CModel Data Inc., whose proprietary software helps companies operate more efficiently, is moving its headquarters from San Francisco to Birmingham, where the company plans to create 80 new jobs as it expands its operations, Alabama Secretary of Commerce Ellen McNair announced today.

The technology startup has developed its AI-powered Cora program to provide corporate decision makers with insights and recommendations that enable them to develop and implement successful growth strategies.

According to CModel, Cora acts as a decision support engine that aggregates a company's key business data and uses machine learning to analyze metrics, assumptions, and industry benchmarks to provide curated, expert-driven recommendations.

“The innovators behind CModel Data have developed a software platform that enables business leaders to break through the static and gain the insights they need to grow their companies,” said McNair.

“This promising company is another great addition to Birmingham’s growing tech startup scene.”

CModel was co-founded by Teasha Cable, Dr. Russ Muzzolini, and Jazmine Cable-Whitehurst in San Francisco. The company participated in Amazon Web Services' first Impact Accelerator in 2022 and the Build in Tulsa Accelerator in 2023.

Thanks to an investment from an Alabama-focused venture capital fund and broad support for its growth project, CModel is moving its headquarters from San Francisco to Innovation Depot in Birmingham, one of the Southeast's leading incubators for technology-focused startups.

“With the support of Alabama's targeted venture capital fund and the enthusiastic support of Birmingham's innovation ecosystem, we are excited to establish our headquarters at the respected Innovation Depot,” said Cable. “Moving to Birmingham aligns with our vision to make a meaningful impact and contribute to the thriving tech community here.”

“We want to further expand our commitment to growth, create new jobs and promote economic development in the region,” she said.

Teasha Cable is co-founder of CModel, a technology company that is moving its headquarters from San Francisco to Birmingham. (Post)

Growth plans

According to the Alabama Department of Commerce, the company chose the Magic City in Alabama rather than its hometown in California or other cities.

The Birmingham Business Alliance (BBA) estimates that the economic impact of CModel's growth plans in Alabama will be $4.1 million over a 20-year period.

In addition to the Department of Commerce and BBA, AIDT, Alabama's premier workforce development agency, also supports the project and provides services to CModel.

The project is also supported by the City of Birmingham, Jefferson County, Birmingham Bound, an initiative to promote the growth of the city's technology ecosystem, and the Alabama Futures Fund (AFF), a seed-stage venture capital fund focused on promoting and expanding entrepreneurial activity and economic development in the state.

Matt Hottle, partner at Redhawk Advisory and investment manager at AFF, said CModel is a startup that can “make a real difference” for its clients. AFF had previously announced it had invested in the company.

“Augmented intelligence platforms like CORA are typically financially prohibitive for mid-sized companies,” Hottle said in a statement. “Combining the latest AI and machine learning technology with model simulations to help companies make better decisions faster is a game changer.”

The Birmingham technology incubator “Innovation Depot” will be the new home base for the San Francisco-based technology startup CModel Data. (Article)

Local impacts

Officials in Jefferson County are optimistic about CModel's growth potential among Birmingham's growing list of technology startups.

“We are thrilled that CModel is making Birmingham its home,” said Mayor Randall L. Woodfin. “They join a growing list of companies in our city's emerging technology hub where world-changing innovations are being created. The creation of 80 jobs is a huge win for us.”

“I am grateful that CModel recognizes the value of investing in Birmingham. We welcome them to their new home and look forward to pursuing their vision to improve business efficiency.”

With the strong growth of homegrown technology companies in Birmingham, Jefferson County Commissioner Mike Bolin said the region's efforts to attract new technology-focused companies and talent are bearing fruit.

“CModel Data Inc. will be a wonderful addition to this community with its AI-powered decision intelligence engine,” said Bolin. “The 80 new jobs this company will bring to our area will provide excellent opportunities for a number of local families, and Jefferson County looks forward to working with CModel as they move to Jefferson County.”

BBA President and CEO Steve Ammons said the announcement of CModel's move underscores the organization's commitment to growing the tech scene in the greater Birmingham area.

“This innovative company will not only create 80 new jobs, but will also enrich our ecosystem with its cutting-edge technology,” said Ammons. “We are excited to welcome CModel to the Greater Birmingham region and support them on their journey to significantly increase business efficiency and economic development.”

This story originally appeared on the Alabama Department of Commerce's Made in Alabama website.

