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Enterprises have thousands of use cases for generative AI and are now working through prioritizing them and ultimately moving to production.
At AWS Summit 2024 in New York, a panel of partners and integrators talked about Amazon Q early adoption and genAI use cases with a focus on pilots to production.
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Runway, a startup looking to break into the financial planning for businesses market, said its AI-driven platform for enterprise finance is generally available.
The company, not to be confused with the AI video content startup with the same name, is looking to break into a crowded market. Runway is aiming to make financial modeling, headcount planning, department budgeting and finance workflows more user friendly and intuitive.
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Generative AI models are going to have a big training data issue as public web access becomes more restricted and it's unclear whether large language models (LLMs) will be able to avoid the garbage in, garbage out issue.
This data access issue is just getting started, but there's enough developing to see the wall ahead. Constellation Research CEO Ray Wang has said that the open web will largely disappear as content providers and corporations restrict data access. If this scenario plays out, LLMs aren't going to have the training data available to continually improve.
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The recent backlash on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs stems from both the lack of quantitative data showing how diverse teams improve performance and the discriminatory nature in how these teams were constructed. In 2015, a McKinsey study lauded the dividends to be gained from diversity. The well meaning Davos set used this study to launch a movement for diversity, resulting in hundreds of billions spent on diversity programs across businesses, the public sector, and non-profits over the past decade.
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Generative AI appears to be scaling lookalikes at a rapid clip and the big unknown is how long originality will last.
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This week on ConstellationTV episode 83, hear co-hosts Doug Henschen and Larry Dignan analyze the latest enterprise #technology news and events (practical GenerativeAI, Snowbricks conferences).
Then hear Constellation Research analysts discuss the latest announcements, trends, and technology from the Zoholics conference and watch an interview with CR analyst Chirag Mehta on emerging trends CSOs need to know about.
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Persistent Systems said it will acquire Starfish Associates that expands its reach into the contact center and unified communications market.
Terms of the deal weren't disclosed.
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We are excited and honored to announce the nominees for the inaugural 2024-2025 Artificial Intelligence 150 (AI150). The executives named on this year’s AI150 embody the characteristics and knowledge needed to challenge the status quo and push the envelope when it comes to disruptive forces and AI transformation.
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Digital Transformation Executives Recognized for Leadership in Driving an AI Powered Future CUPERTINO, Calif – July 2, 2024 – Today, Constellation Research announced its inaugural Artificial Intelligence 150 (AI150), an influential list of executives who are paving the way for transformation in the world of AI.
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Tableau President and CEO Ryan Aytay said the company's future as part of the Salesforce product portfolio is to leverage generative AI in the future to offer "precision decisions" and a semantic layer that can democratize analytics and enable data sharing.
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Advising on the impact of AI in growth operations, CRM, sales force automation, and customer success technologies
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The education technology market has been rattled by generative AI, cautious enterprise and institutional spending and a set of overlapping companies with similar annual revenue profiles.
What's next? A merger and acquisition wave that's just getting started. The jockeying for position is already underway, but private equity will roll these companies together or they’ll merge on their own.
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Cognizant has announced its acquisition of Belcan, a leader in Engineering, Research, and Development (ER&D) services. This $1.29 billion deal, involving both cash and stock, is expected to close in the third quarter of 2024. The acquisition will significantly bolster Cognizant’s ER&D capabilities and diversify its client base into high-growth A&D markets.
How This Acquisition Benefits Cognizant
The acquisition presents several advantages for Cognizant:
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Enterprise Software & AI Adoption
DisrupTV Episode?368 — Ryan Aytay, John Mullins & Leslie Zane
In DisrupTV Episode?368, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with Ryan Aytay, CEO of Tableau; John Mullins, Associate Professor at London Business School and author of Break the Rules!
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Data centers in space are economically feasible and could reduce carbon emissions as workloads for generative AI surge, according to Thales Alenia Space, the coordinator of a European Commission study.
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For Ian Cole, chief innovation officer of Give Kids The World Village (GKWV), returns on technology investments are measured in smiles.
GKWV is an 89-acre nonprofit “storybook” resort in Kissimmee, Florida, that gives children with critical illnesses and their families from around the world week-long cost-free vacations.
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Google Cloud updated Vertex AI with new models, context caching, provision throughput and a bevy of grounding updates with Google Search, third party data and an experimental "grounding with high-fidelity mode."
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Progress Software CEO Yogesh Gupta realizes that generative AI is going to change the way software is priced and his company is experimenting accordingly. One thing is clear: GenAI is going to upend current software pricing models especially those based on seats.
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VMware added a bevy of features to its VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) platform including import tools that make the migration from vSphere and vSAN to VCF easier.
The updates come as VMware is under fire from customers. When Broadcom completed the VMware acquisition it shifted to subscription-based pricing in a move that raised costs for enterprises.
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Enterprise customers are miffed about software-as-a-service vendors trying to double and sometimes triple prices, layering AI-services that may not deliver returns and prioritizing revenue quotas over value.
That's one of the big takeaways from our June BT150 meetup with CxOs.
A few nuggets:
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Anthropic's secret sauce could be collaboration instead of churning out the latest greatest large language model (LLM).
The Anthropic vision that's developing is interesting because LLMs are going to need something more than chat, content generation and personality to drive revenue growth and profits.
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More than 15,000 car dealerships across North America are facing frustrated customers and lost sales as a major software provider, CDK Global, is grappling with a cyberattack that has crippled their systems for days. Dealerships have resorted to using pen and paper to create sales contracts, and are unable to register vehicles with government agencies like the DMV. This has led to frustrated customers and a backlog at government offices. The breach has also resulted in lost sales for dealerships, with vehicles sitting idle on lots.
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Oracle said a TikTok ban could hurt its cloud revenue should the social network be banned in the US. The company revealed the risk factor in its annual report filed with the SEC.
In April, President Biden signed a law that would make it illegal to provide cloud services to TikTok unless its parent ByteDance could separate its operations from the Chinese government. The bill demands that ByteDance sell TikTok in nine months, or one year if extension approved.
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