Enterprise Technology News for the Week of December 6th
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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 6th.
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 6th
AWS Unveils New SageMaker Lakehouse
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced the general availability of Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse, a new capability that unifies data across Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) data lakes and Amazon Redshift data warehouses. The solution will facilitate seamless analytics and AI/ML operations on a single data copy to streamline data management processes and bring together widely adopted AWS machine learning and analytics functionalities.
Genpact Announces a Strategic Collaboration Agreement with AWS
Genpact, a global professional services and solutions firm, has announced a multi-year Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS). The SCA aims to accelerate AI adoption and empower business leaders across functions to harness its potential. Murat Aksu, Global Leader for Partnerships at Genpact, says, "This Strategic Collaboration Agreement will break down traditional barriers to AI adoption, making it accessible to business leaders beyond the CIO's office, and help our clients accelerate value through AI-driven insights and solutions."
HCLTech Details its Collaboration with Google Cloud Security
HCLTech, a global technology company, has announced a new collaboration with Google Cloud Security that aims to provide AI-driven Managed Detection and Response (MDR) solutions that help enterprises respond to cyber threats. As part of the collaboration, HCLTech's UMDR (Universal Managed Detection and Response) service will leverage Google Cloud Security and HCLTech's Fusion Platform to deliver proactive threat detection and effective threat response that helps businesses stay ahead of emerging risks.
Informatica Unveils Blueprints for Enterprise GenAI Apps
Informatica, an enterprise AI-powered cloud data management company, has announced a broad innovation agenda that addresses its generative AI, Open Table, and analytics capabilities built on AWS. With these capabilities, customers can build and deploy a new generation of generative AI and analytics applications. Other additions include blueprints for enterprise-grade GenAI applications and automation recipes for Amazon Bedrock, a fully managed service that provides a single API to access and utilize various high-performing foundation models (FMs) from leading AI companies.
PwC and AWS Detail Their New Collaboration Agreement
PwC also announced its strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS), which will focus on driving industry innovation with the latest advancements in cloud and generative AI (GenAI) services. The collaboration, announced at re:Invent, combines PwC's industry insights with AWS' generative AI services, including Amazon Bedrock. PwC will also integrate Amazon Bedrock Automated Reasoning checks into its existing industry solutions. This will help teams confirm that LLM-generated content complies with regulations, make it easier to ensure call center agents comply with company protocols, and, ultimately, promote the development of GenAI-powered applications for customers across industries.
Red Hat Collaborates with AWS On Virtualization and AI
Red Hat, an open-source solution provider, has signed a strategic collaboration agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to scale the availability of Red Hat's solutions in the AWS Marketplace. As part of the collaboration, Red Hat will empower organizations with its various hybrid cloud platforms on AWS infrastructure to help teams address business needs around application modernization, virtual machine (VM) migration, and artificial intelligence (AI) deployments.
Sage Introduces New Tools and Updates to Sage Intacct
Sage—an accounting, financial, HR, and payroll technology provider for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs)—has announced that Sage Copilot is now available to early adopters in the US and UK on Sage Intacct. Sage Copilot is an AI-driven tool designed to help accounting and finance teams with tasks such as highlighting budget variances, providing trustworthy answers to how-to questions, and more. Additionally, Sage has released several other updates to its Sage Intacct platform, including enhanced features for the Sage Intelligent Time tool, improvements to language accessibility, expanded developer capabilities with REST API, and new industry solutions with Continental Utility integration.
Veeam Unveils New Enterprise Data Protection Capabilities
Veeam Software, a data resilience software provider, has announced the availability of Veeam Data Platform v12.3. This release covers three objectives for enterprises: protecting identity and access management with support for backing up Microsoft Entra ID, powering proactive threat analysis with Recon Scanner and Veeam Threat Hunter, and utilizing Generative AI to deliver more intelligent protection of enterprise data with advanced reporting powered by Veeam Intelligence. Now fully integrated with Veeam Data Cloud Vault v2, the latest update also provides instant access to secure, air-gapped, encrypted, and immutable cloud storage that is predictably priced.
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