A cheap rival can be an expensive illusion. QL2 collects competitor data, then tackles the less glamorous question that makes pricing intelligence useful: are these really the same thing?

For more than two decades at NI, the aerospace engineer turned product marketer has followed one stubborn idea: the best way to explain a machine is to measure something people already care about.
For nearly 50 years, NI has sold engineers a stubbornly useful idea: the instrument is better when software calls the shots. Now the company has Emerson's scale, an AI assistant named Nigel and the harder task of modernizing without breaking the systems customers already trust.
Ackcio is a Singapore deep-tech company that builds reliable wireless data acquisition systems for industrial monitoring. Its flagship Ackcio Beam platform uses a patented long-range, self-healing wireless mesh network to connect geotechnical and structural sensors on construction sites, mines, dams, rail lines and other infrastructure - replacing manual readings and fragile cabling with automated, real-time data that works even underground and off the grid.