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Contentsquare closes a mammoth $600M round as customers clamor for digital analytics

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The same survey found that over four-fifths of companies — 82% — were prevented from pursuing digital transformation projects due to the staffing, resources and expertise required. Since 2012, he’s served as CEO, moving the company’s headquarters from Marseille to New York in 2017. In some cases, it cost them dearly.

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Microsoft partners with AiFi to launch Smart Store Analytics, a tracking service for cashierless outlets

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In partnership with AiFi , a startup that aims to enable retailers to deploy autonomous shopping tech cost-effectively, Microsoft today launched a preview of a cloud service called Smart Store Analytics. It might sound like a lot of personal data Smart Store Analytics is collecting.

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eqtble, a platform that uses data analytics to create healthier workplaces, raises $2.7M seed

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Without people, you don’t have a product,” says Joseph Ifiegbu, who is Snap’s former head of human resources technology and also previous lead of WeWork’s People Analytics team. Ifiegbu joined WeWork’s People Analytics team in 2017, when the company had a total of about 2,000 employees.

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Integration platform Cinchy lands fresh cash to connect data sources

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” DeMers co-founded Cinchy with Karanjot Jaswal in 2017 with the ambitious goal of abstracting away data integration processes. To their point, in a recent IBM survey , 40% of IT leaders said their data integrations are getting too expensive while 19% believe their current data integration solutions can’t handle all data sources.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes.

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Data observability startup Observe secures $70M

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A survey from Enterprise Strategy Group commissioned by Yotascale — which isn’t an impartial vendor, granted (if there is such a thing) — found that 84% of companies in 2022 considered tracking cloud cost allocation alone to be burdensome and time-consuming. But it’s not a stance without merit. billion in 2024.

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Scoot lands $12M to inject customization into videoconferencing

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In a separate survey , staffers — especially new employees — say that requiring video during virtual meetings increases their work fatigue. Even prior to the pandemic, videoconferencing was a lucrative segment, with funding for videoconferencing startups hitting $250 million in 2017, according to Crunchbase.