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Sectorwatch:Advanced AnalyticsApril 2019

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Advanced AnalyticsApril 2019

Sector Dashboard [4]

Public Basket Performance [5]

Operational Metrics [7]

Valuation Comparison [10]

Recent Deals [13]

Appendix [15]

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Overview

7MA provides Investment Banking & Advisory Services to the Business Services and TechnologyIndustries globally. We advise on M&A and private capital transactions, and provide market assessmentsand benchmarking. As a close knit team with a long history together and a laser focus on our targetmarkets, we help our clients sell their companies, raise capital, grow through acquisitions, and evaluatenew markets. We publish our sectorwatch, a review of M&A and operational trends in the industries wefocus.

Dashboard• Summary metrics on the sector• Commentary on market momentum by

comparing the most recent 12-month performance against the last 3-year averages.

Public Basket Performance• Summary valuation and operating metrics

for a basket of comparable public companies

Valuation Comparison• Graphical, detailed comparison of valuation

multiples for the public basket

Recent Deals• The most recently announced deals in the

sector

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Dashboard

Operating Metrics

Valuation

Revenue Growth Momentum

7.4% 1 - year revenue growth compared to revenue growth

average for last 3 years

Pricing / Gross Margin Momentum

0.1% 1 - year gross profit % compared to gross profit %

average for last 3 years

Profitability Momentum

0.8% 1 - year EBITDA % compared to EBITDA % average for

last 3 years

Current revenue growth rate exceeds the average of the last 3 years by this

amount, indicating that market momentum is increasing

Current gross profit margin exceeds the average of the last 3 years gross profit

margin by this amount, indicating supplier pricing power

Current EBITDA margin exceeds the average of the last 3 years EBITDA margin

by this amount, a condition that may attract new entrants

15.8%

23.2%

69.8%

0% 20% 40% 60% 80%

Median LTM Rev. Growth %

Median LTM EBITDA Margin %

Median LTM GP Margin %

7.6x

18.2x

23.3x

28.6x

0x 5x 10x 15x 20x 25x 30x

Median TEV / LTM Revenue

Median TEV / LTM EBITDA

Median TEV / LTM EBIT

Median Price / LTM Earnings

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Public Basket

Company TEV $mLTM Rev

$m

Rev Growth

YoY GP %EBITDA

%TEV / Rev X

TEV / EBITDA

X # FTEsRev / FTE $k

Alteryx, Inc. 4,895 254 93% 91% 13% 19.3 143.0 800 317

Fair Isaac Corporation 8,760 1,062 12% 71% 23% 8.2 35.5 2,400 443

Tableau Software, Inc. 9,196 1,155 32% 88% -5% 8.0 0.0 4,181 276

Accenture plc 109,871 40,840 8% 32% 16% 2.7 16.5 459,000 89

Adobe Inc. 132,934 9,552 24% 86% 34% 13.9 40.9 21,357 447

SAP SE 137,407 28,288 5% 70% 27% 4.9 18.0 96,498 293

International Business Machines Corporation 161,875 78,701 -2% 47% 22% 2.1 9.3 350,600 224

Alphabet Inc. 756,144 136,819 23% 56% 30% 5.5 18.7 98,771 1,385

Microsoft Corporation 904,331 118,459 16% 65% 42% 7.6 18.2 131,000 904

Average 247,268 46,126 24% 67% 23% 8.0 33.4 129,401 487

Median 132,934 28,288 16% 70% 23% 7.6 18.2 96,498 317

share price as of 22Apr19

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Public Basket Valuation Trends

Public EBITDA Multiples over Time

Public Revenue Multiples over Time

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TEV/Revenue - Median TEV/Revenue - Average

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TEV/EBITDA - Median TEV/EBITDA - Average15.9x

5.0x

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TEV/EBITDA - Median TEV/Revenue - Median

TEV/EBITDA - Average TEV/Revenue - Average

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Operational Metrics

LTM Gross Profit Margin % LTM EBITDA %

(10%) 10% 30% 50%

Median

Tableau Software, Inc.

Alteryx, Inc.

Accenture plc

International Business

Machines Corporation

Fair Isaac Corporation

SAP SE

Alphabet Inc.

Adobe Inc.

Microsoft Corporation

- 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

Median

Accenture plc

International Business

Machines Corporation

Alphabet Inc.

Microsoft Corporation

SAP SE

Fair Isaac Corporation

Adobe Inc.

Tableau Software, Inc.

Alteryx, Inc.

