CHELMSFORD, Mass., Nov. 18, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Datawatch
Corporation (NASDAQ-CM: DWCH), a leading global provider of visual
data discovery solutions today announced that its chief financial
officer, Jim Eliason, will be a featured panelist at the 2014
MIT Sloan CFO Summit, the nation's premier CFO event, on
Thursday, November
20th.
The 12th annual Sloan CFO Summit provides a unique opportunity
for CFOs to interact and network with over 600 CFOs, financial
executives and leading faculty from MIT
to discuss high-level strategies and practical insights on future
financial leadership.
The session in which Eliason will participate is titled
Growing Smart: Managing Inflection Points. Eliason will be
joined on the panel by Jo Tango of
Kepha Partners, former Polaroid CEO Gary
DiCamillo and John Gavin CFO of Acacia to discuss the
processes used to manage inflection points including leading
indicators, quantitative measures and qualitative insights. The
session is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. on
Thursday.
"Exploring and evaluating the challenges and opportunities
facing financial leaders is vital to tomorrow's business
success. This year's Summit will provide insight into the art
and science of finance to help CFOs prepare for their company's
future," said Jeremy Seidman,
Co-Chair of the MIT Sloan CFO Summit.
The Summit will offer hundreds of attendees the opportunity to
meet and hear directly from powerful and diverse business leaders
from a wide range of industries, including Chief Financial Officers
from AIG, TripAdvisor, State Street Corporation, Colgate-Palmolive,
Analog Devices, American Electric Power, iRobot, Fleetmatics,
LevelUp, SilverRail Technologies and other leading
organizations.
About Datawatch Corporation
Datawatch Corporation (NASDAQ-CM: DWCH) provides visual data
discovery software that optimizes any data – regardless of its
variety, volume, or velocity – delivering next generation analytics
to reveal valuable insights for improving business. Its unique
ability to integrate structured, unstructured, and semi-structured
sources like reports, PDF files and EDI streams with real-time
streaming data into visually rich analytic applications allows
users to dynamically discover key factors that impact any
operational aspect of their business. This ability to perform
visual discovery against any data sets Datawatch apart in the big
data and visualization markets. Organizations of every size,
worldwide use Datawatch products, including 93 of the Fortune 100.
Datawatch is headquartered in Chelmsford,
Massachusetts with offices in New
York, London, Munich, Stockholm, Singapore, Sydney and Manila, and with partners and customers in
more than 100 countries worldwide. See the Whole Story for yourself
by downloading the free trial at www.datawatch.com/free-trial.
About the MIT Sloan CFO Summit
The MIT Sloan CFO Summit is the nation's premier CFO event. Now in
its 12th year, the event offers a day of cutting-edge programming
that addresses the changing role of the CFO. The event is rich with
opportunities for practical education and peer networking in a
time-efficient format.
The summit is part of the CXO Series produced by the
MIT Sloan School of Management, one of
the world's leading academic sources of innovation in management
theory and practice, and the MIT Sloan Boston Alumni Association.
The annual events are organized 100% by alumni volunteers. By
promoting the MIT philosophy of "mens
et manus," or "mind and hand," they are able to bring together the
academic research from MIT Sloan with today's corporate financial
leaders to foster debate and provide informative discourse.
Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation
Reform Act of 1995
Any statements contained in this press release that do not
describe historical facts may constitute forward-looking statements
as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform
Act of 1995. Any such statements, including but not limited to
those relating to results of operations, contained herein are based
on current expectations, but are subject to a number of risks and
uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially
from expectations. The factors that could cause actual future
results to differ materially from current expectations include the
following: risks associated with the continuing weak global
economy; risks associated with fluctuations in quarterly operating
results due, among other factors, to the size and timing of large
customer orders; risks associated with acquisitions, including the
recent acquisition of intellectual property from Math Strategies
and the acquisition of Panopticon; the volatility of Datawatch's
stock price; limitations on the effectiveness of internal controls;
rapid technological change; Datawatch's dependence on the
introduction of new products and possible delays in those
introductions; competition in the software industry generally, and
in the markets for next generation analytics in particular;
Datawatch's dependence on its principal products, proprietary
software technology and software licensed from third parties; risks
associated with international sales and operations; risks
associated with indirect distribution channels and co-marketing
arrangements, many of which were only recently established; the
adequacy of Datawatch's sales returns reserve; risks associated
with a subscription sales model; Datawatch's dependence on its
ability to hire and retain skilled personnel; disruption or failure
of Datawatch's technology systems that may result from a natural
disaster, cyber-attack or other catastrophic event; and uncertainty
and additional costs that may result from evolving regulation of
corporate governance and public disclosure. Further information on
factors that could cause actual results to differ from those
anticipated is detailed in various publicly-available documents,
which include, but are not limited to, filings made by Datawatch
from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
including but not limited to, those appearing in the Company's
Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 30, 2013 and Forms 10-Q for the
quarters ended December 31, 2013,
March 31, 2014 and June 30, 2014. Any forward-looking statements
should be considered in light of those factors.
Investor Contact:
Datawatch Investor Relations
investor@datawatch.com
Phone: (978) 441-2200 ext. 8323
Media Contact:
Sarah Bernardi
Datawatch Corporation
Sarah_Bernardi@datawatch.com
Phone: (978) 441-2200 ext. 8387
Twitter: @datawatch
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