as role-based access control (RBAC) and federated identity provide enhanced visibility and control over who publishes and consumes your APIs. With RapidAPI Hub, you can manage workflows and approvals, enforce OWASP authentication best practices, and manage API versioning.

    • Role-based Access Control (RBAC): Secure APIs and enforce access and usage policies by assigning permissions. Organizations can use this capability to create different roles for team members with varying permission levels. Additionally, they can manage permissions at the role, team, and environment level to restrict which users and organizations can view, edit, and publish APIs and applications as well as manage team memberships.
    • Enhanced Security: Enforce OWASP authentication best practices including two-factor authentication (2FA), hardened password requirements, and lockout after multiple incorrect login attempts.
    • Workflows/Approvals: Enable organization administrators to easily review and approve or deny requests for API access, RapidAPI Hub access, and API publishing with approval workflows.
    • IdP Integration – Integrate to any 3rd-party identity provider to support authentication with any identity layer including OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0, and SAML.
    • API Versioning – Increase efficiency for API providers and consumers to update APIs with improvements. With API versioning, you can simplify discovery and upgrades for API consumers by publishing updates as new versions within an existing API in the Hub dashboard and enabling developers to switch between versions from the Hub UI. Additionally, you can enhance visibility and control for API providers by managing multiple API versions from a single interface, with the ability to analyze usage at the aggregate and API level.

    Customization Features Enable Enterprises to Create a Branded Experience

    With RapidAPI Enterprise Hub, you can customize your white-labeled marketplace to reflect your brand identity and extend the RapidAPI Hub to meet specific business needs, whether it is for internal API consumption or for extending your APIs to partners and customers.

    • Theming: Customize your white-labeled marketplace to reflect your brand identity with a simple UI for theming updates (no coding required).
    • Custom Extensions: Extend Enterprise Hub with new tabs and custom developed applications enabling enterprises to highlight APIs and services in the Hub UI.

    Availability

    The new features and functionality are available with RapidAPI Enterprise Hub.

    For more information

    About RapidAPI

    RapidAPI, the world’s largest API Marketplace, is used by millions of developers to find, test, and connect to thousands of APIs – all with a single account, API key, and SDK. For enterprise organizations, RapidAPI offers RapidAPI Enterprise Hub, a white-labeled version of the marketplace that enables the company’s developers, customers, and partners to find, manage, and connect to hundreds of internal APIs, as well as external API subscriptions.

  • Momentum by Chorus.ai Transforms Deal & Relationship Visibility Inside Your CRM

    New capabilities deliver unparalleled Relationship Intelligence to help Revenue teams achieve their goals, faster

    SAN FRANCISCO – December 9, 2020 – Chorus.ai, the No. 1 Conversation Intelligence Platform for high growth  Revenue teams, today announced Momentum Insights, a transformational view into customer relationships, provided natively in the CRM. Momentum Insights harnesses the power of Conversation Intelligence to empower reps and their leaders to confidently engage with customers and ultimately close deals more quickly and easily—right from their CRM.

    “The Conversation, analyzed by AI, has been the missing link to understand relationships – the “R” in CRM. Momentum Insights will unlock learnings never before available from the CRM to harness the most valuable dataset available—conversations with customers,” said Jim Benton, CEO of Chorus.ai. “This will empower Revenue teams to solve complex problems which require strong relationships, and relationships ultimately drive revenue. Reps get exactly what they need to engage and personalize their efforts, while leadership is able to trust the unbiased data aggregated from each opportunity to inform critical business decisions.”

    CRMs are critical to how businesses operate, providing the system that aggregates countless data points and activities across customers and opportunities. However, it is challenging for Revenue leaders to uncover the most impactful information inside of the CRM, which is missing the true context of what is being discussed on the frontlines with customers. Chorus curates the most relevant information for Revenue teams – the details and progress of the relationship. Chorus’ purpose-built AI enables reps to prioritize the customer rather than administrative tasks and leaders to gain quick access to the knowledge needed to coach their team. With the new Momentum Suite, Chorus understands and surfaces actionable information on every interaction, allowing Revenue teams to:

    • Understand the Relationships that Drive Revenue. Deeply understand every customer with powerful Relationship Intelligence so you can better personalize interactions, more effectively engage with prospects and customers, and win business faster. Advanced AI uncovers what key topics were discussed in past interactions, and easily enables every team member to come up to speed and create world-class customer experiences.