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Operational Metrics

LTM Revenue Growth %LTM Revenue per

Full Time Employee x 000’s

(20%) 10% 40% 70% 100%

Median

International Business

Machines Corporation

SAP SE

Accenture plc

Fair Isaac Corporation

Microsoft Corporation

Alphabet Inc.

Adobe Inc.

Tableau Software, Inc.

Alteryx, Inc.

$- $500 $1,000 $1,500

Median

Accenture plc

International Business

Machines Corporation

Tableau Software, Inc.

SAP SE

Alteryx, Inc.

Fair Isaac Corporation

Adobe Inc.

Microsoft Corporation

Alphabet Inc.

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Operational Metrics

Accounts Receivable TurnoverAverage Days

Sales Outstanding

0x 2x 4x 6x 8x 10x

Median

Alteryx, Inc.

SAP SE

Tableau Software, Inc.

Fair Isaac Corporation

Accenture plc

Microsoft Corporation

Alphabet Inc.

Adobe Inc.

International Business

Machines Corporation

0 20 40 60 80 100 120

Median

International Business

Machines Corporation

Adobe Inc.

Alphabet Inc.

Microsoft Corporation

Accenture plc

Fair Isaac Corporation

Tableau Software, Inc.

SAP SE

Alteryx, Inc.

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Valuation

TEV / LTM Revenue TEV / LTM EBITDA

0x 10x 20x 30x

Median

International Business

Machines Corporation

Accenture plc

SAP SE

Alphabet Inc.

Microsoft Corporation

Tableau Software, Inc.

Fair Isaac Corporation

Adobe Inc.

Alteryx, Inc.

0x 30x 60x 90x 120x 150x

Median

International Business

Machines Corporation

Accenture plc

SAP SE

Microsoft Corporation

Alphabet Inc.

Fair Isaac Corporation

Adobe Inc.

Alteryx, Inc.

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Valuation

TEV / LTM EBIT Price / LTM Earnings

0x 50x 100x 150x 200x

Median

International Business

Machines Corporation

Accenture plc

SAP SE

Microsoft Corporation

Alphabet Inc.

Fair Isaac Corporation

Adobe Inc.

Alteryx, Inc.

0x 50x 100x 150x 200x

Median

International Business

Machines Corporation

Accenture plc

Alphabet Inc.

Microsoft Corporation

SAP SE

Adobe Inc.

Fair Isaac Corporation

Alteryx, Inc.

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Valuation

Historical Valuation Multiples versus Gross Profit

Historical Valuation Multiples versus Revenue Growth Rate

9x 16x 18x 18x 19x 35x 41x 143x

46.7%

31.5%

69.8%

65.1%

56.5%

70.6%

86.0%

91.0%

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LTM

GP%

EBIT

DA(x

)

EBITDA(x) LTM GP%

9x 16x 18x 18x 19x 35x 41x 143x

(1.7%)

8.0%

5.3%

15.8%

23.4%

12.4%

24.1%

92.7%

-20%

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LTM

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R%

EBIT

DA(x

)

EBITDA(x) LTM RGR%

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Recent TransactionsDate Target Buyer / Investor

Total Transaction

Value Target

Revenue TEV /

Revenue TEV /

EBITDA

26Mar19 Entic LLC Aquicore, Inc. - - - -

13Mar19 ADVIZOR Solutions, Inc. The Pursuant Group, Inc. - - - -

4Feb19 lnnovizant LLC R Systems, Inc. 4.00 3.20 1.3x -

29Jan19 T-PRO Solutions, LLC Blacksmith Applications, Inc. - - - -

8Jan19 Reach Analytics LLC Data Decisions Group, LLC - - - -

7Jan19 Leo Enterprises Inc. DS Co. - - - -

11Dec18 IQMS Inc. Dassault Systèmes SE 425.00 56.00 7.6x -

22Nov18 Noah Data Technologies Inc. Indium Software, Inc. - - - -

8Oct18 Qlouder B.V. Cloud Technology Solutions Ltd - - - -

21Aug18 Predikto, Inc. United Technologies Corporation - - - -

30Mar18 PeopleDoc SAS The Ultimate Software Group, Inc. - - - -

30Jun18 Sift Security, Inc. Netskope, Inc. - - - -

21Jun18 Shape Analytics Reflektive, Inc. - - - -

23May18 Evolusys SA Bechtle AG - 5.03 - -

15May18 Cyient Insights Private Limited Cyient Limited 0.52 1.96 0.5x -

14Mar18 Avarea Oy Digia Oyj - 4.44 - -

10Jan18 CBIG Consulting, LLC Trianz Holdings Pvt. Limited - - - -

14Dec17 Innowera LLC Magnitude Software, Inc. - - - -

25Oct17 Zettafox Mazars Group - - - -

7Sep17 Logmatic.io Datadog, Inc. - - - -

21Aug17 Affecto Oyj CGI Nordic Investments Limited 132.94 140.98 0.8x 16.3x

8Jun17 Elite Analytics LLC Aviana Global Technologies, Inc. - - - -

1Jun17 4i, Inc. Fractal Analytics Inc. - - - -

1Feb17 YourMembership.com, Inc. Insight Venture Partners LLC; MBP Holdings Limited - - - -

