IFS lures heavy hitter from Microsoft
IFS has appointed Ben Vollmer as Senior Vice President of Product Management. The appointment was revealed in a LinkedIn post by Darren Roos, CEO, IFS. Roos commented: “I’m immensely pleased to welcome...
EUR272.5m in GDPR fines imposed by European regulators
EUR272.5 million of fines have been imposed for a wide range of infringements of EU’s data protection (GDPR) laws. This is the equivalent of about US$332.4m or £245.3m. This is the...
Can your CIO keep up with digital transformation?
The latest Global CIO report (registration required) from Dynatrace has highlighted the challenges of digital transformation. It discovered that as the speed of digital transformation has increased, most CIOs are struggling...
Citrix buys Wrike – a brilliant strategic move or mad gamble?
Citrix has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Wrike for $2.25 billion in cash. This is 16x the $140 million unaudited SaaS ARR that Wrike ended 2020 with. With Wrike...
Can AI coach you to be a better sales person?
Can the use of an AI-enabled voice coach improve your sales? Bigtincan is betting that it can. The company has just announced its acquisition of AI-powered voice coaching platform VoiceVibes. It...
News from week beginning January 11th 2021
As COVID vaccines start to roll out globally, there are glimmers of hope that some kind of normality will return during 2021. At the moment, it still seems a long way...
Workday launches Vaccine Management solution
Workday has announced a COVID-19 Vaccine Management Solution to support Multinationals as their employees return to work. The solution strengthens the Workday Return to Workplace, which provides functionality and analytics for...
SalesTrip raises $1.4 million in seed funding round
SalesTrip has raised $1.4 million in a second seed funding round led by Floreat Group. According to Crunchbase Floreat also led a previous round in May 2020. In total, the company...
Rootstock manufactures stronger leadership team
Rootstock Software has announced two more senior appointments as the company continues its growth. Zach Feige joins the company as Vice President of Professional Services. In addition, Scott Johnson was recently...
Planview to buy Changepoint and Clarizen
Planview has announced its intent to buy both Changepoint and Clarizen. The news comes after the company was sold by Thoma Bravo to TPG and TA Associates for $1.6 billion in...
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Appian does deal with AWS for make GenAI more accessible
Appian and AWS have signed a strategic collaboration agreement to make generative AI more accessible to business processes. Importantly, although it is using AWS...
commercetools unveils commerce innovations and partnership with Paypal
commercetools has announced a series of enhancements, solutions and partnerships to enable businesses to solve increasingly business complex problems. This includes a collaboration with...
Monta powers up go-e EV charging to new levels
Monta continues to forge partnerships to extend its presence in the EV Charging market. It has now signed a partnership with Austrian headquartered go-e,...
Why does NTT see IOWN and photonics as the future?
NTT is a technology conglomerate that invests around 30% of its global profits into R&D. That amounts to around $3 billion per year, a...
Gopuff launches platform enabling brands to fulfil Instant Delivery from eCommerce websites
Gopuff, an Instant Commerce platform, has launched Powered by Gopuff, a logistics and technology platform. The solution enables brands to offer affordable delivery from...
Appian launches ProcureSight to boost US federal acquisitions
Appian has launched ProcureSight to enable federal procurement professionals to accelerate acquisitions and achieve better outcomes. Although it is powered by Appian's AI process...
Kantata relaunches Analysers as embedded analytics analysers
Kantata has announced a significant update to Kantata SX. Its PSA is built natively on the Salesforce platform. The update sees the launch of...
Nord vLEI becomes first European GLEIF vLEI Issuer
Nord vLEI has become the first European-based GLEIF Qualified vLEI (QVI) Issuer. The vLEI is a digitised version of the Legal Entity Identity. It...
Innominds collaborates with Qualcomm to accelerate enterprise digital transformation
Innominds has announced the availability of iDhi, which is an enterprise and industrial IoT Edge Compute box. This Edge AI Platform is built around...
Privacera AI Governance get boost with new controls
Privacera has boosted its Privacera AI Governance (PAIG) solution with a set of new access controls and data filtering functionality. It wants to ensure...
PeerDB raises US$3.6 million in seed round funding
PeerDB has raised US$3.6 million in seed round funding. The funding round was led by 8VC and Y Combinator. Other investors include Wayfinder Ventures,...
Dot Compliance adds over $17 million to Series B funding
Dot Compliance, the vendor behind the first ready-to-use compliance software for Life Sciences, has raised $17.5 million in an extension to its Series B...
Hectare launched Advance Pay for crop farmers
Hectare has announced Advance Pay. With cash flow often a key issue for farmers, Advance Pay enables them to receive up to 80% of...
NTT demonstrates IOWN APN-connected datacentres in US and UK
NTT has demonstrated the potential for IOWN APN in two tests this week. It successfully connected two data centres in the US and two...
