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QlikTech

QlikTech: Providing Analytical Software and Data Solutions.

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Qlik, aka QlikTech Inc., is a software solution company that deals with providing a business analytical platform to enterprises to solve their problems. The company was founded in 1993, and for the past almost 30 years, Qlik has helped many big-name companies with its business intelligence software solutions. The company deals in services like data analytics and data integration, having offices all around the world. Qlik is known for its excellence and innovation, has joined its hands with companies like Accenture and Cognizant for multiple programs.

About the Company

Qlik started its journey 28 years back in Sweden as a company providing detailed data analysis services. The company headquarters is in Lund, Sweden, and about 2500 people are working for it globally. Along with Sweden, the company has established offices in the US, Canada, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, as well as in Africa. Qlik is known for its services in business intelligence, data analytics, data integration, business analysis, and software development. Qlik Sense, Qlik Replicate, and Qlik Catalog are a few of the main products that the company endorses. The Qlik services are compatible with the major web service providers like Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Microsoft applications, Google, SAP, etc.

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Founding QlikTech

Bjorn Berg and Staffan Gestrelius from Sweden founded QlikTech in 1993 as the providers of data analysis services. The company introduced QlikView as its first product, released in 1994, and got the patent for the same in 1995. In the following years, the company released the other three versions of the product. The popularity of QlikView brought Qlik funding from renowned Swedish investors Handelsbanken and Industrifonden in 1999. This led to the growth in the number of employees as well.
In 2004, Qlik went international and established the company headquarters in the US. The same year, the company also received more investments from Accel Partners and Jerusalem Venture Partners. In 2005, the company released version 7 of QlikView, replacing the single-user desktop with a server-based web tool.
By the end of the decade, the company was already a unicorn, and in 2011, the market capitalization of Qlik reached $2 billion. In the following years, the company made some important acquisitions that helped its expansion. Vizubi, Idevio, Crunch Data, Attunity, Knarr Analytic, and RoxAI are some of the companies acquired by Qlik.
In 2012, Qlik was among the top three fastest-growing tech companies in America. The next year, Qlik opened a new office in Perth, Australia, followed by the opening of a research and development branch in Ottawa, Ontario in 2015. In 2017, Qlik joined hands with Thomas Jefferson University of Pennsylvania to fight the opioid epidemic in the country. The next year, the company received the Best Business Intelligence and Analytics Software award.
By 2019, the Qlik had successfully launched its Software-as-a-Service environment, and the customers were now allowed to deploy its software on Qlik as well as any other public cloud. Wrightington, Wigan, and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust used the Qlik software to keep the record of the patients during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK.
Qlik Sense and QlikView are some of its major products that run on its Associative Engine, used for big data analytics. Other than those, Qlik Analytics Platform, Qlik Data Catalyst, Qlik Core are some of the products that work using the same engine. Other Qlik products include Qlik GeoAnalytics, Qlik DataMarket, Qlik Connectors, Qlik Catalog, and Qlik Compose, etc.

The CEO at QlikTech

Mike Capone is the current CEO at Qlik. Capone went to Dickinson College to earn a BS degree in Computer Science and later completed an MBA in Finance from Pace University. Before joining Qlik, he has worked with companies like ADP and Medidata. He held the positions like Corporate Vice President of Product Development & CIO as well as the General Manager of the global outsourcing business at ADP. At Medidata, Capone worked as the COO and helped in the product development of the company. In January 2018, he became the CEO of Qlik.

Schneider Electric

Schneider Electric – The Biggest Sustainable Electric Equipment Manufactures.

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Schneider Electric is a well-known electrical equipment development company, serving all over the world. The company has been there in the industry for the past 185 years and taking its legacy to another level with its excellence. Along with providing the best electric products, the company keeps sustainability in mind and curates its products based on that. From homes to data centers and from real-time automation to software, Schneider Electric has covered it all. The company is operational in over a hundred countries with more than twenty subsidiaries and 20,000 patents registered. It is a publically traded company that has also registered its name under the Fortune Global 500 list.

About the Schneider Electric

Schneider Electric SA is a French electric company, founded back in 1836. Its headquarters is in Rueil-Malmaison, France, and offers its services to its worldwide customers having its offices and manufacturing plants established in over a hundred countries. Schneider Electric has over 135,000 people working for it, in more than twenty subsidiaries, such as Luminous Power Technologies Pvt. Ltd., APC, Areva T&D, Federal Pioneer, TAC, and Zicom, etc. As per 2019 records, the company made revenue worth €27.2 billion and holds assets worth €45 billion. Schneider Electric energy and automation digital solutions, such as building automation, home automation, electric power distribution, industrial safety services, etc.