24Jan17 BlueFlare, LLC Robots and Pencils Corp. - - - -

1Dec16 The Encima Group, Inc. Indegene Lifesystems Pvt Ltd. 16.00 - - -

18Aug16 INTELLEGO S.C Southern Cross Group - - - -

31May16 Syslogic Technical Services Inc. Incedo Inc. - - - -

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APPENDIX:

Public Basket

Constituents

7 Mile Advisors appreciates the opportunity to present this confidential information to the Company. This document is meant to bedelivered only in conjunction with a verbal presentation, and is not authorized for distribution. Please see the Confidentiality Notice &Disclaimer at the end of the document. All data cited in this document was believed to be accurate at the time of authorship and camefrom publicly available sources. Neither 7 Mile Advisors nor 7M Securities make warranties or representations as to the accuracy orcompleteness of third-party data contained herein. This document should be treated as confidential and for the use of the intendedrecipient only. Please notify 7 Mile Advisors if it was distributed in error.

Advanced AnalyticsApril 2019

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Public Basket

Alteryx, Inc.

Alteryx, Inc. operates a self-service data analytics softwareplatform that enables organizations to enhance businessoutcomes and the productivity of their business analysts. Itssoftware platform includes Alteryx Designer for datapreparation, blending, and analytics that could be deployable inthe cloud and on premise; Alteryx Server, a secure and scalableserver-based product for scheduling, sharing, and runninganalytic processes and applications in a Web-basedenvironment; Alteryx Connect, a collaborative data explorationplatform for discovering information assets and sharingrecommendations across the enterprise; Alteryx Promote, ananalytics model management product for data scientists andanalytics teams to build, manage, monitor, and deploypredictive models to production; and Alteryx Analytics Gallery, acloud-based collaboration offering that allows users to shareworkflows in a centralized repository. The company alsoprovides technical support, instruction, and customer services.Alteryx, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Irvine,California.

Date Key Development Headline4/3/19 Alteryx, Inc. (NYSE:AYX) acquired ClearStory Data, Inc. for $20

million.

0x

10x

20x

30x

Revenue Multiples - Alteryx, Inc.

TEV/Revenue Average

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Public Basket

Fair Isaac Corporation

Fair Isaac Corporation develops analytic, software, and datamanagement products and services that enable businesses toautomate, enhance, and connect decisions. The company offersanalytical solutions, credit scoring, and credit accountmanagement products and services to banks, credit reportingagencies, credit card processing agencies, insurers, retailers,healthcare organizations, and public agencies. It operatesthrough three segments: Applications, Scores, and DecisionManagement Software. The Applications segment offers pre-configured decision management applications designed forvarious business problem or process, such as marketing,account origination, customer management, fraud, collection,and insurance claims management, as well as associatedprofessional services. The Scores segment provides business-to-business scoring solutions and services, including myFICOsolutions for consumers that give clients access to analytics tobe integrated into their transaction streams and decision-making processes, as well as associated professional services.Fair Isaac Corporation was founded in 1956 and isheadquartered in San Jose, California.

Date Key Development Headline12/11/18 Fair Isaac Corporation (NYSE:FICO) acquired GoOn - Evolucao

em Gestao de Riscos Ltda.

7/26/18 Fair Isaac Seeks Acquisitions

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Revenue Multiples - Fair Isaac Corporation

TEV/Revenue Average

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40xEBITDA Multiples - Fair Isaac Corporation

TEV/EBITDA Average

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P/E Multiples - Fair Isaac Corporation

P/E Average

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Public Basket

Tableau Software, Inc.

Tableau Software, Inc. provides business analytics softwareproducts. It offers Tableau Desktop, an analytics product thatempowers people to access and analyze data; and TableauServer, a business intelligence platform with data managementand scalability to foster sharing of analytics, as well as toenhance the dissemination of information in an organizationand promote decision-making. The company also providesTableau Online, a hosted software-as-a-service version ofTableau Server; and Tableau Public, a cloud-based platformthat allows various users, such as bloggers, journalists,researchers, and government workers to visualize public dataon their Websites. In addition, it offers Visual Query Language(VizQL) for databases, which is a computer language fordescribing pictures of data, including graphs, charts, maps, timeseries, and tables of visualizations; Live Query Engine thatinterprets abstract queries generated by VizQL into syntaxunderstandable by various database systems. Tableau Software,Inc. was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Seattle,Washington.

