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Omar Jacques Omran said innovation is a team sport built on relationships and win-win scenarios that can even bring fierce competitors together to co-innovate.
In the latest BT150 Spotlight interview, Larry Dignan sat down with Omar Jacques Omran, who says innovation is a team sport built on relationships and win-win scenarios that can even bring fierce competitors together to co-innovate.
Accenture raised its outlook for the fiscal year as it continues to rake in AI-related bookings.
The consulting firm, which was one of the winners in Constellation Research's 2024 Enterprise Awards, projected fiscal 2025 revenue growth of 4% to 7% with earnings of $12.43 a share to $12.79 a share. For the second quarter, Accenture projected revenue of $16.2 billion to $16.8 billion, up 5% to 9%.
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In many ways, the themes dominating 2024 were a continuation of the hashtag#generativeAI revolution started in 2023. Then the switch flipped from generative AI to hashtag#agenticAI and hashtag#CxOs started to focus on returns and production deployments.
Annual List of Hits and Misses Recognize the Innovators and Disruptors Across Enterprise Technologyย CUPERTINO, Calif. โ Decemberย 18,ย 2024ย โย Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia,ย was named as Enterprise Technology CEO of the Year in Constellation Researchโs annual 2024 Enterprise Awards. Huang was singled out for his ability to manage expontential growth, hiring for great global talent to capitalize on opportunity while setting up the capacity to grow as the GenerativeAI boom transitions into its next phase of disruption.
Salesforce launched Agentforce 2.0 in a bid to move its agentic AI platform to more teams, workflows and markets. Agentforce 2.0 includes Slack integration, more workflows across the enterprise and is generally available in February.
The rollout comes just weeks after Agentforce made its debut at Dreamforce.
Databricks expects to have a $3 billion annual revenue run rate exiting its fourth quarter ending Jan. 31. The company also has more than 500 customers consuming more than $1 million annually.
The data and AI company disclosed its financial data in a press release announcing a $10 billion capital raise that valued Databricks at $62 billion. Databricks is also delivering positive cash flow.
Boomi is evolving beyond its #iPaaS roots into an intelligent integration and automation platform.๐กCR analyst Doug Henschen recently spoke with Ed Macosky, Chief Product and Technology Officer at Boomi, to learn how the company transformation is a response to customer needs...
โก With the rise of #generativeAI, Boomi's customers are seeking help with their #AI strategies, given Boomi's access to critical data sources and #business processes.
Boomi has acquired data integration vendor Rivery as the company continues to build out its integration platform as a service (iPaaS) strategy.
Terms of the deal weren't disclosed.
Rivery offers Change Data Capture (CDC) technology that makes moving data more efficient as well as low-code extract, load and transform (ELT) features. Boomi's plan is to combine Rivery and its data team with its integration, automation, API management and data management tools.
Google Cloud launched Agentspace, Salesforce is prepping Agentforce 2.0 and Amazon Web Services wants Amazon Bedrock to be your agentic AI orchestration engine. And that's just two weeks of news.
Simply put, the agentic AI platforms are launching at a rapid clip. AI agents will be a big theme for 2025, but open questions abound.
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How to Create Innovation: DisrupTV Episode 384 with Stefan F. Dieffenbacher
In Episode 384 of DisrupTV, hosts R "Ray" Wang and Vala Afshar sit down with Stefan F. Dieffenbacher, author of How to Create Innovation, to explore proven models and strategies that empower organizations to innovate intentionally and effectively.
Google Cloud launched Agentspace, which is designed to create and deploy AI agents, and a version of NotebookLM for the enterprise.
With an enterprise version of NotebookLM, Google Cloud is adding enterprise privacy, security and compliance, identity support and grounding in enterprise data sources.
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan said the integration of VMware is "largely complete" with revenue growth and operating margins hitting 70% exiting 2024.
"We are well on the path to delivering incremental adjusted EBITDA at a level that significantly exceeds the $8.5 billion we communicated when we announced the deal," said Tan, speaking on Broadcom's fourth quarter earnings call. "This is much earlier than our initial target of three years."
Anthropic's Claude models are all business as use cases are led by web and mobile application development assistant, content creation, academic research and writing, career development, optimizing AI and business strategy.
Broadcom reported better-than-expected fourth quarter earnings as its AI revenue continued to surge.
The company reported fourth quarter net income of $4.32 billion, or 90 cents a share, on revenue of $14.05 billion. Non-GAAP earnings for the quarter was $1.42 a share.
Wall Street was expecting Broadcom to report non-GAAP earnings of $1.39 a share on revenue of $14.06 billion.
Adobe reported better-than-expected fourth quarter results as customers leveraged AI tools across its platform, but its outlook fell short of expectations for fiscal 2025.
๐๏ธ Don't miss this fascinating conversation with Jonathan Becher of the San Jose Sharks. Becher explains to Holger Mueller how #technology is transforming the professional sports industry - from frictionless entry and cashless payments to dynamic advertising and advanced #analytics.
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Classiq Technologies, Deloitte Tohmatsu and Mitsubishi said they have compressed quantum circuits by up to 97% in a move that reduces error rates and may accelerate practical enterprise use cases.
The news comes as practical development in quantum computing has accelerated into 2025. Consider:
Google launched its family of Gemini 2.0 models that includes a version of Gemini 2.0 Flash as its latest Trillium TPUs become generally available.
The new models--Gemini 2.0 Flash will be available in AI Studio and Vertex AI--ride shotgun with multiple Google services as the search and cloud giant revs its agentic AI plans.
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Constellation analysts Liz Miller, Doug Henschen, Holger Mueller and Larry Dignan went live from the Amazon Web Services (AWS) recording studio to break down the biggest #news from #reInvent2024 and what it means for #enterprises. Topics ranged from SageMaker announcements to the hardware fueling AWS's #AI capabilities.