Deep Intelligence Across Industries

Company Headquarter: The Netherlands Founded: 2006 Workforce: ~700 Company Working: Adyen NV (Adyen) engages in the provision of payments platform business. The company offers counter-top terminals, mobile point-of-sale (mPOS) solutions, in-app payments, omnichannel payments, in-store kiosks, and unattended terminals. It delivers frictionless payments across online, mobile, and in-store channels. The company’s payment platform, utilized by customers for payment globally, accepts different payment methods comprising Android Pay, Alipay in China, Boletos in Brazil, SEPA Direct Debit in Europe, Qiwi in Russia, Apple Pay, and Konbini in Japan. Through its products and services, Adyen caters to retail, digital, airlines, hospitality, and ticketing industries. The company also offers global acquiring solutions, which connect merchants to acquirers across the world. Its clientele includes easyJet, River Island, KLM, Booking.com, Vueling, Citizen, Netflix, Groupon, LinkedIn, Crocs, Spotify, Etsy, Evernote, Superdry, O’Neill, TransferWise, UBER, and Mango among others. The company has its presence in various countries of Europe, South America, North America, and Asia.

Company Headquarter: US Founded: 1970 Workforce: ~15,000 Company Working: Visa, Inc. deals in the provision of payment services. It also facilitates global commerce through facilitating the transfer of value and information in the global network of consumers, merchants, financial institutions, businesses, strategic partners, and government entities. It offers debit cards, credit cards, prepaid products, commercial payment solutions, and global ATM services. Visa classifies its offerings into five categories: core products, processing infrastructure, transaction processing services, digital products, and merchant products. Core products include debit card, credit card, prepaid cards, commercial payment, and global ATMs. Commercial payment solutions (CPS) comprise purchasing cards, corporate cards, virtual account, and disbursement accounts. CPS is designed to bring control, efficiency, and automation to government and commercial payment processing. It also provides integration capabilities, consulting and analytics support, and data management. In 2010, Visa acquired CyberSource and its wholly owned subsidiary Authorize.net, which provides e-commerce payments and security solutions for businesses. Authorize.Net is a payment gateway that allows e-commerce providers to accept payments through credit cards and electronic checks directly on their site.

Company Headquarter: US Founded: 1998 Workforce: ~18,700 Company Working: PayPal Holdings, Inc. (PayPal) engages in the development of a technology platform for digital payments. PayPal is committed to democratizing financial services and empowering people and businesses to join and thrive in the global economy. Combination of technological innovation and strategic partnerships enables PayPal to create a better way to manage and move money and also offer choice and flexibility to the users to send and receive payments. Its solutions include PayPal, PayPal Credit, Braintree, Venmo, Xoom, and Paydiant. It manages a two-sided proprietary global technology platform that links customers, which consist of both merchants and consumers, to facilitate the processing of payment transactions. PayPal operates in two segments: transaction revenues and other value-added services. PayPal also enables consumers and merchants to receive money in more than 100 currencies, withdraw funds in 56 currencies and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in 25 currencies.

Company Headquarter: U.S. Founded: 2008 Workforce: ~200 Company Working: Digimarc Corporation is engaged in the provision of media identification and management solutions and is best known for its digital watermarking technologies. It develops solutions, licenses intellectual property, and provides development services. It also connects print, audio, and packaging to brand-defined online content which protects, identifies, and tracks digital files and confirms that the content and objects are genuine, unaltered, and from an authorized source. Its products include Digimarc Discover and Digimarc Barcode. The Digimarc Barcode is a proprietary method for imperceptibly enhancing packaging, images, and audio with data that is detected by enabled devices, such as phones, computers, barcode scanners, and machine-vision equipment. The Digimarc Barcode is increasingly being used in consumer goods, labels, commercial print, audio, digital images, and secure documents. The company also offers various software for mobile, desktop and embedded circuits as well. The services offered by the company include piracy intelligence, enhancement, quality control, integration, and program management. The company caters to various end users such as retail & brand, grocery, book publishing, application development, and media & entertainment. The company specializes in invisible barcodes, audio recognition, content identification, data-rich art, and mobile barcode scanner SDK.

