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Sage acquires Fairsail

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Sage announced today that it has reached an agreement to acquire Fairsail. The announcement comes a few days after Fairsail revealed impressive results in 2016 with revenues of £10 million. We speculated...
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SAP adds more AI capabilities to S/4HANA Cloud

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SAP has announced release 1808 of S/4HANA Cloud targeting manufacturing and professional services industries. This is a monster of a release for SAP. It includes 9 new AI-powered scenarios to reduce...
Red Hat adds Kubnernetes Operator Framework

Red Hat adds Kubernetes Operators to OpenShift

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Last week at KubeCon in Copenhagen, Brandon Philips, CTO, CoreOS announced the Operator Framework for Kubernetes. This week, Red Hat, who bought CoreOS earlier this year, has announced that the Operator Framework...
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Forrester’s 2020 predictions for blockchain/DLT

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Forrester has published its enterprise blockchain/Distributed Ledger Technology for 2020. In essence, its analysts argue the focus will shift to integration and interoperability, from irrational exuberance to realistic assessment. "Continued hype notwithstanding,...
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BP drills down to Workday abandoning SAP HR

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In a brief announcement, Workday announced that BP will implement Workday Human Capital Management including Workday Time Tracking. This will replace the legacy SAP system currently used by them. It is a...
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ConnXus and SAP Ariba improve supplier diversity together

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Supplier diversity is a challenge and an opportunity for companies across the globe.  SAP has just announced a partnership between SAP Ariba and ConnXus at SAP Ariba live today. The partnership...
SAP Business ByDesign 1808 ships

SAP delivers a bumper update for SMBs

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SAP positions its Business ByDesign as an intelligent cloud ERP "suite in a box". It is targeted at Small and Midsize Businesses (SMBs) who don't want the complexity of a traditional...
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Workday is rising with record growth and big customer wins

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Workday posted record revenues in the fourth quarter driven by subscription revenues up 35% year on year to $436.7 million. Full year total revenues were also up 35% to $1.57 billion. Aneel...
Multicloud making headway in enterprises

Cloud usage increasing as multicloud gains traction

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Enterprise IT departments are struggling to deal with a range of options for their enterprise computing platforms. They are faced with a wide set of choices but not all are under...
Cloudtenna brings AI to file search

Cloudtenna targets enterprise file search with DirectSearch

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Cloudtenna is the latest company to jump into the enterprise file search market. It has launched the public beta of its solution called DirectSearch. This announcement is seen as Cloudtenna coming...

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BMC announces zAdviser Enterprise to confirm commitment to mainframe

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BMC has announced the release of two new products to support mainframe customers on their mainframe modernisation journey. They are the BMC AMI zAdviser Enterprise solution...
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NOYB hits Meta with GDPR complaint over Pay or Okay

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Privacy group NOYB has hit Meta with yet another GDPR complaint. This time, it has highlighted the social media giant's latest attempt to get...
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Not so Tiny any more, as MangoApps relaunches TinyTake

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MangoApps has relaunched TinyTake. Once a screen capture & video recording software for Microsoft Windows & Mac, it has now re-emerged as a complete...
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Personalised Bulk emails using Mail Merge in Word

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Use Mail merge to email for bulk contact lists with extra items specific to each.
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Planview brings connected work to AWS marketplace

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Planview has taken the opportunity provided by AWS re:Invent to announce that five of its solutions are now available on the AWS Marketplace. This...
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BigCommerce customers start critical holiday shopping season with 10% increase in Cyber Week sales

