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Birst integrated platform eliminates the need for separate ETL, data modeling, data prep & analytics tools

Infor, a global leader in business cloud software specialized by industry, announced it is partnering withSnowflake, the cloud data platform, to help enterprises build automated data warehouses using the Birst full-stack analytics and BI platform.

Birst is a single, integrated, end-to-end platform for building automated data warehouses natively on Snowflake, eliminating the need for separate ELT/ETL (extract, load & transform, and extract, transform & load), data modeling, data preparation and analytics tools. In addition, the Birst platform will provide enterprise data governance and fine-grained control/security, at the row and column level, within Snowflake, along with auditing and built-in usage tracking.

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Joint customers can use Birsts self-service data preparation capabilities to blend end-user-created data with enterprise data in Snowflake, providing true self-service for business users and analysts.

Birst and Snowflake both run natively in AWS (Amazon Web Services), which speeds data processing and querying, while obviating the need to export data out of Snowflake.

We are excited about our partnership with Infor, saidKevin Miller, Snowflake vice president of systems integrators. With this integration, customers can now take advantage of Birsts Networked BI automation and intelligence within Snowflake. This will allow customers an optimized experience while eliminating unnecessary data movement.

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Kim Davis, Infor vice president of BI & analytics partnerships, said, Our joint customers will benefit from the speed, scalability, and cost-effectiveness of Snowflakes zero-management, cloud-built data warehouse. Through this partnership, users can perform all ELT transformations and data warehouse automation within the Snowflake database.

The Birst cloud BI and analytics platform helps organizations understand and optimize processes in less time than traditional solutions. Built with patented automation and machine learning technologies, Birst connects teams and applications across the organization via a trusted network of analytics, delivering insights that help organizations make smarter decisions. This unique approach has helped organizations transform the way they operate, often in 90 days or less.

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Oliver can also handle another dull task: spray-painting lines on the ground as it rolls along, to indicate the exact placement of walls, water pipes or wiring. With its autonomous guidance system, the robot can independently scan or tag a construction site without human assistance, perhaps at night when itll have the place to itself.

RCML designed Oliver in partnership with Beverly-based Windover Construction. Both companies were assisted by Autodesk, which makes 3-D design software for the construction industry and runs a technology center in the Seaport District where architects and construction companies can learn and develop new building techniques.

At Autodesk, RCML chief executive Lana Graf encountered engineers from Windover working on new construction techniques. From them she learned of the need for a cheaper, more efficient way to run 3-D scans.

"They would not have found each other if they hadnt both been here, said Rick Rundell, who runs Autodesks technology centers.

These days, architects build virtual structures inside a computer long before construction workers break ground. Autodesk makes software that can simulate every detail of a building, down to the placement of light switches and sprinkler nozzles.

But construction workers are only human; how to make sure that sprinkler nozzle is the right location, that corner angle is set to just the right degree? Since the 1990s, contractors have been using laser scanners to generate 3-D images of the building as they erect it. These images of the real building can be overlaid on the architects virtual building to identify discrepancies before they throw the whole thing out of whack.

Its measureable and accurate up to one millimeter, said Scott Diaz, director of business development for the construction industry at FARO Technologies, a Florida company that makes the 3-D laser scanner used by Oliver. "Youre now able to bring the real world onto your desktop.

Such scans must be done regularly, floor by floor, to catch errors before they get out of hand. Thats where Oliver comes in. Its named for MIT graduate Oliver Smoot, who in a famous stunt in 1958 laid his body end-over-end across the Massachusetts Avenue bridge to measure the length of the river crossing in "Smoots.

Oliver features a laser scanner mounted about 5 feet high that can rotate 360 degrees. At the front and rear of the robot, LIDAR detectors use a separate laser system to detect landmarks and avoid obstacles, so Oliver can find its own way through the area. The robot stops and scans multiple locations, storing the captured data in the same kind of SD memory card used in digital cameras.

Its scanner beams millions of laser dots and the reflected light builds out a 3-D map. It can also repeat the process using a digital camera that records the color of every object for additional realism. When loaded into a computer, the result is an almost photo-like image of the mapped area, that can be compared with the digital blueprints.

Once programmed, Oliver can navigate the construction site on its own, running its scans at night when workers are off duty and having them ready for architects the next morning. With its large rubber tires, Oliver can climb stairs or a ramp, so it can scan multiple floors.

In addition, Olivers chassis contains room for a can of paint, and a spray nozzle. Guided by its map of the area, the robot can show workers where to install walls, doorways, cables, and ducts. The prototype holds just one can of paint, but future versions could carry multiple colors - perhaps white for walls, black for doorways, red for electric wires, and blue for water pipes.

