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Salesforce has made some big M&A investments to make its agentic vision a reality - a la Informatica etc. But sometimes, the smaller deals that actually play into core go-to-market motions can have an outsized effect. This might be the case with the deal Salesforce announced yesterday - acquiring “agentic marketing” company Qualified.
Zoho launched Zoho Spend, a spend management application that integrates payroll, accounts payable automation, travel, expense and procurement, and Zoho Billing Enterprise Edition, which is designed to streamline billing operations to recognize revenue faster.
The applications are designed for larger companies and enable smaller ones to scale without leaving the Zoho platform. In addition, Zoho added a series of AI tools in applications across Zoho's Finance and Operations Platform.
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Enterprises run on transactions, and this means that transactional databases are critical for enterprises. The ability to seamlessly scale transactional databases has always been a core challenge for vendors, and subsequently for their enterprise users.
IFS said it will acquire Softeon, a cloud native software provider for warehouses. IFS, which provides an industrial AI platform, will use Softeon to expand into warehouse management and connect it to manufacturing operations software.
Terms of the deal weren't disclosed.
CFO confidence has it its highest point in four years as 59% of CFOs say it's a good time to take risks, according to Deloitte's fourth quarter CFO Signals report.
Deloitte's survey found that external risks to the economy are still plentiful, but also manageable. CFOs are optimistic about their companies' growth prospects. Deloitte said the fourth quarter CFO confidence score was 6.6 out of 10 possible, the highest since the fourth quarter of 2021.
Databricks said it has raised $4 billion in a Series L investment for a $134 billion valuation and topped a $4.8 billion annual revenue run rate in the third quarter. For comparison, Snowflake’s annual revenue run rate exiting its third quarter was $4.84 billion.
Costco is weaving artificial intelligence throughout its operations but doing it in what CEO Ron Vachris calls a "very Costco way."
"AI is also being interwoven into our business where we believe it can strengthen our model," said Vachris. "We're approaching it in a very Costco way, practical, member-focused and grounded in tangible business value."
Nvidia launched its Nemotron 3 family of open models as it aims to provide an efficient set of large language models that can be used by enterprises to customize and deploy in multi-agent systems.
The company said it is releasing open models, training data and libraries. Nvidia, which doesn't have to worry about monetizing models since it cashes in on GPU sales, is focused on providing tools to build agentic AI systems, which will use multiple LLMs focused on various tasks.