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The Beginning and Growth

Schneider brothers Eugène Schneider and Adolphe Schneider acquired mines and forges at Le Creusot, France, to establish a steel and machinery factory in 1936. After two years, the founders named their company Schneider & Cie, which later became one of the leading steel companies in the area and remained in that position for the next 50 years. In 1891, Schneider started to invest in the electricity business, as it was one of the emerging fields of that time. The new business started to grow rapidly, and in 1919, Schneider started its international expansion entering Germany and Eastern Europe.
Like every other big company, the two world wars were very crucial for Schneider. As soon as the second world war ended, Schneider started to grow at an even faster pace. In 1949, the company decided to restructure its operations and planned multiple acquisitions. In 1975, the company acquired a share in one of the biggest electric equipment manufacturing companies of France named Merlin Gerin. In the next two decades, it went on to acquire names like Télémécanique (1988), Square D (1991), and Lexel (1999). In May 1999, the company was renamed Schneider Electric from its century-old name Schneider & Cie.
In the year 2000, Schneider Electric moved its headquarters to Rueil-Malmaison, France. During the same time, it established the Schneider Electric Foundation, an organization to spread awareness about sustainability and emerging economics. In 2010, the company started to invest in software, critical power and grid applications. Schneider also introduced a new program named Life is On that promoted sustainability and efficiency. The same year, Schneider Electric also established a venture capital firm to support new startups.
In 2014, the company partnered with the German power supplier RWE, and in the next year, it introduced EcoStruxure, an IoT-enabled architecture. Its acquisition of British retail brand Tower Electric in 2016 helped it strengthen its position in Europe. In 2019, the company launched a cross-industry digital ecosystem named Scheider Electric Exchange. The next year, it acquired companies like RIB Software and ProLeiT AG. The same year it introduced smart equipment for better electricity distribution, specifically for Nigeria.

The CEO at Schneider Electric

Jean-Pascal Tricoire, a renowned Fench businessman is the current CEO and the chairman of Schneider Electric. He was born on 11 May 1963 in Beaupréau, France. Tricoire is an Electronic engineering graduate and holds an MBA from EM LYON Business School. Before joining Schneider, he has worked with multiple famous companies.
Tricoire started his career at Alcatel, Schlumberger and joined Saint-Gobain afterwards. In 1986, he was working at Merlin Gerin. As in 1992, Schneider took over the company, he became a part of the company too. After working in different branches of Schneider Electric in Italy, China and South Africa, he was appointed as the Head of Schneider Electric’s Global Strategic Accounts. In January 2002, he became the Vice President of the International Division of the company, and in October 2003, he was announced the Deputy CEO and COO of Schneider Electric. Finally, in 2006, he was promoted to be the CEO of Schneider Electric SA.

Trend Micro

Trend Micro – The World’s Largest Web Security Firm.

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The past few years have been years of fast growth for the internet and other web services. From sending instant messages to making online payments, everything has been really easy for every person. But with this ease of doing things, the internet has also brought danger to the security of data and other important assets online. To deal with such situations, lots of firms and developers are already working dedicatedly to ensure safer web surfing to making big transactions online for people. One such name which has been successfully providing cyber security services to its clients is Trend Micro.

About The Company

Trend Micro Inc., aka Torendo Maikuro Kabushiki-Gaisha, is an American-Japanese multinational cyber security company founded on 24 October 1988. The company has its global headquarters based in Tokyo, Japan, and Irving, Texas, United States. It has been working to provide software solutions, cloud computing as well as cyber security services to its clients all around the world for the past 32 years. The cyber security solutions by Micro Trend cover all platforms based on VMWare, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and Amazon AWS, etc. The company has also launched its research, development, and support center, named TrendLabs, operational in different parts of Asia, Europe, and North America.

