Ziff Davis purchased Ookla in 2014 for $15 million, per a Reuters report as we speak. The publishing firm mentioned it expects the sale to shut “within the coming months.”
In a press release, Accenture CEO and chair Julie Candy mentioned:
By buying Ookla, we are going to assist our purchasers throughout enterprise and authorities scale AI safely and construct the trusted information foundations they should ship the dependable, seamless connectivity that creates worth.
Present Accenture public sector purchasers embrace the US Air Pressure, the US Social Safety Administration, and, lately, the US Division of State.
Speedtest and Downdetector are widespread instruments that assist folks shortly check their present Web pace and the standing of on-line companies, respectively. Downdetector is commonly cited by media experiences discussing the supply of internet sites, apps, banks, and extra.
Beneath Ziff Davis, each packages even have business-to-business (B2B) purposes. Utilizing Speedtest, as an example, Ookla gathers, aggregates, and analyzes information for “billions of cellular community samples every day, which measure radio sign ranges, community protection, and availability, and [quality of experience] metrics for a lot of linked experiences, corresponding to streaming video, video conferencing, gaming, internet shopping, and CDN and cloud supplier efficiency,” Ookla says. Presently, Speedtest B2B clients embrace telecommunications operators, regulatory and commerce our bodies, analysts, journalists, and nonprofits.
Downdetector Explorer, in the meantime, is a monitoring software that’s supposed to assist companies detect outages. Clients embrace streaming companies, banks, social networks, and communication service suppliers.
Ought to Accenture’s acquisition shut, the IT advisor will equally use information from Speedtest and Downdetector to tell purchasers, and particular person customers shall be topic to a brand new privateness coverage and some other adjustments Accenture probably makes.
An Accenture spokesperson instructed Ars Technica that Accenture plans to function the Ookla “enterprise because it operates as we speak.”
