Press Releases

Based on its recent analysis of the global data centre infrastructure and operations market, Frost & Sullivan recognises NEXTDC Ltd with the 2019 Global Visionary Innovation Leadership Award. NEXTDC’s 100 percent uptime guarantee and unparalleled power usage effectiveness (PUE) levels have helped it set a new customer service benchmark in the Australian data centre industry. Leveraging its vast technology expertise and innovation excellence in design, engineering, and project management, NEXTDC has developed a innovative ‘continuous development’ methodology aimed at addressing evolving market needs. This concept is based on adopting a modular design, which delivers greater flexibility and significantly increases the speed of deployment.

Based on its recent analysis of the European identity verification and authentication market, Frost & Sullivan recognises the London- and San Francisco-based Onfido with the 2019 European Technology Innovation Award for its advanced hybrid identity verification solution. This platform, powered by artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, biometrics, and analysis, has found application across diverse industry verticals such as banking and finance, insurance, retail, gaming, gambling, marketplaces, transportation, and government services.

Based on its recent analysis of the North American battery testing and analysis market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes California-headquartered Voltaiq with the 2019 North American New Product Innovation Award for Voltaiq Core, a software-as-a service (SaaS) solution.  Voltaiq Core helps customers develop improved batteries by deriving analytical insights from data collected during battery testing and operation. It works with data collected in OEM test labs during product development, as well as data from battery management system (BMS) performance logs of grid energy storage systems, and CANBUS data from vehicle battery packs.

Based on its recent analysis of the North American intelligent virtual agent (IVA) market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Inference Solutions with the 2019 North American Customer Value Leadership Award for its flexible and scalable IVA platform. The solution – Inference Studio – incorporatees cutting-edge technologies, and is designed for easy development, deployment, and management. Inference Solutions markets its products through telecommunications carriers and contact center software providers so they may, in turn, provide businesses with intelligent automation to replace or augment legacy IVR systems or offload live agent resources.

Based on its recent analysis of the North American smart contracts market for the oil and gas industry, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Data Gumbo Corporation (Data Gumbo) with the 2019 North America Technology Innovation Award. It developed a distributed ledger to serve as a consensus algorithm, with nodes based with each stakeholder to create a scalable and reliable model. The company offers its blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) solution to a variety of industrial applications with complex contracting measurements that require a trusted data source. Data Gumbo designed its fully managed BaaS platform solution specifically for the oil and gas sector to coordinate the entire process of data acquisition, validation, and execution. It enables unprecedented levels of trust in the consensus data, aligns incentives across the board for maximum efficiency, and automates contract execution.                                               

Based on its recent analysis of the North American conversational AI market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Massachusetts-headquartered Interactions LLC with the 2019 North American Customer Service Leadership Award for its omni-channel intelligent virtual assistant (IVA).

The OpreX Profit-driven Operation solution is focused on solving plant performance issues in real-time

Based on its recent analysis of the North American integrated performance management market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Yokogawa with the 2019 Global Customer Value Leadership Award for its differentiated solution offerings – Oprex Profit-driven Operation (PDO). This solution is expected to become the standard for managing global plant operations. It differentiates itself by assisting plant operators and engineers to collaboratively solve conflicting performance issues (e.g. production plan vs. energy conservation) in real-time before issues are reactively reported to plant management in a weekly/monthly meeting. The intrinsic capability of the solution to use operational health scores/indicators to model good behavior of operators, engineers and functional staffs drives customer stickiness and helps to change operator level and engineering level mindsets from status-quo operations to profit-driven operations.

Based on its recent analysis of the global precision imaging market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Siemens Healthineers with the 2019 Global Visionary Innovation Leadership Award for leading the effort to establish imaging as an active contributor to precision medicine.

Based on its recent analysis of the global financial services market for blockchain-based platforms, Frost & Sullivan recognises Coinify with the 2019 Global Growth Excellence Leadership Award. It offers individuals, merchants, payment processors, and institutions a central hub to trade, accept, and pay in multiple virtual currencies and exchange to local fiat currency.