Enterprise Technology News for the Week of October 11th
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The editors at Solutions Review have curated a "greatest hits" collection of noteworthy enterprise technology news from the week of October 11th.
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 October 11th
Alation Releases New AI Governance Solution
Alation, a data intelligence solution provider, has launched an AI Governance offering designed to help organizations realize additional value from their ongoing data and AI initiatives. The new solution comes equipped with capabilities like lineage for AI auditability, AI documentation, data discovery, custom tagging, and data quality flags, which can accelerate a company's AI development, mitigate risks, and optimize its AI investments for maximum business impact.
Cloudera Launches New AI Capabilities with Embedded NVIDIA NIM Microservices
Cloudera—a hybrid platform for data, analytics, and AI—has launched Cloudera AI Inference, a new offering powered by NVIDIA NIM microservices, part of the NVIDIA AI Enterprise platform. With Cloudera AI Inference, enterprises can streamline the deployment and management of large-scale AI models and harness their data to advance GenAI from pilot phases to full production. Additional features include real-time performance tracking, hybrid cloud functionalities, enhanced security features, and advanced AI capabilities from NVIDIA NIM microservices.
Databricks Announces New Assistant Autocomplete Feature
Databricks, a data and AI company, has announced the general availability of its Databricks Assistant Autocomplete tool on all cloud platforms. The tool is built to provide users with personalized AI-powered code suggestions as they type for Python and SQL. Its suggestions are integrated directly into the notebook, SQL editor, and AI/BI Dashboards and blend seamlessly into user development flows, allowing users to stay focused on a current task.
Dell Releases New PowerEdge Servers to Hasten AI Adoption
Dell Technologies has expanded its portfolio of generative AI solutions with Dell AI Factory additions uniquely tailored for AMD environments. These additions will offer users enhanced AI capabilities, including advanced scalability and flexibility, to help their companies stay competitive. The additions to the Dell PowerEdge portfolio will also drive a range of AI use cases and traditional workloads and simplify server management and security.
Domino Data Lab Announces New Domino Governance
Domino Data Lab, an Enterprise AI Platform, has announced Domino Governance, a new solution designed to mitigate AI's risks while accelerating its rewards. The solution's unique approach can automatically orchestrate a fully governed model lifecycle. It also embeds AI governance within the data science workflow by placing policies, evidence, and approvals in a single place. This can help enterprises improve their scheduling and optimize their innovations.
Fortinet Announces the General Availability of Lacework FortiCNAPP
Fortinet, a global cybersecurity provider focused on "driving the convergence" of networking and security, has announced the general availability of Lacework FortiCNAPP. FortiCNAPP combines Lacework's cloud-native application protection platform with Fortinet's Security Fabric to provide companies with a unified, AI-driven platform designed to deliver in-depth visibility and protections across multi-cloud environments, all from a single vendor. Other platform benefits include AI-based anomaly detection, integrated code security, composite alerts, Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM), and integrations with the Fortinet Security Fabric.
Infosys Expands its Collaboration with Microsoft
Infosys, a digital services and consulting provider, has expanded its collaboration with Microsoft to help global companies accelerate their adoption of generative AI and Microsoft Azure. The strategic partnership between companies aims to help joint customers realize the value of their technology investments, secure transformative outcomes, and more. Specifically, the expansion will include additional offerings for the financial services, supply chain, healthcare, telecommunications, and customer service use cases.
Oracle Details its Financial Services Crime and Compliance Management Investigation Hub Cloud Service
At the Oracle Financial Services Summit in New York, Oracle announced details on the Oracle Financial Services Crime and Compliance Management Investigation Hub Cloud Service. The new AI-powered case management solution is built on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). It integrates seamlessly with other Oracle Financial Crime and Compliance Management Cloud Service (FCCM) solutions and third-party data providers. Additional benefits of the offering include a highly configurable interface, unified data views, and data gathering automation features, allowing users to reduce manual tasks, remove data silos, and enable analysts to focus their time on essential tasks.
QAD Completes its Acquisition of Phenix Software
QAD, a cloud-based manufacturing and supply chain solution provider, has completed its acquisition of Phenix Software. As part of the acquisition, Phenix Software's solution will become QAD Advanced Scheduling and help manufacturers optimize production decisions and accelerate factory performance. It will do this by helping manufacturers schedule related products together in the best sequence and provide them with meaningful visibility into inventory levels, capacity, changeover costs, and product attributes. These capabilities can support a company's resource utilization, on-time delivery, and inventory management goals.
SAP Expands its AI Copilot with New Innovations
At the annual SAP TechEd conference, SAP announced new AI innovations that complement and extend the capabilities of Joule, its generative AI copilot. These additions include collaborative AI agents, the know graph capabilities, and generative AI functionalities to reduce development time for Java and JavaScript developers. The company is also adding an Extensibility Wizard feature to SAP Build that will enable developers to access the platform directly from SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition. Finally, ABAP developers and fusion teams will receive seamless access to ABAP Cloud's development tools from SAP Build.
Snowflake and Cloudera Announce a Joint Integration
Snowflake, an AI Data Cloud company, and Cloudera have announced an integration that will provide enterprises with an open, unified hybrid data lakehouse that's powered by Apache Iceberg. With this integration, joint customers can leverage both platforms to achieve a single source of truth across all their data, analytics, and AI workloads. Cloudera also extended its Open Data Lakehouse interoperability with Snowflake, allowing customers to access all major form factors from one cohesive collaboration, on-premise, and as a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and software-as-a-service (SaaS).