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San Francisco to Become Novva’s Fifth Data Center Location

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 29, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Novva Data Centers, a state-of-the-art data center company providing purpose-built data center facilities, announced today the acquisition of a 7.5-acre campus comprised of several buildings located in South San Francisco. The newest data center location will include an investment of over $500 million and provide a 28MW critical load. The first phase of 9MW will launch in the summer of 2026, guided by an avante-garde vision that is poised to make the new location one of the most innovative and sustainable data centers in the United States.

A rendering of Novva’s newest data center in San Francisco.

The data center will host numerous advancements in data center design:

• 28MW N+1 critical compute load via Novva’s proprietary electrical delivery system which boasts no centralized infrastructure and is designed for the ultimate in resiliency, concurrent maintenance, and distributed redundancy.
• Novva’s innovative water-free air-cooling system
• All generators will operate using HVO, which stands for hydro-treated vegetable oil (biodiesel)
• Sodium Ion UPS batteries with no thermal runaway risk or rare earth materials
• Recyclable polypropylene employed for the chilled water loop air supply
• Direct-to-chip cooling loop

The data center facility will represent 182,000 square feet on two floors, and a 56,000 square foot state-of-the-art office and operations support center.

Novva’s San Francisco operation will be one of a handful of such facilities in the northern bay region. According to Novva’s CEO Wes Swenson, “This will be one of the greenest data centers ever created in the area and represents a very rare opportunity for clients to locate intelligent computing in one of the most important cities for software and hardware development in the world.”

The topology, density, and ability to provision power and operate data centers in areas of critical mass is becoming more challenging every day.

The fifth location announced by Novva in less than three years, the San Francisco data center complements the company’s ever-growing footprint in the Western United States. Novva has campuses in West Jordan, Utah; Colorado Springs, Colorado; Reno, Nevada; and Las Vegas.

About Novva Data Centers

Novva Data Centers creates purpose-built data centers for the future across the Western United States, providing scalable wholesale infrastructure services for local, national, and international clients. Novva’s human-centric, sustainable data center solutions are married with an extensive portfolio of high capacity, scalable data center amenities to provide turnkey, client-designed solutions. Novva’s data center campuses in Utah, Colorado, Nevada and California stand out for their forward-thinking features such as state-of-the-art water-free cooling systems, renewable energy usage, drone and robot dog facility monitoring and thoughtful design approaches that provide a one-of-a-kind, modern day data center experience. Learn more at www.novva.com.

Novva Media Contact

Jaymie Scotto & Associates (JSA)
+1 866.695.3629 ext. 11
[email protected]

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RudderStack Profiles enables companies to unify first-party data from every customer touchpoint into complete profiles, build ML user features, and deliver powerful customer experiences

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — RudderStack, the leading warehouse native customer data platform, today announced the release of RudderStack Profiles for AWS Redshift customers. RudderStack Profiles enables data teams to quickly build complete customer profiles in their warehouse, generate user features, and activate them to deliver powerful customer experiences.

RudderStack is the Warehouse Native CDP (PRNewsfoto/RudderStack)

Data teams are often overwhelmed by the complexity of collecting and unifying clean, first-party customer data to create a customer 360 and drive valuable use cases for every business team. The process can take months or even years and cost millions of dollars. RudderStack Profiles solves this problem by providing tools for data teams that automate the SQL grunt work and automatically build a full customer 360 table natively in AWS Redshift.

With RudderStack Profiles, data teams can reduce engineering costs and reallocate their most valuable resources to focus on delivering customer data use cases, not plumbing or cleaning data. They can also improve time to value for critical projects by building on a complete view of their customer in their warehouse. Plus, they can say goodbye to inflexible black box SaaS and configure RudderStack models that generate a customer profile table in their warehouse.

StatPearls, a leading professional healthcare education and technology company, eliminated data silos and disparate schemas by using RudderStack Profiles to build a warehouse native CDP on Amazon Redshift. Now they’re able to use granular user-level data to understand attribution, accurately calculate LTV, and increase return on ad spend (ROAS). Since implementing RudderStack Profiles, StatPearls increased customer retention by 1.7x and nearly quadrupled ad spend while maintaining positive ROAS.

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“Data from RudderStack helped our team turn marketing into a math problem,” said Mike Sperduti, Head of Engineering at StatPearls. “We know that when we spend X on a particular campaign, we are going to get Y yield over time.”

Unlike traditional Customer Data Platforms (CDP), RudderStack’s Warehouse Native CDP does not persist data and is built on top of your warehouse or data lake. With the introduction of Profiles, RudderStack now has a complete platform across each step of the Data Activation Lifecycle:

• Collection: RudderStack’s Event Stream and Cloud Extract ETL pipelines make it easy to collect data from every website, app, or SaaS tool.

