This list celebrates changemakers creating meaningful impact through leadership, innovation, fresh perspectives, transformative mindsets, and lessons that resonate far beyond the workplace.
Microsoft launched a series of AI agents and an AI accelerator program for sales as it outlined a bevy of customer references implementing the software giant's copilots and agents....
Vendors keep rolling out healthcare focused AI and automation, but the industry still struggles with transformation as well as data interoperability.
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Actian with its Winter 2025 Data Intelligence Platform release added self-serve data access requests, data products with a marketplace and user experiences for data consumers and p...
Qualcomm fleshed out its Dragonwing platform as it launched a series of fixed wireless access building blocks designed to enable AI inference use cases as well as industrial applic...
Although AI--generative, agentic and everything in between--is viewed as a tool that can improve customer experience there is the risk that enterprises may rely too much on the tec...
Dell Technologies delivered better-than-expected fourth quarter earnings as it continues to see strong demand for AI servers. Shipments for AI servers will hit $15 billion in ...
OpenAI launched a research preview for GPT 4.5 and perhaps the biggest takeaway is that it can fake emotional intelligence pretty well--potentially better than a few humans we know...
Snowflake Cortex AI will integrate Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service in Azure AI Foundry. That move will put OpenAI's models Snowflake and make them available as data agents in Snowfl...
Amazon launched Alexa+, a revamped version of its voice assistant powered by generative AI models such as Amazon Nova and Anthropic Claude via AWS' Amazon Bedrock.
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Constellation Research analyst Liz Miller referred to customer and employee experience as a soup where data, people, process and AI all blend together to create a holistic approach...
Workday reported better-than-expected fourth quarter earnings as the company saw strong demand for its AI products and more penetration across industries.
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The plan for IBM is to leverage DataStax's technologies and combine them with its Granite large language models. IBM will also be a bigger player in vector databases and leveraging...
For Michael Storey, Chief Experience Officer at RentSpree, customer experience (CX) is intertwined with processes that can be simplified, a bevy of user experience metrics and team...
Salesforce and Google Cloud have expanded a partnership that will bring Google's Gemini models to Agentforce, integrate Salesforce Service Cloud tightly with Google Customer Engage...
Voyage AI embeds and reranks models based on accuracy in retrieval augmented generation (RAG). MongoDB's bet is that these tools should be in the database layer to improve accuracy...
CxOs say that software-as-a-service business models that include consumption are going to require a learning curve as well as a few surprise bills. Nevertheless, there may be benef...
Broadcom has made VMware more profitable and has kept large customers in the fold, but the next wave of competitors, notably HPE and Platform9, is ramping up efforts to migrate the...
Hershey has to navigate inflation, supply chain disruptions, consumer tastes and GLP-1 obesity drugs and their impact on demand. But at least the company has reached the finish lin...
Five9 is betting that the contextual data layer above AI models will be just as critical to enterprises, and potentially be the difference in return on investment.
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