BEIJING, Nov. 14, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Gridsum Holding Inc. ("Gridsum" or the "Company") (NASDAQ: GSUM), a leading provider of cloud-based big-data analytics and artificial intelligence ("AI") solutions in China, today announced that it has been recognized as one of China's Most Intellectually Spirited Employers at the China Best Employer Award 2017 jointly conducted by Zhaopin.com, a leading career platform in China, and Peking University Social Survey Research Center, a subsidiary of the Department of Sociology, Peking University. Gridsum was one of the 30 companies recognized with the award which also included companies such as Face++, DJI, CreditEase, Ford, ZTE, Moody's Analytics, Ofo and Didi Chuxing.
China's Most Intellectually Spirited Employer award assesses a broad range of innovative companies including AI, fintech and shared economy companies. Launched in 2005, "China's Best Employer Award" has become one of the most influential and prestigious brand nomination events for both China-based and multinational employers in China. The award is both a valuable reference for job seekers, and an important way for local and international employers to measure themselves and their work environment against the best in the industry.
This year's award selection was based on professional evaluation by a jury committee and public online voting by employees and job seekers. The jury committee consisted of academic professionals, employment specialists, senior media reporters and third-party consultants. The professional evaluation focused on employer image, management, salary and benefits, growth and training, work environment and company culture. A jury team of 1,000 HR professionals reviewed the nominations made by the public.
Mr. Guosheng Qi, Chief Executive Officer of Gridsum, commented, "I'm very excited that Gridsum is among the companies recognized for the attractiveness of our corporate culture. We have always been committed to creating a unique working environment and corporate culture where our employees bind together to create the best global technology and apply it to change the enterprise landscape in China. Our success in this is further borne out by our world-leading zero churn rate, since inception, for our top 30 managers and our top 30 developers, and we will continue to invest in creating a working environment that drives our competitive advantage and success."
About Gridsum
Gridsum Holding Inc. (NASDAQ: GSUM), is a leading provider of cloud-based big-data analytics and AI solutions for multinational and domestic enterprises and government agencies in China. Gridsum's core technology, the Gridsum Big Data Platform, is built on a distributed computing framework and performs real-time multi-dimensional correlation analysis of both structured and unstructured data. This enables Gridsum's customers to identify complex relationships within their data and gain new insights that help them make better business decisions. The Company is named "Gridsum" to symbolize the combination of distributed computing (Grid) and analytics (sum). As a digital intelligence pioneer, the Company's mission is to help enterprises and government organizations in China use data in new and powerful ways to make better informed decisions and be more productive.
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