    • Forecast with Confidence. Revenue teams can’t afford to rely on high-level forecasting numbers or intuition. With firsthand Conversation and Relationship Intelligence, leaders accurately plan their business through understanding each deal inside-out, just as if they were a part of every interaction from day one.

    • Pinpoint Actionable Opportunities. Cut through the activity clutter, and pinpoint exactly what interactions impact deal progression. Better manage deal and account reviews with AI that highlights focus areas and helps you build a repeatable formula for your team.

    • Conduct Smarter Pipeline Reviews. At a glance, understand how engagement activity correlates to deal outcomes that move your pipeline forward. Quickly reveal deal risks, critical moments and overall deal momentum to eliminate roadblocks for your team.

    Momentum Insights will be available in Q1, 2021. The Relationship Intelligence surfaced by Momentum takes Conversation Intelligence to the next level. Revenue teams that capitalize on Conversation Intelligence and the insights offered by both Momentum and the recently announced Outcome-Based Analytics will set their team up to win more competitive deals by truly understanding the needs of their buyers. To learn more, visit Chorus.ai.

    About Chorus.ai
    Chorus.ai is the No.1 Conversation Intelligence Platform for high-growth sales teams. Founded in 2015, Chorus.ai’s Conversation Intelligence Platform identifies and helps teams replicate the performance of top-performing reps by analyzing their sales meetings. These insights serve as the foundation of an effective coaching strategy for sales and customer success teams and provide insight into the voice-of-the-customer across the entire organization. Customers like Zoom, Mavenlink, Qualtrics, Adobe, and GitLab ramp new hires to productivity 30-50% faster and see an increase in quota attainment from 20-to-100%. Chorus.ai is headquartered in San Francisco, with offices in Tel Aviv and Boston.

  • Nylas Expands Platform to Include Intelligent Workflow Automations for Communications Data, Adds Slack and Twilio Executives as Board Advisors

    Developer API platform announces new capabilities to help companies quickly build productivity features in their applications and taps industry veterans for advisory board.

    SAN FRANCISCO, December 8, 2020 (Business Wire) — Nylas, a pioneer and leading

    provider of Productivity Infrastructure solutions for software development, today announced expansions to its developer API platform. These additions bring new AI-powered workflow automations triggered by the communications data that developers extract from their end-users’ inboxes, calendars, and contacts using Nylas’ industry-leading suite of APIs.

    Nylas’ new platform capabilities include the ability to extract and parse data from unstructured sources such as emails, images, and attachments; smart filtering, categorization, and routing of incoming messages to recipients based on criteria like importance and sender; detection of key information from users’ communications and enrichment of applications and databases; automated sending of emails with near-perfect deliverability rates; and secure synchronization of users’ interaction data with 3rd party systems.

    “To date, Nylas has helped over 50,000 developers worldwide quickly and securely build productivity features in their applications,” said Gleb Polyakov, CEO and Co-Founder of Nylas. “These new platform capabilities will allow developers to compose entirely new products and features that leverage the power of their users’ communications data while avoiding the cost and complexity of building their own integrations, workflows, and security features.”

    In addition to the new platform capabilities, Nylas also announced that Allan Leinwand, SVP of Engineering at Slack, and Marc Boroditsky, Chief Revenue Officer at Twilio, have joined the company as Board Advisors.

    “Nylas’ innovative approach to the developer API ecosystem has made it easy for companies of all sizes to launch new productivity features with unprecedented velocity,”  said Leinwand. “I’m excited to lend my experience to Nylas and help the team continue to make it easy for developers to bring new solutions to their customers without sacrificing performance, reliability, security, or scalability.”

