Downdetector, Speedtest offered to IT service supplier Accenture in $1.2B deal

In a press release, Accenture CEO and chair Julie Candy stated:

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 embody the US Air Power, the US Social Safety Administration, and, not too long ago, the US Division of State.

Speedtest and Downdetector are in style amongst folks searching for one thing to assist rapidly check their present web pace and the standing of on-line providers, respectively. Downdetector is usually cited by media studies discussing the provision of internet sites, apps, banks, and extra.

Beneath Ziff Davis, each packages even have business-to-business (B2B) functions. Utilizing Speedtest, as an example, Ookla gathers, aggregates, and analyzes information for “billions of cellular community samples each day, which measure radio sign ranges, community protection, and availability, and [quality of experience] metrics for plenty of linked experiences, corresponding to streaming video, video conferencing, gaming, net shopping, and CDN and cloud supplier efficiency,” Ookla says. At present, Speedtest claims telecommunications operators, regulatory and commerce our bodies, analysts, journalists, and nonprofits as B2B clients.

Downdetector Explorer, in the meantime, is a monitoring software that’s supposed to assist companies detect outages. Clients embody streaming providers, banks, social networks, and communication service suppliers.

Ought to Accenture’s acquisition shut, the IT guide will equally use information from Speedtest and Downdetector to tell purchasers, and particular person customers will likely be topic to a brand new privateness coverage and another adjustments Accenture probably makes.

An Accenture spokesperson advised Ars Technica that Accenture plans to function the Ookla “enterprise because it operates right this moment.”