• Unification: RudderStack’s Profiles feature leverages our standardized schemas to significantly reduce the time it takes to build a complete view of the customer, including an identity graph and rich customer features.

• Activation: RudderStack’s Reverse ETL pipeline, real-time Profiles API, and 200+ integrations deliver complete customer profiles and user features to downstream destinations to trigger marketing automation, drive real-time analytics, or deliver personalized experiences.

“We’re excited to bring RudderStack Profiles to AWS Redshift. When Redshift users combine Profiles with our data collection and activation features, they can start driving better business outcomes with their customer data faster,” said Soumyadeb Mitra, Founder and CEO of RudderStack. “Profiles enables data teams to take full advantage of Amazon Redshift’s secure, reliable, easily scalable data warehouse while harnessing the power and flexibility of RudderStack’s Warehouse Native Customer Data Platform to deliver revenue growth and reduce cost.”

RudderStack and AWS are excited to see the success that customers have already achieved with RudderStack Profiles and look forward to helping more customers drive better business outcomes with their customer data.

RudderStack Profiles is now available to Enterprise Tier RudderStack customers on AWS Redshift. To learn more, read the blog post or schedule a demo with the RudderStack team.

About RudderStack

RudderStack is the leading warehouse native Customer Data Platform that’s purpose-built for data teams. We run on top of your warehouse or data lake and do not store data, alleviating security concerns, reducing cost, and unlocking the value of your warehouse investment. Hundreds of innovative companies like Stripe, Crate and Barrel, Priceline, and Footlocker trust RudderStack to collect and send their most valuable data to the tools and teams that need it. For more information, visit rudderstack.com.

CONTACT: Eric Dodds, eric@rudderstack.com, +18642703757

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RudderStack Profiles enables companies to unify first-party data from every customer touchpoint into complete profiles, build ML user features, and deliver powerful customer experiences

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — RudderStack, the leading warehouse native customer data platform, today announced the release of RudderStack Profiles for AWS Redshift customers. RudderStack Profiles enables data teams to quickly build complete customer profiles in their warehouse, generate user features, and activate them to deliver powerful customer experiences.

RudderStack is the Warehouse Native CDP (PRNewsfoto/RudderStack)

Data teams are often overwhelmed by the complexity of collecting and unifying clean, first-party customer data to create a customer 360 and drive valuable use cases for every business team. The process can take months or even years and cost millions of dollars. RudderStack Profiles solves this problem by providing tools for data teams that automate the SQL grunt work and automatically build a full customer 360 table natively in AWS Redshift.

With RudderStack Profiles, data teams can reduce engineering costs and reallocate their most valuable resources to focus on delivering customer data use cases, not plumbing or cleaning data. They can also improve time to value for critical projects by building on a complete view of their customer in their warehouse. Plus, they can say goodbye to inflexible black box SaaS and configure RudderStack models that generate a customer profile table in their warehouse.

StatPearls, a leading professional healthcare education and technology company, eliminated data silos and disparate schemas by using RudderStack Profiles to build a warehouse native CDP on Amazon Redshift. Now they’re able to use granular user-level data to understand attribution, accurately calculate LTV, and increase return on ad spend (ROAS). Since implementing RudderStack Profiles, StatPearls increased customer retention by 1.7x and nearly quadrupled ad spend while maintaining positive ROAS.

Story continues

“Data from RudderStack helped our team turn marketing into a math problem,” said Mike Sperduti, Head of Engineering at StatPearls. “We know that when we spend X on a particular campaign, we are going to get Y yield over time.”

Unlike traditional Customer Data Platforms (CDP), RudderStack’s Warehouse Native CDP does not persist data and is built on top of your warehouse or data lake. With the introduction of Profiles, RudderStack now has a complete platform across each step of the Data Activation Lifecycle:

• Collection: RudderStack’s Event Stream and Cloud Extract ETL pipelines make it easy to collect data from every website, app, or SaaS tool.

• Unification: RudderStack’s Profiles feature leverages our standardized schemas to significantly reduce the time it takes to build a complete view of the customer, including an identity graph and rich customer features.

• Activation: RudderStack’s Reverse ETL pipeline, real-time Profiles API, and 200+ integrations deliver complete customer profiles and user features to downstream destinations to trigger marketing automation, drive real-time analytics, or deliver personalized experiences.