Date Key Development Headline6/12/18 Tableau Software, Inc. (NYSE:DATA) acquired Empirical Systems,

Inc.

0x

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15x

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25xRevenue Multiples - Tableau Software, Inc.

TEV/Revenue Average

250x

270x

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310xEBITDA Multiples - Tableau Software, Inc.

TEV/EBITDA Average

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Public Basket

Accenture plc

Accenture plc provides consulting, technology, and outsourcingservices worldwide. Its Communications, Media & Technologysegment provides professional services that help clientsaccelerate and deliver digital transformation, and enhancebusiness results through industry-specific solutions forcommunications, media, and high tech industries, as well as forsoftware platforms. The company’s Financial Services segmentoffers services that address profitability pressures, industryconsolidation, regulatory changes, and the need to continuallyadapt to new digital technologies. This segment serves clients inbanking, capital markets, and insurance industriesAccenture plcwas founded in 1989 and is based in Dublin, Ireland.

Date Key Development Headline4/10/19 Pitney Bowes Inc. and Accenture Team to Help Clients Take

Advantage of Intelligent, Data-Driven Solutions

3/28/19 Accenture plc (NYSE:ACN) agreed to acquire selected assets from Caltec Scube Co., Ltd.

3/14/19 Accenture plc (NYSE:ACN) acquired Storm Digital.

3/4/19 Accenture plc (NYSE:ACN) agreed to acquire Enterprise System Partners Limited.

3/3/19 Accenture plc (NYSE:ACN) acquired ?What If! Limited.

0x

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4xRevenue Multiples - Accenture plc

TEV/Revenue Average

0x

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15x

20xEBITDA Multiples - Accenture plc

TEV/EBITDA Average

0x

10x

20x

30x

40xP/E Multiples - Accenture plc

P/E Average

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Public Basket

Adobe Inc.

Adobe Inc. operates as a diversified software companyworldwide. Its Digital Media segment provides tools andsolutions that enable individuals, small and medium businesses,and enterprises to create, publish, promote, and monetize theirdigital content. Its flagship product is Creative Cloud, asubscription service that allows customer to download andaccess the latest versions of its creative products. This segmentserves traditional content creators, Web application developers,and digital media professionals, as well as their management inmarketing departments and agencies, companies, andpublishers. The company’s Digital Experience segment offerssolutions for how digital advertising and marketing are created,managed, executed, measured, and optimized. The companywas founded in 1982 and is headquartered in San Jose,California.

Date Key Development Headline3/13/19 Yext, Inc. Announces the New Collaboration with Adobe to Drive

Website Discovery

1/22/19 Adobe Inc. (NasdaqGS:ADBE) acquired remaining stake in Allegorithmic SAS for approximately €92.2 million.

1/8/19 Adobe Inc. (NasdaqGS:ADBE) acquired unknown minority stake in Marketo KK from SunBridge Partners, Inc.

10/30/18 Adobe Inc. (NasdaqGS:ADBE) completed the acquisition of Marketo, Inc. from Vista Equity Partners LLC.

10/9/18 Adobe Accelerates Experience-Driven Commerce with Major Advancements to Magento Commerce Cloud

0x

5x

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TEV/Revenue Average

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60xEBITDA Multiples - Adobe Inc.

TEV/EBITDA Average

0x

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100x

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200xP/E Multiples - Adobe Inc.

P/E Average

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SAP SE

SAP SE operates as an enterprise application software, andanalytics and business intelligence company worldwide. It offersSAP HANA, which enables businesses to process and analyzelive data; SAP Data Hub, a solution that enables businesses tomanage data from various sources; SAP Cloud Platform, whichenables businesses to connect and integrate applications; SAPBW/4HANA, a data warehouse solution; SAP Leonardo, asystem that enables customers to make business sense andopportunity of disruptive technologies; and SAP AnalyticsCloud, which leverages the intersection of business intelligence,planning, and predictive analytics. SAP SE was founded in 1972and is headquartered in Walldorf, Germany.

Date Key Development Headline2/24/19 Verisk 3E signed a definitive agreement to acquire Content as a

Service business of SAP SE (DB:SAP).

