Significant customer momentum underscores movement away from expensive, slow and static analytics solutions towards highly-scalable, cost-effective, and interactive analytics solutions

BURLINGAME, CA – Media OutReach – 17 June 2021 – Imply, the pioneer of Analytics-in-Motion, and founded by the original creators of Apache Druid, today announced the closing of a $70 million Series C led by Bessemer Venture Partners with participation from Tiger Global Management, bringing total funding to over $116 million. Existing investors A16Z, Khosla Ventures and Geodesic Capital also participated in this round. This additional funding follows a banner year for Imply, growing market adoption of both Imply and open source Apache Druid. Imply has now surpassed 100 enterprise and digital-native customers, using Imply as the engine for analytics-powered applications that they build, and/or as a complete solution to directly solve internal BI and operational analytics use cases. The additional funding will extend Imply’s market leadership in the rapidly growing area of Analytics-in-Motion.

“The world of analytics is being upended, as it is now a competitive disadvantage to wait hours or days to iterate on insights, to make decisions based on stale data, or to leverage solutions that either crumble or cost a fortune at scale,” said Elliott Robinson, Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. “Every day, more and more established enterprises and digital natives realize the power of Analytics-in-Motion, and Imply is far ahead in this race to redefine analytics across the enterprise, with numerous marquee customers and demonstrated customer success worldwide.”

Analytics-in-Motion is the new requirement for digital transformation, and has emerged due to the demands of modern business and the limitations of existing analytics solutions to meet these demands. Imply’s unique technology removes the handcuffs to effective analytics by delivering all four attributes organizations require for effective analytics:

1. Interactive queries: questions do not need to be predetermined and organizations get an engine and an app/UI, not only a database; queries can be created on-the-fly, answers are provided immediately, and insights are generated at the speed of thought (sub-second OLAP queries, self-service data analytics, point-and-explore integrated UI)
2. Unlimited scale: purpose-built to scale (high query concurrency, PB+ data volumes, high ingestion throughput)
3. Real-time and historical data loads: insights can be derived from data in motion and the present can be compared to the past (Kafka/Kinesis integrations, data lake integrations, flexible and adaptive schemas)
4. Best price/performance: built to scale with maximum cost efficiency (configurable price/performance, predictable performance and costs, fine-tune based on usage)

The combination of these four requirements enables a broad set of new customer outcomes and will place analytics-in-motion as a defining characteristic of how every successful organization operates.

New Customer Outcomes Driven by Analytics-in-Motion

Leading organizations leverage analytics-in-motion as: (1) the analytics engine behind analytics-powered applications centered around security, operational and business insights; and (2) a complete solution to solve internal BI and operational analytics use cases.

Analytics engine for analytics-powered applications

Designed for developers and product managers

• Network endpoint analytics in motion: “Companies that rely on the Internet for their business depend on ThousandEyes’ leading Cloud and Internet Intelligence platform to ensure seamless digital experiences for their customers and employees,” said Murtaza Doctor, Head of Engineering & Operations at Cisco ThousandEyes. “To build our industry-leading solutions, we leverage the most advanced technologies, including Imply and Druid, which provides an interactive, highly scalable, and real-time analytics engine, helping us create differentiated offerings.”
• Fraud detection in motion: “As the leader in Digital Trust & Safety, Sift leverages advanced machine learning to ensure our customers can accurately detect and prevent fraud,” said Neeraj Gupta, SVP, Engineering & Cloud Operations at Sift. “Imply and Druid offer a unique set of benefits to Sift as the analytics engine behind Watchtower, our automated monitoring tool. Imply provides us with real-time data ingestion, the ability to aggregate data by a variety of dimensions from thousands of servers, and the capacity to query across a moving time window with on-demand analysis and visualization.”
• Gaming analytics in motion: “As a leading provider of analytics in the mobile gaming space, a key aspect of our competitive differentiation is the depth of reporting we provide to our customers. To accelerate our customers’ success, we wanted to build a customer-facing analytics application that combined the performance of pre-computed queries with the ability to issue arbitrary ad-hoc queries without restrictions,” said Ioana Hreninciuc, CEO of GameAnalytics. “We selected Imply and Druid as the engine for our analytics application, as they are built from the ground up for interactive analytics at scale. In addition, for our internal analytics, Imply Pivot has become the tool of choice for our support and product teams to explore all of our data in a flexible way.”
• Product Usage Analytics in motion: “Strivr’s Immersive Learning platform is revolutionizing hiring and training through Virtual Reality (VR),” said Aneesh Kulkarni, VP of Engineering at Strivr. “Analytics is critical to our platform as it provides customers with a unique level of data-driven insights from immersive training experiences. We chose Imply and Druid as our analytics database due to its scalable and cost-effective analytics capabilities, as well as its flexibility to analyze data across multiple dimensions. It is key to powering the analytics engine behind our interactive, customer-facing dashboards surfacing insights derived over telemetry data from immersive experiences.”

