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Planful Perform 2023 spotlights enterprise-class customers expanding the power of the platform across departments and functions.
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Supply chain and customer experience are typically viewed as two different disciplines, but Walmart and Target are illustrating how they're blending together.
Walmart has been talking about omnichannel retail for years and its tech team has consolidated apps, installed a multi-cloud approach and invested heavily in supply chain automation and logistics. The upshot is that Walmart's stores, apps and commerce engine are unified. Today, those investments are paying off because Walmart tends to benefit during economic uncertainty.
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Alibaba Group said it will spin off its Cloud Intelligence Group within the next 12 months as a stock dividend distribution to shareholders.
Daniel Zhang, CEO of Alibaba, said the intention for its cloud unit is "to become an independently publicly listed company." Alibaba had previously announced plans to form a series of companies that will become independent companies. Other spinoffs will include its international commerce unit as well as its logistics group among others.
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Cisco reported better-than-expected third quarter earnings and raised its fourth quarter outlook as its networking portfolio revenue surged 29% from a year ago.
The company reported fiscal third quarter earnings of 78 cents a share on revenue of $14.6 billion, up 14% from a year ago. Non-GAAP earnings were $1 a share. Wall Street was expecting Cisco to report a third quarter adjusted profit of 97 cents a share on revenue of $14.38 billion.
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SoftwareOne Holding AG, which provides software and cloud services, said it has acquired Beniva Consulting Group to expand into ServiceNow implementations. SoftwareOne's cloud and software services have revolved around Microsoft and SAP Cloud deployments.
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ServiceNow said customers will be able to bring their own large language models to its platform, but the real returns are likely to come from industry and customer specific generative AI models.
CJ Desai, ServiceNow's Chief Product Officer, outlined the company's platform roadmap. ServiceNow's latest Utah release is live now with Vancouver scheduled for September. A Washington DC release lands in 2024.
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Tableau Pulse, Tableau GPT and a new VizQL Data Service will enable customers to deliver metrics and insights, natural language explanations, and event and workflow triggers in the context of work.
Tableau was founded 20 years ago, and in its earliest days it disrupted the market with data visualization. It helped spark a movement toward self-service dashboards that changed business intelligence. Flash forward to 2023 and it’s not uncommon to hear comments about dashboards being dead.
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ServiceNow is expanding its financial and supply chain workflows on its platform as it aims to automate more processes such as accounts payable and procurement.
At its Knowledge 2023 conference in Las Vegas, ServiceNow outlined the new workflows. As previously reported, the race to automate business processes is on as multiple vendors are aiming to be the automation platform of choice.
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SAP launched SAP Business AI and said it will embed generative AI throughout its applications as it made the case that enterprises should trust the ERP giant with making business processes more efficient.
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C3 AI CEO Tom Siebel said generative AI is about way more than chat and enterprises are likely to use the technology more for enterprise search. "We're using these large language models to basically crawl the enterprise," he said.
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Process mining is being used to automate multiple processes in finance and supply chain and driving real bottom line value, but Bloomfilter is betting that the technology can revamp the software development lifecycle.
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DisrupTV Episode 322: Pioneering Web3, Leadership, and Resilience
In this episode of DisrupTV, hosts R “Ray” Wang and Vala Afshar engage with four trailblazers shaping the future of technology, leadership, and personal resilience:
Dirk Lueth – CEO & Co-Founder, Uplandme, Inc.
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Generative AI is the question of the day on many earnings conference calls, but the approach to leveraging the technology depends on the industry. Here's a look at how Bank of America, Airbnb, Lemonade and Deutsche Telekom are thinking about generative AI.
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan: Generative AI needs more transparency
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When the Musk era of Twitter began, in a blog post I suggested that the first question the new owner would need to answer and articulate would be what Twitter actually was going to be moving forward:
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Wendy's move to deploy Google Cloud's generative AI technology for drive-thru ordering starting in June is worth watching as large language modeling (and the fine tuning for industry use cases) go mainstream.
Speaking on Wendy's first quarter earnings conference call, Wendy's CEO Todd Penegor said Wendy's Fresh AI pilot is part of a larger digitalization push.
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Google I/O 2023 kicked off and the proceedings could be summed up in two words: Generative AI. Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian walked through Google’s new models, how it’ll incorporate generative AI across the product line and advance business transformation.
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PayPal, Block and Shopify have all reported earnings in recent days. Here's a look at what those three companies are saying about the economy, generative AI and their product plans.
PayPal: Controlling what it can
The economy
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This week on Constellation TV, catch co-hosts Dion Hinchcliffe and Doug Henschen giving news updates on #GenerativeAI, #AI compliance and privacy and #AutoGPT, and announcing Constellation's newest hire, Larry Dignan, as Constellation's Editor and Chief of Constellation Insights. Then Doug gives an update on his new Market Overview report on Analytics and BI and finally, we conclude with an #AXS2023 panel highlights on the topic of #IT's role in #CX.
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Google I/O in previous years focused on Android, Pixel devices and cool features such as Magic Eraser. This year, Google I/O is all about the models.
Against the backdrop of a never ending stream of generative AI announcements and Microsoft's move to infuse its applications with OpenAI's ChatGPT, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai took the stage and made the case for its generative AI advances. "AI is having a very busy year," quipped Pichai. Here's the case in a nutshell.
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Google Cloud is launching Duet AI, which takes Google's foundational generative AI models to make building and deploying cloud applications easier. Developers can also optimize code with Generative AI Support in Vertex AI with three new foundation models.
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IBM launched a portfolio of security tools designed to protect data from quantum computing attacks.
The portfolio, IBM Quantum Safe technology, aims to address quantum computing security risks. While quantum computing can address multiple problems, it can break most of the security systems in place today.
Announced at IBM Think, Big Blue outlined the following:
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Tableau launched a series of updates to its platform including Tableau Pulse, which aims to bring analytics and insights directly to business users.
The move to provide automated insights and personalized analytics via Tableau Pulse recognizes a key issue: Many data consumers track dashboards sporadically. Constellation Research analyst Doug Henschen said Tableau Pulse can make the analytics platform more prescriptive.
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Informatica is adding generative AI to its CLAIRE enterprise data management engine as it added a bevy of new capabilities to its Intelligent Data Management Cloud (IDMC).
The launch, outlined at Informatica World in Las Vegas, highlights the intersection between data management, cloud and generative AI.
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