World's 1st Data Observability Platform Unravel Data Named Representative Vendor in Gartner® Market Guide for DataOps Tools

Unravel Data, the first data observability platform built to meet the needs of modern data teams, announced today that it was recognized as a Representative Vendor in the DataOps Market in the 2022 Gartner Market Guide for DataOps Tools.

“In recent years, organizations have witnessed significant increases in the number of data sources and data consumers as they deploy more applications and use cases. DataOps has risen as a set of best practices and technologies to streamline and efficiently handle this onslaught of new upcoming workloads,” said Sanjeev Mohan, principal with SanjMo. “Just as DevOps helped streamline web application development and make software teams more productive, DataOps aims to do the same thing for data applications.”

According to a Gartner strategic planning assumption from this Market Guide, “by 2025, a data engineering team guided by DataOps practices and tools will be 10 times more productive than teams that do not use DataOps.” In this Market Guide for DataOps Tools, Gartner examines the DataOps market and explains the various capabilities of DataOps tools, paints a picture of the DataOps tool landscape, and offers recommendations.

“Data teams are struggling to keep up with the increased volume, velocity, variety, and complexity of their data applications and data pipelines. These teams are facing many of the same generic challenges that software teams did 10-plus years ago,” said Kunal Agarwal, CEO of Unravel Data. “We’re proud to be recognized by Gartner in the DataOps Market. Unravel Data provides unprecedented visibility across users’ data stacks, proactively troubleshooting and optimizing data workloads, and defining guardrails to govern costs and improve predictability.”

Today’s modern data stack is a complex collection of different systems, platforms, technologies, and environments. Enterprises need a DataOps solution that works with every type of workload and addresses the performance, cost, and quality issues facing data teams today. Founded by data pioneers Kunal Agarwal and Dr. Shivnath Babu, Unravel Data was created on the notion that the exponential growth of data combined with the broad adoption of the public cloud requires an entirely new way to manage and optimize the data pipelines that support the real-time analytics needs of data-driven enterprises.

Customers who have deployed the Unravel platform have been able to double the productivity of data teams and ensure that data applications run on time, while scaling costs efficiently in the cloud. To learn more about how Unravel is leading the DataOps observability space, visit the new library of demonstration videos.

*Gartner, “Market Guide for DataOps Tools”, December 5, 2022.

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About Unravel Data

Unravel Data radically transforms the way businesses understand and optimize the performance and cost of their modern data applications – and the complex data pipelines that power those applications. Providing a unified view across the entire data stack, Unravel’s market-leading data observability platform leverages AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics to provide modern data teams with the actionable recommendations they need to turn data into insights. Some of the world’s most recognized brands like Adobe, 84.51˚ (a Kroger company), and Deutsche Bank rely on Unravel Data to unlock data-driven insights and deliver new innovations to market.

To learn more, visit www.unraveldata.com.

74% of Indian Respondents Believe That AI/ML is Becoming a Major Factor in Dev and DevOps Efforts

Progress Survey Reveals the Factors Driving the Adoption and Evolution of DevSecOps Over the Next Two Years

• New research reveals that 73% of respondents admit more could be done to improve DevSecOps practices and highlights commonalities to those businesses finding success. 
• As per the survey, 74% of Indian respondents believe that AI / ML is becoming a major factor in dev and DevOps efforts, whereas 26% do not agree.

Hyderabad, India—November 15, 2022—Progress (Nasdaq: PRGS), the trusted provider of application development and infrastructure software, today announced the results of its 2022 survey, “DevSecOps: Simplifying Complexity in a Changing World.” More than 600 IT, security, application development and DevOps decision makers globally shared insights into the level of DevSecOps maturity and challenges faced across their organizations. The full report and findings can be found here.

The DevSecOps survey aimed to uncover the true state of DevOps and DevSecOps adoption – from business priorities to technology adoption, lack of cultural alignment and investment and the common pitfalls and successes businesses worldwide have achieved.

Significant findings from the survey include:

Global trends: -

• Many companies are behind in achieving their DevOps and DevSecOps goals. 73% of organizations said they could be doing more, 76% acknowledge they need to be more strategic about how they manage DevSecOps and 17% still consider themselves at an exploratory and proof-of-concept stage.
• Security is the number one driver behind most DevOps and DevSecOps implementations. Yet only 30% feel confident in the level of collaboration between security and development, 86% experience challenges in their current approaches to security and 51% admit that they don’t fully understand how security fits into DevSecOps.
• Culture is the biggest barrier to DevOps and DevSecOps success. In fact, 71% of respondents agreed that culture is the biggest barrier to DevSecOps progress, yet only 16% are prioritizing culture as an area to optimize in the next 12-18 months.