12/17/18 SAP and Software AG Launch Joint Platform for Smart Cities

12/17/18 Lition Signs a Co-Innovation Agreement with SAP SE

11/20/18 Tata Consultancy Services Partners with SAP to Build Intelligent Rail Digital Maintenance

11/18/18 SAP SE (DB:SAP) acquired Contextor SAS from K Partners and others.

0x

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TEV/Revenue Average

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TEV/EBITDA Average

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P/E Average

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Public Basket

International Business Machines Corporation

International Business Machines Corporation operates as anintegrated technology and services company worldwide. ItsCognitive Solutions segment offers Watson, a computingplatform that interacts in language, processes big data, andlearns from interactions with people and computers. Thissegment also offers data and analytics solutions, includinganalytics and data management platforms, cloud data services,enterprise social software, talent management solutions, andtailored industry solutions; and transaction processing softwarethat runs mission-critical systems in banking, airlines, and retailindustries. The company was founded in 1911 and isheadquartered in Armonk, New York.

Date Key Development Headline4/3/19 Funds advised by affiliates of Centerbridge Partners, L.P. entered

into a definitive agreement to acquire Marketing Platform and Commerce Software Offerings of International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE:IBM).

2/27/19 Nationstar Mortgage LLC completed the acquisition of Seterus, Inc. from International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE:IBM).

2/26/19 SEAT & IBM Revolutionize Urban Mobility with AI

2/14/19 HCL Technologies Announces Collaboration with IBM to Help Advance the Hybrid Cloud Journeys of Organizations Worldwide

2/4/19 McCormick & Company, Incorporated and IBM Announces Collaboration Pioneering the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Flavor and Food Product Development

0x

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Machines Corporation

TEV/Revenue Average

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Machines Corporation

TEV/EBITDA Average

0x

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40xP/E Multiples - International Business

Machines Corporation

P/E Average

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Alphabet Inc.

Alphabet Inc. provides online advertising services in the UnitedStates, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia-Pacific, Canada,and Latin America. It offers performance and brand advertisingservices. The company operates through Google and OtherBets segments. The Google segment offers products, such asAds, Android, Chrome, Google Cloud, Google Maps, GooglePlay, Hardware, Search, and YouTube, as well as technicalinfrastructure. This segment also offers digital content, cloudservices, hardware devices, and other miscellaneous productsand services. The Other Bets segment includes businesses,including Access, Calico, CapitalG, GV, Verily, Waymo, and X, aswell as Internet and television services. Alphabet Inc. wasfounded in 1998 and is headquartered in Mountain View,California.

Date Key Development Headline4/3/19 CommScope Holding Company, Inc. (NasdaqGS:COMM)

completed the acquisition of ARRIS International plc (NasdaqGS:ARRS) from Alphabet Inc. (NasdaqGS:GOOG.L), BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE:BLK), The Vanguard Group, Inc., Hotchkis and Wiley Capital Management, LLC and other shareholders.

2/18/19 MediaTek Inc. Expands Collaboration with Google to Bring Machine Learning to Mid-Market Smartphones

2/11/19 Flywheel Announces Technology Partnership with Google Cloud

1/25/19 Alphabet Inc. Reportedly Plans To Acquire Enterprise Software Company

1/3/19 Verily To Seek Acquisitions

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P/E Average

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Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Corporation develops, licenses, and supports softwareproducts, services, and devices worldwide. The company’sProductivity and Business Processes segment offers Office 365commercial products and services for businesses, includingOffice, Exchange, SharePoint, Skype for Business, and relatedClient Access Licenses (CALs); Office 365 consumer services,such as Skype, Outlook.com, and OneDrive; Dynamics businesssolutions, such as financial management, enterprise resourceplanning, customer relationship management, supply chainmanagement, and analytics applications for small and mid-sizebusinesses, large organizations, and divisions of enterprises;and LinkedIn online professional network. The company wasfounded in 1975 and is headquartered in Redmond,Washington.

Date Key Development Headline4/17/19 Microsoft Corporation (NasdaqGS:MSFT) acquired Express

Logic, Inc.

4/10/19 CUNA Mutual Group Announces Collaboration with Microsoft to Develop an Industry-Wide Data Platform for Credit Unions

4/2/19 Microsoft Corp. and BMW Group Launches Open Manufacturing Platform

3/24/19 USI Collaborates with Microsoft to Launch the World's First Azure Sphere Combo Module Designed to Meet Data Security and Connectivity Needs

3/14/19 Microsoft and Facebook Announce Formation of the Co-Packaged Optics Collaboration Under the Joint Development Foundation

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