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Global investment firm Insight Partners has invested US$172.5M for a minority stake in Octopus Deploy, which has been “continuously profitable since 2012.” This is the first venture funding that Octopus Deploy has accepted.

Google Cloud has teamed with industrial automation and software technology provider Siemens to cooperate on optimising factory processes and to improve productivity on the shop floor.

Given the market disruption experienced by the corporate sector over the past 12 months, companies found themselves needing to make bold choices and implement operational or product changes, fast. That pace proved to be the downfall of many, as all too often, companies were hamstrung by an inability to keep pace with their own plans. That gulf between vision and delivery at a critical time is perhaps most visible in application development.