Enterprise Technology News for the Week of December 20th
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The editors at Solutions Review have curated a "greatest hits" collection of noteworthy enterprise technology news from the week of December 20th.
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 December 20th
Arctic Wolf Acquires Cylance from BlackBerry
Arctic Wolf, a global provider of security operations solutions, has announced plans to acquire BlackBerry's Cylance endpoint security assets. Cylance is an AI-based endpoint protection platform, and its acquisition will help Arctic Wolf support simple, flexible outcomes in the endpoint security market. With the addition of Cylance's endpoint security platform to its portfolio, Arctic Wolf can offer one of the largest open XDR security platforms in the industry, equipping clients with an extensive suite of endpoint security capabilities and AI functionalities.
Ataccama Extends GenAI Capabilities
Ataccama, an AI-powered data management company, has announced several enhancements to the Ataccama ONE unified data trust platform. With the v15.4 update, customers can benefit from enhancements that augment the platform's AI capabilities, improve user experiences, simplify task management, reduce costs, boost efficiencies, and more. Additionally, the updates extend Ataccama's generative AI functionalities so new and non-technical users and quickly build accurate DQ rules using natural language.
Boomi Acquires Rivery
Rivery’s skilled data management team will join Boomi, strengthening the company’s ability to deliver world-class solutions to customers and accelerate its trajectory as a leader in the integration and automation space. The acquisition reinforces Boomi’s commitment to delivering a seamless, unified platform for intelligent integration and automation, API management, and data management. Terms of the deal remain undisclosed, but the purchase is expected to close by the end of 2024, pending customary closing conditions,
Cloudera Secures FedRAMP Authorization
Cloudera has announced that it's achieved an Agency Authority to Operate (ATO) for its Cloudera For Government offering at the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) Moderate impact level from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). With this Agency ATO, Cloudera has demonstrated its compliance with hundreds of rigorous FedRAMP security controls through an agency-wide assessment process, enabling the company to provide the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and other Federal Government agencies with a secure, scalable, and cloud-native data management and artificial intelligence (AI) solution on AWS GovCloud.
fabric Reveals its AI-Powered Order Management System (OMS)
fabric, an order orchestration solution provider, has announced details on its "reimagined" order management system (OMS). This system uses artificial intelligence to provide retailers with a centralized system for managing their orders, inventory, and fulfillment efforts across channels. The fabric AI Order Cloud launch includes tools like a new AI agent, intelligent recommendations, seamless store fulfillment, real-time data analysis, enhanced demand generation, natural language interfaces, and trend detection, helping businesses streamline their operations and utilize a complete view of the customer journey.
HYCU Brings Major Updates to R-Cloud
HYCU, a modern data protection provider, has announced an expansion of HYCU R-Cloud, which delivers protected data mobility for databases and applications running in public clouds and on-premises infrastructure. This will allow customers to have application and database consistent workloads that migrate to the right on-prem hypervisor or public cloud infrastructure of choice. The expansion also means HYCU now has one of the broadest coverages of infrastructure, as it supports AWS, AWS Gov Cloud, Azure, Azure Gov Cloud, Google Cloud, Nutanix, VMware, and others.
Odoo and Google Cloud Enhance Their Strategic Partnership
Odoo, an integrated business software provider, has announced an enhanced strategic partnership with Google Cloud. The enhanced partnership aims to support Odoo's global reach and deliver a seamless, scalable experience to its worldwide customers. Additionally, Odoo's applications will continue to be powered by Google Cloud's global infrastructure, helping them provide users with a better experience and faster response times, even amidst peak usage periods or more complex tasks. It will also further empower Odoo to advance its global expansion efforts and explore new technology opportunities.
Sage Debuts Several Cloud-Native Packages for Construction Submarkets
Sage, a software for small and mid-sized businesses, has launched several end-to-end cloud-native packages built to meet the needs of submarkets in the construction industry. The new packages include Sage for Real Estate Developers, Sage for Home Builders, and Sage for General Contractors, which are all built to address the respective challenges faced by companies in those construction markets. Each package is built on a multi-tenant, true-cloud foundation and comes equipped with Sage Intacct's finance and operations solution "at their core," giving teams total visibility into the health of their projects.
SailPoint Details its Strategic Partnership with Imprivata
SailPoint Technologies, a unified identity security provider, has announced a strategic partnership with Imprivata, a digital identity company for life- and mission-critical industries. As part of the partnership, SailPoint will acquire Imprivata's existing identity governance and administration business. The companies will also become strategic go-to-market partners in healthcare to offer a "best-of-breed" identity security and access management alliance to benefit healthcare organizations worldwide. SailPoint will continue working with acquired Imprivata IGA customers.
Salesforce Reveals its Plans for Agentforce 2.0
Salesforce, the global AI-powered CRM, has announced Agentforce 2.0, the latest version of its digital labor platform for enterprises. This release introduces a library of pre-built skills, workflow integrations for rapid customization, the ability to deploy Agentforce in Slack, and advancements in the platform's agentic reasoning and retrieval augmented generation (RAG). These updates can help businesses scale their workforce with customized agents that are capable of handling complex, multi-step tasks with increased precision and accuracy. The full release of Agentforce 2.0 will be generally available in February 2025, although specific features will be released in advance, with some available now.
Vultr Raises New Funding Round with Participation from AMD Ventures
Vultr, a privately-held cloud infrastructure company, has completed a growth financing at a $3.5 billion valuation. The financing was led by LuminArx Capital Management and AMD Ventures and will enable Vultr to support its accelerated global expansion in the AI infrastructure and cloud computing markets. It will also support the company's ongoing efforts to be the AI infrastructure and cloud computing partner of choice for enterprises and AI innovators globally.
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