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Missy Stults, Sustainability and Innovations Director for Ann Arbor, MI, has seen sustainability grow up in her community and become more mature in measuring the impact on the climate. Stults noted that data is critical to sustainability, but storytelling is just as important.
Boomi said it has enhanced Boomi for SAP to ease the migration of business data into SAP Datasphere.
Arm Holdings' chip designs may take over the data center over time as GPUs, cloud custom processors and Nvidia's march to AI factories gains momentum. But the road to licensing and royalty nirvana is going to be lumpy.
Boomi outlined a vision that puts integration platform as a service (iPaaS) at the heart of connecting AI agents as well as APIs and announced the acquisitions of APIIDA's federated API management business and API management assets from Cloud Software Group.
The "Value Generation" partnership will focus on generative AI and industry cloud applications. SAP is trying to migrate its customer base to the cloud and S4/HANA via its RISE with SAP program.
ServiceNow and Microsoft are integrating their respective generative AI bots, ServiceNow Now Assist and Microsoft Copilot, respectively.
Twilio reported better-than-expected first quarter earnings, but its second quarter revenue outlook was light.
Apple launched new iPads, but its latest M4 processor stole the show. The M4, and a heavy dose of AI talk, represented the latest effort by Apple to show that it won't be a generative AI laggard.
ServiceNow, which launched a bevy of generative AI and automation tools across its Now Platform, is giving customers the ability to bring their own large language models (LLMs) to use in Now Assist. The company also is targeting manufacturing operations and partnered with Genesys.
Google Cloud launched Threat Intelligence, Cisco and Splunk outlined integrations and new security offerings, Palo Alto Networks outlined its AI and cybersecurity future and CrowdStrike, Fastly and a bevy of others had announcements. Akamai acquired Noname Security.
Palantir continued to gain enterprise customers in the first quarter as it delivered first quarter earnings in line with expectations. Commercial revenue was up 40% in the US from a year ago with global government revenue up 16%.
Expect Software Giant Hunters To Soon Be The Hunted In A Digital Giant's Quest For Growth
Six of the Magnificent Seven (Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia, Alphabet [Google], Amazon, Meta [Facebook]) stocks have entered the four comma club -over $1 trillion in market cap. With a combined market cap of over $13.2 trillion, these six players continue to defy physics with continuous quarters of double digit organic growth. Digital giants by definition have deployed five key strategies:
