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I caught up with BT150 member, Manish Limaye SVP, USIS Chief Architect & Head of Data Engineering Equifax, to talk data architecture and the broader transformation.
Enterprise technology customers in 2023 hit a few common themes that revolved around data strategy, setting their companies up for generative AI applications, transformation, sustainability, customer experience and continuous optimization to pay for new initiatives.
Mark Anderson, CEO of Alteryx, said going private via the Clearlake and Insight transaction will give the company more flexibility to implement its long-term strategy.
ServiceNow said it will acquire UltimateSuite, a task mining company, in a move that brings the company more in line with automating processes and tasks as well as workflows.
Adobe and Figma are calling off their $20 billion merger since the deal was unlikely to get regulatory approval from the European Commission and UK Competition and Markets Authority.
When it comes to generative AI, technology vendors are increasingly talking about pilots, remaining performance obligations (RPOs) and pipeline in lieu of actual revenue.
For IBM, StreamSets and webMethods will give it more API management and data integration tools.
Intel has to prove that it can be an AI player along with Nvidia and AMD even though the company is playing catch-up with its Gaudi3 AI accelerator.
Salesforce is adding a vector database and generative AI-powered search to Data Cloud as it aims to surface unstructured data and combine it with CRM data.
Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, Constellation Research's CEO of 2023, said the company saw strength across its Creative, Document and Experience Clouds.
