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Hampleton Partners’ report reveals $71 billion in half-year disclosed transaction value in Enterprise Software sector

London, 2 October 2019 - In its latest analysis of global Mergers & Acquisitions activity in Enterprise Software, Hampleton Partners reports the highest deal count ever recorded, with 651 transactions inked over the first half of 2019. Multiples were also sky-high; the trailing 30-month median EV/EBITDA multiple peaked at 17.5x, inching its way up from last year’s levels. Revenue multiples also grew, reaching a record 3.8x in 1H 2019.

Hampleton Partners’ report noted two major M&A trends:

Operational data from 1.6m anonymised and aggregated endpoints reveals employees’ digital experiences in the workplace

“Businesses risk deploying innovation that is doomed to failure if they don’t focus on the experience. The pace of innovation is incredible but the experience for employees does not match this and needs fixing in fundamental areas.” Ari Helgason, Principal at Index Ventures

·         For the first time, the enterprise has access to real, operationalised digital employee experience data to enable them to benchmark internally and against peers

84% of surveyed UK businesses report breaches, primarily caused by phishing attacks

READING, UK. 1st October 2019 - Carbon Black, (NASDAQ: CBLK), a leader in cloud-native endpoint protection, today released the results of its third UK Threat Report, based on a survey of 250 CIOs, CTOs and CISOs across the UK. The results show that the threat environment is sustained and sophisticated with phishing attacks serving as the primary cause of data breaches.

Key UK research findings from the responses of the surveyed UK businesses:

·         Accenture, AIB, ESB, National Transport Authority, INFANT Centre amongst those recognised for innovation in Artificial Intelligence.

·         Entries from Trinity College, UCC, Waterford Institute of Technology and DCU reflect increase in academic research in AI.

·         Nominations demonstrate innovation across health, customer service, and science.

Chris Huff, Chief Strategy Officer at Kofax

30th September, 2019, London, UK: Digital transformation technologies like Intelligent Automation continue to advance in capability and strength, but many organisations have yet to realise the full extent of their value to optimise operations. Workflows such as invoice handling and contract management are still largely manual and executives are understandably eager to embrace these technologies to empower their organisations to work like tomorrow.

·         Users can access ThoughtRiver’s technology within Word documents to analyse and edit contracts at the same time.

·         Ease of use top priority for lawyers, millions of work hours to be saved.

·         ThoughtRiver to demo new plug-in at Legal Geek Conference.