Seeq teams up on industrial IoT for utilities, oil and gas, manufacturing in Asia Pacific

Seattle-based industrial analytics company Seeq, a star of industrial IoT on the venture capital scene, is targeting the power and utilities, oil and gas, semiconductor, chemical, and process manufacturing industries, after striking a deal with Philippines-based industrial IoT provider Calibr8 Systems. Seeq, founded in 2014, raised $24 million from investors at the start of last…

Identifying pockets of profitability for telcos – with a value-based approach to customers

It’s a tough world for telecoms operators. Competition from new market entrants – many of whom are focused on growth and new customer acquisition, as opposed to profitability – is forcing mobile and fixed line operators to drop prices and offer cash incentives to tempt new customers. This is reducing margins, which are being further eroded by…

Site Reliability Engineers and the Software That Supports Them

Digital transformation efforts have become more like digital transformation mandates in the tech world ever since the COVID-19 pandemic made working from home the new normal. This has meant a rapid change in the B2B software landscape (although when has that not been the case?) as vendors rise to meet buyer demand for collaborative, hybrid technologies.