• Valor Water Analytics, a big
data company providing financial and conservation solutions for water utilities, has been acquired by Xylem (NYSE: XYL).
The same is true for accounting data, i.e.
the data companies provide in annual reports, press releases etc..
Not exact matches
It's unclear what, exactly, «classifed intelligence» means here, or what type of
data these
companies are
providing to the national security agencies.
These activities include the sale of online advertising space, the supply of platforms connecting users and suppliers of services and goods (probably meaning
companies such as Airbnb and Amazon), and the sale of
data derived from user -
provided information.
Investors in Bugcrowd's latest round of funding have privately valued the
company at $ 115 million, including the new funds raised, according to
data provided by Pitchbook, a site that tracks venture capital deals.
According to
data provided by Pitchbook, many of the top firms that invest in female - founded
companies tend to have women in senior - level roles themselves.
While analyzing said
data is proving to still be challenging, enterprise chatbots are able to
provide financial departments with algorithms that offer deeper insight into how the
company is performing, from sales to expenses, and virtually everything in between.
The
company applies its A.I. to a user's gameplay
data, and then, in an app,
provides actionable advice in easy - to - understand language.
The greatest advantage of the B2B collaboration technology is the amount of storage and ease in access
provided for the
data stored by a
company.
This
company's specialized sensor system
provides farmers with
data tracking evapotranspiration to guide irrigation decisions.
Laptops, Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), and Blackberries (wireless cell phone and PDA units) use wireless
data transfer technologies to
provide users with almost instant access to information stored on a
company's computer networks and servers from just about anywhere within reach of a cell phone tower or wireless Internet transmitter.
An analysis of a
company's debts, assets, and investments can
provide a solid picture of its credit worthiness, particularly when the
data are compared to a composite of
companies of similar size in similar industries.
In fact, organizations have already been effectively collecting and sharing
data for years with use of various systems of record, particularly in the area of sales, where CRM systems
provide a tremendous value through the shared
data allowing the
company to recognize sales opportunities that otherwise would have been missed.
The
company also collects and publishes click - fraud
data from its 3,000 customers,
providing a reality check on what the search engines claim.
He explained that some time ago he was conducting an empirical study of street prostitutes in the city of Chicago, and, through a connection at a
company he was consulting with, met a high - end call girl who had read «Freakonomics,» and who was willing to help him with his study by
providing data.
Analytics - focused
companies such as Umbel and comScore
provide granular audience
data that brands can segment and slice to generate highly targeted ads, down to the zip code and persona level.
It would like to be able to
provide prioritized mobile apps to
companies that are exempt from its
data caps.
The lawsuit filed against Facebook on behalf of the communications workers argues that the
company essentially plays the role of an employment agency — collecting and
providing data that helps employers locate candidates, effectively coordinating with the employer to develop the advertising strategies, informing employers about the performance of the ads, and so forth.
Joyent is one
company that has monetized its
data organization and collection services, using the public cloud and private cloud software to
provide businesses with a ready - made infrastructure for harnessing
data.
HEALTH BENEFITS PLATFORM INTEGRATES CLAIMS
DATA TO IMPROVE RECOMMENDATION ACCURACY: Castlight Health, a US healthcare information
company, has added a new feature to its Wellbeing Navigation app for employees that uses claims
data to
provide more accurate recommendations for health solutions.
Clearly the
data obsessed
company knows the dismal statistics on traditional training, so when it wanted to nudge their managers to
provide more psychological safety for their teams, they didn't call in an expert for a seminar or send everyone to an expensive but useless class.
Regardless, the
data, which was earlier reported on by Apple - tracking site 9to5Mac,
provides some insight into the feelings tech
company workers might have about this year's election.
This former consultant (Booz Allen and Price Waterhouse) has rocked the world of big
data with his eight - year - old firm, which
provides data and analytics services to a quarter of the
companies on the Fortune 500.
Steve Hafner, CEO of Kayak, talks about how mobile
provides the fare aggregator with greater amounts of
data, as well as the
company's AI push.
In 2013, Pinterest engineer Tracy Chou
provided an honest look at the underrepresentation of women at her
company, which helped spur other tech
companies to publish demographic
data.