    “The developer API economy has fundamentally transformed the way software is built and driven extraordinary economic value across nearly every industry,” said Boroditsky. “Nylas’ focus on fully-composable, API-defined solutions for improving end user productivity are unique, and I am happy to help with their go-to-market strategy.”

    These announcements come after the recent news of Nylas raising a $25M Series B financing round, the acquisition of New York-based start-up June.ai,  and the release of the first-ever program to simplify the Google OAuth verification process and security assessment for developers.

    For more information on Nylas’ new product capabilities, please visit nylas.com.

    About Nylas

    Nylas is a pioneer and leading provider of productivity infrastructure solutions for modern software. Over 50,000 developers worldwide use the Nylas platform to quickly and securely build productivity features into their applications. With Nylas, developers get unprecedented access to rich communications data from their end-users, pre-built workflows that automate everyday tasks, embeddable UI/UX components for fast front-end development, and comprehensive security features – all delivered via a suite of powerful APIs that make integration easy.

    Nylas was founded in 2013  and has raised over $55M to date from 8VC, Spark Capital, Slack, Citi Ventures, Round 13, ScaleUP, Data Collective, Fuel Capital, and SV Angel. Nylas customers span from large enterprises such as Ceridian, Hyundai, Fox News Corp, Hubspot, and Move.com to high-growth start-ups like Dialpad, Pipedrive, Lexicata, and Qualia. Learn more at www.nylas.com

  • Firebolt launches with $37 million in funding to redesign the cloud data warehouse experience

    New cloud data warehouse architecture provides an order of magnitude faster query performance utilizing far fewer cloud resources compared to alternatives

    Tel Aviv, Israel – December 9, 2020 – Firebolt, the world’s fastest cloud data warehouse, purpose-built for high performance analytics, today unveiled a new class of cloud data warehouse as a service and announced $37 million of financing. Firebolt delivers the fastest analytics performance  – up to 182 times faster than other data warehouses – for the most challenging data requirements at the multi-terabyte and petabyte scale, enabling higher performance with fewer cloud resources. Firebolt, thanks to its groundbreaking technology, allows companies to analyze much larger volumes of data than previously possible. This dramatically improves the ROI of collecting data and enables a myriad of new data-driven use cases with real business impact.

    The funding included participation from Zeev Ventures, TLV Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners and Angular Ventures.

    The global cloud analytics market is expected to grow to $65B by 2025, with increasing demand driven by vast digitization and the largest software public offering in history. Yet, current cloud data warehouse deployments struggle with performance and high costs, limiting their ability to address the needs of operations and customer-facing analytics. This issue has long been a pain point for Eldad Farkash and Saar Bitner, the founders of Firebolt. Eldad, Firebolt’s Co-founder & CEO, was previously the Co-founder & CTO of Sisense, one of the leading business intelligence products on the market. Saar, Firebolt’s Co-founder & COO, served as the GM & CMO at Sisense. They realized that with terabytes of data, cloud data warehouses could not scale to deliver the performance and efficiency companies needed to power their BI tools and analytics.

    Firebolt is the first cloud data warehouse that delivers a sub-second interactive analytics experience with terabytes to petabytes of data. It enables analysts, employees and end customers to gain the insights they need without having to wait for the results or worry about costs.

    “While companies can store massive amounts of data, most organizations are only able to analyze a fraction of that big data, and often find themselves looking at stale data that does not reflect the current state of their business,” said Firebolt Co-Founder & CEO Eldad Farkash. “For companies to flourish today, they need to move fast, and they should not be forced to make data compromises to achieve only a small part of the business value that their data holds. With Firebolt, organizations can finally gain the insights they need without breaking the bank.”

    Firebolt delivers multiple benefits that companies with growing data need and that existing cloud data warehouses do not provide, including:

    • The fastest cloud data warehouse: An order of magnitude faster performance at multi-terabyte/petabyte scale that enables anyone to interact with the data with sub-second performance.

