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Docusign embeds AI at every step of the contract management process
Docusign Inc. is applying artificial intelligence to the full lifecycle of creating, reviewing and sharing contracts with enhancements to its Intelligent Agreement Management system being announced today. The electronic agreement and signature specialist claims nearly 1.7 million customers and more than a billion users in more than 180 countries. It said its AI contract agents can ...
Exclusive: Corvic emerges from stealth, says it has a better way to organize data for generative AI
Corvic Inc. emerges from stealth mode today with $12 million in seed funding and technologies that it says reshape how enterprises leverage complex data for generative artificial intelligence. The company said it’s tackling the problem of the time and resources enterprise waste tying together disparate data without a framework for organizing it. The result is ...
ThoughtSpot adds reasoning to its conversational agent
Business intelligence platform provider ThoughtSpot Inc. today announced that its Spotter conversational assistant now has reasoning capabilities that enable it to brainstorm and recommend courses of action. Introduced last November, Spotter 3.0 has evolved beyond a query assistant to become “a research partner that can tell you what you need done in your business,” said ThoughtSpot Chief ...
TransUnion caps massive data migration project with new analytics and fraud services
A year after announcing plans to build what is called a solution enablement platform to support its expansion into data and analytics services, credit reporting company TransUnion LLC says its transition is nearly complete and its OneTru platform is paying off both internally and for business customers. In recent months, TransUnion’s alternative lending bureau has used OneTru ...
Google Cloud opens its global network for enterprise wide-area network use
Touting its global network that spans more than 2 million miles of fiber, 33 subsea cables and 202 points of presence, Google LLC’s Cloud division today launched Cloud WAN, a fully managed enterprise backbone designed for wide-area network architectures. Backed by a 99.99% reliability service-level agreement, the offering promises a unified approach to site, application ...
Google boosts AI and agentic features across BigQuery and AlloyDB
Google Cloud today unveiled a series of new data analytics capabilities aimed at streamlining enterprises’ use of unstructured used to train artificial intelligence models. The updates include specialized AI agents and an autonomous data foundation that spans the data lifecycle. The company also said it’s adding AI features to its PostgreSQL-compatible AlloyDB database management system and ...
Exclusive: Data mesh creator brings first product to market
Three years ago Zhamak Dehghani (pictured) shook up the data management world with a radical new concept called a data mesh. Now the company she founded is bringing it to market as a product. Nextdata Technologies Inc. today is introducing Nextdata OS, which it describes a unified data product development and operating platform for building, governing ...
Snowflake announces full support for Apache Iceberg
Snowflake Inc. today said it has extended its core capabilities — including secure data sharing, security and performance optimization — to Apache Iceberg, the fast-growing open-source table format. The company said the integration allows organizations to employ Iceberg tables without data migration, enabling analytics and artificial intelligence development directly within open-format environments. Organizations can now ...
Dell lays out broad set of enhancements aimed at data center modernization
Dell Technologies Inc. today introduced enhancements across its server, storage and data protection portfolios aimed at advancing customers’ data center modernization initiatives. The announcements advance Dell’s strategy of promoting what it calls “disaggregated infrastructure.” “We believe it is the new paradigm for how organizations are thinking about their traditional and modern workloads,” said Varun Chhabra, ...
Exclusive: Panzura unlocks metadata from IBM Deep Archive files for AI training
Panzura LLC, maker of a hybrid cloud data management platform, announced today that its Symphony data services platform is now integrated with IBM Corp.’s Storage Deep Archive. The integration, on the IBM Diamondback tape library (pictured), makes “cold” data — meaning archived to tape — easily accessible for information discovery and artificial intelligence training. Symphony is ...