The Top Enterprise Technology News From the Week of April 26th
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The editors at Solutions Review have curated a "greatest hits" collection of noteworthy enterprise technology news from the week of April 26th.
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.
Top News From the Week of April 26th, 2024
Alteryx Partners with DataCamp for Analytics Education
The new partnerships with?DataCamp, a leading data and AI learning platform, and?Women in Data, a global community of data leaders, practitioners, and learners with a mission to increase diversity in data careers, will enable greater reach for Alteryx SparkED.
Cayosoft Achieves Record Sales, Company Growth
Cayosoft Inc., a leader in Microsoft Active Directory (AD) security and monitoring solutions, recently announced it has achieved significant milestones in 2023, driven by growing demand for its AD forest recovery solution, Cayosoft Guardian Forest Recovery. At the same time, Cayosoft has invested in hypergrowth-focused talent with Board of Advisors appointments and several C-level and strategic senior leadership hires across company departments.
Databricks Announces Asset Bundles
Databricks has announced the general availability of the Databricks Asset Bundles (DABs). With these DABs, companies can easily bundle resources like jobs, pipelines, and notebooks so users can version, test, deploy, and collaborate on their projects as a unit. DABs help you adopt software engineering best practices for their data and AI projects on the Databricks Platform.
Hitachi Vantara Vetting Approved by US Department of Defense
Hitachi Vantara, a mission-centric data solution provider, has announced its awardable status in the Department of Defense's (DoD's) Tradewind Solutions Marketplace. The marketplace serves as a vital platform for defense agencies to efficiently access and engage with a diverse range of AI and data analytics solutions. It facilitates streamlined processes for searching, viewing, reviewing, comparing, contacting, discussing, negotiating, and procuring solutions.
HubSpot Expands its Solution Suite with New Updates and Capabilities
HubSpot, one of the leading CRM solution providers, announced several new updates and offerings for its suite, including enhancements to Commerce Hub, new HubSpot AI features, and the launch of two new solution suites. HubSpot AI powers the new suites, which include Content Hub, an "all-in-one" content marketing solution powered, and Service Hub, which brings customer support and success tools together so CX leaders can scale their support offerings, drive retention, and more. One of the enhancements to Commerce Hub is a partnership between HubSpot and Stripe that will give businesses local payment methods and multicurrency capabilities.
IBM Announces New Storage Assurance Capabilities
IBM announced new storage capabilities that will give its clients improved choice and control over their data centers. These capabilities include a new IT lifecycle management offering called IBM Storage Assurance, which supports the new IBM FlashSystem 5300, also announced today, as well as the FlashSystem 7300 and FlashSystem 9500. The Storage Assurance program provides a path to simplifying the storage ownership experience and extending the lifetime of clients' storage investments.
IBM to Acquire HashiCorp
IBM also announced its plans to acquire HashiCorp, a multi-cloud infrastructure automation company. HashiCorp's product suite includes a collection of Infrastructure Lifecycle Management and Security Lifecycle Management capabilities that enable organizations to automate their hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Once the acquisition is complete, HashiCorp will help IBM accelerate its innovation initiatives, enhance its go-to-market strategies, and support its business growth and monetization efforts.
insightsoftware Adds New GenAI Features to Logi Symphony
insightsoftware has released new AI and SaaS capabilities for Logi Symphony, its flagship embedded business intelligence and analytics (ABI) software suite. The addition of?Logi AI?revolutionizes business intelligence with customizable Generative AI chat flows and predictive insights tailored for secure, data-driven experiences.
Oracle Launches New Capabilities for Healthcare Organizations
Oracle has announced new capabilities for its Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Suite. The new features include the Oracle Healthcare Marketplace, a B2C shopping experience within Oracle Fusion Cloud Procurement; new financial and operational planning for Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management (EPM); and enhanced employee experiences for the Oracle Cloud HCM solution suite. Together, these capabilities Can help healthcare enterprises drive operational efficiency, improve patient outcomes, empower employees, streamline processes, and optimize product data accuracy.