    • End-to-end elastic scale: Built for AWS and with a lean, efficient, SQL query engine, Firebolt decouples storage and compute, allowing users to spin up multiple isolated compute resources on the same database. Firebolt is the only cloud data warehouse that takes the elasticity of the cloud to new levels by allowing granular control over hardware and scale, with the simplicity of a mouse click, for any type of data and analytics and any number of users.

    • 10x price-performance advantage: Firebolt enables more users to extract more value at a fraction of the cost of the alternatives through greater efficiency, complete choice of resources, and 100% cost transparency.

    “Firebolt created a SaaS product that changes the analytics experience over big data sets,” Oren Zeev of Zeev Ventures said. “The pace of innovation in the big data space has lagged the explosion in data growth, rendering most data warehousing solutions too slow, too expensive, or too complex to scale. Firebolt takes cloud data warehousing to the next level by offering the world’s most powerful analytical engine. This means companies can now analyze multi-terabyte/petabyte data sets easily at significantly lower costs and provide a truly interactive user experience to their employees, customers or anyone who needs to access the data.”

     

    About Firebolt

     

    Firebolt is the world’s fastest cloud data warehouse, purpose-built for high performance analytics. It provides orders of magnitude faster query performance at a fraction of the cost of the alternatives by combining the simplicity, elasticity and low cost of the cloud with the latest innovations in analytics. Companies that adopted Firebolt have been able to deploy data warehouses in weeks and deliver sub-second performance at terabyte to petabyte scale for a wide range of interactive, high performance analytics across analysts, employees and customers.

     

    Firebolt is founded by members of the original team at Sisense, a global BI leader, and backed by Zeev Ventures, TLV Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners and Angular Ventures.

  • Instana Announces Automatic Distributed Tracing Support for Java and Go on Lambda Serverless Infrastructure

    Solution Operates Independent of Serverless Platform APIs, Delivering Native Tracing for Python, Node.jx, Go and Java Across the Entire Environment

     

    Chicago – December 9, 2020 – Instana, a leading provider of APM and Observability Solutions for Cloud-Native and microservice applications, today announced the availability of automated tracing for Lambda functions written in Java or Go. Extending the already existing automatic tracing for Python and Node.js, Instana is the only solution to provide automatic native tracing of all 4 languages on Lambda.

    “Serverless platforms have represented a huge opportunity to minimize compute costs while continuing to deliver high performance mission critical business applications,” said Chris Farrell, Observability Strategist at Instana. “Instana’s end-to-end distributed tracing, enabled with just a configuration setting, delivers everything needed for observability, monitoring and troubleshooting in serverless environments.”

    Able to operate independently of infrastructure-based APIs like AWS X-Ray, Instana’s tracing for Go and Java delivers the same detail, functionality and information as its standard tracing capabilities. Not only does this provide a common methodology that allows better comparison, but also ensures that users have a full picture of transactions as they move across either serverless or standard workloads.

    Instana’s Enterprise Observability Platform, powered by automated Application Performance Monitoring, discovers and maps all services, infrastructure and their inter-dependencies automatically. Instana ingests all observability metrics, traces each request, profiles every process and updates application dependency maps in real time to deliver the context and actionable feedback needed by Dev+Ops to optimize application performance, enable innovation and mitigate risk to help them add value and efficiency to the pipeline.

    All distributed traces, regardless of infrastructure type, are included in Instana’s Unbounded Analytics, the only product-driven analytics engine that analyzes infrastructure and application monitoring metrics, distributed traces and process profiles together in one place, providing deep analysis of all important data on a single screen to help answer any question about application performance.

    Automatic Java and Go Tracing on Lambda is available today on all versions of Instana’s APM and Observability platform, delivering the quickest and easiest way to collect end-to-end distributed traces, no matter where they go. Learn more at https://instana.com.

    ABOUT INSTANA

    Instana is the leading provider of Observability and Application Performance Management solutions for Cloud-Native Microservice applications. The company’s Enterprise Observability Platform, powered by automated APM, ingests all observability metrics, traces every request and profiles all processes continuously and automatically, delivering the actionable information with full context to Dev+Ops to help them optimize their application performance and pipelines. Learn more at https://instana.com.