India specific trends: -

• 72% of Indian respondents said that providing best in class technical environment to attract and retain top talent can be an important business factor that can drive the DevOps adoption and evolution in their organization over the next two years. Whereas 70% said, the focus on business agility via fast and frequent delivery of application capabilities is another reason for the adoption of DevOps.
• 62% of respondents agreed that security is the key driver behind DevOps adoption and evolution in terms of technological reasoning.
• 74% of Indian respondents believe that AI / ML is becoming a major factor in dev and DevOps efforts, whereas 26% do not agree.

The organizations succeeding in the implementation of DevOps and DevSecOps policies and practices recognize the importance of security training and upskilling. This helps them reach a higher level of continued long-term collaboration between security and development teams. According to the respondents, the top business factors driving the adoption and evolution of DevOps inside their organizations include a focus on agility, reducing the business risk of quality, security, and downtime or performance issues, and the need to implement DevOps to support a cloud-mandate or their move to the cloud. Other survey areas highlighted include infrastructure modernization efforts, policy as code, cloud-native adoption, time to ROI, investment and education opportunities and more.

“In today’s business landscape, many organizations are currently focusing on rapid deployment of software to market, where the security factor of the software gets compromised”, said Prashanth Nanjundappa, VP, Product Development, Progress. “Prioritizing security efforts from the earlier stage of the development cycle and security training among the engineers is an important measure organization at any level should follow.”

“The benefits of integrating security into DevOps are plentiful – from reduced risk and lower costs to faster delivery and more effective compliance. Unfortunately, it’s not as easy as snapping your fingers,” said Sundar Subramanian, EVP & GM DevOps, Progress. “Our research confirms what we see and hear from customers every day – that each has their own unique culture and trajectory, with their own inflection points and challenges, which present more than one roadblock to DevSecOps adoption. That’s why businesses around the globe are turning to Progress. We make DevSecOps an automated reality."

The race to digital has only accelerated across every aspect of business over the last few years, and organizations that have embraced this acceleration are thriving today. They rely on Progress to serve the entire DevSecOps lifecycle, from design to development to operational assurance – including secure hybrid-cloud infrastructure management, full-stack observability and high availability. Progress is a leader in DevOps and DevSecOps, offering the best products to automate and secure deployments to edge devices, hybrid cloud and on-premise environments.

The survey, “DevSecOps: Simplifying Complexity in a Changing World,” was conducted by Insight Avenue, a UK-based research firm, specializing in business-to-business technology research. The team conducted 606 interviews with IT/Security/App Dev and DevOps decision makers in organizations with 500+ employees from 11 countries from Europe, Asia, Latin America and the United States.

About Progress

Dedicated to propelling business forward in a technology-driven world, Progress (Nasdaq: PRGS) helps businesses drive faster cycles of innovation, fuel momentum and accelerate their path to success. As the trusted provider of the best products to develop, deploy and manage high-impact applications, Progress enables customers to develop the applications and experiences they need, deploy where and how they want and manage it all safely and securely. Hundreds of thousands of enterprises, including 1,700 software companies and 3.5 million developers, depend on Progress to achieve their goals—with confidence. Learn more at www.progress.com, and follow us on LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

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Esper, the Leader in DevOps for Devices, Announces $60 Million Series C funding as Market Demand Explodes

Co-Founders headshot - Yadhu Gopalan, left(CEO)_ Shiv Sundar, right(COO)

Insight Partners Leads Latest Financing, Esper’s Second in 2021

MUMBAI, October 6, 2021 -- India and US based Esper, the industry’s leading DevOps platform for devices, today announced $60 million in Series C funding led by Insight Partners, with participation from existing investors including Scale Venture Partners, Madrona Ventures and Root Ventures. The investment brings Esper's total funding to $100 million and follows the company’s $30 million Series B just four month ago in May 2021. Esper developed the industry’s first DevOps platform for intelligent edge devices and was named one of the top 10 hottest startups in 2021 by CRN.

Enterprise edge devices is a fast-growing category that includes everything from the tablets used in travel, restaurants, and warehouses, to medical devices, fitness equipment, and in-store kiosks. Esper is the only software platform that lets organizations remotely scale, manage, secure, and update mission-critical edge devices and custom apps using the proven DevOps practices now considered standard in web app development.

There is a massive potential for Indian organisations to adopt Android DevOps across sectors including hospitality, restaurant, healthcare, education, and logistics sectors to deliver contactless services. Esper works with some of the major brands including cult.fit, Teach for India to power and manage their devices.

