Business Analytics & Enterprise Software Publishing: More Firms Will Rely On Industry Software, But Cloud Computing May Hurt Profit

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) November 01, 2011

Revenue for the Business Analytics and Enterprise Software Publishing industry is expected to increase to $ 32.1 billion during the five years to 2016, according to IBISWorld, the nations largest publisher of industry research. Continued strength in corporate profit, coupled with limited opportunities for growth given the weak demand environment, will drive firms to invest in streamlining operations. This strategy aims to boost profitability, rather than expansion operations that are designed with growth in mind.

The Business Analytics and Enterprise Software Publishing industry in the United States remains strong, despite the hiccups of the 2009 recession. Revenue is expected to be $ 27.3 billion in 2011, representing an increase of 10.7% from 2010. While the annualized five-year growth rate is a more humble 5.2%, this industry has demonstrated that while it is vulnerable in economic slowdowns, it can do extremely well in improving economic conditions. In particular, the current economic climate is almost tailor-made to support this industry. Corporate profitability has risen, but consumer demand is stagnant, as individuals who are wracked with job insecurity are reticent to spend or go into debt. As a result, corporations are seeking to improve productivity rather than expand their scope. In fact, business intelligence software exists in order to improve operational effectiveness.

Nevertheless, the Business Analytics and Enterprise Software Publishing industry does face some looming threats. This industry's profitability hinges upon a price structure that is entirely divorced from production costs. While corporations are willing, so far, to support massive profit margins at enterprise software firms, excessive and prolonged profitability is unlikely. According to IBISWorld analyst, David Grimes, the threat is more likely to come from outside than within; this industry traffics in licenses for corporations to run software on their own computers. However, the growth of the cloud computing movement, best typified in this sector by Salesforce.com, threatens to chip away at this industry's profitability, says Grimes. Cloud computing offers slightly less-exorbitant pricing policies and reduced initial investments. While fears about data security and the costs of switching will likely keep existing customers where they are, new customers in the market for software solutions will increasingly look toward the cloud. Furthermore, there is a limit to the number of companies in need of enterprise software solutions; saturation may soon strike. While this industry generally charges annual subscription fees, indicating accumulative growth, that growth may slow dramatically. IBISWorld anticipates this trend will take place over the five years to 2016, with revenue set to grow at an average annual rate of 3.3% to $ 32.1 billion.

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Solera Networks Secures $7M in New Funding to Grow Network Forensics Business, Allegis Capital Leads Round and Joins Board

Lindon, UT (PRWEB) April 15, 2009

Solera Networks, a provider of innovative network forensics software solutions, today announced it has raised an additional $ 7 million in Series B venture funding, led by new investor Allegis Capital. Solera Networks' existing investor, Canopy Ventures, is also participating in the round.

Proceeds from the funding will be used to accelerate growth in sales and marketing activities, including opening the company's new office in Washington, DC and expansion of its Japanese operations.

Solera Networks President and CEO Steve Shillingford said, "We've always believed that today's information assurance strategies are missing a fundamental component -- the ability to go back in time to quickly find the source of a breach, remediate the failure, and fortify the network. We see this funding as validation for the need to shift toward planning for these inevitable failures by investing in network forensics solutions like those from Solera Networks."

Solera Networks has made significant advancements in high-speed network forensics solutions for both virtual and physical networks, including technology to capture, index, search, and replay all network traffic. The company's solutions are unmatched in speed and scalability and have been previously demonstrated at Supercomputing '08 in a real-world testing lab involving live network traffic. Additionally, Solera Networks has certified its performance with Meircom and in numerous live customer deployments.

"We can expect to see more aggressive attacks targeting vulnerabilities that have been recently classified, but for which a remedy is still under development," said Nick Selby, Vice President and Research Director of the Enterprise Security Practice at industry analyst firm The 451 Group.

"Network forensics technologies, like those from Solera Networks, can replay past network events in full fidelity and help identify the scope of the exploit. Swift identification leads to protection against further exposure." Solera Networks will showcase its latest solution at RSA in San Francisco, April 20-23.

