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SurveyMonkey + Usabilla

If you missed it, SurveyMonkey announced yesterday that it was acquiring Dutch firm Usabilla, whose software is used by product managers, marketers and researchers to capture user feedback on websites and in apps. Here are 5 brief thoughts about that deal. 1. SurveyMonkey is having another bite at the enterprise market SurveyMonkey led the way

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Qualtrics converge

This article is from April 2017;  SAP’s planned acquisition of Qualtrics for $8bn puts it in a new light, but the main points still stand. Last week, I went to the first big Qualtrics event in Europe – Converge. Not quite on the scale of its earlier Summit in Salt Lake City (no Elton John at this one … mercifully), but

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SAP & Qualtrics UX software

So SAP just announced that it’s buying Qualtrics for $8bn. That’s roughly two Kantars, one Nielsen or about a fifth of the global research industry. It’s also around 20 times Qualtrics’ forecast revenue for 2018 ($400m). That’s a serious premium. For comparison, IBM is paying around 10x revenue for Red Hat; and salesforce.com trades at

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