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The Founding of Trend Micro

Steve Chang, along with his wife, Jenny Chang, and her sister, Eva Chen, founded Trend Micro on 24 October 1988 in Los Angeles. The company started off by selling protection dongles to a United States-based Rainbow Technologies. Soon the founders shifted the company headquarters to Taipei, and Trend Micro acquired a Japanese software firm in 1992, moving the headquarters to Japan. The company bagged a contract from Intel and supplied anti-virus to the latter. Intel also helped Trend Micro to sell its anti-virus in the US and Europe.
In 1996, Trend Micro partnered with Novell. The company got listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 1998, and the next year, it start to trade on the United States-based NASDAQ. The company expanded its operations by acquiring companies like Braintree, Third Brigade, Identum, Kelkea, InterMute, and Provilla, etc. These acquisitions also helped Trend Micro to open offices in various parts of Europe, America, and Asia. By the end of the 2000s, Trend Micro was already making IP filtering software, antispyware programs, antispam software, data loss prevention software, and ID-based email encryption software.
With the acquisition of Leeds in June 2010, Trend Micro started to provide cloud-based data storage and synchronization services, too. In the next decade, the company acquired names like Mobile Armor, AffirmTrust, Broadweb, IMMUNIO, TippingPoint, etc. In 2013, the company moved its headquarters to Irving, Texas, and the next year, it established a partnership with INTERPOL to provide its Threat Intelligence Service to the latter. Company also bagged a contract from Microsoft to offer Cloud App Security to Microsoft Office 365, which later was adopted by companies like Dropbox and Google Drive.
In 2015, Company got certified as a VCE validation ready as well Vblock ready solution. The company also added Deep Security to its platform. Trend Micro has also been investing in startups for quite some time now through its venture capital subsidiary named Trend Forward Capital. Few of its major investments include Veem, Muse, Mojio, and Interaxon. The company had a partnership with Telco Systems in 2017 so that to expand its operations into virtual network cybersecurity. The next year, Trend Micro partnered with Cybersecurity Tech Accord to design programs to deal with malicious attacks by cybercriminal gangs and nation-states.

The Founders

Steve Chang, along with his wife Jenny Chang and her sister Eva Chen, founded Trend Micro in 1988. He is a renowned Taiwanese businessman born in Pingtung, Taiwan, in 1954. Chang did his schooling at the National Pingtung Senior High School and attained a graduate degree from the Fu Jen Catholic University in 1977. He also went to the US to pursue a post-graduate degree in computer science from Lehigh University in 1978 and graduated in 1979.
Chang started his career at Hewlett-Packard in Taiwan, where he held the post of head of sales operations, handling operations in seven countries. After gaining enough experience, he decided to start Trend Micro in 1988. He was the first CEO of the company. Chang is a popular businessman and has won awards like “Star of Asia” by Business Week for his work.

Dassault Systèmes

Dassault Systèmes – A Pioneer in Computer-Aided Design.

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3D technology and simulation software has helped people deal with numerous challenges, thanks to the companies that entirely focus on developing those technologies. Dassault Systèmes SE is one such company that has been applying its innovation to develop software, which at a time was out of imagination. This French company has been in the industry for about 40 years and is constantly providing its top-notch technology software to its customers worldwide. Dassault Systèmes is mostly known for its 3DEXPERIENCE platform, which is popular among companies for creating, testing, and optimizing their consumer and business-to-business products and services.

About the Company

Dassault Systèmes is a France based software development giant, having its headquarters based in Vélizy-Villacoublay, France. The company is known for software development for 3D product design, simulation, manufacturing, etc., and according to Fortune magazine, is among such top 50 largest software companies.
Previously, the company was a subsidiary of Dassault Aviation. But in 1981, the company spun off from the latter and since then has been operating as an independent company. Dassault Systèmes is operative in about 140 countries, and over 20,000 people are working for it worldwide. The company mainly deals in the development of products like 3D design software, 3D Digital Mock-up, and Product lifecycle management, 3DEXPERIENCE platform is one of its most popular products. As per the 2020 records, Dassault Systèmes has made €4.45 billion in revenues and holds assets worth €13.87 billion.

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The Founding and Growth of Dassault Systèmes

Francis Bernard co-founded Dassault Systèmes in 1981. Before founding the company, Bernard worked at Dassault Aviation as an Aerospace engineering. The company developed aircraft and eventually got into developing software for them. This led Bernard to learn software engineering, resulting in the development of the world-famous CATIA (a multi-platform software suite for CAD, CAM, CAE, PLM, etc.). Being one of the developers of CATIA, Bernard is also known as one of the fathers of CATIA. In his tenure at Dassault Aviation, from 1967 to 1981, he developed multiple software for the company.
Though CATIA was a personal property of Dassault Aviation, the company decided to start selling the software to other aviation companies. The decision led to the spinning off of the design division of Dassault Aviation, forming Dassault Systèmes in 1981, and Bernard becoming the CEO.
IBM was one of the first partners of Dassault Systèmes. In 1982, the company launched the CATIA Version 1 (V1), and version 3 (V3 for 3D design) and 4 (V4 for full Digital Mock-Up) came in the years 1986 and 1994, respectively. The introduction of those versions replaced the method of physical prototyping completely. In 1997, the company acquired SOLIDWORKS, and in the next year, it launched ENOVIA (a brand for product data management).
In 1999, Desault introduced the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), suitable for simulation analysis, 3D designs, and digital manufacturing. Another digital manufacturing brand was introduced with the name DELMIA in the year 2000. In the coming years, the company acquired names like Abaqus, Virtools, MatrixOne, EXALEAD, NETVIBES, 3DEXPERIENCE, Simple S.A.S., Accelrys, and IQMS, etc. Those acquisitions helped the company to enhance its capability and expand globally. In 2012, the company launched its one of the most innovative product, i.e., 3DEXPERIENCE platform, popular among all size enterprises and companies.

