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International Business Machines Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides integrated solutions and services in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. It operates through Software, Consulting, Infrastructure, and Financing segments. The Software segment offers hybrid cloud and AI platforms that allow clients to realize their digital and AI transformations across the applications, data, and environments in which they operate.
International Business Machines stock opened the day at $246.63 after a previous close of $0.00. The latest price was $247.13 (25-minute delay). International Business Machines is listed on the NYSE, has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD69.9 billion and employs 264,300 staff.
Alteryx, Inc. , together with its subsidiaries, operates in the analytics automation business in the United States and internationally. The company's analytics platform automates tasks for workers across the analytics value chain.
Alteryx stock opened the day at $0.00 after a previous close of $0.00. The latest price was $0.00 (25-minute delay). Alteryx is listed on the NYSE, has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$970 million and employs 2,345 staff.
MongoDB, Inc. , together with its subsidiaries, provides general purpose database platform worldwide. The company offers MongoDB Atlas, a hosted multi-cloud database-as-a-service solution; MongoDB Enterprise Advanced, a commercial database server for enterprise customers to run in the cloud, on-premises, or in a hybrid environment; and Community Server, a free-to-download version of its database, which includes the functionality that developers need to get started with MongoDB.
MongoDB stock opened the day at $346.44 after a previous close of $339.78. The latest price was $338.12 (25-minute delay). MongoDB is listed on the NASDAQ, has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$2.8 billion and employs 5,783 staff.
Splunk Inc. , together with its subsidiaries, develops and markets cloud services and licensed software solutions in the United States and internationally. The company offers unified security and observability platform, including Splunk Security that helps security leaders fortify their organization's digital resilience by mitigating cyber risk and meeting compliance requirements; and Splunk Observability, which provides visibility across the full stack of infrastructure, applications, and the digital customer experience.
Splunk stock opened the day at $0.00 after a previous close of $0.00. The latest price was $0.00 (25-minute delay). Splunk is listed on the NASDAQ and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$4.2 billion.
Snowflake Inc. provides a cloud-based data platform for various organizations in the United States and internationally. The company's platform includes artificial intelligence (AI) Data Cloud, which enables customers to consolidate data into a single source of truth to drive meaningful business insights, build data applications, and share data and data products, as well as applies AI for solving business problems.
Snowflake stock opened the day at $307.35 after a previous close of $275.88. The latest price was $301.22 (25-minute delay). Snowflake is listed on the NYSE, has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$5.4 billion and employs 9,394 staff.
Datadog, Inc. operates an observability and security platform for cloud applications in the United States and internationally. The company's products comprise infrastructure and application performance monitoring, log management, observability pipelines, synthetics, real user monitoring, product analytics, continuous profiler, database monitoring, data observability, LLM observability, error tracking, network monitoring, incident response, workflow automation and App builder, event management, bits AI SRE, cloud cost management, cloud security, code security, cloud SIEM, threat management, sensitive data scanner, and CI visibility.
Datadog stock opened the day at $188.24 after a previous close of $0.00. The latest price was $184.16 (25-minute delay). Datadog is listed on the NASDAQ, has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$4.3 billion and employs 8,100 staff.
Cloudera, Inc. offers a suite of data analytics and management products in the United States, Europe, and Asia. The company operates through two segments, Subscription and Services.
Cloudera stock opened the day at $0.00 after a previous close of $0.00. The latest price was $0.00 (25-minute delay). Cloudera is listed on the NYSE, has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$904.8 million and employs 2,728 staff.
Palantir Technologies Inc. builds and deploys software platforms for the intelligence community to assist in counterterrorism investigations and operations in the United States, the United Kingdom, and internationally. It provides Palantir Gotham integrates with other platforms for defense offerings which enables users to see, understand, and act in the modern battlespace; operations centers to the tactical edge; integrating data from domains and sensors in near real-time; and situational awareness and accelerating operational decision-making, as well as facilitates the hand-off between analysts and operational users, helping operators plan and execute real-world responses to threats that have been identified within the platform.
Palantir Technologies stock opened the day at $0.00 after a previous close of $160.38. The latest price was $0.00 (25-minute delay). Palantir Technologies is listed on the NASDAQ, has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$7.3 billion and employs 4,634 staff.
Amazon. com, Inc. engages in the retail sale of consumer products, advertising, and subscriptions service through online and physical stores in North America and internationally.
Amazon-com stock opened the day at $0.00 after a previous close of $260.21. The latest price was $0.00 (25-minute delay). Amazon-com is listed on the NASDAQ, has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$797.5 billion and employs 1,638,000 staff.
Elastic N. V. , a search artificial intelligence (AI) company, provides software platforms to run in hybrid, public or private clouds, and multi-cloud environments in the United States and internationally. It primarily offers Elasticsearch Platform, a set of software products that ingest and store data from various sources and formats, as well as performs search, analysis, and visualization on that data.
Elastic stock opened the day at $87.50 after a previous close of $87.31. The latest price was $89.06 (25-minute delay). Elastic is listed on the NYSE, has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$1.8 billion and employs 3,834 staff.
Workiva Inc. , together with its subsidiaries, provides cloud-based reporting solutions in the United States and internationally. The company provides Workiva platform, a multi-tenant cloud software that provides data-linking capabilities; audit trail services; administrators access management; and connects and transforms data from various enterprise resource planning, human capital management, and customer relationship management systems, as well as other third-party cloud and on-premise applications.
Workiva stock opened the day at $70.13 after a previous close of $72.76. The latest price was $68.51 (25-minute delay). Workiva is listed on the NYSE, has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$1 billion and employs 2,927 staff.
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