Data to decisions examines the enablement of data-driven decisions across organizations. Holistic, data-informed decisions require a multi-disciplinary approach that combines performance monitoring with traditional business intelligence and analytic technologies. In addition, data-driven decisions are increasingly delivered in the context of business applications rather than in separate, analytic interfaces.
Palo Alto Networks reported better-than-expected first quarter results and said the company landed total platform customers. Palo Alto Networks also said it will acquire Chronosphere, an observability platform, for $3.35 billion.
Target's comeback plan revolves around improving customer experience, plowing more money into capital expenditures and technology partnerships with the likes of OpenAI.
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Adobe said it will acquire Semrush in a deal valued at $1.9 billion as the company plans to meld search engine optimization and generative engine optimization in its marketing stack.
Workday said it will acquire Pipedream, an integration platform for AI agents that features more than 3,000 pre-built connectors.
Intuit and OpenAI announced a multi-year $100 million contract that will integrate ChatGPT with Intuit TurboTax, Credit Karma, QuickBooks and Mailchimp. Intuit will also expand its use of OpenAI models and potentially exposes its platform to a large ChatGPT customer base.
Anthropic will continue to diversify its cloud infrastructure for its Claude workloads with an agreement to purchase $30 billion in Azure compute. In addition, Nvidia will invest up to $10 billion in Anthropic and Microsoft can invest up to $5 billion. Claude will also be available on Microsoft Foundry.
Microsoft launched Agent 365, which is designed to be the control plane for native and third party AI agents, as the company aims to be a horizontal as well as vertical play. The other key theme is that Microsoft is arguing that the best way to incorporate AI agents into your business is to extend the infrastructure you already have.
Google launched Gemini 3, its latest model, across its Gemini app, search services, Gemini API, AI Studio and Google Cloud's Vertex AI and Gemini Enterprise. The company also highlighted how Gemini 3 can provide answers with a generative visual user interface.
Zoho One, a suite of 50 applications available for $37 a month, is getting a new user interface that integrates the business software buffet into one platform. The moves are the first installment in making Zoho One and integrated platform.
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Dell Technologies said it adding more automation to Nvidia AI Factory deployments using blueprints that automate more than 30 manual steps and can get customers into deployment in as few as 10 clicks.