Spawned by graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, RCML makes software that lets robots from different manufacturers work with each other. For instance, its software helps manage robots on the assembly lines of carmaker Tesla. But RCML also creates robotic hardware, such as a machine for stacking donut baskets that they designed for fast food chain Dunkin Donuts.

Graf has come to believe that theres huge potential in putting robots to work in the building trades. I was literally seeing so many inefficiencies in the construction industry, she said. "We would like to reduce waste out of construction, and we would like to make it eco-friendly.

Windover vice president Amr Raafat does not expect that Oliver will eliminate jobs. Instead the robot will free up highly-paid technical staff, who have plenty of other work to do.

For now, Oliver is just a prototype thats been tested at three Windover construction sites. But Graf hopes to make such robots a common sight on building projects worldwide. Others have had the same idea. One of the Boston areas best known robot makers. Boston Dynamics, which has generated worldwide attention with its four-legged Spot robots, is working with FARO to develop a walking laser scanner that could scamper around a construction site like a Labrador retriever.

Hiawatha Bray can be reached at hiawatha.bray@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @GlobeTechLab.

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DFLabs, the award-winning Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) vendor is pleased to announce the availability of IncMan 5.0. It is a completely new release, with a series of fresh features, such as:

The new release of IncMan SOAR will provide clients and partners with an optimized platform with unprecedented speed and flexibility. Specific attention was placed at improving the execution speed of automation, with an increase in automation speed well above 70%.

Users will also be able to design and adapt the interface according to their needs, all the while gaining complete control over their runbooks section. The search functionality has been upgraded, with users now being able to save their searches and identify which keywords are relevant for their research.

Furthermore, the machine learning algorithm for Deduplication/ARK 2.0 has been remodeled to merge incidents with similar characteristics together. This allows IncMan to create incidents only when an original case arises.

DFLabs also completely redesigned the core sections of the platform, and the new interface is particularly crafted to provide users a quicker and more efficient path toward gaining control over their security operations.

Lastly, with the latest enhancements, users will be able to install IncMan SOAR on multiple nodes and increase horizontal scalability. Users can dedicate certain nodes to particular activities whenever they need a high-performance system.

We are extremely pleased to offer this new release, said Dario Forte, CEO, and Founder, DFLabs. IncMan SOAR 5.0 is an important step forward for DFLabs. This new release provides the scalability and enterprise grade capabilities, which are now mandatory for the Next-Gen SOAR.

DFLabs IncMan SOAR is already available and will be demoed at RSA Conference 2020.

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AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 25, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --Netsparker, a leading web application security solution, will be participating in RSA Conference 2020 with a talk by one of the company's leading sales engineers, a live interview with Security Weekly, and a booth in the North Expo.

Vince Hinojosa, a sales engineer with years of experience in the network and web application security industry will present on "Scaling-UP & Automating Your Web Application Security in this Brave New World" at the South Briefing Center, both S-1500 on Tuesday, Feb. 25 at 12:40 pm.

During the talk, Vince will look at the challenges that web security professionals are facing, and will explain how one could overcome the challenge by scaling-up and automating the process of identifying vulnerabilities in web applications.

Netsparker has also sponsored a booth at the conference and experts will be available to answer questions about web vulnerability scanning and automation, scaling up web application security. They can be found at booth #6465 in the North Expo during the conference. For those that would like to book a meeting slot or receive more information, contact oksana@netsparker.com.

Kevin Gallagher, chief revenue officer of Netsparker, will participate in a live on-site interview during the conference with Security Weekly on Tuesday, Feb. 25 at 10:30 am PT. He will be talking about how to gain control and secure all web assets with scaling and automation. The live stream can be accessed here: https://securityweekly.com/live/.

For more information on the RSA Conference, visit: https://www.rsaconference.com/.

About NetsparkerNetsparker is the only web application security solution that delivers automatic verification of vulnerabilities with exclusive pre-scan automation and Proof-Based Scanning technology. Netsparker is an easy to use and fully automated DAST solution that scans any type of web application, provides actionable results, and integrates with company workflow tools to close the loop between IT and developers. This best-in-class web application security solution identifies vulnerabilities from the early stages of application development through production. With global headquarters in London and North American headquarters in Austin, Texas, Netsparker serves customers worldwide in the technology, professional services, banking, and government markets, as well as many Fortune 500 companies. For more information visit https://www.netsparker.com/.