“We’re excited to bring RudderStack Profiles to AWS Redshift. When Redshift users combine Profiles with our data collection and activation features, they can start driving better business outcomes with their customer data faster,” said Soumyadeb Mitra, Founder and CEO of RudderStack. “Profiles enables data teams to take full advantage of Amazon Redshift’s secure, reliable, easily scalable data warehouse while harnessing the power and flexibility of RudderStack’s Warehouse Native Customer Data Platform to deliver revenue growth and reduce cost.”

RudderStack and AWS are excited to see the success that customers have already achieved with RudderStack Profiles and look forward to helping more customers drive better business outcomes with their customer data.

RudderStack Profiles is now available to Enterprise Tier RudderStack customers on AWS Redshift. To learn more, read the blog post or schedule a demo with the RudderStack team.

About RudderStack

RudderStack is the leading warehouse native Customer Data Platform that’s purpose-built for data teams. We run on top of your warehouse or data lake and do not store data, alleviating security concerns, reducing cost, and unlocking the value of your warehouse investment. Hundreds of innovative companies like Stripe, Crate and Barrel, Priceline, and Footlocker trust RudderStack to collect and send their most valuable data to the tools and teams that need it. For more information, visit rudderstack.com.

CONTACT: Eric Dodds, eric@rudderstack.com, +18642703757

Cision

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RudderStack Profiles enables companies to unify first-party data from every customer touchpoint into complete profiles, build ML user features, and deliver powerful customer experiences

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — RudderStack, the leading warehouse native customer data platform, today announced the release of RudderStack Profiles for AWS Redshift customers. RudderStack Profiles enables data teams to quickly build complete customer profiles in their warehouse, generate user features, and activate them to deliver powerful customer experiences.

Data teams are often overwhelmed by the complexity of collecting and unifying clean, first-party customer data to create a customer 360 and drive valuable use cases for every business team. The process can take months or even years and cost millions of dollars. RudderStack Profiles solves this problem by providing tools for data teams that automate the SQL grunt work and automatically build a full customer 360 table natively in AWS Redshift.

With RudderStack Profiles, data teams can reduce engineering costs and reallocate their most valuable resources to focus on delivering customer data use cases, not plumbing or cleaning data. They can also improve time to value for critical projects by building on a complete view of their customer in their warehouse. Plus, they can say goodbye to inflexible black box SaaS and configure RudderStack models that generate a customer profile table in their warehouse.

StatPearls, a leading professional healthcare education and technology company, eliminated data silos and disparate schemas by using RudderStack Profiles to build a warehouse native CDP on Amazon Redshift. Now they’re able to use granular user-level data to understand attribution, accurately calculate LTV, and increase return on ad spend (ROAS). Since implementing RudderStack Profiles, StatPearls increased customer retention by 1.7x and nearly quadrupled ad spend while maintaining positive ROAS.

“Data from RudderStack helped our team turn marketing into a math problem,” said Mike Sperduti, Head of Engineering at StatPearls. “We know that when we spend X on a particular campaign, we are going to get Y yield over time.”

Unlike traditional Customer Data Platforms (CDP), RudderStack’s Warehouse Native CDP does not persist data and is built on top of your warehouse or data lake. With the introduction of Profiles, RudderStack now has a complete platform across each step of the Data Activation Lifecycle:

• Collection: RudderStack’s Event Stream and Cloud Extract ETL pipelines make it easy to collect data from every website, app, or SaaS tool.
• Unification: RudderStack’s Profiles feature leverages our standardized schemas to significantly reduce the time it takes to build a complete view of the customer, including an identity graph and rich customer features.
• Activation: RudderStack’s Reverse ETL pipeline, real-time Profiles API, and 200+ integrations deliver complete customer profiles and user features to downstream destinations to trigger marketing automation, drive real-time analytics, or deliver personalized experiences.

“We’re excited to bring RudderStack Profiles to AWS Redshift. When Redshift users combine Profiles with our data collection and activation features, they can start driving better business outcomes with their customer data faster,” said Soumyadeb Mitra, Founder and CEO of RudderStack. “Profiles enables data teams to take full advantage of Amazon Redshift’s secure, reliable, easily scalable data warehouse while harnessing the power and flexibility of RudderStack’s Warehouse Native Customer Data Platform to deliver revenue growth and reduce cost.”

RudderStack and AWS are excited to see the success that customers have already achieved with RudderStack Profiles and look forward to helping more customers drive better business outcomes with their customer data.

