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Splunk launched Splunk AI Assistant, which will use generative AI and a domain specific large language model (LLM) built on its security and observability data.
The generative AI effort is part of Splunk AI, a portfolio of AI offerings announced at Splunk's .conf23 conference in Las Vegas.
Don't look now, but CXOs are becoming more optimistic, favoring revenue growth opportunities and planning technology pilots that will optimize and automate processes to partly pay for innovation.
That's the high-level take on the Constellation Research 2023 H1 "CxO Business Confidence Survey," which included 52 respondents primarily in the US and Europe. Of that sample, 86% had direct influence over technology purchasing.
A Constellation Research DisrupTV panel riffed on generative AI use cases, regulation, ethics and how technology can build resilience.
Here are some of the big themes that emerged from the DisrupTV discussion:
Constellation's 2023 H1 CxO Business Confidence Survey assesses the confidence of C-suite executives in today's business and technology climate as well as their financial outlook for 2023. The survey asked respondents to identify the top business issues impacting their enterprises, weigh in on their investment in digital technologies, and confirm which service and software vendors are top of mind in the industry.
Customer experience teams--marketing, commerce, customer service, support and contact center--are pressured to become a unified growth engine driving engagement and revenue opportunities and that's going to force contact center evolution.
Generative AI may create a boom in data licensing deals to train large language models (LLM).
While enterprises are training LLMs and looking for competitive advantage, new revenue streams are going to appear in surprising places. And the fun is just beginning.
Wipro said it will invest $1 billion over the next three years to advance artificial intelligence via Wipro ai360, a unit focused on end-to-end AI innovation.
According to the services and consulting giant, Wipro ai360 will build on the company's existing investments and integrate AI into every platform and tool used internally and offered to clients.
Salesforce is raising prices across its clouds starting in August.
In a blog post, Salesforce said it will be increasing list prices about an average of 9% across Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Marketing Cloud, its industry clouds and Tableau.
The news was good for Salesforce shares as the company has cut costs, kept customers and is now raising prices.
This post first appeared in the Constellation Insight newsletter, which features bespoke content weekly.
We're careening into the second half of the year and it's always worth a bit of reflection. What stood out for me were the surprises.
Here's a quick look.
Adam Nathan, CEO of Almanac, said modern work is broken and needs to be fixed by reframing remote work, creating writing-based cultures and processes and providing enough space for the magic of human collaboration.
Nathan's approach, which was outlined on DisrupTV Episode 328, is worth a listen starting at the 40 minute mark. Here are some of the takeaways.
Rivian is betting that data, AI and machine learning will continually improve its customer experience and detect and prevent future vehicle issues.
Speaking at the Databricks Data + AI Summit, Wasssym Bensaid, SVP of Software Development at Rivian, walked through how the electric vehicle manufacturer created an architecture that enables it to ingest telemetry data from vehicles, boost battery life and roll out new features with over-the-air (OTA) updates.
DisrupTV Episode 328: The Awareness Matrix, Trust & Wellbeing at Work
In this inspiring episode of DisrupTV, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with three dynamic thought leaders:
Neha Mirchandani – CMO & Head of People at BrightPlan
Neha introduces the Awareness Matrix and unpacks leadership through coaching, elevating energy levels, trust in the workplace, and holistic employee wellbeing. She explores how mindfulness can transform how teams show up at work.
JetBlue is actively using artificial intelligence and machine learning across its business and actively using generative AI for its internal operations and ultimately revenue-producing products.
Salesforce launched the latest installment of generative AI across its clouds with the launch of Sales GPT and Service GPT.
The news follows Salesforce's rollout of AI Cloud this month as well as the Einstein GPT Trust Layer, which enables customers to keep data secure while leveraging large language models.
Synthetic biology promises to be disruptive across multiple industries because it can be used to develop new biological parts and devices while reengineering existing systems.
DisrupTV caught up with three experts in the field on a recent episode. The roundtable captured some of the promise and peril with synthetic biology, a multidisciplinary field of science focused on reengineering organisms.
Databricks infused its data platform with generative AI capabilities across its Lakehouse Platform with tools to enable customers to leverage large language models (LLMs), federate and govern data and knowledge engines that learn corporate cultures.
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0:00: Impact TV introduction with co-hosts R "Ray" Wang, founder of Constellation Research, and Teresa Barreira, CMO of Publicis Sapient.
Snowflake launched Snowpark Container Services in private preview in a move that will give developers more options to deploy and run generative AI applications.
The announcement, outlined at Snowflake Summit, follows up on the partnership with Nvidia. Snowflake Container Services expands Snowflake's ability to run workloads including full-stack applications, hosting large learning models (LLMs) and model training.