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Digitisation and automation for mining: the only way forwardMarch 2020IT in Manufacturing

The theme for the Mining Indaba 2020 Optimising Growth and Investment in the Digitised Mining Economy reinforced the need to focus on innovation, technology and automation. Technology, implemented alongside the correct logistics and strategy, makes a significant difference to age-old industries. The mining industry has never before faced such challenges as it does now. It is in urgent need of transformation.

SICK Automation has the technology capable of making that change.

SICKs Sensor Intelligence draws on its complete system expertise, supplemented by over 70 years experience as a market leader in sensors and sensor application solutions. SICK combines detailed application knowledge with reliable software architecture to optimally integrate its sensors into your system.

South Africa is leveraging technologies to improve mining efficiency and safety, and is fine-tuning the transformation from manual operations to more automated mining. SICK Automation is leading the way as a continual mining brand. Whether it is an underground or open-cast mine, the company has an automation solution that has been industry tested and optimised to suit South African mining conditions and needs.

A global specialist for factory automation, logistics and process automation applications, SICK Automation has over 44 000 products for the most challenging industry applications that require high precision proximity detection systems. Apart from its level, pressure, flow. presence detection, machine vision and other products, the company is an industry leader in the following fields:

Laser and radar scanners

SICK is globally renowned as a leader in laser scanner innovation and has been researching and developing this technology for over 40 years. Today, its laser scanners are used around the world for geo-mapping, exploring the universe at terrestrial space observatories, to protecting miners deep under the Earths surface.

Designed for indoor and outdoor applications, for day and night use, and with special weather filters, these laser scanners can go where humans cannot, and reach levels that no other product can. SICKs extensive range of laser scanners provides intelligent scanning solutions for wide-reaching logistic and automation requirements. Applications for mining include:

Material flow and volume measurement

If users need to measure bulk materials on conveyor belts or in piles, the laser volume flowmeter Bulkscan offers a precise measuring procedure and an appealing alternative to a belt scale. The Bulkscan continuously measures the flow rate without making contact regardless of weather conditions and the condition of the material. Intelligent additional functions on Bulkscan LMS511, such as measurement of the centre of gravity, height of the bulk, and belt monitoring prevent damage to the machines and conveyor belts a definite benefit when optimising the flow of goods and efficiently controlling conveyor belts. The Bulkscan is exemplary in both maintenance and cost-effectiveness, and, thanks to a special alloy housing and integrated heating, it is robust and suitable for outdoor use.

Driver assistance and collision avoidance

Large vehicles within the mining industry pose a continuous challenge to life and infrastructure. Turning, cornering and reversing in close proximity to walls and drop offs or other equipment and people can result in damage or fatality. High precision proximity detection systems monitor available distance and identify potential collision hazards.

Suited for most underground mining vehicles, and using advanced laser scanner technology, underground vehicle operators are assisted to safely and efficiently manoeuvre within the tunnel. From front and rear-end detection, to corner cutting and overshooting, drivers receive visual feedback on a touch screen display as well as audible alarm warnings.

On surface mines, in dusty and harsh environments, the risk of collision is a reality. SICK has developed radar sensors that are able to withstand dirt and hostile weather conditions, as well as temperature fluctuations ranging between -30 and 50C. These sensors provide reliable detection of any object which falls within their detection cones up to 20metres.

Driver assistance systems, using 3D LiDAR or vision sensors detect blind zones around vehicles and warn the operator of potential sources of danger as well as providing navigation and steering support. The sensor detects up to 55000 measurement points across four layers and emits three echo signals per measuring beam, increasing the number of measurement points to up to 165000 per second.

Continuous emissions monitoring systems (CEMS)

The Carbon Tax came into effect on 1 June 2019 in South Africa, and will be phased in over a period of time to allow companies to comply and adopt cleaner and more efficient technologies. SICK has tried and tested technologies in use across the globe. Its CEMS solutions have been specifically designed for measuring emissions at mining and industrial facilities. These systems measure pollutants, reference quantities, and perform data processing on the results in accordance with relevant national or international legislation.

Conclusion

Technology has an important role in the mining industry. Countries that implement national initiatives that drive transformation and inclusive, broad-based development goals are far more enticing to investors. Research and development in the mining industry as well as the adoption of innovation are the keys to the sustainability of the industry in South Africa and the rest of the continent.

Whatever the distance, whatever the dimensions, for indoor, outdoor and underground applications, SICK offers consulting and design services so that its solutions are uniquely tailored to a mines specific requirements be it for the copper, coal, diamond or platinum sectors.

For more information contact Grant Joyce, SICK Automation Southern Africa, +27100600558, grant.joyce@sickautomation.co.za, http://www.sickautomation.co.za

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Kirk Williams of ZATO Marketing spoke on Google Smart Shopping campaigns at SMX West 2020.

