Thoma Bravo took Talend private in a deal that closed last September. Final price tag: $2.4 billion. "We're focused, post tech-crash, on sub-sectors of tech that we deem to be resilient and transformative," says Chip Virnig, partner at Thomo Bravo. Cybersecurity is arguably one such area, he points out. And data analytics is another. "Data analytics is a vast space with a lot of niches and complex components to it," he says. In addition to the input and output segments along the continuum there is a middle-phase segment. It's led by companies such as publicly traded Snowflake (storage) and Alteryx (blending and integrating data streams). Companies are viewed by some in the industry as having no alternative but to push further into data science and related tools. The beleaguered, at times broken down, global supply chain is vividly illustrating the importance of having real time Insights.