The Founder

Francis Bernard founded Dassault Systèmes in 1981. He was born in 1940 in Hanoi, French Indochina. He completed an MS in aerospace engineering from Institut Supérieur de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace (Supaero) in 1965. After doing military service for two years, he joined Dassault Aviation in 1967. Though he started as an aerospace engineer, he got involved in the software development of computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) programs at the company, and later, developed CATIA. Bernard was the first CEO of Dassault Systèmes and retired in 1995 after serving for 14 years at the same position.

Datadog

Datadog – The Watchdog for the Cloud Services.

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Cloud computing has opened new doors for new technologies and new ideas. The very technology is not quite old but has revolutionized the IT world. With the benefits, things also come with some serious problems, and in the case of cloud technology, it was data security. But since with a problem, there is always a solution, Datadog came into existence to solve the problem of data security for cloud services.

Datadog is an eleven-year-old company founded in 2010 in New York, and in just a decade, the company has gone global. The company provides services like monitoring of servers, databases, tools, and services, etc., for cloud-scale applications using a SaaS-based data analytics platform.

About the Datadog

Datadog, as its name suggests, helps companies secure the data on cloud services. The company provides its services in the field of finance, manufacturing, and logistics, healthcare, retail/e-commerce, the public sector, media & entertainment, technology, and gaming, etc. It works on technologies, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift.

The company ensures to take all the end-to-end traces, metrics, and logs under observation so that they can provide maximum security to the client’s application, infrastructure, and third-party services. The company not only helps the companies secure their cloud services but also helps them enhance the user experience for their clients. Cloud migration, monitoring consolidation, shift-left testing, security analysis, hybrid cloud monitoring, IoT monitoring, log analysis & correlation are some of the services provided by Datadog. The Datadog platform has been developed using a Go-based agent. It also uses technologies like D3, Apache Cassandra, Kafka, PostgreSQL, etc.

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The Back Story

Olivier Pomel and Alexis Lê-Quôc founded Datadog in 2010 in New York. The two founders were colleagues at Wireless Generation and developed the idea of founding Datadog while working at the company. Wireless Generation was acquired by NewsCorp, and at the same time, the two realized that there was constant friction between the developer and the systems administration teams. This led to the idea of developing software to help the teams working at cross-purpose, and hence Datadog came into being.

The founders held a seed round in 2010, and companies like NYC Seed, Contour Venture Partners, IA Ventures, Jerry Neumann, and Alex Payne participated in the funding. The rising demand for cloud services helped Datadog to become popular in no time. It was a cloud infrastructure monitoring service that every company required for their cloud services. Soon the company was working with all the major cloud service platforms, i.e., AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Red Hat OpenShift, VMWare, and OpenStack. The company then started to expand by acquiring companies like Mortar Data, such that to enhance the capabilities of the Datadog platform. Datadog also established a research and development office in Paris in 2015.

The next year, Datadog announced the beta-release of Application Performance Monitoring. The platform provided full-stack monitoring for cloud platforms for the first time. In 2017, the company went on to acquire a Paris-based company named Logmatic. This acquisition added the service like querying and visualization of the logs to Datadog platform, such that it made easier for the platform to monitor and troubleshoot the online services. In 2019, a company named Madumbo partnered with Datadog adding its AI-based application testing platform to Datadog. The same year, Company also entered Japan by establishing a subsidiary company in the country.

On 19 September 2019, Company went public on Nasdaq and raised $648 million by selling 24 million of its shares. In 2016, according to Deloitte’s 2016 Fast 500 List, Datadog was among the top ten fastest-growing companies in North America.

The Founders

Oliver Pomel is one of the founders of Datadog, who is serving as the CEO of the company. He holds an MS degree in Computer Science from Ecole Centrale Paris. He is one of the original authors of the VLC media player. Pomel has also worked with companies like IBM as a software engineer. He developed the data systems for K-12 teachers as a VP at Wireless Generation.

The other founder of Datadog is Alexis Lê-Quôc, who also serves as the CTO of Datadog. He was an Ecole Centrale Paris alumni and earned a master’s degree in Computer Science. He worked at Wireless Generation as the Director of Operations for a few years. Before that, he has also worked at companies like IBM, ORange, and Neomeo.