Complete solution for internal analytics use cases

Designed for anyone needing to understand data

• Observability Analytics in motion: “Plaid’s mission is to unlock financial freedom,” said Gordon Worley, Sr. Staff Software Engineer at Plaid. “To do that, we’ve built a world-class observability platform that allows our customers to offer the best fintech experiences to their users. Four things are crucial for observability analytics; interactive queries, scale, real-time ingest, and price/performance. That is why we chose Imply and Druid.”
• Advertising Analytics in motion: “Ippen Digital is a pioneer in helping publishers transition to new sources of digital revenue, and analytics is central for us to deliver sophisticated use of audience data and deliver content recommendations,” said Jan Ippen, CEO of Ippen Digital. “Using Imply and Druid, we are able to aggregate and analyze all information, details and dimensions of advertising data from our upstream providers. We can now perform real-time exploratory analytics on advertiser behavior, which enables us to build a differentiated offering to our customers. Imply and Druid are core to our success as a digital advertising platform.”

“In the modern world, what worked yesterday often doesn’t work today. Analytics-in-Motion will power the next frontier of digital transformation — the movement away from analytics solutions that are expensive, slow, and static, and towards analytics solutions that are highly scalable, cost effective, and enable customers to quickly get to the ‘a-ha’ moment,” said Fangjin Yang, CEO of Imply. “Bessemer Venture Partners shares our vision to re-define how organizations gain value from analytics, and we are thrilled to welcome them as our newest investor and to welcome Elliott Robinson to our Board of Directors. We are also thrilled to welcome two new executives to Imply in the wake of our Series C funding: our CMO, Praveen Rangnath (most recently at Confluent) and VP of Customer Success, Kevin Hodgkins (most recently at Fivetran).”

Additional resources

• Read more about this announcement from Fangjin Yang on the Imply blog
• Read more about our vision for Analytics-in-Motion
• Join Imply and be a part of redefining the massive market for analytics
• See how Imply customers are leveraging Analytics-in-Motion

About Imply

Imply, founded by the original creators of Apache Druid, is originating and leading a new category of data analytics focused on analytics-in-motion. With analytics-in-motion, organizations can move away from analytics solutions that are static, difficult to scale, delayed and expensive, and towards analytics solutions that are interactive, highly scalable, real-time and cost effective. Leading organizations worldwide leverage Imply as the engine for analytics-powered applications that they build, and/or as a complete solution to directly solve internal BI and operational analytics use cases. Imply has operations in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific and is backed by A16Z, Bessemer Venture Partners, Tiger Global Management, Khosla Ventures, and Geodesic Capital. For more information please visit imply.io.

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‘documenta. Politics and Art’, opens on 18 June 2021 at the Deutsches Historisches Museum

BERLIN, GERMANY – Newsaktuell – 16 June 2021 – Documenta’s rise to become Germany’s most successful art exhibition was due not least to its political dimension, in particular the need to draw a line under National Socialism, followed by the formation of the Eastern and Western blocs in the Cold War. Although the exhibition claimed to distance itself from Nazi cultural policy, it failed to engage openly with the National Socialist past. At the same time, its politically motivated orientation towards the West led it to reject the socialist concept of art in the Eastern bloc.

