User Analytics Company Kontagent Sees Data Volumes Surging, Now Tracking Over 1 Billion Daily Events, 1 of every 4 Social Gaming Dollars Spent

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) August 16, 2011

Kontagent, the leading user analytics company for social and mobile application developers, today announced it had surpassed 1 Billion daily event messages and 150M Monthly Active Users (MAUs) handled, reaching an important milestone in the companys scale and reach with its kSuite platform. The company is also tracking 1 in 4 dollars being spent in the social gaming industry.

With over 1,100 active social and mobile applications using its on-demand enterprise software including industry leaders such as Ubisoft, Time Warner, A&E Networks, EA and Tencent, among others, the company is seeing larger clients making sizeable investments in social gaming. According to AppData, Kontagent now handles more MAUs than any social developer except Zynga. [See infographic]

From social games to mobile applications, we continue to see an uptick in new companies coming online that need innovative ways to discover behavioral insights and social usage patterns around their applications. Were thrilled leading developers continue to leverage our social and mobile analytics as their platform of choice, said Jeff Tseng, co-founder and CEO of Kontagent. Just three years ago, we were processing less than a million MAUs amongst a select group of client applications. Since then, weve seen explosive growth in the social and mobile markets and are thrilled that weve successfully architected our system from the ground up to scale quickly with our customers.

Kontagents unique approach to user analytics allows for people at all levels of an organization to gain the critical insights they need to make real-time data-driven decisions. Its kSuite platform powers insights that include best-practice metrics as well as custom insights based on flexible event handling that allow companies to optimize user acquisition, retention and monetization across platforms.

About Kontagent

Kontagent is the leading user analytics platform for developers, marketers, product managers and strategic partners across the social and mobile web. Our proprietary platform kSuite has been built from the ground up to provide deep social data pattern visualization and analysis that delivers actionable insights via an on-demand service. Kontagent tracks more than 1,000 social applications, over 150 million monthly active users, and in excess of 15,000 messages every second. Kontagent is funded by ALTOS Ventures and Maverick Capital, with additional funding from Facebook and other well known angel investors. Founded in 2007, the company is headquartered in the SOMA district of San Francisco with additional offices in Toronto and London.

For more information, visit http://www.Kontagent.com

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Software Developers Rate Cloud Foundry Top Cloud Platform In User Satisfaction Survey

Santa Cruz, CA (PRWEB) November 17, 2011

Software developers active in Cloud development rated the top cloud platforms and gave VMware Cloud Foundry the highest overall score according to a new survey conducted by Evans Data Corp. In the survey, only those developers who use a particular platform were asked to rank the attributes of the platform. Cloud Foundry achieved the highest overall score, while IBMs cloud offerings ranked first among developers targeting private clouds, and Google ranked first with public cloud developers.

"The top three competitors were very close, with one appealing to private cloud development, one to public and Cloud Foundry appealing to both, said Janel Garvin, CEO of Evans Data Corp. "This is important because many cloud deployments are hybrid clouds blending private, public and on-premises instances. Flexibility is key.

The survey looked at fourteen different Cloud platform attributes and asked users to rate each one for the Clouds they use. Cloud Foundry was strongest in reliability, supplied development tools and price for service and storage among others, while IBMs top scores included best security, proven expertise, and auto-scaling, and Google was seen as the vendor with the most market potential and best vision for the future.

The ultimate compliment any product can receive is when it comes directly from developers, and thats why the entire Cloud Foundry team is honored to have been selected as the number one provider for cloud services in the Evans Data user survey," said Jerry Chen, vice president, Cloud and Application Services, VMware. "Cloud Foundry was recognized for providing choice with an open PaaS to developers - not only the choice of deployment clouds, but also choice of frameworks and application services. We are pleased to see developers appreciate the open PaaS Cloud Foundry provides.

The Evans Data Users Choice user satisfaction surveys are not vendor sponsored and are conducted several times a year, focusing on platforms and tools that are important to software development. They are published as a service to the development community and provide competitive user satisfaction scores on technologies such as application servers, software configuration management tools, databases, software development platforms and developer programs.

Evans Data Corporation provides regularly updated IT industry market intelligence based on in-depth surveys of the global developer population. Evans' syndicated research includes surveys focused on developers in a wide variety of subjects, while private research efforts focus on thought leadership, program and product perception benchmarking, and segmentation.

Copyright 2011 Evans Data Corporation. All other company names, products and services mentioned in this document are the trademarks and property of their respective owners.

VMware and VMware Cloud Foundry are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions.

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