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BigCommerce has reported its customers experienced another year of increased Cyber Week sales. The company reveals what has been another successful start to the...
Precisely Amazon Redshift Cyara Strengthens AI-based Chatbot Optimization Capabilities with Acquisition of QBox Strategic acquisition delivers advanced conversational AI testing capabilities for improved chatbot accuracy and performance REDWOOD CITY, Calif.—Nov. 28, 2023—Cyara, the leading AI-powered Customer Experience (CX) Assurance Platform provider, today announced its acquisition of industry-leading conversational AI testing company QBox. This strategic move significantly expands Cyara’s conversational AI testing capabilities, solidifying its position as a global market leader in chatbot optimization. The acquisition of QBox complements Cyara’s existing chatbot testing & training capabilities, enabling enterprises to optimize the development, delivery, and impact of their chatbot and conversational AI investments. By combining Cyara’s expertise in CX assurance, including the optimization of conversational AI, with QBox’s unique approach to testing conversational AI applications, organizations will be able to address the needs of the entire team working on chatbots and voicebots, throughout their development lifecycle – from conversational designers to developers to QA professionals to business analysts. “As organizations accelerate their investments in chatbots, voicebots, and conversational AI, the need for optimization,testing and risk management becomes a critical success factor, to ensure flawless digital experiences are delivered at scale efficiently” said Alok Kulkarni, CEO and Co-Founder of Cyara. “This acquisition marks a milestone in Cyara's journey to provide a comprehensive solution for optimizing AI-driven chatbot and voicebot performance and underscores our commitment to ensuring our customers can deliver a seamless and elevated CX in today’s evolving AI landscape.” QBox brings a powerful natural language processing (NLP)-driven platform that allows organizations to fully deploy, test, and continually improve conversational AI chatbots at scale. Designed to assess the quality of NLP training data and evaluate a chatbot's efficiency in serving customers, QBox provides crucial visibility into the impact of changes or additions to the training data model. This insight enables companies to make informed decisions on scaling their chatbots' domain knowledge and understanding performance. Cyara’s acquisition of QBox marks a pivotal step in the company’s ongoing strategy to empower organizations in transforming and enhancing their CX through insights, automation and AI. With this acquisition, Cyara enhances its solution set in two key ways: ● Business Approach to Natural Language Understanding (NLU)/ NLP Testing: Cyara recognizes the diverse needs of product owners, business analysts, and designers in the realm of NLU and NLP testing. The integration of QBox into Cyara's portfolio streamlines the testing process, offering a business-oriented approach that aligns with the priorities of these stakeholders. This enhancement will enable a broader group of stakeholders within an organization to ensure the effectiveness of their conversational AI solutions with efficiency and precision. ● Live-interaction Monitoring: QBox monitors real customer interactions to identify where the bot is performing well, and where it is failing to meet customer needs. This complements Cyara’s approach to bot monitoring whereby we execute a test case to perform a health check and make sure the bot is responding appropriately to critical use cases. “By joining forces with Cyara, we bring together our unique capabilities to solve more use cases for a broader customer base,” said Benoit Alvarez, CEO of QBox. “Together, we can accelerate the advancement of conversational AI testing solutions and provide organizations with the confidence they need in deploying and managing conversational AI-driven interactions effectively.” “We are proud founders of QBox, taking it to market in 2019. Handing the baton to Cyara is an exciting new chapter in conversational AI testing and performance management. Congratulations to Alok and his Team,” said Chris Sykes, CEO, Volume Group. To learn more about Cyara’s conversational AI optimization solutions, visit cyara.com. About

Precisely Data Integrity Suite is Amazon Redshift ready

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Today, Precisely announced at AWS re:Invent, that its Data Integrity Suite has achieved the Amazon Redshift Service Ready designation. It allows customers to replicate...
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Why investing in Influencer Marketing could help your brand

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Vamp has published findings from research conducted by Atomik Research. The research looked at the impact of influencer marketing on purchasing decisions. Vamp is...
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OpenADR Alliance launches new communications standard OpenADR 3.0

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At Enlit Europe 2023, the OpenADR Alliance launched the latest version of its communication standard, OpenADR 3.0. The new standard is not a complete replacement...
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Salesforce reveals Black Friday sales data

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Salesforce has released data based on its global shopping data from more than 1.5 billion consumers powered by Commerce Cloud. Salesforce estimated that Black...
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Anjuna launches Seaglass, a universal confidential computing platform

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Anjuna has announced Anjuna Seaglass. It calls it “the first software platform able to create trusted execution environments that are infrastructure and application agnostic."...
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Adobe say UK shoppers spend £3.45 billion online over Cyber Weekend

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New data from Adobe reveals that after spending £1.04 billion on Black Friday, UK shoppers spent an additional £2.41 billion over the remainder of...
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Praxis Labs announces Pivotal Practice

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Praxis Labs has announced Pivotal Practice. It is built on the latest developments in Generative AI, learning science, and interactive simulations. According to the...
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Cyara acquires Qbox, a conversational AI testing solution

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Cyara has acquired QBox, a UK-based start-up with a tool that provides a comprehensive solution for testing conversational AI applications. The acquisition will strengthen...