Enterprise Technology News for the Week of March 7th
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The editors at Solutions Review have curated a "greatest hits" collection of noteworthy enterprise technology news from the week of March 7th.
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 March 7th
Accenture and Verizon Business Announce a Strategic Partnership
Accenture has announced a strategic partnership with Verizon Business to help businesses of all sizes mitigate threats like data breaches, phishing attacks, social engineering, and more. The partnership will combine both companies' strengths in cybersecurity and networking to offer new as-a-service capabilities, including Identity and Access Management (IAM), Managed Extended Detection and Response (MxDR), and cyber risk services. These offerings will be integrated with Verizon's portfolio of network solutions and help companies identify security vulnerabilities and detect, respond to, and recover from cyber-attacks.
Acumatica Shares Details on its AI Strategy
Acumatica, a cloud ERP provider, has shared more details about its vision and strategy for evolving its cloud-based ERP solutions with AI-driven capabilities. As part of that strategy, Acumatica aims to use AI to automate workflows, provide clients with an intelligent advisor capable of offering strategic insights, and offer an interactive AI-based assistant that enhances user productivity and engagement. Miten Mehta, chief engineering officer of Acumatica, says, "In this exciting new era of AI innovation, businesses need a trusted partner who really understands their unique needs and puts their interests first...Whether it's anomaly detection in manufacturing or intelligent assistants in construction, we engineer our AI solutions for real, measurable impact."
Darktrace Reveals the Findings From its 2025 State of AI Cybersecurity Report
Darktrace, a global AI for cybersecurity provider, has unveiled its 2025 State of AI Cybersecurity report. According to the survey's findings, 78 percent of Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) say that AI-powered threats are having a significant impact on their organizations, marking a 5 percent increase from 2024. However, despite an increased number of CISOs reporting an impact from those threats, 60 percent of respondents say they are adequately prepared to defend against them. The report surveyed over 1,500 professionals in the cybersecurity industry, with respondents holding roles that ranged from CISO to IT security managers, IT security analysts, and incident responders across 14 different countries.
Deltek Introduces New Updates to its Vantagepoint Solution
Deltek, a global software provider for project-based businesses, has announced several innovative updates to Deltek Vantagepoint, its ERP solution for the Architecture and Engineering (A&E) and Consulting industries. With these updates, Vantagepoint users can view and incorporate data from the Deltek Clarity Architecture and Engineering Study directly within Vantagepoint dashboards. This will allow users to compare their company's key performance indicators against industry standards and gain valuable insights into where its teams are performing well and where there is room for improvement.
Emplifi Details a New Customer Engagement Solution
Emplifi, a customer engagement solution provider, has launched Emplifi Fuel, an out-of-the-box customer engagement solution that aims to revolutionize how brands organize, plan, and execute marketing campaigns and customer care strategies. The platform is powered by public voice-of-customer (VoC) data, brand-specific content, and generative AI. This will provide marketing and customer care teams with resources for building automated workflows that meet business-critical outcomes in record time. Emplifi Fuel is designed to help companies in the consumer goods, retail, e-commerce, media, and sports markets, with plans to release more solutions for additional industries.
IFS Enters Into a Strategic Partnership with UKG
IFS—an enterprise cloud and Industrial AI software—has announced a strategic partnership with UKG, an HR, payroll, workforce management, and culture solution provider. The collaboration will focus on delivering integrated solutions that enable organizations to utilize the combined strengths of IFS's ERP solution and the capabilities of the UKG Pro suite. These will equip clients with a seamless experience for managing business processes and human capital processes, making it easier for them to reduce administrative overhead, maximize efficiency, and promote a more engaged, productive workforce.
Optimove Acquires Adact, a Gamification Marketing Solution Provider
Optimove, a customer-led marketing platform, has acquired Adact, a provider of gamification marketing solutions. Adact's platform is designed to help brands create interactive gamification experiences, including lotteries, quizzes, prediction games, and branded mini-games. The acquisition will bolster Optimove's AI-orchestrated gamification solutions. Optimove will also integrate Adact's technology into its AI-driven marketing platform, allowing users to trigger personalized gamified experiences in multichannel journeys, measure the impact of those experiences with productized control groups, and maximize inbound conversion and retention rates.
Outpost24 Releases a New Solution that Combines ASM and PTaaS Capabilities
Outpost24, a cybersecurity and risk management solution, has launched the CyberFlex solution, a new offering that combines attack surface management (ASM) and Pen Testing as a Service (PTaaS) to help organizations implement a comprehensive application security strategy. CyberFlex's capabilities include in-depth risk categorization, comprehensive discovery tools, a flexible annual consumption agreement, continuous pen testing functionalities, and features to provide users with full control and visibility over their application attack surface.
Rubrik Introduces New Capabilities to its Solution Suite
Rubrik, a cyber resiliency provider, has announced several innovations to help clients enhance protection for their cloud, SaaS, and on-premises environments. These new additions aim to provide users with the tools they need to anticipate breaches, detect potential threats, and recover with speed. The specific features added to Rubrik's solution include advanced security features for Azure and AWS, cloud posture risk management (CPR), and Identity Recovery, a new feature built to protect hybrid identity environments across Entra ID and Active Directory (AD).
ServiceNow Debuts AI Agents for the Telecom Industry
ServiceNow, an AI platform for business transformation, has launched a collection of AI agents for the telecom industry. These new agents were developed with NVIDIA AI Enterprise software and the AI platform, NVIDIA DGX Cloud. The first use case for ServiceNow's AI agents will be to help communications service providers (CSPs) autonomously solve labor?intensive workflows in customer service and network operations. Additionally, the combination of ServiceNow's AI platform with NVIDIA NIM microservices and NVIDIA NeMo will bring out-of-the-box AI agents to CSPs, enabling them to resolve problems faster and deliver better customer experiences.
SonicWall Announces a Managed Solution Suite for MSPs
SonicWall, a cybersecurity solution provider, has announced SonicSentry MXDR, a new managed solution suite designed to help MSPs provide clients with end-to-end managed threat protection that enhances their cyber resilience and protects the entire attack surface. The solution's features include advanced threat detection and response, a 24/7 Security Operations Center (SOC) and Network Operations Center (NOC), and offerings for network, endpoint, and cloud security. The various services included in the MXDR suite can also be purchased individually with no contracts or minimums.
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