Federal President Theodor Heuss at documenta 1, 1955 © documenta archiv / Photo: Erich Müller

With ‘documenta. Politics and Art’ (18 June 2021–9 January 2022), the Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum) is presenting the first exhibition to focus on documenta as a means of investigating the many-layered interplay of politics and art in German society after 1945.

Prof. Dr. Raphael Gross, President of the Stiftung Deutsches Historisches Museum: ‘Documenta has always been much more than a prestigious art exhibition. With it, modernism – after having been vilified until 1945 – rose to become the favoured style of the young Federal Republic. The early makers of documenta welcomed modern art as a means of breaking with the Nazi past. Yet there were also continuities. For example, the historian Carlo Gentile has revealed that Werner Haftmann, one of the key figures of the early documenta exhibitions, was involved in war crimes in the summer of 1944. It was no coincidence that works by murdered Jewish artists had no place in the image of modernism as Haftmann chose to stage it. With our exhibition, we are systematically retracing, for the first time, how politics was made with art at documenta. In pursuing this goal, I hope we will open up a new perspective on the history of the Federal Republic.’

Long Version Press Release: https://www.dhm.de/en/press/press-release/how-the-federal-republic-of-germany-shaped-its-image-anew-at-documenta/

Security leader expands vision to support and secure the post-pandemic workforce

HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 16 June 2021 – Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), a global cybersecurity leader, offers comprehensive visibility into identity and device security health based on the industry’s most comprehensive risk insights. This is critical for customers to successfully achieve true Zero Trust security.

To find out more about Trend Micro’s approach to Zero Trust, please visit: www.trendmicro.com/en_us/research/21/f/an-expert-discussion-on-zero-trust.html .

According to Forrester[1], “Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) is the signature security technology of the pandemic. While modestly unchaining users from their antiquated VPN technology, it has inspired organizations to reimagine how security (and networking) can be consumed both today and in the future.”

With a dispersed workforce using a variety of devices to access corporate resources hosted in a range of locations, from the corporate data center to cloud or SaaS applications, companies can no longer assume verified or trusted devices and individual identities are secure. Zero Trust is the key strategy to enhance the security of critical data and systems. It is the way forward to secure the always changing hybrid workplace in a more agile, effective manner than legacy security architectures can deliver.

However, the market is rife with confusion. Trust and access decisions are being made without the appropriate context or a complete understanding of risk based on so-called Zero Trust solutions.

“For years vendors have been claiming ‘Zero Trust’ by slapping the label on any and all types of solutions without understanding how to actually measure trust,” said Kevin Simzer, chief operations officer for Trend Micro. “Trend Micro is uniquely positioned to provide critical insight into identity and device health with its comprehensive XDR and visibility into email risk, which is foundational for building a successful Zero Trust strategy.”

Trend Micro’s Zero Trust strategy crucially leverages Trend Micro Vision One’s capabilities—delivering insight with the broadest XDR solution to cover telemetry across email, cloud, networks and SaaS applications. The strategy provides continuous security posture assessment and complete insights so teams can make informed decisions.

Key highlights for businesses include:

• Risk and security health based on a continuous assessment of the user, device, app and content. This supports automated access control, flags incidents for alert investigations and creates dashboards for CISOs and SOC teams to make informed decisions.
• A secure connection is established based on the health assessment each time a device or user attempts to access the corporate resource. This includes a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) API integration to SaaS apps, network enforcement points in front of company resources and support for blocking access to specific applications using existing endpoint agents.

Visibility for SOC teams into email usage is particularly key as phishing activity from internal users could indicate that user identities have been compromised—a common early sign of an ongoing ransomware attack.

Customers can leverage Trend Micro’s risk scores for Zero Trust to feed third-party SASE and other solutions via APIs—driving additional value. Senior decision-makers can leverage the insights and dashboard to better understand how their organization’s security posture is trending over time.

