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Arcion is a Databricks Venture company. According to Databricks, the plan is to use Arcion to create native tools to ingest data into the Databricks Lakehouse Platform from multiple databases and applications.
Enterprises are starting to drive productivity and cost savings from generative AI with AT&T among the most vocal about returns. The catch: These returns require investment in IT and data infrastructure.
There is an electricity that sweeps through Adobe MAX, the annual celebration of creativity, that is infectious. Nobody is taking themselves too seriouslyâ¦everyone is in awe of everyone elseâs work. Nothing is out of the realm of possible.
DisrupTV Episode 340: Navigating Healthcare Misinformation and Resilience in Crisis
In DisrupTV Episode 340, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage in insightful conversations with two distinguished guests:
HPE outlined a three-year strategy that has its three fastest growing businesses--edge computing, high performance computing and artificial intelligenceârepresenting more than 50% of the company's revenue by fiscal year 2026.
Tesla is sacrificing operating margins for market share with its electric vehicles and that reality is making it look like just another car maker. But the big picture looks more innovative.
Ultimately, the Tesla debate will be settled by what the company becomes. Tesla will either merely be an auto manufacturer or be seen as a technology company. For now, operating margins in the third quarter were 7.6%, down from 17.2% a year ago.
SAP said its third quarter cloud revenue growth was 16% and the company reaffirmed its outlook for 2023.
The enterprise software giant is in the middle of migrating customers to its SAP S/4HANA platform, so cloud revenue is closely watched.
IBM will make its watsonx.data available on Amazon Web Services as a managed SaaS service available in AWS Marketplace. In addition, IBM Consulting will expand its AWS partnership to train 10,000 consultants on AWS generative AI services, use cases and best practices.
To start, IBM Consulting said its exclusive AWS partnership will focus on the following:
Nvidia and Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn) outlined a broad partnership to create so-called "AI factories" that will be based on Nvidia GPUs to transform data into AI models and tokens. The two companies will also develop systems for autonomous vehicles and robots.
NetSuite is launching a new licensing model that will enable enterprises to use task-specific licenses for employees that don't need full access to the platform. NetSuite said it will initially roll out the new licensing plan for NetSuite Warehouse Management.
Customer experience has taken a back seat to cost cutting, declines in service and inflation and it's unclear whether new technologies such as generative AI can bail enterprises out.
DisrupTV Episode 339: AI Revenue, Smart Startups & Cybersecurity
In DisrupTV Episode 339, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage in insightful discussions with four distinguished guests:
Domino's Pizza is known as a tech savvy company that has been ahead of the mobile and data curves and now it plans to leverage integration with Uber Eats, revamp its loyalty program and reinvent its customer experience and boost productivity with generative AI.
JPMorgan Chase executives were asked a simple question during its third quarter earnings conference call: What's the benefit of spending the most on technology in the banking industry? The answer illustrates how every company is a tech company to stay relevant and customer engagement has to span multiple channels.
Each week I comb through Constellation Research's DisrupTV transcripts and videos for insights, news nuggets and items that can provide context on enterprise trends and topics.
What has come from this exercise--aside from a bevy of articles--is a bevy of life and work lessons. DisrupTV at times is one part book club and one part wisdom dispenser with a dash of professional career therapy. To that end, I'm going to start aggregating things from DisrupTV that made me go hmm and may not fit with the daily enterprise tech grind.
Atlassian said it will acquire video messaging company Loom for $975 million in a move that brings asynchronous video to its team collaboration platform.
In a statement, Atlassian said it will acquire Loom for $975 million including Loom's cash balance. Atlassian said it will pay $880 million in cash and the remainder in equity awards. The deal is expected to close in Atlassian's fiscal third quarter.
🎬 ConstellationTV Episode 67 just dropped! Co-hosts Doug Henschen & Dion Hinchcliffe give a rundown of the latest enterprise #tech news, Larry Dignan interviews SuperNova finalist Mary Farrell Kent CGMA ACMA from Magnox Ltd about transformational #CX initiatives, then Holger Mueller and Doug share key takeaways from Workday Rising.
00:00 - Introduction
01:09 - Tech News (Tech #earnings, cyber security attacks, #cloud)
14:13 - SuperNova Finalist Interview about CX Transformation
25:32 - Analysis of Workday Rising
35:50 - Bloopers!
UiPath launched Autopilot, which melds generative AI, domain specific AI and its automation platform, to automate work via natural language. The launch adds to the automation platform push at UiPath that's well underway as the company aims to shed its image as a robotics process automation (RPA) company.
Adobe launched a new model behind its Firefly generative AI image system and outlined GenStudio, which is a suite that will enable enterprises and marketers to better manage the content supply chain.
Although those two items were among the headliners at Adobe's Max conference in Los Angeles, the company launched several new enhancements, products and services with generative AI layered throughout the company's portfolio.
Boomi says customers want more than integration from integration platform as a service (iPaaS) providers. Automation and AI headline next steps unveiled on the Boomi World Tour.
Boomi unveiled its evolved âIntelligent Integration and Automation Platformâ on October 3, with the intelligent part being Boomi AI. Itâs an advancement over the companyâs existing artificial intelligence capabilities, but the headliner in Boomi AI is the addition of, you guessed it, generative AI capabilities.