Have you gotten the hard sell? Google reps have been pushing Shopping advertisers to adopt Smart Shopping campaigns and to even switch away from standard Shopping campaigns entirely. You shouldnt abandon standard Shopping just yet, said Kirk Williams, owner of ZATO Marketing at SMX West in San Jose last week, but its probably time to start testing and understanding how Smart Shopping campaigns work.

Smart Shopping can definitely perform well, but what you lose if you just run Smart Shopping campaigns is data that can inform other marketing efforts, said Williams. You still want to be running [standard Shopping and Smart Shopping] together.

The big differences between Smart Shopping campaigns compared to Smart Shopping are automation (almost entirely) and data (very little). Google doesnt provide data on audiences, search terms or placements in Smart Shopping campaigns.

In fact, Williams noted, Smart Shopping and standard Shopping run on two distinct codebases and are managed by two different engineering teams in separate Google offices. We know the trend is toward automation, so how can advertisers make the most of Smart Shopping campaigns? Williams offered several tactics for Smart Shopping advertisers. Here are four key ones.

While Smart Shopping campaigns are a black box in many ways, Williams has some neat tricks for uncovering more data than first meets the eye.

Set up custom Channel Groupings in Google Analytics for Smart Shopping and standard Shopping Campaigns. Youll then be able to use advanced segments to compare the two against certain dimensions.

Use the custom labels in your product feeds to segment and test products to learn which ones perform better in Smart versus standard Shopping campaigns.

Williams suggested using custom labels to isolate higher performing or popular products with segments such as top products, most reviewed products or gateway products.

Even if your feed uploads automatically into Google Merchant Center, there are many features and levers you can adjust for testing and optimization.

For example, use Feed Rules for testing titles. To do this, first up products for your test and control groups using custom labels in your feed. Then in Merchant Center, set up your title test via Feed Rules. Analyze performance by comparing click share, click-through rate, impression share and total eligible impressions (impressions/impression share), advised Williams.

With essentially no set-up time (82 seconds! said Williams) and the rest nearly entirely automated, what does job security look like in a Smart Shopping campaign landscape?

There is always a market for problem solvers, said Williams. (And Williams exemplifies this. He is ever-curious and constantly looking for ways to add value and solve problems for clients and fellow marketers.)

The key to adding value and getting more out of your Shopping efforts starts with understanding how Smart Shopping works.

Some examples: You cant add placement exclusions to Smart Shopping campaigns, but Williams figured out that you can exclude them at the Account level and apply those to your Smart Shopping campaigns. You can also add negative keywords to Smart Shopping campaigns, youll just have to ask your Google rep to do it for you. And the ROAS default in these campaigns is 200%, for example. Dont rely on defaults. Is that the right setting for your products?

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The "Impact Assessment of Automation in the Indian Manufacturing Sector" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

The manufacturing sector is one of the foundations of the Indian economy. It is imperative that India invests in emerging technologies and research for the growth of the factories of the future. The Indian government has been prompt in realizing the importance and value addition of manufacturing to India and have unlocked several investments to sustain its position in the global market. Government initiatives are promoting global investments, collaborations, and global companies to set up plants in India. This way the Indian manufacturing sector will begin its journey into the realm of digital and connected era meeting international standards of manufacturing.

The constant support from the government and the FDI has initiated the evolution of new partnerships that focuses on adoption of technologies associated with industrial internet of things (IIoT). Technology-driven processes will further offer customers visibility and transparency surging growth of the Indian manufacturing market to become a manufacturing hub and a knowledge center in the future. The Indian market is slowly opening its wings toward offering services and technology that aim to support and transform the existing and upcoming manufacturers. With high returns expected from automation technologies such as robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), industrial software solutions, older generation must invest to experience the vast benefits of industrial technologies to extract the true potential of the business.

Key questions answered in the study:

What is the next phase in industrial operations?

What are the global trends and implications of industrial automation?

What is the impact of industrial automation in India?

What are the factors impacting digital technology adoption in India?

What are the key funding and initiatives encouraging adoption of industrial automation?

What are the industrial automation technologies and some of the key participants in the Indian market?

What are some of the strategic shifts that will reshape current manufacturing businesses in India?

