Enterprise Technology News for the Week of November 22nd
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The editors at Solutions Review have curated a "greatest hits" collection of noteworthy enterprise technology news from the week of November 22nd.
Keeping tabs on the most relevant enterprise technology news can be time-consuming. To help, the Solutions Review editorial team has summarized some of the week's top headlines in the marketplace from various categories, including cybersecurity, data management, ERP, marketing technology, and more.
Enterprise Technology News for the Week of November 22nd
Accenture Expands its Cybersecurity Services and Capabilities
Accenture recently announced several new services and capabilities that use generative AI, deepfake protection, and quantum-sage data security solutions to help clients across industries improve and expand their cyber-resilience. The new offerings include deepfake protection capabilities, a Business Cyber Crisis Recovery solution, a Quantum Security Suite, and a collection of secure AI functionalities, which can help teams detect and secure unauthorized AI deployments. These additions aim to streamline the process of adopting emerging technology and make it easier for companies to address evolving threats.
Accenture Announces its Investment in Cresta
Accenture Ventures has announced an investment in Cresta, an AI-powered platform provider for contact centers. As part of its investment, Accenture will integrate Cresta's AI capabilities into the Accenture AI Refinery, a platform designed to help clients build custom AI models that meet their business needs. Lan Guan, chief AI officer at Accenture, says, "The combination of Accenture's AI Refinery platform and Cresta's AI solutions will allow us to offer our clients enhanced tools that drive productivity by automating routine tasks, offering real-time guidance to agents and generating tailored customer interactions."
BigID Launches New Privacy Modules
BigID—a data security, privacy, compliance, and AI data management provider—has shared details on the latest advancements released for its data-driven, identity-aware, and AI-augmented privacy modules. These updates will address privacy operations at scale with minimal manual labor, enabling BigID to deliver a complete suite of privacy operation modules. New capabilities include business-level data maps, privacy posture management, enterprise-ready cookies, a dynamic risk matrix solution, vendor management tools, AI risk assessments, data minimization, and more.
Cyera Raises $300 Million in a Series D Round
Cyera, a data security solution, has raised $300 million in a Series D funding round. The investment was led by Accel and Sapphire Ventures, with additional participation from Sequoia, Redpoint, Coatue, and Georgia. These funds bring Cyera's total valuation to $3 billion, an over twofold increase in six months. Yotam Segev, the Co-Founder and CEO of Cyera, says, "This funding enables us to continue accelerating platform development, attracting world-class talent in R&D, sales, and marketing, and strategically acquiring solutions that align with our vision for the future of data security."
ECI Software Solutions Celebrates its 25th Anniversary
ECI Software Solutions, a global provider of cloud-based business management software, is celebrating its 25th anniversary by recognizing some of the most significant milestones it has achieved since its inception. Trevor Gruenewald, CEO at ECI Software Solutions, says. "At ECI, we've always believed that our role is to empower SMBs with the technology tools and industry solutions they need to grow, and our customers' achievements are the greatest testament to that mission...As we look to the future, we all remain committed to supporting the success of SMBs worldwide."
Exabeam Details its Partnership with Wiz
Exabeam, a global cybersecurity solution, has announced a partnership with Wiz, a cloud security provider. The collaboration will help the companies provide clients with improved threat detection, investigation, and response (TDIR) capabilities to maintain secure, resilient cloud environments. The Wiz integration will help customers enhance their cloud security insights and streamline the onboarding process to the Exabeam New-Scale Platform. Additionally, the integration combines Wiz's in-depth visibility into risk combination with Exabeam's AI-driven behavioral analytics so teams can see trends of attack paths and remediation over time.
FlowForma Appoints a New CEO
FlowForma, a digital process automation solution, has appointed John Murphy as its Chief Executive Officer. Murphy has years of experience in the financial services marketplace, having helped multiple companies improve their detection of patterns, optimization of processes, and prediction of outcomes. In his role at FlowForma, he will drive the company's ongoing innovation roadmap and accelerate its market reach, product evolution, and customer adoption, all while ensuring the brand remains a top player in the rapidly evolving digital transformation space.
Hitachi Vantara Announces the Availability of Hitachi iQ with the NVIDIA HGX Platform
Hitachi Vantara—Hitachi's data storage, infrastructure, and hybrid cloud management subsidiary—has announced the availability of Hitachi iQ with the NVIDIA HGX platform. With this end-to-end solution stack of fast, scalable, and resilient infrastructure, companies can enhance the ease of deployment, operation, and maintenance of their AI systems. Jason Hardy, chief technology officer for artificial intelligence at Hitachi Vantara, says, "Our customers are looking for advanced solutions to meet the ever-evolving demands of AI, and the Hitachi iQ offering with NVIDIA HGX is the latest example of how we are at the forefront of AI innovation."