"We are very pleased to join Allegis Capital in this second round of financing for Solera Networks," said Ron Heinz, Managing Director of Canopy Ventures. "Solera Networks has combined a strong management team with excellent technology in the exciting growth market of network forensics. We believe their opportunity to serve customers in global markets is very compelling."

"Despite best efforts to protect information assets, there will always be instances where predetermination and prevention isn't possible," said Spencer Tall, Managing Director of Allegis Capital. "Organizations must shift their focus to incident response, supported by comprehensive network forensics. Determining the scope of an event is key, followed by remediation and fortification. This is where Solera Networks' open architecture, support for any network, and easy-to-use forensic applications fill the gap in today's network security platforms. It's a very exciting market opportunity."

Spencer Tall and Robert Ackerman, Managing Director and Co-Founder from Allegis Capital, will join the Solera Networks Board of Directors.

Solera Networks' growing customer base includes small businesses up to global 2000 enterprise and government entities.

About Solera Networks

Solera Networks develops high-speed network forensics solutions for both physical and virtual networks. These solutions are unmatched in speed and scalability -- capturing, indexing, searching, and replaying all network traffic, even in 10Gb environments. The Solera Networks architecture provides open platform interoperability, extensible storage, and portability. These capabilities enable security professionals to quickly identify the source of any attack, remediate, and fortify against further risk. For more information on Solera Networks, visit http://www.soleranetworks.com.

About Allegis Capital

Allegis is a seed and early stage venture capital firm focused on the digital economy. The venture firm has five funds and invested in more than 70 companies including Ironport Systems, RIBBIT, LGC Wireless, SandPiper -- Digital Island, Rent.com, Shopzilla, Comparnet and StepUp Commerce. Based in Palo Alto, California, Allegis has assets under management of $ 500M. For more information, visit http://www.allegiscapital.com.

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Digitalsmiths Expands Executive Team with New VP of Marketing and SVP of Sales and Business Development

Research Triangle Park, NC (PRWEB) April 21, 2009

Digitalsmiths, the innovative video indexing, analysis and publishing technology provider, today announced it has added two executives to its senior management team. Robert Bryson, a former senior executive from Move Networks has joined the company as senior vice president of sales and business development, and Melissa Sargeant has been named vice president of marketing. The new additions follow a recent investment from Cisco Media Solutions Group and a $ 12 million Series B round of funding announced last November.

The new hires were brought in to help accelerate and manage growth after a recent surge in demand for Digitalsmiths' renowned indexing and video management solutions. In recognition of the company's continued expansion, Digitalsmiths was recently appointed to the 2009 OnHollywood 100 list, an accolade extended to emerging technology companies in the media and entertainment industries. List inclusion is based on demonstration of growth, market opportunity, quality of innovation and customer traction.

"Amidst a dynamic industry of shifting consumer behaviors and new forms of advertising, Digitalsmiths has a market-proven technological platform that engages consumers while meeting the needs of professional content owners," said Ben Weinberger, chief executive officer of Digitalsmiths. "Bob and Melissa bring nearly forty years of capable and masterful industry experience and Digitalsmiths is poised to continue its rapid acceleration into 2009 and beyond under their guidance."

Digitalsmiths indexes video with an unprecedented sense of context, nuance and intelligence that opens up entirely new revenue streams for existing content. The company's suite of visual interpretation tools processes each frame of video with proprietary algorithms including facial recognition, scene classification, and object recognition and assigns that information to a unique time-coded index. The company's frame-by-frame analysis creates extensive metadata, facilitating more efficient search and more effective contextual ad placement.

Bryson has more than 20 years experience in technology and media sales and marketing. As senior vice president of sales and business development, Bryson will be responsible for corporate development, strategic partnerships and developing customer relationships. Before joining Digitalsmiths, Bryson was senior vice president of sales and business development at Move Networks, where he led all sales and business development as well as the commercial deals and strategic relationships with Disney Media Networks, Disney ABC Television Group, ESPN Media Networks, Fox Interactive Media, My Space, Fox Broadcasting, TheCW Network, Warner Brothers, and Televisa. Previously, he served as SVP of sales and marketing for Knowledge Universe and I-Link, and as SVP of business development for Media Station. He also held positions with Novell and IBM Rolm Systems.