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Industrial Transformation

Global Scenario

Global Market Value

Industrialization in India

Current Scenario- India Manufacturing Sector

Factors Impacting Digital Technology Adoption in India

Problems Faced by a Majority of the Participants in the Indian Manufacturing Industry

Potential Strategies and Opportunities for Industrialization in India

Key Funding & Initiatives

Existing and Ventures for Long-term Growth

Trends in Government Initiatives

Government and Industry Initiatives and Collaborations Facilitating Digital India

Key Funding & Initiatives

Industrial Sectors Anticipated Automation Potential

Role and Impact of Automation in Other Industries

Technology Assessment in India

Market Segmentation

Role of Industrial Automation

Key Market Participants in Industrial Automation Solutions

Role of Industrial Software

Key Market Participants Offering Industrial Software Solutions

Role of New Technologies

Key New Technology Participants Offering Robotic Solutions

Key New Technology Participants Offering AI Solutions

Key New Technology Participants Offering IIoT Solutions

Key New Technology Participants Offering 3D Printing Solutions

Applications with Hardware and Software Installations

The Future of Indian Automation

Key Approaches Within The Indian Smart Factory Market

Bosch Bridges the Gap Between Existing Machinery via Smart Sensor Solutions

GE Facilities to Enable India as a Manufacturing Hub

Leading Firms Gradually Shift Toward Automated Solutions

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Strategic Shifts to Reshape Current Business Models

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With the combined challenges of tight IT budgets and scarcer technical talent, its becoming imperative for enterprise network pros to embrace automation of processes and the way infrastructure responds to changing network traffic.

Not only can automation help address these problems, they can also improve overall application-response time by anticipating and addressing looming congestion. Modern applications, such as virtual reality and artificial intelligence, and architectures that incorporate IoT and hybrid cloud have yet to reach their true potential because network capacity seems to always lag behind demand.

A common problem is that too much networking infrastructure is still manually maintained and managed, but major vendors are starting to addressing these issues, as are startups that seek to break bottlenecks through automation.

Among the innovations implemented by the automation startups described here are a novel network operating system, digital twin software, network-security automation and large-scale automated Wi-Fi-assurance tools.

Collectively, they have raised more than $150M in funding, attracted top-tier leaders with long, successful track records in the networking industry, and are on a mission to modernize networking from the datacenter to endpoints.

Year founded: 2016

Funding: $11M

Headquarters: San Francisco, Calif.

CEO: Emile Vauge, who was previously a lead developer/DevOps professional at Zenika, Thales, and Airbus

What they do: Provide a multi-cloud network management platform.

According to Containous, multi-cloud networking is too complex and too labor-intensive with too many unwieldy tools with far too little integration among them. Even worse, the time DevOps teams spend on networking is not spent building, iterating, and shipping software.

Containous multi-cloud network-management platform is built for cloud-native applications and microservices. It condenses multiple network visibility and management features into a single, centralized platform.

The platform auto-discovers applications, containers, and microservice and automatically manages routing, encryption, load balancing, and mirroring at the cloud edge.

The Containous open-source cloud edge router, Traefik, integrates with all major cloud-native tools and orchestrators. It automatically monitors the health of cloud-based enterprise assets, alerting IT teams to problems, and features auto-scaling tools that allow enterprises to add or subtract resources at will.

Containous has also built a service mesh that provides visibility into container environments and manages traffic flows inside clusters.

Competitors: HAProxy, NGINX, Istio, and KongCustomers: None publicly announced

Why theyre a hot startup to watch: With IDC forecasting that there will be more than 1.8 billion enterprise container instances by 2021, the demand for network intelligence and management tools will mean a demand for Containouss products.

The company just closed a $10M Series A funding round in January 2020, and while this is CEO Emile Vauges first stint in the C-suite, he brings 15-plus years of development experience with multinational corporations. COO Vincent Pineau adds exit experience to the mix, having helped two companies to successful exits. He was VP of Global Support and Service at Talend when it became the third French company to be listed on NASDAQ. He was also co-founder and COO of Influans, which was acquired by Ogury.

Containous says its software has already been downloaded 1.4 billion times, indicating that it is gaining traction.

Year founded: 2013

Funding: $62M

Headquarters: Palo Alto, Calif.

CEO: David Erickson, a contributor to the OpenFlow specification and the author of Beacon, the OpenFlow controller used by Big Switch Networks, Cisco, Floodlight, and others

What they do: Provide digital-twin software for the management of large networks.

According to Forward Networks, any enterprise network with more than a few dozen devices is so complex that it is nearly impossible for resource-strapped IT teams to stay current with real-time, end-to-end network behavior. Its even harder to ensure that all the devices are properly configured.

Forward Networks software automatically searches, verifies, and predicts the behavior of enterprise networks by creating a software copy, or digital twin, of the entire network, including both on-premises and cloud infrastructure.