KnowBe4 Debuts an "All-in-One" Human Risk Management Platform
KnowBe4, a cybersecurity platform for addressing human risk management, has announced HRM+, an "all-in-one" platform for making human risk management more personalized, relevant, and adaptive to the AI era. HRM+ is based on KnowBe4's recent acquisition of Egress, which allowed KnowBe4 to combine its security awareness training with Egress's AI-powered email security. With HRM+, companies can access security awareness training, email security, anti-phishing, real-time coaching, AI defense agents, and compliance training from a single platform.
Microsoft Makes Pitch on Autonomous AI Agents at Ignite 2024
During a conference in Chicago, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told customers that the company is teaching a new suite of AI tools how to "act on our behalf across our work and life.” The company later elaborated, stating that these autonomous agents aim to operate "around the clock" across use cases. One example they gave is reviewing and approving customer returns or reviewing shipping invoices to help companies avoid expensive supply chain errors.
Optimizely and Google Cloud Expand Their Partnership
Optimizely, a digital experience platform (DXP) provider, has announced that the Optimizely One system is now leveraging Google's Gemini models. This is the latest milestone in Optimizely's multi-year partnership with Google Cloud. The integration will allow Optimizely customers to access Google's Gemini models directly from Optimizely's products via Opal, the company's AI assistant for the entire Optimizely One solution suite. The integrated functionalities will help teams accelerate workflows and deliver higher-quality outputs across content lifecycles.
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Optimizely Introduces Several New AI Agents for Marketing Teams
Optimizely also announced details on its new AI agents, which are designed to help marketing teams improve their campaign creation, content generation, project management, and other efforts. These AI marketing agents are an extension of Optimizely's expanded partnership with Google, as they are powered by Google's Gemini models and can be accessed via Opal. Each agent can be seamlessly integrated within existing workflows, allowing marketers to chain together instructions, maximize productivity, and make it easier to develop customized experiences for customers.
Pega Announces New Capabilities for its GenAI Blueprint Solution
Pegasystems, the Enterprise Transformation Company, has announced several AI-driven legacy discovery capabilities for Pega GenAI Blueprint that aim to accelerate the task of modernizing legacy systems. With these new features, users can leverage generative AI to analyze existing IT assets and create new, modern, and cloud-native applications "blueprints" that are ready to build. Other capabilities introduced include process mining analysis tools, data definition language (.DDL) file imports, and more. The features are now available to Pega users.
Rubrik Reveals a New Cyber Resilience Solution for Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
Rubrik, the Zero Trust Data Security company, has announced a new cyber resilience solution for Microsoft Azure Blob Storage. This solution will bring cyber posture and cyber recovery capabilities so Microsoft Azure Blob Storage customers can unlock additional visibility into their cloud data, maximize business agility, improve their resilience, and more. The announcement is the latest extension of Rubrik's long-standing partnership with Microsoft, which aims to help customers across markets strengthen their cyber resilience efforts.
Salesforce Launches the Agentforce Testing Center
Salesforce, the global AI-powered CRM, has announced several agentic lifecycle management tools designed to automate Agentforce testing, prototype agents within secure Sandbox environments, and manage usage at scale. With the Agentforce Testing Center—built on the Salesforce Platform and integrated with Data Cloud—organizations can easily test and monitor AI agents to deploy them more confidently. Additional capabilities include AI-generated tests for agents, monitoring and observability tools for Agentforce, and transparent usage monitoring via Digital wallet.
Snowflake Set to Acquire Datavolo
Snowflake, an AI data cloud company, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Datavolo, a company focused on accelerating the creation, management, and observability of multimodal data pipelines. With the acquisition, Snowflake will expand its service within the 'bronze layer' of the data lifecycle by delivering a simpler way for data engineering teams to integrate their enterprise systems with Snowflake's unified platform. Additionally, it will help the two companies simplify data engineering workloads and deliver better data interoperability and extensibility.
Splunk Launches its Solutions on Microsoft Azure
Splunk, a cybersecurity and observability leader, has announced the general availability of its enterprise security, observability, and platforms on Microsoft Azure. With this partnership, Splunk is empowering organizations to scale their digital transformation initiatives on Azure with unified solutions designed to strengthen security, accelerate innovation, and more. Tom Casey, the Senior Vice President of Splunk Products and Technology Group, says, "Together, Splunk and Microsoft are integrating enterprise data to strengthen digital resilience and deliver superior hybrid-cloud solutions, both natively and on-premises, that help organizations achieve their digital transformation strategy."
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