FTVentures
Leads $15 Million Investment in Enterprise
Software Leader SenSage
Funding
to fuel continued growth in event data warehouse space and expand
existing leadership position in enterprise log management and security
information and event management (SIEM)
We are pleased to announce that FTVentures has led a $15 million
investment in SenSage Inc. SenSage offers event data warehouse software
and appliances for security, compliance and systems management. SenSage
is a broad, flexible platform to analyze diverse streams of event data
for an array of use cases, including: demonstrating due process for
compliance; monitoring and controlling privileged user activity, system
integrity and sensitive data use; insider and external threat analysis;
and post incident forensics.
SenSage’s event data warehouse surpasses the data scope and scalability
limitations of other log management vendors and is expanding into the
large data warehousing market. The company’s competitive advantage
results from a differentiated technology platform designed to address the
needs of large enterprises with sophisticated analytics, a flexible
model, and low administrative costs.
- SenSage’s 300 customers
include FTVentures LPs Zions’ Bancorporation, Credit Suisse, Goldman
Sachs, Nomura and Lehman Brothers
Based in San Francisco,
the company markets its solutions directly and through partners,
including Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Cerner, EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, McAfee
and Tokyo Electron.
Click
here to read the press release.
If you would like to learn more about SenSage and the event data
warehousing, log management and security information and event management
(SIEM) sectors, please contact:
Craig Hanson, FTVentures Vice President
chanson@ftventures.com or
415-229-3048
Cap
H Introduces Talent Tool
Developing
competent global leaders is becoming a serious challenge for many
organizations. Half of the executives recently surveyed by McKinsey
expect the competition for talent to intensify and to have a major impact
over the next five years. No other global trend was considered nearly as
significant. In a recent Infohrm survey of executives from over 180 organizations,
only 14 percent of respondents said that they are prepared for the
potential loss of skills, corporate knowledge and leadership that will
occur due to retirements within the next five years. Other studies
estimate that 40 percent of people who are promoted into a new role fail
within 18 months.
Portfolio company Capital H Group’s Centre for High Performance
Development has launched a new tool for combating this significant
challenge of underprepared employees. The Cap H tool “Sentio” presents
participants with a series of challenging workplace scenarios that test
and measure their potential to respond to today’s business challenges in
a specific industry. The data from this assessment can be used for
recruitment, talent management, promotion and development.
Click
here to learn more about Capital H Group’s Sentio
If you would like to discuss Capital H Group or the human capital
management space, please contact:
Chris Winship, FTVentures Partner
cwinship@ftventures.com or
415-229-3012
Sources:
McKinsey Quarterly, “Making Talent a Strategic Priority”, 2008
Infohrm “Global Approaches to Workforce Planning: What is Working?”, 2007