The software analyzes how the network responds to changing demands, traffic patterns and infrastructure changes. Forward Networks contends that it can do this in seconds using a proprietary approach. Via the twin, network engineers can see how applications will behave over their network, while quickly pinpointing where devices or software configurations are out of alignment with required policies.

The digital twin automatically stays up-to-date through continuous monitoring, which can also be set to verify network configurations against corporate policies.

Competitors: Cisco, VMWare (through the Veriflow acquisition), Intentionet, NetBrain, and Solar Winds

Customers: Goldman Sachs, PayPal, Telstra, and UBISOFT

Why theyre a hot startup to watch: Forward Networks is backed by $62M raised in three rounds of funding from Goldman Sachs, Andreessen Horowitz, Threshold Ventures, and A. Capital. With the rise of multi-cloud networks, which are difficult to maintain and manage, Forward Networks has already carved out a viable market niche and landed some top-tier customers.

Year founded: 2014

Funding: $38.2M

Headquarters: San Francisco, Calif.

CEO: Avi Freedman, who previously served as Chief Network Scientist for Akamai

What they do: Provide SaaS-based traffic-analysis and network-management software.

Kentiks AIOps platform, a network traffic analysis and management platform, unifies network data from cloud and on-premises infrastructure to deliver a complete end-to-end picture of the state of hybrid networks.

The platform can analyze traffic across networks where packet capture is not feasible because of traffic levels and decentralized infrastructure.Kentik ingests multiple sources of real-time and historical monitoring data, adds contextual insights, applies AI/ML to recognize patterns and anomalies worthy of actions, and gives network pros the ability to automate corrections.

Competitors: Netscout (through its Arbor Networks acquisition), Nokia (Deepfield acquisition), SolarWinds, and Turbonomic (through its SevOne acquisition)Customers: Box, eBay, GoDaddy, IBM, Netskope, Sky UK, Twitch, Yelp, and Zoom

Why theyre a hot startup to watch: Kentik has the backing, team, and early customer traction to be viable. The startup has raised $38.2M in three rounds of funding from August Capital, First Round Capital, Engineering Capital, Data Collective (DCVC), Glynn Capital, Tahoma Ventures, and Third Point Ventures.

Kentiks C-level team knows network management inside and out. Founder Avi Freedman has decades of experience managing large networks. In 1992, he founded Philadelphias first ISP, Netaxs. He spent a decade at Akamai, first as VP of Network Infrastructure and then as Chief Network Scientist. Before founding Kentik, he was CTO at ServerCentral. Chief Scientist Ian Pye was Cloudflares first hire. As the lead analytics engineer, he wrote many of Cloudflares backend systems. CTO Jonah Kowall previously served as VP of Market Development and Insights for AppDynamics, helping position the company for its $3.7B acquisition by Cisco in 2017.

The customers it names are major enterprises.

Year founded: 2012

Funding: $31M-plus

Headquarters: Lehi, Utah

CEO: Marc Chenn. was director of sales with Compliance11, which was acquired by Charles Schwab in 2011.

What they do: Provide an automation and collaboration platform for network security.

IT and security teams cant keep up with the complexity and scale of modern infrastructure. According to Gartner, 99% of exploited vulnerabilities occur on misconfigured or non-compliant systems. SaltStack says the Achilles heel of the current approach to this problem is that it lacks automated remediation, which means IT and security teams are always in reactive mode.

SaltStacks software platform fully automates the mapping of security policy to infrastructure configuration, scanning the infrastructure against desired policies, managing vulnerabilities, and automating remediation of vulnerabilities at scale.

Competitors: Microsoft, Red Hat, Puppet, and BMC

Customers: None publicly announced.

Why theyre a hot startup to watch: With stricter privacy laws and the growing popularity of SD-WAN, security is becoming ever more important, which assures a strong demand.

SaltStacks CEO Marc Chenn has experience leading startups to successful exits. He played a critical role in the 2002 IPO of Altiris and its eventual $1 billion acquisition by Symantec. Chenn also helped lead SaaS provider Compliance11 to an acquisition by Charles Schwab.

Year founded: 2016

Funding: $9M

Headquarters: Marlborough,Mass.

CEO: Roger Sands, who was previously mobility business line manager for HP.

What they do: Provide autonomic Wi-Fi assurance software.

According to Wyebot, large, mission-critical Wi-Fi networks, are difficult to monitor, manage, and repair. The traditional approach to fixing Wi-Fi issues is sending a network engineer to troubleshoot using handheld tools. Wyebot says its AI engine software can accomplish remotely what network engineers do on site.