Headquarters: Netherlands Founded: 1943 Workforce: ~149,000 Company Working: IKEA Systems B.V. is the global retail company that offers a wide range of well designed, effective home furnishing products at feasible prices. The company has total 355 stores in 29 IKEA group countries, out of which 33 stores are present in Asia including pickup and order points, store distribution site and shopping centers. The company has approximately 9,500 products across the IKEA range, and adds approximately 2,500 products, every year. The company is working on reducing wastes and ensuring efficient use of natural resources in any operation. For enhancing sustainability, the company is investing in wind farms and solar panels to generate energy. The company is investing in the installation of solar modules in building and in wind farms. Moreover, IKEA launched home solar for generating and using renewable energy at home within effective prices and budget. In the year 2017, the company’s home solar solution was introduced in Belgium and Poland, which involved turning rooftop into power stations.

Headquarters: Shanghai, China Founded: 2005 Workforce: Approximately 20,000 Company Working: JA Solar Holdings Co. Ltd is a solar development company that manufactures solar PV module, solar cells, and panels for power plant & off-grid solar installations as well as it manufactures mono-crystalline and multi-crystalline solar cells. It has offices in countries such as China, Japan, Philippines, United Kingdom, India, the U.S., Thailand, the Netherlands, Australia, and Switzerland. JA Solar has several subsidiaries for enhanced marketing and has been developing a wide global sales network sales. JA Development Co., Ltd (British Virgin Islands), JA Solar Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. (Malaysia), JA Solar Vietnam Company Limited (Vietnam), JA Solar USA Inc. (U.S.), JA Solar Hong Kong Limited (Hong Kong), JingAo Solar Co., Ltd and Yangzhou JA Solar PV Engineering Co., Ltd (China) are some of its subsidiaries. JA Solar manufacturers high-performance solar products and uses its strengths in PV-research and development to consistently optimize its unique technologies in cell production and model construction. The company is a pioneer in selective diffusion technology and passivized emitter rear cells (PERC).

Headquarters: Seville, Spain Founded: 1941 Workforce: Approximately 12,468 Company Working: Abengoa Solar, SA is engaged in designing, promotion, construction, installation and operation of its own solar power stations. It is a pioneer in Concentrated Solar Power and Thermal technologies and operates in the segments of solar photovoltaics, and concentrated photovoltaics. It owns Europe's first commercially operating concentrating solar power plant, the 11 MW PS10 Solar Power Plant that uses concentrated solar thermal technology. Abengoa Solar has total installed capacity of approximately 1,223 MW in commercial, approximately 540 MW under construction and 210 MW in the pre-construction phase which is distributed in 29 plants locations, across the world. The company has worked on solar tower technology s (PS10 and PS20), which consisted of field of heliostats technology to constantly tracks the sun for solar radiation. Furthermore, Abengoa operates in parabolic trough technology.

Headquarters: Seoul, South Korea Founded: 1999 Workforce: Approximately 8,000 Company Working: Hanwha Q CELLS offers solar panels for segments such as residential, commercial & industrial, and power plants. Its solar panels combine the best features of all known cell technologies to achieve high performance levels at low cost of electricity (LCOE). Such use of advanced technology ensures Q CELLS solar modules achieve maximum luminous efficiency under real, day to day conditions, even under cloudy skies. Hanwha Q CELLS has presence in 14 countries in 5 continents. Its headquarters for Technology & Innovation are located in the Solar Valley in Thalheim, Germany, where the "Engineered in Germany" product portfolio is developed. Excellent scientists and engineers make continuous improvements to their existing technologies in the in-house research center, developing new innovative product generations. Products are manufactured in international facilities at China, Malaysia, and South Korea. Hanwha Q CELLS has a solar module manufacturing capacity of 8.0 GW, which makes the company one of the biggest solar module manufacturers in the world.

Headquarters: Shangrao, China Founded: 2006 Workforce: More than 12,500 Company Working: Jinko Solar operates from 18 countries in 5 continents, 6 production plants in 4 countries and 21 warehouses in 9 countries, with 33 sales offices catering to the requirements of customers in more than 80 countries. It had a vertically integrated solar product value chain, with an integrated annual capacity of 8.0 GW for silicon ingots and wafers, 5.0GW for solar cells, and 8.0 GW for solar modules, as of March 31, 2017. It had about 15,000 full-time workers, worldwide, with more than 19 GW cumulative shipments of solar panels until 2017 and was ranked one of the top companies for global shipment of solar modules in 2016 (6.65 GW). It is the first Chinese PV manufacturer whose modules have passed the intensive UV test in terms of IEC61345 from TUV Rheinland, which is the major international standard of the industry. Jinko Solar offers a wide range of products such as solar cells, solar module, and mounting system. Its solar panels are mainly of monocrystalline and polycrystalline structure. These solar panels are as per global specifications and conventional standards with linear performance warranty.