Enterprise Technology News for the Week of January 10th
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The editors at Solutions Review have curated a "greatest hits" collection of noteworthy enterprise technology news from the week of January 10th.
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 January 10th
Accenture Announces Details on its AI Refinery for Industry
Accenture has announced details on AI Refinery for Industry, which includes a collection of twelve industry agent solutions capable of helping organizations build and deploy a network of AI agents. These agents can enhance the workforce, address industry-specific challenges, drive business value, and more. These industry-specific solutions are powered by the Accenture AI Refinery. They are codified with business workflows and industry expertise, enabling teams to accelerate the deployment of specialized, multi-agent networks.
Anthropic Set to Raise $2 Billion in New Funding
Anthropic is nearing a deal to raise an additional $2 billion in funding, which would bring the company's valuation to $60 billion. According to sources, venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners is leading this latest funding round, which will mark a significant jump in valuation for the company. The news comes months after Anthropic received $4 billion in funding from Amazon.
Beyond Identity Details its New Channel Program
Beyond Identity, a secure identity and access management (IAM) platform provider, has launched its new channel program. The program aims to drive partner growth, offer higher rewards through a three-tier structure, and open new revenue streams. Alongside the three-tier reward system, the channel program offers new technical certification opportunities, more levels of investment for partners as they move up in the program, support from the Beyond Identity team, committed MDF funds for those higher-tiered partners, and more.
Cohesity Extends Cyber Event Response Service
Cohesity, an AI-powered data security solution provider, has expanded the Cohesity Cyber Event Response Team (CERT) service to include partnerships with incident response (IR) vendors. The Cohesity CERT team will utilize their years of specialized incident response expertise to help customers augment traditional IR processes and infuse rich data, backup, and recovery expertise to speed up investigations and enable customers to recover from incidents quicker. Cohesity CERT will partner with IR vendors like Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, Arctic Wolf, Sophos, Fenix24, and Semperis.
Darktrace Details its Plan to Acquire Cado Security
Darktrace, a global provider of AI solutions for cybersecurity, has announced its proposed acquisition of Cado Security, a UK-based cyber investigation and response solution for the hybrid and multi-cloud markets. As part of the planned acquisition, Darktrace will focus on accelerating the growth of Cado's existing products and combine its forensic investigation technology with Darktrace's ActiveAI Security Platform to enhance data collection across multiple cloud environments.
HubSpot Completes its Acquisition of Frame AI
HubSpot, one of the leading customer management platforms for scaling businesses, has finalized its acquisition of Frame AI, an AI-powered conversation intelligence platform. Now that the transaction is complete, Frame AI will become a wholly owned subsidiary of HubSpot and will be integrated into Breeze, HubSpot's AI offering. The acquisition will help HubSpot accelerate its ability to unify structured and unstructured data across customer journeys at scale, empowering go-to-market teams to turn conversations into actionable intelligence.
NVIDIA Announces New NIM Microservices and AI Blueprints
NVIDIA has announced several new NIM microservices and AI blueprints, which it debuted at CEO this past week. With the NIM microservices and AI Blueprints, enthusiasts and developers alike can build, iterate, and deliver AI-powered experiences to the PC faster than ever. Additionally, with this release, serverless egress control will now support Model Serving, Notebooks, Workflows, Delta Live Tables (DLT) pipelines, Lakehouse Monitoring, Databricks SQL, and Databricks Apps.
Oracle Unveils Exadata X11M
Oracle has announced details on Oracle Exadata X11M, the latest generation of its Oracle Exadata platform. Exadata X11M aims to deliver significant performance improvements across its AI, analytics, and online transaction processing (OLTP) effort. It will also combine intelligent power management with the ability to run mission-critical workloads faster and on fewer systems, helping customers maximize their energy efficiency. Additionally, the same capabilities will be available across public cloud, multi-cloud, and on-premises environments, allowing users the flexibility to deploy and run their Oracle Database workloads wherever they need.
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SAP Releases Several New Solutions for the Retail Industry
SAP, an enterprise application software provider for companies across industries, has announced a collection of new solutions and capabilities that cater to the retail sector. The most significant launch announced is the general availability of the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition, an ERP solution built specifically for retailers. Other releases include a loyalty management solution and the general availability of an AI shopping assistant. The announcements were made at Retail's Big Show, a flagship industry event hosted by the National Retail Federation.
Unit4 Appoints Simon Paris as CEO
Unit4, an enterprise cloud application provider for people-centric organizations, has announced that Simon Paris has been appointed as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). Paris will succeed Mike Ettling, who will hand over the reins at the end of January 2025. In the press release announcing his appointment, Paris says, "As we embark on this next chapter, I am committed to building on Unit4's strengths, driving sustainable growth, and creating even greater value for our customers, partners, and stakeholders. I look forward to working closely with the talented team and hope to meet as many as possible in my first few months."
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2025: AI in Overdrive - New Insight AI Episode
Douglas Atkinson and Doug Shannon ?? kick off 2025 by examining the accelerating pace of AI development. AI capabilities are doubling every six months, and the Dougs get into the implications of AI-generated content and the evolving role of human oversight in AI systems. Should it be "human IN the loop" or "human ON the loop?" Listen in for insights into organizational leadership needs and the emergence of the Chief AI Officer (CAIO) role in today's rapidly changing technological landscape.
New Episode of The Digital Analyst - The Year Executives Go Back to (AI) School
In the latest episode of The Digital Analyst, host John Santaferraro sits down with Donald Farmer to discuss the importance of AI literacy for executives in 2025. Why do business leaders need to understand AI fundamentals? How can they identify valuable AI implementation opportunities and manage risks while leveraging AI for business transformation? Donald explains why AI education programs need to go beyond vendor presentations and help executives make informed decisions about AI investments.
Key Trends Shaping the Multi-Vendor SD-WAN Observability Landscape
The editors at Solutions Review have partnered with the experts at Broadcom to identify and summarize some of the key trends currently shaping the evolving landscape of multi-vendor SD-WAN observability. The article identifies AI and automation, network performance management, multi-cloud visibility, security integrations, and topology intelligence as the trends to watch.
What to Expect at Solution Review's Solution Spotlight with Broadcom on January 22nd
With the next Solution Spotlight event, Solutions Review's team has partnered with Broadcom, a global infrastructure technology provider. In this hour-long webinar session, Jeremy Rossbach—the Chief Technical Evangelist for Network Observability—will explain how Network Observability can eliminate the complexities of SD-WAN management.
What to Expect from the Solutions Spotlight with Secureworks on January 23rd, 2025
In another upcoming Solutions Spotlight event, the Solutions Review team is partnering with Secureworks, a cybersecurity company that offers a combination of cloud-native, SaaS security platforms and intelligence-driven security solutions. The hour-long webinar will focus on key lessons from 2024's threat landscape, share predictions for 2025's cyber challenges and opportunities, and discuss best practices for balancing strategic goals with tactical progress, emphasizing that "better, better, never done" is the ultimate aim.