Wyebots Wireless Intelligence Platform provides visibility into large Wi-Fi networks and analyzes network behaviors using AI and multi-radio sensors. The platform automatically identifies problems and recommends fixes.

Automated problem resolution combined with a remote client for end-user applications and performance metrics give IT visibility into what is going on throughout all locations at the organization. This allows problem solving without having to go onsite.

The company claims this approach results in up to a 90% reduction in mean-time to problem resolution, up to 50% reduction in Wi-Fi problem tickets, and up to 80% reduction in onsite problem-solving visits.

Competitors: Ekahau, Metageek, 7Signal, and HP (Cape Networks acquisition) Customers: Tampa Prep, Hachette Book Group, and Audi FIS Women's Ski World Cup at Killington, Vt.

Why theyre a hot startup to watch: Wyebot has raised a total of $9M in two seed rounds, will be raising its Series A round this year, and has already landed named customers.

CEO Roger Sands and CTO Anil Gupta have solid track records in this space. Sands served as Co-CEO of Colubris Networks, where he built its enterprise business and led its sale to HP. After the acquisition, Sands ran HPs global Wi-Fi business. Gupta has nearly 25 years of experience in the networking industry. He served as a principal software engineer at Colubris Networks until its acquisition by HP. Then, he served in various designer/architect roles at HPE Aruba. Gupta also holds 15 Wi-Fi patents.

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With marketers citing repetitive workflows as a top pain point, Adjust's new Control Center automates campaign management, empowering them to focus on creativity, strategy and pushing boundaries

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --Adjust, the industry leader in mobile measurement, fraud prevention and cybersecurity, today announced the launch of its pioneering new product, Control Center, which will be part of the Adjust Automate suite. With its release, Adjust aims to dramatically simplify the process of mobile advertising management for today's marketers.

Adjust 3 Pillars - Measure, Protect, Automate

Mobile has become the new undisputed king of digital, and eMarketer predicts marketers are poised to invest a record-breaking $286 billion in mobile ad spend in 2020. But as the industry grows, the process behind ad management has become increasingly complex.

According to new research by Adjust:

Adjust's Control Center was built to simplify these processes. Designed as a cross-app, cross-partner and cross-network dashboard, marketers will be able to view data across all their apps and campaigns and act on it. The product is part of the company's third product suite, Adjust Automate. It follows Measure, which focuses on attribution and analytics, and Protect, which encapsulates its fraud prevention and cybersecurity solutions. These three product suites make marketing simpler, smarter and more secure for the 32,000 apps working with Adjust.

"Mobile is one of the most sophisticated and technical channels in marketing today, but it relies on a huge amount of manual work," commented Paul H. Mller, co-founder and CTO at Adjust. "According to our research, marketers would have to adjust over 250 distinct bids and spend limits. That means even a moderate number of campaigns can become complex to keep updated."

"With Control Center, marketers can offload manual, routine tasks, leaving them free to focus on being creative and pushing the boundaries of what marketing can achieve," Mller continued. "The product also has the potential to be an equalizer in mobile marketing, massively increasing the number of campaigns one person can manage, and allowing smaller teams to compete with larger marketing departments. With it, the battle will gradually shift from out-spending to out-thinking competition."

Control Center will be available as a separate package for clients and integrated into their existing dashboard, along with an Enterprise version that is fully customizable for the most sophisticated of advertisers.

The launch follows a strong period of growth for Adjust. In 2019, the company announced multiple acquisitions, hiring of top talent and one of the year's biggest rounds of funding in Europe. In 2020, Adjust will be focusing on consolidating its existing product to become the definitive growth engine for the mobile marketing ecosystem.

Methodology: The research, conducted by Censuswide on behalf of Adjust, polled one hundred user acquisition managers and digital marketers based in the United States.

About AdjustAdjustis the industry leader in mobile measurement, fraud prevention and cybersecurity. Born at the heart of the mobile economy and grown out of a passion for technology, the globally operating company now has 16 offices around the world. By making marketing simpler, smarter and more secure, Adjust empowers data-driven marketers to build the most successful apps in the world.

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The "South East Asia Industrial Automation and Process Control Market by Product Type (DCS, PLC, SCADA, PLM), Industry Vertical (Textile, Oil and Gas, Food and Beverages, Life Sciences, Automotive, Packaging) - Industry Forecast to 2025" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

The market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 7.8% from 2019 to 2025 to reach $4.97 Billion by 2025

The growth of industrial automation and process control in Southeast Asia is majorly supported by government initiatives, growing demand for industrial automation backed by growing production demands, and the advent of Industry 4.0. Growing needs for mass production and mounting pressure for reducing operational cost is also contributing to the overall growth of this market. However, high capital investment and the direct impact of industrial automation on employment are the major restraining factors for the consistent growth of this market.

