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Splunk CIO Discusses the Impact of the Internet of Things at Bloomberg Enterprise Technology Summit

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By Business Wirevia The Motley Fool

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Splunk CIO Discusses the Impact of the Internet of Things at Bloomberg Enterprise Technology Summit

SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Splunk Inc. (NAS: SPLK) , the leading software platform for real-time operational intelligence, today announced that Doug Harr, chief information officer, Splunk, will discuss the impact of machine data and analytics on the Internet of Things during an interview panel at Bloomberg Enterprise Technology Summit. The summit will be held Wednesday, April 24 at the Apella at the Alexandria Center in New York City. The Internet of Things panel is scheduled to begin at 3:45 p.m. EDT.

“Splunk has dozens of customers who are already using their data to discover incredible insights well beyond traditional IT, from airline manufacturers analyzing flight data to military bases discovering energy cost savings through facility sensors. The common link among these organizations is machine data,” said Harr. “Thousands of Splunk customers monitor and analyze machine data in real-time, and the Internet of Things is an emerging source of machine data that promises enormous new insights. I look forward to sharing what I’ve learned from our customers and to a lively discussion on what the future holds.”

The panel will be moderated by Nick Turner, Team Leader of U.S. Telecom and Media at Bloomberg News, and includes executives from The ADT Corporation, GE Global Software and Analytics and Zebra Technologies, Inc. For more information about the summit, please visit http://www.bloomberglink.com/event/tech-2013/.

Register now for .conf2013, the 4th Annual Splunk Worldwide Users’ Conference, featuring more than 100 sessions by Splunk customers, partners, experts and employees. .conf2013 is being held September 30-October 3 at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas.

About Splunk Inc.

Splunk Inc. (NAS: SPLK) provides the engine for machine data™. Splunk® software collects, indexes and harnesses the machine-generated big data coming from the websites, applications, servers, networks and mobile devices that power business. Splunk software enables organizations to monitor, search, analyze, visualize and act on massive streams of real-time and historical machine data. More than 5,200 enterprises, universities, government agencies and service providers in over 90 countries use Splunk Enterprise to gain Operational Intelligence that deepens business and customer understanding, improves service and uptime, reduces cost and mitigates cybersecurity risk. Splunk Storm®, a cloud-based subscription service, is used by organizations developing applications in the cloud.

From: http://www.dailyfinance.com/2013/04/18/splunk-cio-discusses-the-impact-of-the-internet-of/

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Will Zebra Technologies Earn or Burn?

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By Seth Jayson, The Motley Fool

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Margins matter. The more Zebra Technologies (NAS: ZBRA) keeps of each buck it earns in revenue, the more money it has to invest in growth, fund new strategic plans, or (gasp!) distribute to shareholders. Healthy margins often separate pretenders from the best stocks in the market. That’s why we check up on margins at least once a quarter in this series. I’m looking for the absolute numbers, so I can compare them to current and potential competitors, and any trend that may tell me how strong Zebra Technologies‘s competitive position could be.

Here’s the current margin snapshot for Zebra Technologies over the trailing 12 months: Gross margin is 49.4%, while operating margin is 17.8% and net margin is 12.3%.

Unfortunately, a look at the most recent numbers doesn’t tell us much about where Zebra Technologies has been, or where it’s going. A company with rising gross and operating margins often fuels its growth by increasing demand for its products. If it sells more units while keeping costs in check, its profitability increases. Conversely, a company with gross margins that inch downward over time is often losing out to competition, and possibly engaging in a race to the bottom on prices. If it can’t make up for this problem by cutting costs — and most companies can’t — then both the business and its shares face a decidedly bleak outlook.

Of course, over the short term, the kind of economic shocks we recently experienced can drastically affect a company’s profitability. That’s why I like to look at five fiscal years’ worth of margins, along with the results for the trailing 12 months, the last fiscal year, and last fiscal quarter (LFQ). You can’t always reach a hard conclusion about your company’s health, but you can better understand what to expect, and what to watch.

Here’s the margin picture for Zebra Technologies over the past few years.

Source: S&P Capital IQ. Dollar amounts in millions. FY = fiscal year. TTM = trailing 12 months.

Because of seasonality in some businesses, the numbers for the last period on the right — the TTM figures — aren’t always comparable to the FY results preceding them. To compare quarterly margins to their prior-year levels, consult this chart.

Source: S&P Capital IQ. Dollar amounts in millions. FQ = fiscal quarter.

Here’s how the stats break down:

  • Over the past five years, gross margin peaked at 49.5% and averaged 47.6%. Operating margin peaked at 18.7% and averaged 16.0%. Net margin peaked at 17.8% and averaged 8.8%.
  • TTM gross margin is 49.4%, 180 basis points better than the five-year average. TTM operating margin is 17.8%, 180 basis points …read more
    Source: FULL ARTICLE at DailyFinance