RudderStack Profiles is now available to Enterprise Tier RudderStack customers on AWS Redshift. To learn more, read the blog post or schedule a demo with the RudderStack team.

About RudderStack

RudderStack is the leading warehouse native Customer Data Platform that’s purpose-built for data teams. We run on top of your warehouse or data lake and do not store data, alleviating security concerns, reducing cost, and unlocking the value of your warehouse investment. Hundreds of innovative companies like Stripe, Crate and Barrel, Priceline, and Footlocker trust RudderStack to collect and send their most valuable data to the tools and teams that need it. For more information, visit rudderstack.com.

CONTACT: Eric Dodds, [email protected], +18642703757

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This week’s list of top data news highlights covers November 11, 2023 to November 17, 2023 and includes articles on trying on high fashion in augmented reality and training AI systems to classify bird sounds.

1. Forecasting the Weather
Google DeepMind has created an AI system that can create weather forecasts faster, more accurately, and with less computing resources than current models. The team trained the system on nearly 40 years worth of historical weather data.

2. Editing Genes
Researchers at Verve Therapeutics, a U.S.-based biotechnology company, have created a gene-editing treatment for cholesterol. It uses CRISPR editing techniques to disable certain liver gene cells which will help lower bad cholesterol.

3. Packing Online Orders
Amazon has unveiled a robot that can identify the shape of online orders and pack them in an appropriately-sized box. By using the robot, the company can prepare orders for shipment more efficiently and reduce unnecessary packaging materials.

4. Enhancing Work Meetings
Microsoft has updated its Teams application to include two new AI-powered features, including one that can remove clutter from users’ video backgrounds or generate decorations for them, and another that can isolate users’ voices from background noise during calls.

5. Inspecting Plumbing
The Louisville Water Company is using two robots to inspect large underground water pipes in Louisville, Kentucky. The first robot uses a camera and ultrasonic sensors to determine the conditions of pipes and pinpoint potential repairs while the second uses acoustic sensors to identify leaks or air pockets.

6. Composing Music
Google DeepMind has partnered with YouTube to launch a generative AI system for creating music. They have also developed two new tools built on Lyria, including one that can create music in the style of select popular artists for YouTube Shorts and another that can generate instrumental music from a hummed tune, simple keyboard tune, or another vocal line.

7. Editing Videos
Meta has launched two new AI-powered video editing tools. The first can generate four-second videos from a caption or photo and the second can edit videos according to users’ text prompts.

8. Filtering Sounds
Adobe is developing a tool that uses an AI system to separate sounds in an audio recording. Users can upload a recording and select sounds to filter out or edit, such as applause, speech, traffic, and more.

9. Classifying Birds
Researchers at the University of Moncton in Canada have created an AI system that can generate realistic bird songs to train future AI systems to recognize bird songs in the wild. The team used over 23,000 recordings of 264 bird species around the world. In tests, the team found that adding generated bird songs to AI systems for bird identification improved classification by 12 percent.

10. Exploring High Fashion
The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco has partnered with Snapchat to add mirrors at the de Young Museum. Visitors can use the mirrors to virtually try on three evening outfits from the museum’s high fashion exhibit in augmented reality.

Image credit: Flickr user Phan Ly

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Customers can now access all environmental data in a single platform

SAN FRANCISCO, CA & LONDON, UK, Oct. 30, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Watershed today announced that customers can now use its industry-leading enterprise sustainability platform to measure, report, and manage water and waste data in addition to greenhouse gas emissions data.

The updated functionality allows companies to manage all environmental data in a single platform, enabling better oversight of environmental impact and seamless compliance with regulatory frameworks like the European Union’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).

Nearly every company in the world owns or leases buildings, and tracking and reducing those buildings’ environmental impact is a key component of corporate sustainability strategies. The new water and waste functionality complements Watershed’s solutions for Scope 1-3 emissions measurement, reporting, and reductions.

“Watershed is one of the first solutions to combine deep emissions measurement with water and waste metrics. Companies now have easy access to the data they need to inform comprehensive ESG reporting and commensurate environmental action,” said Yubing Zhang, Head of Platform Products at Watershed.

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ABOUT WATERSHED: Watershed is the enterprise sustainability platform. Companies like Airbnb, Carlyle Group, Everlane, YETI, and BBVA use Watershed to measure, report, and act on their emissions, so they can produce audit-ready carbon footprints that drive real reductions. With embedded climate intelligence from the world’s leading climate and policy experts, Watershed is the platform of choice for companies seeking to satisfy regulatory requirements, unlock new business opportunities, and address climate-related risks. Watershed customers also have exclusive access to a marketplace of pre-vetted, high-quality carbon projects and groundbreaking virtual power purchase agreements.

