APAC Issue 9 2018

APAC / Issue 9 2018 5 NEWS , New offices in Australia, appointment of APJ Head, Continued Committed Customers reflect APJ growth investment for the award-winning autonomous analytics company. SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA –Anodot, the autonomous analytics company, today announced a broad strategic push in Asia-Pacific. Anodot opened its APJ Headquarters in Sydney, Australia, and appointed Shyam Sundar as Head of APJ. It has significant market adoption already, including leading Australian customers like Optus and Atlassian. Anodot is a member of the Amazon Web Services Partner Network (APN), and achieved AWS Machine Learning (ML) Competency status in 2017. This differentiates Anodot as an APN member that has built solutions that help organizations solve their data challenges, enable machine learning and data science workflows or offer SaaS/API based capabilities that enhance end applications with machine intelligence. Attaining the AWS ML Competency demonstrates to customers that Anodot has validated expertise and ML experience on AWS. Anodot was recently recognized as one of the top three startups at Inside Retail’s 2018 Retail Pitchfest and will be presenting at the Big Data and Analytics Summit in Sydney September 17-18. Anodot’s new offices in Sydney, Australia, will serve as the hub of the company’s operations in Asia-Pacific and Japan. Leading this hub and spearheading Anodot’s APJ activities is Mr. Shyam Sundar, who brings almost two decades of experience leading hyper-growth, advanced business intelligence, analytics and anomaly detection at companies such as Cloudera, HP Vertica, Sybase and others. “Anodot has seen exceptional growth over the past year, expanding rapidly throughout the Liberty Mutual’s Global Risk Solutions strategic business unit has centralised its vast mergers & acquisitions (M&A) insurance solutions expertise into its newly formed Global Transaction Solutions group (GTS). The creation of GTS will enable Liberty Mutual to provide innovative solutions in the rapidly emerging global transactional risk insurance solutions market by making it easier for brokers and buyers to access a range of effective M&A products from a financially strong partner. GTS will operate as a global, stand-alone business unit, providing its brokers and clients with centralised M&A expertise across a global platform backed by expert, dedicated M&A claims handling. Rowan Bamford, President, GTS Global M&A, will lead GTS, which offers representations and warranties/warranty and indemnity, tax liability, tax credit and contingent risk insurance and will thoughtfully expand capacity to better serve the global transactional risk market. “The M&A insurance market is growing quickly as brokers and buyers increasingly turn to insurance solutions to better manage a range of transactional risks and to effectively take deal-blocking issues off the table,” notes Rowan Bamford, President, GTS Global M&A. “We brought our M&A experts from across our Ironshore and Pembroke platforms together to create a single integrated unit providing innovative solutions backed by unparalleled service and financial strength. With a diverse global team, who collectively closed more than 400 deals in 2017, it is one of the largest and most experienced global M&A teams in the market.” Included within GTS under Bamford’s leadership are: • Tom Cartwright, GTS Head of Tax • William Lewis, GTS Head of Asia Pacific • Gareth Rees, GTS Head of Europe, Middle East and Africa • James Swan, GTS Head of Americas The creation of GTS does not change the current contacts M&A brokers and buyers have at Liberty Mutual. Effective January 1, 2019, GTS will write M&A business on behalf of Liberty Mutual’s Lloyd’s of London Syndicate 4472 and Liberty company platforms. Until that time, GTS will continue to write M&A business on behalf of Pembroke Syndicate 4000 and Ironshore company platforms. Global Transaction Solutions Unit global market,” said Sundar. “I am excited and honored to play a key role in this growth, as we continue to strengthen relationships with customers and partners across APJ.” Anodot’s patented machine learning and autonomous analytics solution enables analysts to track and correlate massive volumes of business and IT data in real time to identify business incidents and their root causes immediately. The company’s APJ customers deployed on AWS, including Optus and Atlassian, rely on Anodot’s self-service SaaS platform to find revenue, quality and other business risks in real-time and work across teams to uncover blind spots that can damage revenue or reputation. Anodot’s collaboration with AWS also provides new opportunities for customers to innovate using AWS services including Amazon Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML), Amazon Kinesis video streaming, and Amazon Redshift, which is a fast, scalable data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyze data. “Our customers’ experience is our top priority, and it is a huge undertaking to surface potential issues across the massive amounts of data we handle hourly,” said Jason Wong, Director, Network Analytics at Optus. “We find Anodot’s technology invaluable in identifying issues and opportunities buried deep in the data streams of different business and IT sources to optimize our customer experience and our business.” “Australian and Asian enterprises are accelerating their digital transformations, and Anodot’s autonomous analytics platform goes far beyond traditional offerings,” said Anodot’s CEO and Co-Founder David Drai, “We are proud to offer outstanding products and services to customers from San Francisco to Sydney to Stockholm, and everywhere in between.”

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