With more than 17 years experience, Sargeant joins Digitalsmiths as VP of marketing, where she will lead the marketing and media efforts for the company. She previously served as a director of product marketing for CA, Inc. (formerly Computer Associates), one of the world's largest software management companies. Prior to CA, Inc., Sargeant was vice president of marketing at Bluefire Security Technologies and has held senior marketing positions at Mercator Software, Guardent and BNX Systems.

"Digitalsmiths has proven itself as a pioneering innovator and digital video solutions leader in the media and entertainment market," Bryson said. "The company's world-class enterprise platform is uniquely designed to assist premium content owners and distributors in monetizing their film and television libraries online and across traditional distribution models. Over the past eight years, Digitalsmiths has built the right technologies to power its digital video integrated services platform, enabling industry-leading media companies to bridge and integrate their business operations across open broadband networks and traditional film and television hybrid networks. I'm thrilled to jump in with the leadership team and help take the company to the next level while accelerating the digital media audience reach of our customers."

About Digitalsmiths:

Digitalsmiths is an innovative video indexing and digital content publishing technology provider serving major Hollywood studios, web video destinations, media companies and advertisers. The company's proprietary computer-vision based video indexing, search and interpretation algorithms empower content owners and publishers to efficiently monetize their digital video content, and advertisers to automatically target ads to thematically relevant video content. Digitalsmiths is based in Research Triangle Park, N.C. The privately held company is funded by Cisco, .406 Ventures, The Aurora Funds and Chrysalis Ventures. For more information, please visit: http://www.digitalsmiths.com.

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Shod for success Parcel2Go hails enterprising eBay couple whose footwear business is making great strides

Bolton, Lancashire (PRWEB UK) 27 August 2011

Free delivery has been a key to the success of a new business which has turned from a home-based hobby into a full-time online enterprise for a Norfolk couple.

Martin and Monica Lott set up FYFO.co.uk, and now sell footwear through their own website and on eBay from more than 60 top brands and offering no-cost delivery on all standard orders has helped them hit the ground running since the site was launched at the start of this month.

But according to marketing director of online delivery services agent Parcel2Go.com, Richard Mercer, they are just one of many examples of how getting the right delivery services company on board from the start can give any aspiring business a leg up.

"Millions of British people love selling their unwanted items on eBay, but turning that love into a viable business can be a completely different matter," he said.

"Keeping a close eye on costs is key in this respect, and that's where Parcel2Go has helped so many people's hard work to set up their own thriving company pay off.

"For eBay traders, the cost of sending out their goods can eat up a large chunk of their profits. We aim to make those overheads easier to swallow, by offering them a range of delivery service options suited to both their budgets, and the products they are selling," Mr Mercer added.

Many people are unaware of the sheer scale of the choice of parcel delivery options they have available when going into supplying goods by post, he pointed out.

"Parcel2Go.com has negotiated special deals with a range of leading carriers, so we can help ambitious business owners find a first-class delivery service that doesn't cost them the earth," he said.

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About Parcel2Go:

Parcel2Go Ltd has been offering its customers the opportunity to organise a courier to London, Monaco, and everywhere in between, for the past 21 years.

Based in Bolton, the company operates a cost-effective collection and delivery service using couriers such as Parcelforce and DHL throughout the UK, Europe, and countries across the world.

For further information contact:

Email: l.yates(at)parcel2go(dot)com

Website: http://www.parcel2go.com


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Is Your Business Ready to Buy Office Space? Analyzing Whether to Buy or Lease Commercial Real Estate

Boise, ID (PRWEB) August 10, 2010

In decades past, it was unusual for businesses to own their commercial real estate. The exceptions were doctors and dentists, who often bought small suburban office buildings, or converted their homes or parts of their homes into office space. But in todays market, more and more businesseslaw firms, advertising agencies, and financial planning companies, to name a feware choosing to buy rather than lease their office space.

