Company: CWAN
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001628280-25-008169
Chunk: 34

Company: Clearwater Analytics Holdings, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-26
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 34
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 of user interface; and 

•The price of such offerings and return on investment.

Product Development & Engineering

Our product development and engineering teams are focused on extending our market leadership by innovating on both our existing and new solutions. We believe we must pursue relentless and aggressive innovation to maintain our competitive advantage. To meet these goals, we use multidisciplinary teams of highly trained personnel and leverage their expertise across our solutions. We have invested heavily in our product development and engineering teams to ensure a high degree of product functionality and quality.

Our product and engineering management team focuses on near-term and long-term product strategy, identifying and implementing best practices, continual improvement in engineering throughput and quality, integration strategies across third-party products, and continued process automation.

Approximately 34% of our global employee base is dedicated to product development and engineering. Our personnel are organized into solution-specific teams and are based principally in Boise, Idaho, Seattle, Washington, Paris, France and Noida, India. We expect to continue our significant investment in product engineering and innovation as we extend our competitive strengths moving forward.

Intellectual Property and Proprietary Rights

We rely on a combination of trademark, copyright and trade secret protection laws in the United States and other jurisdictions, as well as confidentiality procedures, technical measures and contractual restrictions, to protect our proprietary technology and our intellectual property. We seek to control access to and distribution of our proprietary information.

We enter into confidentiality agreements and/or license agreements with our employees, consultants, clients and vendors that generally provide that any confidential or proprietary information developed by us or on our behalf be kept confidential. In the normal course of business, we provide access to our SaaS Solution that is built upon our intellectual property to third parties through licensing or restricted use agreements. We have proprietary know-how in our algorithms, business on-boarding functions and software applications. We have in the past and may in the future pursue patents 

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covering our proprietary technology. We also pursue the registration of certain of our trademarks and service marks in the United States. We have registered the marks “Clearwater” and “Clearwater Prism,” and two versions of Clearwater’s stylized logo with the U.S Patent and Trademark Office and various international trademark offices. In addition, we have registered numerous Internet domain names related to our business. We have established a system of security measures to protect our computer systems from security breaches and computer viruses, including various technology and process-based methods, such as clustered and multi-level firewalls, intrusion detection mechanisms, vulnerability assessments