-- Pete Butler, founder and CEO of MS
Companies, which leverages the gig economy and real - time
data to
provide a mobile, on - demand workforce matching.
Backblaze has always prided itself on
providing possibly the world's least - expensive service for backing up
data — $ 50 a year for unlimited storage — but its new product, called B2, targets
data that developers and
companies still want to access.
When marketers
provide timely information to help solve a problem, prospects are often willing to share more
data about themselves, their
company and the challenge they're facing.
Obama's proposed legislation tries to balance security needs with concerns by offering liability protection to
companies that
provide information in near real - time to the government, while requiring them to strip it of personal
data.
If investing in security doesn't
provide a visible enough return to convince your chief financial officer, just look to the statistics: in the past year, 43 percent of
companies have experienced a
data breach.
The
company, founded in 2007, has
provided for many years consumer backups (uploading your hard drive to the cloud), but had the technology built (their own self - built software and hardware to profitably create backup) that could handle large amounts of
data, but also make sure the
company still made money.
Tinti plans to stay competitive by focusing on
data management software that
provides a common ground between a
company's internal
data centers and those of cloud computing providers like Amazon (amzn) and Microsoft (msft), Harty explained.
The
company provides outside academics with access to its tools and
data points, which have been incorporated into independent peer - reviewed studies.
I don't think we're there yet in terms of getting it down to the one - to - one marketing level, but at least leveraging it for insights that can
provide better direction is the fact that, payments
companies have essentially customer behavior
data of purchases before and after someone leaves your store.
That's according to the Wall Street Journal, which looked at
data provided by real estate information
company Trulia.
You could mine the
data to conduct research and then sell your insights to other
companies as Gartner does with its tech
data,
providing customized research to IT clients to help them become industry leaders.
This year's list is the product of old - fashioned reporting, boosted by
data and insight supplied by a trio of independent research firms: Sageworks, which performs financial analyses of privately held
companies; Plunkett Research, a business intelligence firm that studies trends affecting the world's most vital industries; and IBISWorld, which
provides industry growth figures, five - year revenue projections, employment growth, profit margin averages, and industry competition ratings.
The fintech
company uses smart
data to
provide loans to consumers in a convenient and expedited manner, minimizing consumer effort and maximizing risk management.
Income statement forecasting
provides vital
data on how a
company is operating.
More than 50 percent of the ridesharing
company's drivers in the U.S. are over the age of 40 and more than 24 percent are over the age of 50, according to
data provided by Uber.
WBENC
provided Rothstein's $ 1 million dessert gifts
company with
data from more than 800
companies, including specific supplier diversity contacts.
Founded in 2004, Palantir is a venture capital - funded
company that
provides data analysis software, and whose clients include U.S. government agencies.
Startup Nautilus
Data Technologies is trying to develop a floating data center on a barge that it believes would save companies money on their energy bills by providing easy access to seawa
Data Technologies is trying to develop a floating
data center on a barge that it believes would save companies money on their energy bills by providing easy access to seawa
data center on a barge that it believes would save
companies money on their energy bills by
providing easy access to seawater.
Startup: Bluefin Labs Sale price: Estimated $ 50 million to $ 100 million Acquisition date: February 2013 What it is: A
data analytics
company that tracks social - media reaction to TV programs and
provides that
data to TV networks and advertisers.
Instead of offering a service that had become commoditized, the
company started
providing consulting on everything from manpower problems to
data interpretation.
Both
companies have been criticized, however, for not opening up their
data to cities and not
providing transit agencies with information that would help officials gauge the services» impact on transportation.
Comparably, a platform that
provides compensation
data for public and private
companies, launches today with $ 6.5 million in funding led by Crosslink Capital.
«But as a
data company that promised that extra-secret-sauce
data was going to be a breakthrough, they didn't really
provide that.»
The
company also announced an «analytics for wearables» program that will
provide data - driven intelligence to developers building wearables using its platform.
Such
companies generally set up shop in Ireland, which
provides generous tax breaks and has a fairly small
data protection authority.