“India witnessed unprecedented digital transformation since the pandemic, which makes it a unique market with the potential to adopt DevOps across every industry. Android DevOps has the potential to transform Indian businesses through their journey towards agility, increase operational efficiency and control costs,”says Yadhu Gopalan, CEO and co-founder at Esper.

“Esper’s team in India is pivotal to the company’s growth. Currently 83 employees work out of India and are responsible for designing and engineering Esper's core DevOps platform along with tackling the core marketing and sales functions. We plan to increase the employee count to 200 by 2022 as we are looking to expand the Engineering and Sales functions,” said Shiv Sundar, COO & co-founder at Esper.

“Customer expectations are higher than ever. When a point of sale terminal in a retailer is out of order, the merchant doesn’t have the time or expertise to fix it. These devices are mission critical and expected to work flawlessly 24/7. This is especially true for devices directly tied to revenue generation or in verticals like medical devices where a life might literally be on the line. We built Esper with the customer’s customer in mind,” Yadhu Gopalan further adds.

Edge devices are a new path to connecting with more customers in more places, but challenges persist.

“For years now we’ve seen these massive projections about IOT devices of all kinds. But on the ground, enterprises and SMBs are struggling with the reality that large-scale deployments of devices are hard and expensive when you go it alone,” said Philine Huizing, Vice President at Insight Partners. “Esper has emerged as the only platform that provides modern DevOps capabilities in a package purpose built for intelligent edge devices. And even better, developers tell us that they love using Esper."

Esper has over 200 paying customers and over 2,000 developers using its platform for product development. Esper addresses verticals as diverse as fast food, healthcare, connected fitness, retail, and digital signage, driving 2021 revenue 4x higher than the year prior and making Esper one of the fastest growing startups in the enterprise software sector. The Seattle-based company quadrupled headcount during 2021 and tripled its office footprint in Bellevue on a square footage basis.

As this hyper-growth attests, innovative brands are using Esper to move from whiteboard to deployment faster than they ever thought possible. This is particularly important in markets like healthcare where ease-of-use and continuous uptime are critical:

"With Esper, our remote patient monitoring service just works,” said Neema Moraveji, PhD, Co-founder and Chief Scientist at Spire Health. “Esper’s seamless deployment ensures that even patients who are not as comfortable with technology can successfully use our service. Device set-up is simple, there is zero configuration needed by the patients, and Esper’s full-service solution detects connectivity and sensor failures ahead of time and alerts the Spire team for proactive outreach to our patients, often before they even notice an issue.”

This latest funding round will primarily be used to further expand Esper’s ability to get in front of more enterprise customers.

“Our biggest opportunity right now is getting the word out to more enterprises that Esper exists,”adds Shiv Sundar. “No other software does what we do. Our customers tell us that we are completely resetting their assumptions about what is possible. It’s truly rewarding to see the light bulb go off when a customer realizes all of the infrastructure they no longer have to build themselves.”

Enterprises can sign up for a technology demo at https://www.esper.io/book-demo.

About Insight Partners

Insight Partners is a leading global venture capital and private equity firm investing in high-growth technology and software ScaleUp companies that are driving transformative change in their industries. Founded in 1995, Insight Partners has invested in more than 400 companies worldwide and has raised through a series of funds more than $30 billion in capital commitments. Insight’s mission is to find, fund, and work successfully with visionary executives, providing them with practical, hands-on software expertise to foster long-term success. Across its people and its portfolio, Insight encourages a culture around a belief that ScaleUp companies and growth create opportunity for all. For more information on Insight and all its investments, visit www.insightpartners.com.

About Esper

Esper offers a DevOps SaaS platform for intelligent edge devices. As the industry’s leading solution for Android DevOps, Esper is on a mission to let software teams ship without worrying about the hardware. Esper’s device infrastructure enables developers, mid-market orgs, and enterprise fleets of 100,000+ devices to deliver their software as a service. Esper has rapidly-growing global customer adoption among some of the world’s most innovative major brands in retail, hospitality, logistics, healthcare, education, and more. For more information visit: https://esper.io.

The world’s most innovative brands trust Esper’s powerful DevOps platform to securely streamline deployment and management for distributed fleets of mission-critical Android edge devices, creating delightful user experiences that rapidly scale. Esper exists because developers and engineers need a great platform for Device DevOps to innovate on top of. Digital transformation is accelerating the adoption of intelligent edge devices across industries and each new use case requires better software automation. We deliver operational excellence and a stable, scalable infrastructure to help you quickly deploy your application experiences at scale.