Cloud Stocks: Smartsheet Acquiring Bootstrapped Startups to Drive Growth

According to a MarketsandMarkets research report, the global Enterprise Collaboration Software market is expected to grow from $34.6 billion in 2018 to $59.9 billion by 2023, translating to an annualized growth rate of nearly 12% over the five year period. Billion Dollar Unicorn Smartsheet (NASDAQ: SMAR) recently announced its second acquisition in a bid to keep

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Espressive Bootstrapped First, Raised Money Later

Last year researcher Forrester released an employee experience playbook focused on driving improvement in overall employee experience. Forrester analysts had also pointed out how enterprises fail when it comes to delivering exceptional services to themselves or their employees. Service providers like Espressive are setting up shop to help enterprise departments overcome these shortcomings.

Billion Dollar Unicorns: Will Atlas Help Keep Competitors Away from MongoDB?

The stock market has had a turbulent last quarter, but Billion Dollar Unicorn MongoDB (Nasdaq:MDB) seems immune to the fluctuations. Since listing on the Nasdaq in October 2017, the database services provider has seen its stock more than triple. Recent results suggest that the growth is not slowing down soon.

Billion Dollar Unicorns: Will Hello TransTech Survive in the Chinese Bike Sharing Market?

A recent Research and Markets report estimates the global dockless bike sharing market to grow 21% annually over the period 2017 to 2022. But while global forecasts may sound appealing, China is witnessing an implosion in the industry. In 2017, China had nearly 40 bike sharing companies operating across its cities, with Beijing alone witnessing

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What Are the Most Popular Use Cases for Splunk?

Billion Dollar Unicorn Splunk (NASDAQ: SPLK) recently announced its third quarter results that outpaced guidance for the 27th consecutive quarter. Splunk may have initially been launched as a machine generated data analytics platform, but today it has expanded into several diverse areas. It remains focused on becoming “the ubiquitous machine data platform, the standard in every

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What Innovation Does Reflektive Bring to the Talent Management Space?

According to a recent report, the global talent management software market is estimated to grow 18% annually to $29.7 billion from $7.9 billion in 2017. Talent management software provides HR teams with the ability to control and manage various aspects of HR actions and helps them maintain employees’ details. One such provider is San Francisco-based Reflektive that

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Workday Looks Unstoppable

It may have been a roller-coaster end to the previous year for the stock market, but SaaS-based HCM services provider, Workday (NYSE: WDAY) seems unfazed. The company recently reported stellar third quarter results that sent its stock soaring. Despite a turbulent end to December, Workday entered the new year after gaining more than 50% in

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Will Microsoft Be Interested in Dynamic Signal?

There is no denying that employee engagement and employee communication platforms can have a dramatic impact on company productivity, employee engagement, and agility. Estimates on the size of both the employee engagement and communication industry are not easily available. A 2016 report had pegged the addressable market size for global employee engagement at $74 billion

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