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Gartner forecasts massive growth in collaboration software spending
Social and collaboration software is going to become a major recipient of enterprise software spending, with revenue in the market set to grow from $2.7 billion in 2018 to $4.8 billion by 2023. Gartner Inc. said today in a new report that the expansion of collaboration apps into emerging markets and a growing base of ...
PagerDuty joins with Salesforce and Zendesk to fix customer service issues faster
Incident response platform provider PagerDuty Inc. said today it’s teaming up with Salesforce.com Inc. and Zendesk Inc. to help organizations resolve customer service issues faster. Announced at PagerDuty Summit 2019 this morning, PagerDuty for Customer Service is basically a two-way integration with Zendesk’s customer service software and Salesforce’s Service Cloud suite. It gives workers an easier ...
USAA uses Google Cloud machine learning to estimate vehicle repair costs
Vehicle insurance provider United Services Automobile Association is using artificial intelligence to try to speed up its claims process. The company today said it has partnered with Google Cloud to create customized machine learning models that can instantly assess vehicle damage from digital images, allowing for faster and more cost-efficient estimates. USAA said it’s trying ...
Data integration company Fivetran raises $44M in Series B round
Fivetran Inc. today said it has raised a hefty $44 million in a financing round that suggests its revolutionary data integration technology is on the verge of hitting the big time. Andreessen Horowitz led the Series B round, which saw participation from existing investors Matrix Partners and CEAS Investments and brings its total funding to date ...
DevOps company Chef says it won’t renew ICE contracts after employee backlash
Chef Software Inc. said today it will not renew its contracts with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency following a protest by one of its former employees. The protest was led by Chef developer Seth Vargo, who decided to take matters into his own hands earlier this month upon hearing the company was planning to ...
Presto establishes formal community under the Linux Foundation
The open-source Structured Query Language engine Presto is getting its own project within the Linux Foundation. The Presto Foundation, as it’s called, will be organized under a standard open and neutral governance model, with its main goal being to attract more users to the community and scale adoption of Presto in the enterprise. Founding members ...
SingularityNET and Cisco aim to make humanlike ‘artificial general intelligence’ real
SingularityNET, a startup that bills itself as a “decentralized artificial intelligence” company, said today it’s working with networking giant Cisco Systems Inc. on an ambitious project to create more advanced AI technologies that will soon be able to surpass humans in their ability to learn and perform new tasks. The partnership is a strong validation of ...
Cloud services and infrastructure spending tops $150B in first half of 2019
Enterprise spending on cloud computing technologies continues to grow at a breakneck pace, topping $150 billion in the first half of the year, according to a new report from Synergy Research Group. Synergy said spending on seven cloud services and infrastructure segments in those six months grew by 24% from the first half of 2018. The ...
Amazon and Google make big renewable-energy commitments
Amazon.com Inc. said today it’s making a commitment to use 100% renewable energy for all of its business operations by 2030, and to become fully carbon neutral by 2040. As part of its renewable-energy drive, Amazon is also ordering 100,000 electric vehicles and will invest $100 million in reforestation projects across the world. In addition, ...
New Relic evolves its application monitoring platform with major update
Application and DevOps monitoring company New Relic Inc. is evolving its New Relic One platform via a major update announced at its annual FutureStack conference today. The company introduced what it calls “programmability” features that enable developers to build native apps atop of the platform for the first time. It also gains new capabilities that enable ...