About Trend Micro

Trend Micro, a global cybersecurity leader, helps make the world safe for exchanging digital information. Fueled by decades of security expertise, global threat research, and continuous innovation, Trend Micro’s cybersecurity platform protects hundreds of thousands of organizations and millions of individuals across clouds, networks, devices, and endpoints. As a leader in cloud and enterprise cybersecurity, the platform delivers a powerful range of advanced threat defense techniques optimized for environments like AWS, Microsoft, and Google, and central visibility for better, faster detection and response. With 7,000 employees across 65 countries, Trend Micro enables organizations to simplify and secure their connected world. www.trendmicro.com.hk

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• China REITs add a compelling dimension to the real assets sector in the region.
• Enabling the sustainable financing of these massive projects will spur the development of new financing vehicles and foster the development of infrastructure as an asset class.

NEW DELHI, INDIA – Media OutReach – 16 June 2021 – China’s highly anticipated REIT pilot program finally came to fruition this week, with the launch of the retail tranches of its first nine REITs all oversubscribed on its first day. China REITs are currently only backed by infrastructure assets packaged in a mutual fund structure, deliberately picked by authorities to spearhead the country’s recovery from the pandemic.

Together with China, there are an estimated 28 infrastructure-backed offerings securitized in various structures listed across the region currently, with a market cap of close to US$80 billion. While this is dwarfed when seen in relation to the value of its infrastructure investments, momentum is building.

The offering in the region’s largest economy adds a compelling dimension to the real assets sector in the region. Given the sheer size of China’s infrastructure market, its pilot programme for REITs is a prelude to a market that could eventually rival that of the US. According to S&P, the securitization of just 1% of such assets implies an over US$2 billion market. India’s infrastructure investment trust market is also expected to expand to over US$100 billion in the next five years, according to CRISIL Ratings.

Source: APREA

Note: Data as of 1 June 2021

As countries look to bounce back rapidly from the pandemic-induced recession, governments are placing infrastructure-led investments high on the stimulus agenda. Infrastructure spending has long been viewed as a powerful lever that governments can pull to stimulate the economy. Supranational bodies like the International Monetary Fund have also weighed in, noting that current low interest rates is a window of opportunity that should be seized upon.

“Infrastructure investments form a crucial part of this equation, to fast track the region’s recovery from the pandemic and secure its economic future,” observed Sigrid Zialcita, CEO of APREA.

The Asian Development Bank estimates that the region will need to invest $26 trillion from 2016 to 2030 if the region is to maintain its growth momentum, eradicate poverty and respond to climate change – that works out to US$1.7 trillion a year to the end of the decade. Currently, only about US$900 billion are estimated to be invested annually. This yields a financing gap of close to US$1 trillion a year to the end of the decade.

Given the substantial outlays involved, the requirements are unlikely to be met by traditional sources of banking. Public budgets, already stretched by fiscal responses to the pandemic, will also be limited. This entails new financing bases – from asset recycling or monetization strategies, private equity and private-public partnerships – to drive repeated rounds of infrastructure investment by tapping on institutional capital and the mobilization of retail savings.

Enabling the sustainable financing of these massive projects will gain traction and foster the development of infrastructure as an asset class. For example, infrastructure trusts, like REITs, provide a long-term source of capital that funds development cycles, catalyzing urbanization through which a country’s economy can be elevated.

“Infrastructure trusts can form a critical layer in the capital stack for financing infrastructure developments in the region. Not only will it enable developers to recycle capital, the vehicle can also form an effective exit strategy for infrastructure funds in the region,” noted Miss Zialcita.

With the pandemic exerting some urgency, there is now growing expectations that infrastructure financing volumes in the region will surge. It is not only because of the considerable multiplier effects that such massive investments generate, it is also the groundwork it lays for future economic growth. As the focus increasingly turns from containment to longer-term recovery, countries will be keen to ride on the anticipated post-pandemic economic boom which a synchronous global recovery will drive.

