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Software AG applies generative AI to process modeling and IT asset management
Software AG is enhancing its Aris process mining and Alfabet portfolio management products with generative artificial intelligence capabilities in announcements at its International User Groups conference in Dublin this week. Both are based on the off-the-shelf Azure OpenAI service from Microsoft Corp. ARIS is used to represent processes within an organization and to model improvements. ...
Starburst to release its Iceberg-based lakehouse as a managed service
Starburst Data Inc., which sells a commercial version of the open-source Trino distributed query engine, today announced a fully managed Icehouse data lake on its Galaxy cloud. Icehouse is an open-source lakehouse that combines Trino and Apache Iceberg storage. A lakehouse is a new type of data architecture that combines the flexibility of data lakes ...
Google introduces distributed cloud search and strengthens multicloud support
Google LLC is upping its edge game at the Cloud Next conference this week. The cloud division today announced a generative artificial intelligence feature that works on internal data, as well as expanded cross-network features that allow users to train AI models on data from any cloud or on-premises data store in a fully managed ...
TransUnion unites global operations on multicloud analytics and AI platform
In the process of completing 25 acquisitions and building a trove of information on more than 1 billion consumers across 30 countries over the past 56 years, TransUnion LLC had created a lot of data siloes. Now it’s attacking that problem with a massive data lake intended to support all of its analytics, application development ...
Aerospike reels in $109M to accelerate its high-speed database
Aerospike Inc., which sells a highly scalable, real-time NoSQL database management system, said today it closed a $109 million investment round led by Sumeru Equity Partners LP with participation from Alsop Louie Partners LLC. That brings its total funding to $241 million. Aerospike’s flash-optimized in-memory model scales from gigabytes to petabytes with high consistency and ...
VMware says Tanzu is key to strategy after Broadcom acquisition
With customers still jittery about Broadcom Inc.’s plans for VMware Inc., its new subsidiary is mounting a push to assure them that its Tanzu application development and modernization toolkit is not only alive and well but a key part of the post-acquisition strategy. In an interview with SiliconANGLE and a pre-recorded event on LinkedIn, Purnima ...
Lumana launches with AI-powered video surveillance system
Lumana AI Inc., maker of a cloud-based security platform with image recognition capabilities, is emerging today with $24 million in seed funding. The company says its technology transforms any security camera into an AI-powered device capable of identifying complex events and risks. Its platform is built on a distributed hybrid cloud architecture that integrates cloud ...
Oracle NetSuite expands gen AI features across its product line
Oracle Corp.’s NetSuite subsidiary today said it’s expanding generative artificial intelligence capabilities across the product line with additional Text Enhance features targeted to specific uses. The company also announced the launch of the NetSuite Analytics Warehouse Multi-Instance Connector for consolidating data from multiple application instances into a single NetSuite Analytics Warehouse The generative AI services, ...
Qualtrics’ Delighted subsidiary folds generative AI into survey design service
Delighted LLC, a subsidiary of experience management firm Qualtrics LLC, today is adding generative artificial intelligence-powered recommended questions to its survey tool. Delighted’s platform lets users create and manage surveys for customer, employee or product feedback. The service is particularly popular with startups and is positioned as an onramp to Qualtrics’ enterprise-class customer feedback tools. ...
Databricks open-sources its own large language model, DBRX
Databricks Inc. today launched DBRX, a general-purpose large language model that it says outperforms all existing open-source models — and some proprietary ones — on standard benchmarks. The company said it’s open-sourcing the model to encourage customers to migrate away from commercial alternatives. It cited a recent Andreessen Horowitz LLC survey that found that nearly 60% of ...