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Jacobs | February 08, 2022
Jacobs announced today it has acquired StreetLight Data, Inc. ("StreetLight"), a pioneer of mobility analytics who uses its vast data and machine learning resources to shed light on mobility, enabling users to solve complex transportation problems. The addition of StreetLight accelerates Jacobs' strategy in growing its end-to-end digital solutions portfolio and focus on ESG, while adding high growth, highly recurring revenue software businesses that offer tremendous value for its clients and the communities they serve.
StreetLight applies proprietary processing technology to location data from millions of mobile devices, connected vehicles, IoT sensors and geospatial databases to measure multimodal travel patterns – and makes them available via its online SaaS (Software as a Service) solution StreetLight InSight®. Designed for smart cities and the transportation industry, the on-demand software provides industry-targeted analytic tools to support critical infrastructure planning, investment and policy decisions.
"The past two years have accelerated structural changes to human mobility, infrastructure and supply chain planning, resulting in increased investments from governments and enterprises around the world. We're also experiencing a critical need for data-driven planning to meet carbon emissions goals, address energy transformation and advance social equity through infrastructure investment," said Jacobs Chair and CEO Steve Demetriou. "There is a global need for solutions that help us better understand the movement of people, goods and services while addressing broader societal challenges, and our acquisition of StreetLight solidifies our leadership in this fast-growing area."
StreetLight's suite of powerful analytics enables all major transportation verticals to make vastly more informed investment decisions while measuring critical impacts. Delivering more than a modern alternative to traditional measurement methods with months of lead time and limited scope, the company's technology has enabled the industry to solve complex problems, such as planning EV networks ahead of future demand, recommending optimal traffic pattern improvements and helping to ensure equitable transportation access.
"We chose Jacobs because they genuinely share our mission and recognize the importance of StreetLight's digital innovation in adapting their own core practices to the needs of an industry undergoing transformation. They have the global scale to rapidly accelerate client decision making at a pivotal time for infrastructure investment and its impact on climate and society."
StreetLight CEO Laura Schewel
StreetLight has a long track record of supporting transportation agencies at federal, state, regional and city levels, transportation engineering and consulting firms, and private companies spanning the new mobility, automotive, IoT and utility sectors. The company's metrics have informed transportation analyses across every state and province in North America.
Demetriou continued, "We consistently seek to add value for our shareholders, create transformative solutions for our clients, and make a positive difference within our communities. Like Jacobs, StreetLight is purpose-driven and shares in our commitment to create a more connected, sustainable world."
One of the growth accelerators in Jacobs' new strategy is centered on data solutions aligned to high growth markets with increasing margin profiles. Building on its strong foundation of existing technology and data capabilities, the company also recently acquired BlackLynx, an industry-leading edge computing, hybrid-cloud and collection automation technology provider serving the intelligence, defense and critical infrastructure sectors. Jacobs' portfolio of data and technology investments will be leveraged in tandem to create expanded market penetration, growth opportunities and solutions for its clients.
About Jacobs
At Jacobs, we're challenging today to reinvent tomorrow by solving the world's most critical problems for thriving cities, resilient environments, mission-critical outcomes, operational advancement, scientific discovery and cutting-edge manufacturing, turning abstract ideas into realities that transform the world for good. With $14 billion in revenue and a talent force of approximately 55,000, Jacobs provides a full spectrum of professional services including consulting, technical, scientific and project delivery for the government and private sector.
About StreetLight
StreetLight is a pioneer in the use of Big Data analytics to help transportation professionals solve their biggest problems. Applying proprietary machine-learning algorithms to over four trillion spatial data points over time, StreetLight measures diverse travel patterns and makes them available on-demand via its SaaS platform for mobility, StreetLight InSight®. From identifying sources of congestion to optimizing new infrastructure to planning for autonomous vehicles to enhancing the location of outdoor advertising and business facilities, StreetLight powers more than 10,000 global projects every month.