“The region’s largest economies are pivoting to infrastructure investments in a big way. We see this as an acceleration of the securitization trend in infrastructure and the pent-up demand for industry players eager to tap into its potential. Aside from the oft-mentioned fast-tracking of digital trends and e-commerce, the pandemic has also been game changing in hastening the securitization movement in the region,” Miss Zialcita noted.

Investors are also turning bullish over the long-term fundamentals of the sector. Global investment firm KKR just closed this year its first Asia Pacific fund at US$3.9 billion to become the largest pan-regional infrastructure fund in the region. While the lack of investment grade projects available remain an obstacle for now, development is expected to accelerate.

“As an asset class, infrastructure is inherently less susceptible to economic cycles, delivering diversification benefits in addition to a predictable long-term stream of income. With the requirements needed by the rapidly developing economies in a region that could eventually host more than half of the world’s megacities, investments into the very assets so critical in driving its growth is a trend that will be played out over decades,” said Miss Zialcita.

By 2030, seven of the world’s 10 largest megacities will be in the Asia Pacific. The region’s urban population will expand by close to three billion. The region remains a hot bed of construction activity and as its cities continue to grow, the fundamental demand for real estate and infrastructure will increase in tandem. Plans to integrate the region’s economies through infrastructure diplomacy programs will also fuel the development boom.

Anticipating the enormous implications of these megatrends, APREA rebranded recently to expand its reach to include infrastructure investments in its mandate. The benefits of investing in institutionalized assets will be more evident as the world inches towards a post-pandemic future and the securitization of the very assets so critical in driving its growth will be a massive investment opportunity.

“The region remains primed to take advantage of this revolution in real assets. APREA’s goal is to pave the way for the expansion of investment opportunities in the region and catalyse the rise of Asia Pacific’s infrastructure asset class,” Miss Zialcita added.

About APREA

APREA celebrates its 16th anniversary with the association’s mission redefined: To promote growth in the real assets sector by being the voice of members in all policy matters, providing access to industry-advancing research and insights and connecting members to business opportunities, with an aim to create value through the following key focuses:

A nchoring Success

P rofessional Development

R each out to industry leaders

E ducation & Research

A dvocacy

For more information visit www.aprea.asia

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HONG KONG SAR – Media OutReach – 16 June 2021 – Mobile Medical and Health Check Centre Limited brings the new technology into the business from Taiwan, which is mRNA Circulating Tumor Cells Screening. With the mRNA dynamic gene technology can effectively detect the number and size of circulating tumor cells in the early stage, the patient can get diagnosis and treatment as early as possible. Compared to traditional medical imaging like CT and MRT, mRNA Circulating Tumor Cells Screening can screen out the size of tumors in 0.2 cm or above and it is high safety and minimal invasive by using few blood samples for testing as well.

Suitable for all people

mRNA Circulating Tumor Cells Screening is the latest cancer early detection technology, the accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity of the auxiliary diagnosis of tumors up to 93-97%. Mobile Medical is the first Hong Kong health check center to introduce mRNA Circulating Tumor Cells Screening, which was the main health checkup item in recent years and available for customers aged ten or above. It is recommending that a healthy person should check it once a year, and a high-risk group (e.g. having family cancer history) needs to check every six months.

About Mobile Medical and Health Check Centre Limited

Mobile Medical and Health Check Centre Limited committed to promote the concept of “preventive medicine” and serve the public for nearly 20 years. There are branches in different places in Hong Kong. It has a professional and experienced medical team that monitors the whole medical examination process. Also, Mobile Medical own their self-Laboratory which has much cutting-edged health check and medical equipment, and the laboratory has high quality authenticated by the BioRad international quality assurance program (QAP).

In addition, Mobile Medical provides different types of health check plans to accommodate the customer, such as gynecological check-ups and pre-marital check-ups, etc. Besides this, it will launch the different body check promotional campaigns irregularly.

For more information, please visit the official website: https://mobilemedical.com.hk/

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