Based on product type Southeast Asia industrial automation & process control market is segmented into product lifecycle management, distributed control system, supervisory control, and data acquisition system, variable frequency drive, general motion control, programmable logic controller, sensors & transmitters, manufacturing execution system, flowmeters, machine safety systems, enterprise asset management, human-machine interface, process safety system, operator training simulators.

At present, product lifecycle management commanded the largest share of the Southeast Asia industrial automation & process control market by product type and expected to witness high growth during the forecast period.

A programmable logic controller is expected to grow with the fastest CAGR throughout the forecast period. PLC can continuously monitor and help industry to make decisions based on the data collected. This certainly helps industries to save a considerable amount of time, money, and energy spent on impulsive decisions.

Based on industry vertical, the Southeast Asia industrial automation & process control market is majorly segmented into the process industry and discrete industry. In 2019, the process industry dominated the overall Southeast Asia industrial automation and process control market and is expected to continue its dominance throughout the forecast period. The process industry offers immense opportunities to incorporate disruptive technologies such as robots and automation & process control.

An in-depth analysis of the geographical scenario of the market provides detailed qualitative and quantitative insights about the major countries including Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. In 2019, Singapore commanded the largest share of Southeast Asia industrial automation & process control market followed by Vietnam and Thailand.

The large share of this country is attributed to the high per capita income in the region with the manufacturing industry as a major contributor to it. The high advent of Industry 4.0 and rapid automation of industrial manufacturing & processing industry backed by strong government initiatives such as National Robotics Program is also aiding Singapore to emerge as the most dominating country in the Southeast Asia industrial automation & process control market.

Key Topics Covered:

1. Introduction

2. Research Methodology

3. Market Share Analysis, by Key Players

4. Executive Summary

5. Market insights

5.1. Introduction

5.2. Market Dynamics

5.2.1. Drivers

5.2.1.1. Government Initiatives to Promote The Adoption of Automated Systems in Various Industrial Verticals

5.2.1.2. Increasing Demand for Automation From Various Manufacturing Sectors

5.2.1.3. Growing Innovations in Industrial Automation Systems

5.2.1.4. Growing Need for Mass Production With Reduced Operation Cost

5.2.2. Restraints

5.2.2.1. Growing Risk of Unemployment

5.2.2.2. High Capital investments

5.2.3. Opportunities

5.2.3.1. Digital Transformation and Rapid Technological Advancements

5.2.3.2. Industry 4.0 Revolution

5.2.3.3. Growing Manufacturing Sector in Emerging Economies

5.2.4. Challenges

5.2.4.1. Lack of Skilled Workforce

5.2.4.2. Automated Cyber Threat

6. Southeast Asia Automation and Process Control Market, by Product Type

6.1. Introduction

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6.2. Product Lifecycle Management

6.3. Distributed Control System

6.4. Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition System (Scada)

6.5. Variable Frequency Drive

6.6. General Motion Control

6.7. Programmable Logic Controller

6.8. Sensors and Transmitters

6.9. Manufacturing Execution System

6.10. Flowmeters

6.11. Machine Safety Systems

6.12. Enterprise Asset Management

6.13. Human-Machine interface

6.14. Process Safety System

6.15. Operator Training Simulators

7. Southeast Asia Automation and Process Control Market, by Industry Verticals

7.1. Introduction

7.2. Process Industry

7.3. Discrete Industry

8. Southeast Asia Automation and Process Control Market, by Geography

8.1. Introduction

8.2. Singapore

8.3. Vietnam

8.4. Thailand

8.5. Malaysia

8.6. Indonesia

8.7. Philippines

8.8. Others

9. Competitive Landscape

9.1. Introduction

9.2. New Product Launches

9.3. Partnerships, Collaborations, Alliances & Agreements

9.4. Expansions

9.5. Mergers & Acquisitions

10. Company Profiles

10.1. Siemens AG

10.1.1. Business Overview

10.1.2. Financial Overview

10.1.3. Product Portfolio

10.1.4. Strategic Developments

10.2. ABB Group

10.3. Fanuc Corporation

10.4. Rockwell Automation, Inc.

10.5. Emerson Electric Corporation

10.6. Universal Robots

10.7. Schneider Electric SE

10.8. Honeywell international, Inc.

10.9. Panasonic Corporation

10.10. Eaton Corporation

10.11. Scott Automation & Robotics (A Subsidiary of Scott Technology)

10.12. Yokogawa Electric Corporation

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