Sonatype Releases Findings From its Annual State of the Software Supply Chain Report
Sonatype has released its 10th Annual State of the Software Supply Chain Report. The report, backed by data from over 7 million open-source projects, spotlights the growing threat of open-source malware amid a record-breaking year for open-source consumption, which reached an estimated 6.6 trillion downloads. Brian Fox, CTO and Co-Founder at Sonatype, says. "To ensure a vibrant and secure open-source ecosystem for the decade ahead, we must build a foundation of proactive security with vigilance against open-source malware, decreased consumer complacency, and comprehensive dependency management."
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SpyCloud Expands its SaaS Investigation Solution with Identity Analytics
SpyCloud, an Identity Threat Protection company, has announced that its SaaS Investigation solution has been updated with identity analytics capabilities that spotlight the scope of digital identities, accelerate successful outcomes of complex investigations, and more. For example, SpyCloud Investigations now includes IDLink. This advanced analytics technology expands the pool of digital identity results to include additional identity data correlated across shared emails, passwords, usernames, and PII, with flexible options for pivoting depth, visualization, and confidence levels.
Storj Acquires PetaGene
Storj, a distributed cloud object storage solution provider, has acquired PetaGene, the creator of cunoFS. The acquisition will build on the ongoing growth propelled by Storj's recent acquisition of distributed GPU provider Valdi. With this news, Storj can now deliver distributed cloud object storage, distributed on-demand GPU computing, and distributed file storage mounts. Together, these capabilities provide seamless access to the distributed cloud for video and AI workloads with the goal of enhancing performance, security, cost, and carbon savings.
Trulioo Launches a Fraud Intelligence Capability
Trulioo, an identity platform provider, has launched Trulioo Fraud Intelligence, a new capability designed to deliver "best-in-class" predictive risk insights across countries. This integrated platform allows companies to access sophisticated fraud signals and predictive risk intelligence for emails, phones, and IP addresses worldwide. The platform also combines hundreds of risk indicators with consortium data, advanced velocity monitoring, and real-time signal monitoring, all via a modern, single API that streamlines integration, reduces time to market, and allows developers to access all of Trulioo's services.
Zendesk Reveals an AI-Powered Voice Solution for Customer Service
Zendesk, a service-centric CRM solution, has announced a fully-featured voice solution capable of delivering unified, elevated customer support for every step of the calling journey. With these new AI-powered developments, agents can provide faster, more personalized, and more human conversations with improved QA insights, enhanced AI-assisted support tools, and more. These developments also include an adaptable, 24/7 AI voice agent powered by Poly.ai, built to resolve issues autonomously and send customers to a human agent when needed.
Zendesk Introduces Additional AI-Enabled Innovations
Zendesk also announced a series of additional innovations to help its customers deliver memorable service experiences that drive meaningful business results. The new additions include an AI-powered workspace, an intelligent triage dashboard, customizable email conversation flows, enhanced intents and entity detection, and an AI agent builder that makes it easier for businesses to build, customize, deploy, and maintain AI agents.
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The Jam Session - Why AI Needs Good Semantics and What to Do About It
On this month's episode of The Jam Session, Robert Eve and guests Sumit P. , Nicola Askham , and Juan Sequeda discuss the importance of semantics in AI and data management. They discuss knowledge graphs and semantic layers to improve data quality, interoperability, and decision-making, and explore challenges in implementing semantic technologies. Watch for practical examples and advice on how businesses can leverage semantics to enhance AI initiatives and data strategies.
Where Do Companies Go Wrong When Implementing AI and Data Governance?
As part of the Insight Jam 2024 Q3 Mini Jam panel, "AI in Data Lifecycle Management: Automating Risk, Compliance, and Security," a panel of industry experts discussed whether generative AI can improve data quality and how companies can balance the need for re-architecting with the urgency to adopt new technologies. You can watch this takeaway and others, as well as the complete panel, on the Insight Jam YouTube page!
What are the Pillars of an AI Upskilling Strategy?
As part of the Insight Jam 2024 Q3 Mini Jam panel, "Bridging the AI Divide: Upskilling Strategies for Enterprise Software Teams," a panel of industry experts discussed how companies could tailor their upskilling programs to different roles in an organization and how AI upskilling can (and should) extend beyond digital technologies. You can watch this takeaway and others, as well as the complete panel, on the Insight Jam YouTube page!
Navigating the New Era of AI-Driven Cyber Threats
Alex Wong , the VP of Product Management at AuthenticID , recently shared an article with the Insight Jam community that explains how companies can (and should) navigate this new era of AI-driven cyber threats. His article touches on the evolving world of cyber threats, the keys to developing a solid defense against threats, and how proactive monitoring can help businesses stay ahead.
Free Event on October 24 - Neudesic, Microsoft, Databricks & Expert Moderator Wayne Eckerson on Scaling AI with an Intelligent Data Platform:
With the next Expert Roundtable event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with Neudesic, Microsoft, Databricks, and Eckerson Group to hear from experts at Databricks, Microsoft, and Neudesic as they share practical learnings and best practices to ensure successful AI outcomes.
Free Event on October 29 - Impetus, Copa Airlines, Databricks & Expert Moderator William McKnight on Modernizing Workloads and Unifying Data Governance:
With the next Expert Roundtable event, the team at Solutions Review has partnered with Impetus, Copa Airlines, Databricks, and William McKnight on why enterprises are migrating their data warehouse workloads to Databricks to leverage its unified, scalable platform that enhances analytics and reduces operational costs and provides superior performance and price-performance to competitors like Snowflake.