Q3 2019 BARC - Data & Analytics market update (by Carsten Bange)

This quarter: Investments - record breaking third quarter for investments in data & analytics companies. M&A - The Hadoop market consolidates quickly and data science/AI companies add portfolio capabilities by acquisition.

B2B software brand Idera has bought WhereScape. WhereScape develops and markets automation software for modern Data Warehouses deployed in in the cloud or on premise. Idera, a parent company for several database, development, and testing software companies announced to integrate WhereScape in their Database Tools unit. Other software providers in the same Idera unit are AquaFold featuring an IDE for visual database queries and Webyog featuring MySQL monitoring and management tools. With the acquisition of WhereScape, Idera improves its capabilities for empowering data professionals regarding DevOps use cases in complex data environments. WhereScape was a very visible player in the Data & Analytics ecosystem. It will be interesting to watch whether Idera with its much broader and application agnostic toolsets will maintain the presence or change the go-to-market approach.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has announced the acquisition of Hadoop provider MapR after the target had reported significant declines in orders and liquidity problems a few months earlier. In June MapR announced that a very poor first quarter of fiscal year 2019, due to a lack of customer orders and a growing trend toward primary and hybrid cloud solutions, had forced the company to lay off more than 120 employees. Soon after the complete close down of the company seemed immanent, but a savior appeared in August when HPE acquired the company. Such a fire sale ends a sad story for the investors that put in total USD 280 million in the company over the years and most probably lost most of it. HPE strengthens its Intelligent Data Platform business with MapR’s IP and customers. To form this platform business HPE acquired AI and Big Data company BlueData earlier and now offers technologies for containerized applications and data pipelines in hybrid data center and cloud deployments.

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