Why Own Your Commercial Real Estate?

The attractions of owning your office space are obvious: commercial real estate investment can build equity, increasing a companys net worth over the long term, particularly in areas with rapidly appreciating property values. Alternatively, the principals of a business may choose to purchase an office building and lease it back to their own company providing a steady source of rent to offset the loan payments. Owners can also take advantage of tax deductions for mortgage interest and building improvements, as well as special capital gains treatment.

And, for many business owners, the idea of having predictable, fixed payments over the life of a loan rather than the variable costs of fluctuating rents makes great sense. Business owners are no longer subject to office leasing market conditions and rising rental rates, and have complete control over decisions about office remodels, maintenance, and how the office space looks and feels to clients and customers.

So what stops businesses from making the leap from lessee to landlord? One obstacle can be the scarcity of available properties. Nationwide, the number of properties available for purchase is usually dwarfed by the number of spaces available to lease.

The commercial real estate landscape is evolving and new possibilities are opening up. Some regional commercial real estate developers are catering to businesses that prefer to own their real estate. Small office parks with individual buildings each owned by separate businesses have been developed throughout the country. This set up is ideal for insurance agents, dentists, or virtually any small business requiring 4,000 to 8,000 square feet of office space.

Another possibility for companies looking to buy in prime locations is the office condominium option. Office condos are available even in major markets, where often few buildings are up for sale.

Why Lease?

Building ownership is not for every businessmuch depends on a companys current growth phase. Young companies and start-ups may not be able to predict their growth accurately enough to understand their future commercial real estate needs. Office space leasing offers them maximum flexibility to be able to adapt quickly as the company grows or downsizes.

Cash flow is also an issue. Buying real estate requires a down payment and funds for closing costs, which ties up working capital that many businesses are not willing to commit. Young companies may not have acquired the financial assets needed to meet commercial lenders requirements.

For some businesses, leasing office space makes more sense because in general, lease payments are deductible immediately, while the tax advantages of ownership are more complex and only realized over the long term. Keep in mind that it is critical to review any tax-related decisions with an attorney and tax advisor.

Room to Grow

Owning often works best for mature, stable businesses, whose growth curve has leveled out or is easy to forecast. Future growth is an important consideration. If your business expands more than the building can accommodate, you may need to sell and buy something else, a time-consuming process. Or, you may end up leasing the entire building to another company.

To manage this possibility, businesses often purchase space that is larger than their current need and lease the additional space to another company. That way the building owner can expand into the additional office space when their tenants lease expires.

Outgrowing a space doesn't have to be a financial crisisit can even be an opportunity for generating new cash flow. One of my clients saw his business grow so rapidly that he quickly needed more than twice the space of the building he'd purchased. He was able to lease that building to another company at a profit, and move into a new, larger space for his own business.

Add it All Up

If you are on the fence over the buy vs. lease subject, keep in mind that leasing commercial real estate appeals to businesses that are in constant flux and need the ability to make fairly rapid adjustments in their office space; whether it be in the size or type of the space or the location. In addition, if you need to keep your capital liquid for future business investment, it makes more sense to lease. Office building buyers will be stable companies that know they will be in the same location for several years. They will also have significant financial assets and the tolerance for taking on the responsibility of buildioveng maintenance and other ownership issues.

If you think owning your own office space might be an option for your business, do the numbers. Make a long-range plan. Consult your real estate professional, attorney, and tax advisor. Andif you find the perfect propertyact fast!

Visit http://www.moveyouroffice.com for detailed information on managing your next office relocation.

Karen Warner is the author of Move Your Office: The #1 Source for Pulling off Your Best Office Move Ever!, the best-selling office leasing and relocation guide. Move Your Office is available at http://www.moveyouroffice.com and Amazon.com.

Karen Warner's skill and experience as a commercial real estate broker has helped many businesses manage a smooth transition to their new location. Her extensive knowledge of the commercial relocation process and unique talent as a tenant representative allows her to expertly assist clients in finding and negotiating office space. Karens status as the author of three best-selling commercial relocation books gives her the tools and savvy to formulate effective moving strategies.

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