Enterprise Technology News for the Week of February 28th
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The editors at Solutions Review have curated a "greatest hits" collection of noteworthy enterprise technology news from the week of February 28th.
Keeping tabs on the most relevant enterprise technology news can be time-consuming. To help, the Solutions Review editorial team has summarized some of the week's top headlines in the marketplace from various categories, including cybersecurity, data management, ERP, marketing technology, and more.
Enterprise Technology News for the Week of February 28th
BigID Announces New BigID Next Offering
BigID—a data security, privacy, compliance, and governance company—has announced BigID Next, a cloud-native, AI-powered Data Security Platform (DSP) designed to help enterprises discover, manage, and protect their data at scale. This platform will provide users with prompt-based data classification, agentic AI assistants for security prioritization, customizable compliance, risk reporting tools, versatile cloud deployment options, advanced AI for data management, a modular app framework, and AI-augmented?DSPM, privacy assessments, DSR automation, and AI assessments.
BlackFog Reveals the Findings From its 2024 State of Ransomware Report
BlackFog, a ransomware prevention and anti-data exfiltration (ADX) provider, has released the findings from its 2024 State of Ransomware Report. The report provides readers with a detailed analysis of ransomware activity from publicly disclosed and non-disclosed attacks and reveals that attacks reached record levels throughout 2024. The findings show that the rate of data exfiltration reached an all-time high, new variants were responsible for nearly a third of all undisclosed attacks, and the healthcare, government, and education sectors were the most targeted.
Contentstack Announces the Contentstack EDGE Platform
Contentstack, a digital experience provider, has announced Contentstack EDGE, an adaptive digital experience platform (DXP) specifically built for the AI era. This "next-generation" DXP will unify Contentstack's headless CMS, the real-time customer data platform it recently acquired, and its personalization, automation, AI, and front-end hosting capabilities. Contentstack EDGE is built on a composable architecture. It will equip businesses with the tools they need to create experiences powered by brand-aware generative AI, first-party customer data, predictive modeling, and content and journey analytics.
ConductorOne Expands its Platform with New Capabilities
ConductorOne, the unified identity governance platform, has announced new capabilities designed to help businesses address the growing risks associated with non-human identities (NHIs) and agentic AI. With this update, the ConductorOne platform can discover, inventory, map the ownership of, and provide risk alerts for NHIs like service accounts, API keys, tokens, certificates, and AI agents. Additionally, ConductorOne's updated unified governance functionality and lightweight connectors?will enable users to discover NHIs and AI agents across their entire environment.
Deloitte Details its New Strategic Alliance with Pigment
Deloitte—an audit, consulting, tax, and advisory service provider—has announced a new alliance with Pigment, a business planning platform. The partnership will focus on providing companies with innovative planning solutions that empower them to make data-driven decisions, achieve their strategic objectives with AI-powered technology, and more. It will also equip clients with various tools for improving their forecasting, budgeting, and scenario analysis efforts with real-time data analytics, strategic insights, scalable solutions, and improved collaboration.
Forcepoint Launches a Data Detection and Response Solution
Forcepoint, a global security company, has launched its "next-generation" Data Detection and Response (DDR) solution. The new offering aims to bring AI-powered speed and precision to a company's data classification, risk analysis, and automated remediation efforts. Its capabilities go beyond traditional monitoring, providing users with data risk visibility, continuous threat detection, AI mesh for richer data context, seamless integration with DSPM solutions, and in-depth data protection.
Genesys and Deloitte Digital Announce a Strategic Alliance
Genesys, a global cloud provider of AI-powered experience orchestration, has announced a strategic alliance with Deloitte Digital to help clients scale their loyalty-building customer experiences (CX), accelerate value from technology investments, and more. Deloitte Digital and Genesys will collaborate to enable organizations to convert customer experience into a business differentiator via personalized interactions across engagement channels. Larry Shurtz, chief sales officer at Genesys, says, "By combining our collective insights and track record in enabling organizations to optimize their customer experience for tangible business impact, Genesys and Deloitte Digital bring clients a trusted collaboration that can improve speed to value."
Halcyon Details its Ransomware Detection and Recovery Service
Halcyon, a ransomware defense solution, has announced details on Halcyon Ransomware Detection and Recovery (RDR), a no-cost integrated service now included with every deployment of the Halcyon Anti-Ransomware Platform. The Halcyon RDR service is powered by Halcyon's RISE Team, the company's "elite group" of ransomware experts. The offering is built around three features—detection, response, and recovery—and aims to deliver powerful ransomware protections to ensure an attack does not disrupt business operations.
IBM Set to Acquire DataStax
IBM has announced its intent to acquire DataStax, an AI platform for building production-ready apps. The strategic acquisition will help IBM bring capabilities for managing unstructured and semi-structured data to watsonx. This will build on the company's open-source Cassandra investments for enterprise applications and enable clients to modernize and develop next-generation AI applications.
IFS Appoints a New President of North America
IFS—a provider of enterprise cloud and Industrial AI software—has appointed Matt Breslin as its President of North America. Breslin joins IFS from Upland Software, where he acted as Chief Revenue Officer and led the company's global go-to-market functions, including sales, marketing, customer success, and strategic alliances. As the IFS President of North America, he will use his enterprise software leadership experience to drive Industrial AI and cloud adoption efforts and support the company's global growth efforts.
NinjaOne Receives $500 Million From a Venture Funding Round
NinjaOne, an automated endpoint management platform, has raised $500 million from Series C extensions at a valuation of $5 billion. The venture funding came in separate tranches led by ICONIQ Growth and CapitalG, Alphabet's independent investment fund, with participation from other prominent private investors. NinjaOne will use these funds to drive its ongoing research and development on autonomous endpoint management, autonomous patching, vulnerability remediation, and expanded IT use cases that improve employee experiences with devices.
Pega Debuts the Pega Customer Engagement Blueprint
Pegasystems, an "enterprise transformation company," has announced Pega Customer Engagement Blueprint, a generative AI-powered collaboration tool designed to help marketing, customer experience, and AI practitioners design customer engagement programs with more precision, speed, and clarity. The new solution is powered by Pega GenAI Blueprint. It will equip users with the scalability and generative AI capabilities to understand, adapt, deliver, and grow their AI-powered customer engagement efforts. Pega Customer Engagement Blueprint is available now for anyone with a Pega login.
Salesforce and Google Expand Their Strategic Partnership
Salesforce and Google have announced a significant expansion of their strategic partnership, which aims to provide businesses with more choices in the models and capabilities they use to develop and deploy AI-powered agents. As part of the expanded partnership, Salesforce Service Cloud will deepen its integration with Google's Customer Engagement Suite to provide teams with enhanced AI-enabled contact center capabilities, including real-time voice translations, personalized agent recommendations, AI-driven conversational insights across channels, and intelligent agent-to-agent handoffs.
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