Datawatch

Canaccord Genuity is pleased to announce that on August 28, 2013, Datawatch Corporation (NASDAQ: DWCH) completed its previously announced all-stock acquisition of Panopticon Software AB, a privately held Swedish company specializing in the delivery of real-time visual data discovery solutions.  Former Panopticon shareholders received Datawatch shares representing up to 23.6% of the total Datawatch shares outstanding following the closing of the transaction, determined on an adjusted basis. Canaccord Genuity acted as financial advisor to Datawatch.

The Panopticon acquisition builds on the proven strength of Datawatch Enterprise Server and Datawatch Monarch Professional. Panopticon extends the Datawatch solution to address business users’ ubiquitous needs to understand and extract value from their data through a rich, visual data discovery experience. With Panopticon, customers get a strong, self-service solution to explore, discover and visualize any variety of data, in real-time.

Datawatch is a leader in providing information optimization products and solutions that allow organizations to deliver the greatest data variety possible into their big data and analytic applications. Datawatch provides organizations the ability to integrate structured, unstructured, and semi-structured sources like reports, PDF files, and EDI streams into these applications to provide a 360 degree perspective of the issues and opportunities that exist in their businesses. Datawatch is headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts with offices in London, Munich, Singapore, Sydney and Manila, and with partners and customers in more than 100 countries worldwide. 

Panopticon is a leader in visual data discovery for its innovative real-time technology. The company's in-memory, high speed solution has a proven track record in capital markets, telecommunications, energy and other industries that rely on real-time visual discovery and analytics. Panopticon has also been recognized by industry and analyst organizations for being a technical and thought leader in the marketplace, including being recently named as a "Cool Vendor" in the Cool Vendors for In-Memory Computing 2013 report by Gartner, Inc.