CONTACT: Amelia Penniman Watershed amelia@watershed.com

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A data tech company formerly based in San Francisco is moving its headquarters to Birmingham after an investment from the Alabama Futures Fund.

CModel Data Inc. is developing a data modeling and business intelligence tool which uses artificial intelligence, along with data, in generating business strategy simulations. The CModel platform helps business managers game out what’s needed to achieve specific business outcomes.

The amount of the investment was not disclosed. Founded in 2018, the Alabama Futures Fund, or AFF, offers seed-stage investment funding to companies in-state or willing to relocate here. CModel is the AFF’s 19th investment since 2018.

Redhawk Advisory serves as the investment manager of AFF. CModel was recruited to Birmingham through the combined efforts of AFF and Birmingham Bound.

According to CEO Teasha Cable, relocating to Birmingham is a unique opportunity for CModel.

“Relocating our company to Alabama marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter. With our recent investment from AFF and the support of Redhawk Advisory as a trusted partner, we are poised to unlock unprecedented growth and innovation,” Cable said. “Birmingham’s vibrant startup environment and Alabama’s strategic location are the perfect ingredients for our company’s success. We look forward to creating a brighter future, both for our business and the local community.”

CModel has developed a cloud-based software platform named “CORA,” which uses historical client-generated data, generative AI and input from human experts, along with curated data provided by business management experts.

CORA asks users a series of questions – beginning with generalized, high-level questions, before heading into more granular inquiries. Based on the answers, CORA will then run simulations to illustrate what business conditions are needed to achieve the user’s desired outcomes.

“CModel represents a startup that will truly move the needle for its customers,” Redhawk Partner Matt Hottle said. “Augmented Intelligence platforms like CORA are, usually, financially unattainable for mid-market businesses. Combining the latest AI and machine learning technology with modeling simulations that will help businesses make better decisions, faster, is a game-changer.”

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Internet of things News

Dylan Martin

October 16, 2023, 12:00 PM EDT

These solution providers are focused on an assortment of opportunities in the IoT space, whether it’s protecting industrial systems from cyberattacks, integrating AI-powered surveillance systems or using machine learning models to improve mining and manufacturing operations.

When ThingLogix started in 2014, the solution provider spent a significant amount of time building the plumbing and infrastructure for every IoT project that came its way.

It didn’t take long until the San Francisco-based company, an advanced technology partner for Amazon Web Services, realized that it was “building the same thing for everybody,” according to Jason Burch, vice president of business development and strategic partnerships at ThingLogix.

[Related: 2023 Internet Of Things 50: A Growth Engine For The Channel]

So the solution provider took the foundational software and services it built from the ground up for every IoT project and rolled them up into a serverless framework called ThingLogix Foundry, which enables the company to develop and deliver solutions faster with lower up-front costs.

“It helps us accelerate development and delivery. The Amazon reps love it too,” Burch said.

ThingLogix is among the 26 solution providers recognized this year as CRN’s IoT Innovators, which are building innovative applications by partnering with cutting-edge vendors in a market where businesses are expected to spend $805.7 billion on IoT projects in 2023, according to research firm IDC.

By offering ThingLogix Foundry as the foundation for IoT projects, the solution provider has had an easier time scoring customer deals, and it has also given the company more time to offer services that provide unique value, whether it’s developing applications or baking intelligence into solutions.

“It’s helped our customers in terms of spend, which makes it an easier sale because they don’t have to write a million-dollar check on the front end,” said Burch.

“At the end of the day, I think this is a better way to do it,” he added.

What follows are the 26 value-added resellers, systems integrators and managed services providers recognized in CRN’s 2023 IoT Innovators. With headquarters ranging from California and Pennsylvania to Ontario and Florida, these companies are focused on an assortment of opportunities in the IoT space, whether it’s protecting industrial systems from cyberattacks, integrating AI-powered surveillance systems or using machine learning models to improve mining and manufacturing operations.

Dylan Martin

Dylan Martin is a senior editor at CRN covering the semiconductor, PC, mobile device, and IoT beats. He has distinguished his coverage of the semiconductor industry thanks to insightful interviews with CEOs and top executives; scoops and exclusives about product, strategy and personnel changes; and analyses that dig into the why behind the news.   He can be reached at dmartin@thechannelcompany.com.

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