December 2020

Increase in online shopping accelerating race for customer loyalty, research finds

London 10th, December, 2020: The Digital Business Collective (DBC), an initiative involving BORN, and dotdigital to help FMCG brands drive direct customer engagement by accelerating digital channels and initiatives, today announces the results of a study which found that the pandemic-induced boom in online sales has left FMCG brands vulnerable - with consumers more likely to buy own-brand products, and less likely to make spontaneous purchasing decisions when grocery shopping online.

Network attacks hit two-year high during pandemic despite shift to remote working

9 December 2020 – Network attacks and unique attack signatures both hit two-year highs between July and September this year, according to the latest Internet Security Report from WatchGuard Technologies. Findings from the research show that attacks detected grew to more than 3.3 million, representing a 90% increase over the previous quarter. The report reveals how COVID-19 has impacted the cyber security threat landscape, with evidence that attackers continue to target corporate networks despite the shift to remote working.

2020 Tech Trailblazers Award winners announced

London, UK – 8th December 2020 – The 15 winners of the ninth edition of the Tech Trailblazers Awards – a global awards program focused on enterprise technology startups – were announced today. The program rewards winners in 12 major enterprise technology sectors, identifies one outstanding company entrant from any category, and makes two awards to individual female and male executives who have delivered outstanding innovation or change.

The 2020 winners are:

5 Digital Transformation-Driven Cybersecurity Considerations

On their road to recovery from the pandemic, businesses face unique dilemmas. This includes substantial and entirely necessary investments in digital transformation, however tight budgets are making such endeavors difficult if not impossible. Businesses continue to struggle with pivots like adopting new digital platforms, shifting their corporate model to resolve supply chain disruption and enabling a remote workforce.

The inability for businesses to quickly adopt technologies that support digital transformation processes, including identity-based segmentation, virtual desktop interfaces and full-stack cloud, is hindering their ability to adequately address new threats and even to test new security systems and protocols.

Enreach named by Frost & Sullivan as a European leader in Unified Communications as a Services (UCaaS)

Almere/Dortmund, 8 December 2020 - Enreach, the fast-growing European unified communications group, has been named as one of the market leaders in a new Frost Radar focused on European hosted IP Telephony and Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS). Enreach scores high on both its innovation and growth dimensions. “With its comprehensive solutions portfolio and considerable growth in the past few years, Enreach has earned a spot among the growth and innovation leaders in the European hosted IP telephony and UCaaS market”, said Elka Popova, Vice President of Research at Frost & Sullivan.

Vigilante win Epic Games, Unreal Grant for Model Library Creation

Epic has committed $100 million to adopt Unreal engine (UE) as an image generating (IG) platform and create amazing content, by lowering one of the barriers to entry - cost. These include game developers, enterprise professionals, media and entertainment creators, students, educators, and tool developers. For all of them and those who are running HLA or DIS-enabled distributed simulations, through this fantastic program, Vigilante will create;

Confirmit Named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Voice of the Customer

Confirmit placed in the Leaders’ Quadrant based on their ability to execute and completeness of vision

London, UK, Oslo, Norway and New York, NY, 3 December 2020 – Confirmit has been named one of the four Leaders in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Voice of the Customer.

According to Gartner, “A Magic Quadrant identifies and analyses the most relevant providers in a market. To be included in this Magic Quadrant, each vendor had to demonstrate that it satisfied certain criteria.”

Scandit Named to the 2020 CB Insights Retail Tech 100 -- List of Most Innovative B2B Retail Startups

Scandit recognized for achievements in driving adoption of mobile computer vision among leading global retail brands.

NEW YORK, ZURICH, December 3, 2020 -- CB Insights today named Scandit, the leading technology platform for mobile computer vision and augmented reality (AR) solutions for enterprises, to its inaugural Retail Tech 100 ranking, which showcases the 100 most promising B2B retail tech companies in the world.

Confirmit Named A Leader in the Omdia Market Radar Report on Experience Management Platforms

Confirmit achieves a top rating for supporting CX teams with insights across the customer journey

London, UK, Oslo, Norway and New York, NY, 1 December 2020 – Confirmit has been named a Leader in the Omdia Market Radar Report on AI-enabled Experience Management Platforms. The market radar report provides a comparative analysis of nine leading enterprise experience management platforms (EXMs), their evolution from enterprise feedback management systems into EXMs through advanced AI, and how to use them to improve the customer experience.