Enterprise Technology News for the Week of October 4th
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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 4th.
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 4th
Amplitude Appoints Its First Chief Engineering Officer
Amplitude, a digital analytics platform, has announced that Wade Chambers, an industry expert with over twenty-five years of experience, has joined the company as its first Chief Engineering Officer. In this role, Chambers will help Amplitude continue to expand its integrated platform and lead its Engineering teams. Amplitude CEO and co-founder Spenser Skates says, "Wade is a first-principles thinker, a phenomenal mentor and manager, and one of the very best engineering leaders for this stage of the company in the industry."
Denodo Collabs with Global Universities on Data Management Knowledge
Denodo, a data management provider, has announced that the Denodo Academic Program has formed strategic partnerships with universities across Italy, Singapore, the United States, and other countries. These partnerships aim to enrich the institutions with Denodo technology and expertise and prepare students to become "future leaders" in data and analytics. The Denodo Academic Program uses a mixture of theoretical knowledge and hands-on experience to prepare students for comprehensive, production-ready data management projects.?
Epicor Acquires Solenium Group and its Visual SKUs Inc.
Epicor, a global provider of industry-specific enterprise software, has acquired Solenium Group Inc. and its sister company Visual SKUs Inc. Both companies are long-standing Epicor partners and Product Information Management (PIM) and Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution providers for businesses in the automotive aftermarket. The dual acquisition will help Epicor further strengthen its place in the automotive aftermarket by allowing suppliers and retailers to create, manage, and distribute information from a single centralized, flexible system.
Exabeam Announces New Offerings in its Latest Product Release
Exabeam, a global cybersecurity provider, has announced details on its first quarterly product release since merging with LogRhythm. The new release introduces several innovations that aim to give users increased flexibility in choosing the security solution that meets their company's needs. Also included in the update is LogRhythm Intelligence, a new offering that combines Exabeam's AI capabilities with LogRhythm's self-hosted SIEM platform to equip clients with advanced behavior analytics that fuel more effective threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR).
Infor Updates its CloudSuite Portfolio with New Features
Infor, an industry cloud solution provider, has announced several platform technology updates for its industry-specific CloudSuite portfolio. The innovations—announced at the company's 2024 Infor Velocity Summit—include a GenAI assistant, ESG Strategy Management capabilities, process mining capabilities, and industry-specific supply chain management enhancements. With these functionalities, companies can enhance the Infor CloudSuites user experience, accelerate visibility into business processes, and develop a systematic approach for setting, meeting, and reporting on their organizational ESG goals.
Microsoft Drops AI Supercomputing-Optimized Azure Virtual Machines
Microsoft has announced the launch of new cloud-based AI-supercomputing clusters that are built with Azure ND H200 v5 series virtual machines (VMs). These VMs are generally available now and have been created to help manage the growing complexity of advanced AI workloads, from foundational model training to generative inferencing. With the increased scale, efficiency, and performance of these ND H200 v5 VMs, Microsoft is driving adoption from customers and Microsoft AI services, including Azure Machine Learning and Azure OpenAI Service.
New AI Capabilities Now Available in MicroStrategy ONE
MicroStrategy, an AI-powered business intelligence provider, has announced details for the latest release of MicroStrategy ONE, its fully cloud-native AI/BI platform. The release introduces new features for Auto, MicroStrategy's AI bot, including built-in natural language summaries of pages, the ability to answer open-ended questions, multiple datasets, and a version of the bot for Teams. Other additions include new screen reader compatibilities, keyboard-only navigation support, add-ins for PowerPoint and Excel, Python action buttons, and a Tableau connector.
NVIDIA Partners with Accenture on Enterprise AI Adoption
NVIDID has expanded its partnership with technology consultancy Accenture as part of an ongoing effort to drive the adoption of artificial intelligence within businesses. The updated arrangement will involve Accenture creating a Nvidia Business Group dedicated to helping clients use and scale their generative AI tools. Accenture has already trained 30,000 experts on Nvidia’s technology to help customers deploy and benefit from it rapidly.
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Optimizely Launches a Feature for Creating Personalized Digital Experiences
Optimizely, a digital experience platform (DXP) provider, has launched Optimizely Personalization, a new offering designed to meet marketers' need for tools that create personalized, high-performing digital experiences for its customers. The solution, announced at Opticon London, combines precision-targeting tools, powerful analytics, and testing capabilities to help users curate 1:1 digital experiences that enhance engagement and drive conversions.
Palo Alto Networks and Deloitte Expand Their Strategic Alliance
Palo Alto Networks, a global cybersecurity provider, has expanded its strategic alliance with Deloitte. The expansion will help Palo Alto Networks make its AI-powered cybersecurity solutions and joint offerings available to Deloitte clients in the EMEA and JAPAC regions. It also builds on the collaboration between the companies, which focuses on accelerating clients' adoption of cybersecurity capabilities. Kristy Friedrichs, chief partnerships officer at Palo Alto Networks, says "By significantly expanding the availability for our joint offerings and helping mutual customers move to unified platforms, we're addressing their evolving needs and helping them achieve better security outcomes."
Silverfort Debuts its Identity-First Incident Response Solution
Silverfort, a unified identity security company, has announced details on its Identity-First Incident Response solution. This new offering aims to accelerate attack remediation times by complementing a company's existing incident response (IR) tools and helping users optimize their IR processes. Companies can use Silverfort's Identity-First Incident Response solution to block compromised user accounts in real-time, automatically flag risky users or computers, seamlessly integrate with existing security operations infrastructures, and analyze every login with precise risk analysis and MFA verifications.
SingleStore Acquires BryteFlow
SingleStore—a database that helps users transact, analyze, and search petabytes of data—has acquired BryteFlow, a leading data integration platform. The acquisition will allow SingleStore to incorporate BryteFlow's technology into its system so customers can operationalize data from their CRM and ERP systems at scale and in real-time, allowing for additional insights, faster adoption of real-time analytics, and more use cases for generative AI.
VAST Data Unveils New VAST InsightEngine
VAST Data, an AI data platform company, has announced VAST InsightEngine with NVIDIA, a new solution designed to securely ingest, process, and retrieve enterprise data (i.e., files, tables, objects, and streams) in real-time. The solution runs on the VAST Data Platform and aims to accelerate business insights by capturing, embedding, and retrieving real-time data flows. The VAST InsightEngine with NVIDIA also operates NVIDIA NIM?microservices, part of the NVIDIA AI Enterprise platform, natively within the VAST Data Platform.
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