Ten Aussie companies on Gartner 'cool' list

Ten Australian companies were featured in Gartner's latest ‘Cool Vendors’ series of reports into digital disrupters and potential disrupters set to permanently change consumers’ relationship with technology.

One Australian company, Melbourne’s Alex Solutions, featured in two separate reports — Cool Vendors in risk management and Cool Vendors in information innovation and governance.

Combined with the one New Zealand company highlighted in the report series, this marks the largest number of vendors from Australia and New Zealand to be featured in Gartner’s annual Cool Vendors series to date.

Gartner VP and research fellow Daryl Plummer said this demonstrates that digitalisation is driving innovation throughout the A/NZ region. “The trend toward digitalisation continues unabated in 2016,” he said.

“These disruptive changes can shift assets, channels and capabilities of entire industries. Whether feature focused, fad obsessed or disruption bound, CIOs, IT leaders and their technology provider counterparts cannot ignore the effect of the new digital landscape.”

Other Australian companies to feature in the reports include innovation training and software company Aulive, graphic design platform provider Canva and wearable athlete monitoring technology company Catapult.

Cafe ordering app developer Hey You, availability and performance vendor Integrated Research, data integration and analytics company Maestrano, .Net deployment automation tool provider Octopus, driver fatigue monitoring wearables vendor SmartCap Technologies and analytics software company Veriluma were also included.

The New Zealand company featured was StretchSense, a developer of flexible wearable motion capture sensors for industrial applications.

Gartner’s 2016 Cool Vendors research series features more than 450 vendors across 98 reports.

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