Bosch

Bosch – From A Precision Workshop to One of the Largest Conglomerate in the World

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When we talk about the success stories, Bosch’s success story is the greatest of them all. Like many other big companies, Bosch started its journey from a house’s backyard, after multiple ups and downs, and about 130 years later, the company is a multinational and is known to all. Bosch is a conglomerate, having its specialty in four major areas, i.e., mobility (including hardware and software), consumer goods (i.e., household appliances and power tools), industrial technology (drive and control), and energy and building technology.

About the Company

Robert Bosch GmbH is a conglomerate founded by Robert Bosch on 15 November 1886 as a precision mechanics and electrical engineering workshop. The company has its headquarters based in Gerlingen, Germany, and offers its services globally. It is a private company, Robert Bosch Stiftung having 92% of its shares under their name. BSH Hausgeräte, ETAS, and Bosch Rexroth are its major subsidiaries, and over 400,000 people are working for the company globally.
According to the 2019 records, Bosch made revenues worth €77.721 billion and holds total assets worth €89.030 billion. The company specializes in products manufacturing and supply, including Automotive parts, power tools, security systems, home appliances, engineering, electronics, cloud computing, IoT.

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Founding of Bosch

The history of Bosch dates back to 134 years ago when on 15 November 1886, Robert Bosch started to make truly reliable ignition gas engines in the backyard of a mechanical and electrical workshop. The first product of the company was a low voltage magneto for gas engines, and in just a few years, Company became the only supplier of a truly reliable ignition within the industry. In 1902, the company launched the first high-voltage magneto ignition system with a spark plug, a revolutionary product that helped in the growth of the company.
In 1901, Bosch opened its first factory in Stuttgart, and in the next ten years, moved to a bigger plant in Feuerbach. In the coming few years, the company also started to make headlights, windshields, wipers, injection pumps for diesel, power drills, car radios, etc., for automobiles. By 1917, it was a corporation.
The expansion for the company started when it acquired the gas appliances production from Junkers & Co., followed by the founding of Dreilinden Maschinenbau GmbH in Kleinmachnow near Berlin and Elektro- und Feinmechanische Industrie GmbH in Hildesheim. The company also had a great role to play in the second World War, as it produced accessories for German Luftwaffe aircraft, equipment of tanks, tractors, and trucks of the Wehrmacht, starter elements for tanks, etc. During the same time, the company had grown to about 210 plants in 100 different locations.
The end of the Second World War was the new beginning for Bosch. It partnered with a Japanese company named Denso and in 1968. , founded a new development center in Schwieberdingen. In 1987, Bosch acquired Telenorma, which was renamed Bosch Telecom GmbH. The company has many inventions under its credits, including the traction control system (1986), the xenon light for cars (1991), and the electronic stability control (1995), etc.
The company also expanded its operations into other fields. The company invested in security products and systems like CCTV, public address system, etc., and acquired Philips CSI in 2002. The company also acquired companies like Telex Communications (2006), Electro-Voice (2006), Mannesmann Rexroth AG (2001), and ZF Lenksysteme (2015).

The Company Today

Bosch is one of the largest conglomerates and operates through its about 440 subsidiaries in around 60 countries. The company specializes in manufacturing, engineering, and sales. Other than that, the company is also into healthcare and medical technology (Bosch Healthcare Solutions), software technology (Bosch Software Innovations), venture capital (Grow Platform GmbH and Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH), etc.
Other than its 4000,000, the company has employed about 64,500 research associates in its research and development centers. In May 2019, the company announced that it will be “fully carbon-neutral” by 2020, and for that, the company has initiated multiple clean electricity and ambitious carbon offset programs.

The Founder

Robert Bosch the founder of Robert Bosch GmbH was born on 23 September 1861 in Albeck, Kingdom of Württemberg, German Confederation. Bosch went to the Realschule (secondary-technical school) in Ulm in 1969 and then started working as a precision mechanic apprentice. In the first seven years of his career, he worked for multiple companies in Germany, the US, and the UK. During the same time, he also worked for Thomas Edison in New York. After gaining enough experience he then started his own workshop on 15 November 1886, which later became today’s Bosch.
Under Bosch’s leadership, the company made multiple inventions and started to operate out of Germany as well. He is also credited to introduce the eight-hour workday, He was also among the ones who supported the resistance against Adolf Hitler and employed about 20,000 forced laborers (prisoners of war) from the war. Bosch is one of the greatest personalities of Germany and was awarded the “Pionier der Arbeit” (Pioneer of Labor). Robert Bosch died on 12 March 1942.