Oracle Introduces New AI Capabilities for the Oracle Fusion Cloud Customer Experience (CX) Suite
Oracle, a cloud technology company, has announced several new AI capabilities for its Oracle Fusion Cloud Customer Experience (CX) suite. The features include Gen AI-Assisted Answer Generation for service agents, Assisted Scheduling for Field Service teams, Opportunity Identification to help teams generate B2B deals, Seller Engagement Recommendations, and Gen AI-Assisted Authoring for marketing and sales.
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Portnox and Bugcrowd to Launch Private Bug Bounty Program
Portnox, a provider of cloud-native, zero trust access control solutions, this week announced it will soon launch a private bug bounty program with Bugcrowd, the leader in crowdsourced security. The Portnox bug bounty program will offer a bounty for ethical hackers, also known as “white hat hackers,” to uncover and report software security vulnerabilities within Portnox’s production services. Bugcrowd will manage the submission and reward process, which is designed to ensure a streamlined experience for all participants.
Quantum Unveils All-Flash Deduping Backup Target Appliances
Quantum Corporation, an end-to-end data management solution provider, has announced the DXi T-Series, an all-flash backup appliance designed to accelerate the data protection processes that customers use to prepare, protect, and recover their IT operations from ransomware and other risks. Quantum says the T-Series is the industry's first all-flash target backup appliance. It's designed for edge deployments, small and medium businesses (SMBs), and mission-critical data storage infrastructure.
Rubrik Goes Public
Initially named ScaleData, Rubrik competes with data management and protection vendors, including Cohesity, Commvault, Veeam, IBM, and Dell EMC. It is led by co-founder and CEO Bipul Sinha, a venture partner at Silicon Valley's technology investment firm Lightspeed Venture Partners.
Salesforce Unveils Zero Copy Partner Network
Salesforce has announced the Zero Copy Partner Network, a global ecosystem of technology and solution providers focused on building secure, bidirectional zero-copy integrations with Salesforce Data Cloud. These integrations will allow data to be actioned across the Salesforce Einstein 1 Platform. The company also unveiled several innovations, including new zero-copy support for open data lakes and lakehouses that utilize the Apache Iceberg open table format.
Snowflake Unveils New Enterprise LLM Called Arctic
Snowflake, a Data Cloud company, recently announced Snowflake Arctic, a new large language model (LLM) designed to be one of the most open, enterprise-grade LLMs on the market. With its Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture, Arctic delivers top-tier intelligence with unparalleled efficiency at scale. It is optimized for complex enterprise workloads, topping several industry benchmarks across SQL code generation, instruction following, and more.
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Impact of Bad Data on GenAI | Expert Roundtable with Databricks + ZoomInfo
Next month, we're hosting a roundtable panel discussion with Susan Walsh , Darshana Sivakumar from Databricks , and Millie Beetham at ZoomInfo . The hour-long webinar is free to register and will include an in-depth discussion on how companies can build a unified data foundation that fixes their bad data problems.
Rethinking the Computer-Human Relationship
As part of Solutions Review's Contributed Content Series—a collection of contributed articles written by our enterprise tech thought leader community—Vaibhav Vohra, the Chief Product and Technology Officer at Epicor, delves into the concept of rethinking the "computer-human relationship" in the ERP marketplace.
The CIO's Role in Redefining Operational Efficiency
Bryan Wise , the SVP and CIO at 6sense Inc. , shared an article outlining the role of a Chief Information Officer in a company's efforts to improve its go-to-market efficiency. In the article, he says...
"CIOs need visibility into the earlier stages of revenue creation, making sure no stone is left unturned. By harnessing the power of AI to sift through a sea of data, we can craft strategies that are more focused and less wasteful. This doesn't just make marketers' and sellers' lives easier; it also improves customer experience."