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Global Enterprises and Merchants Unprepared as Fraudsters Focus on Rewards Programs

LONDON, UK. 4th February 2020: Forter, the leader in e-commerce fraud prevention, today announced availability of the Forter Loyalty Program Protection solution to protect high value rewards programs from fraud and abuse, enabling merchants to offer enhanced programs with the best possible customer experience.

Six-year growth streak for enterprise software M&A slows but peak valuations remain, says Hampleton Partners’ report

·         Private equity buyers completed one-third of all enterprise software transactions in 2019, up from 25 percent in 2018

·         Artificial intelligence, SaaS, and cloud companies attracted strategic buyers, including Apple, Adobe, Salesforce, Google and Microsoft

Episerver recognized as a leader for first time in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Experience Platforms

London, U.K., Feb. 3rd, 2020 – Episerver™, the customer-centric digital experience company, is recognized as a leader in the just-published Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Experience Platforms™. This recognition marks Episerver’s first-time placement in the leaders quadrant of this independent analyst report. The news comes on the heels of three major Q4 2019 announcements with the acquisition of personalization and analytics company Idio™, the hiring of CEO Alex Atzberger and the acquisition of B2B commerce company Insite™ – all capped by the best sales quarter on company record. 

Netacea Identified as a Bot Management Leader by Independent Research Firm

Manchester-based cybersecurity startup protects websites, mobile apps and APIs with revolutionary server-side approach to bot management

Manchester, 3rd February, 2020 – Netacea, a provider of bot management solutions, has been ranked a leader in the Forrester New Wave™: Bot Management, Q1 2020 report.

Forrester, a top research organisation that provides advice on existing and emerging technology, has identified Netacea as a leader in its 2020 evaluation of the emerging bot management market.

First week of February worst for staff sickness

London, UK: 3rd February 2020: Tuesday is the most frequent day taken by staff as unplanned absence, according to statistics provided by e-days, the leader in global absence intelligence.

The company has revealed that the first week of February is the worst peak for unexpected staff absence, after surveying absence data from more than 1,000 companies from 2019.

Tech Trailblazers Awards shortlist announced

Public voting opens to select the top tech enterprise startups

London, UK - 30th January 2020 – Now in its eighth year, the Tech Trailblazers Awards, the first independent and dedicated awards program for enterprise information technology startups, has revealed its shortlist of the most innovative entrants and concepts in enterprise technology. The shortlists, selected by the Tech Trailblazers’ panel of leading IT industry experts, are now open to public vote to add to the opinions of the judging panel and help determine the winners in all categories.

HYLA Mobile: Mobile trade-in programs returned $2.378 billion to US consumers in 2019

30 January 2020 – HYLA Mobile, the world’s leading provider of software technology and services for mobile device returns management and reuse solutions, today announced results from its analysis of the mobile device trade-in market for 2019. The report reveals that $2.378 billion was returned to US consumers last year via mobile device trade-in programs—an increase of 4.7% from 2018.

HYLA combines live market figures and its own analytics solution to identify the latest trends for the pre-owned mobile device market in North America. HYLA provides its analysis of the latest market trends both on a quarterly and annual basis. Key findings from HYLA’s 2019 trade-in trends report reveals that:

UKCloud’s State of Cloud Adoption survey reveals reasons why public sector organisations are turning to multi-cloud

Almost 90% of surveyed public sector organisation agree that they would move all their IT to the cloud if the perfect solution existed, according to latest survey by UKCloud

London – 30th January 2020 – UKCloud, the multi-cloud experts dedicated to making transformation happen across UK public sector, has today announced the results of a survey of more than 300 senior IT professionals and business leaders that reveals the key challenges and issues that are affecting cloud adoption.