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Enterprise Iot
Telefonica | October 27, 2020
Telefónica has been perceived among the Top 4 pioneers in the as of late delivered report 'Communications Service Providers IoT Peer Benchmarking 2020' by research firm Transforma Insights. The report depends on investigation of the procedures of the main ten worldwide Communication Service Providers (CSP) over a different scope of capacities in IoT across three classes: technical, geographical and vertical.
The report singles out Telefónica "as having a solid situation over every one of the classifications" and features the open doors since the IoT and Big Data capacities have converged in a similar specialty unit as a major aspect of Telefónica Tech.
“These are changing times for Telefónica. Its newly announced structure presents a lot of opportunities for the IoT business. The new management team could trigger some interesting new investments and the new organization has a number of good differentiators. Most prominent amongst these is a strong data analytics and visualization capabilities courtesy of the integration of LUCA (its Big Data and AI division) with the IoT offering. It also has strong offerings in retail and cybersecurity.”
“Transforma Insights also likes the interesting approaches to connectors stitching together the elements of the IoT proposition, including pre-integration with IoT public clouds”, states the report adding that ” the integration of the IoT and Big Data business creates more freedom, particularly to look for inorganic opportunities of growth”.
As per the report, Telefónica stays in the extraordinary gathering of pioneers regarding worldwide reach and organization limit (24.3 million IoT connections at the end of June 2020) and features different abilities:
The forcefulness in LPWA innovations conveying both NB-IoT and LTE-M in Europe and starts to lead the pack in Latin America where basically no different administrators have moved at this point. It likewise noticed some great successes in private 5G networks Telefónica has additionally made sure about some great successes in private 5G networks in Brazil, Germany and Spain.
The imaginative way to deal with creating connectors between the different components of gadget, organizations, cloud and arrangements/examination, developing it for additional future differentiators, for example including edge computing capabilities.
The union of their portfolio dependent on five principle enterprises: Mobility, Retail, Energy, Industry and Smart Cities, where Telefónica has likewise worldwide frameworks reconciliation capacities and a broad Big Data/Analytics/IoT counseling group.
“We are working in the evolution of our vision to take IoT and Big Data Services to a next level, creating an independent, flexible and faster organization and a more comprehensive approach to the market. This is a game changer and our value proposition stands out because we offer complete and extensive end-to-end IOT solutions, combined with our capabilities in Big Data and Artificial Intelligence. We help and support our customers in all that journey, from sensors to value extracted from data.” says Gonzalo Martín-Villa, Global Director of IoT and Big Data at Telefónica Tech.
At last, Transforma Insights additionally features Telefónica's IoT security focused technique through its coordinated effort with ElevenPaths, Telefónica Tech's cybersecurity organization, and notes the ongoing interest in Nozomi, a main OT and IoT security organization, just as its cooperation with Subex on an answer for danger discovery breaking down IoT traffic on networks.
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Bigtincan | July 25, 2019
Bigtincan (ASX:BTH), the leader in mobile, AI-powered sales enablement automation, today announced the acquisition of Veelo Inc., a pioneer in sales enablement, to expand Bigtincan’s presence and offerings in the technology market vertical. The combination of Bigtincan’s solution, designed with the mobile-first user in mind, and Veelo’s focus on traditional sales enablement with key enhancements for desktop and web solutions, will augment and compliment the different ways sales teams work, no matter which platform they choose. Veelo’s award-winning sales enablement platform increases sales performance by predicatively guiding sellers on what to know, say and do. Designed with brain science principles in mind, the Veelo Vault ready-made sales enablement templates showcase the most relevant resources available to each sales person. Veelo’s intelligent search also provides instant access for teams to quickly find relevant images, videos, blog posts and documents. Bigtincan will integrate the Veelo Sales Enablement Platform with the Bigtincan platform to provide additional capabilities to sales teams, including the creation of a single pane of reference for users to manage content and training materials, and automatically deliver them to user devices.
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