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Today, Qualtrics International Inc. is introducing three new features to its line of customer experience measurement applications that incorporate generative artificial intelligence capabilities. They include a feature that makes it possible for anyone in an organization to easily ask questions and get …
Neo4j CTO says new Graph Query Language standard will have ‘massive ripple effects’
The International Standards Organization’s publication of a standard for the Graph Query Language earlier this month generated relatively little media interest, but executives at graph database makers were turning virtual cartwheels in the halls. The GQL standard is the first to be …
Strong cloud growth boosts Microsoft earnings and stock price
Microsoft Corp. rode strong cloud performance to better-than-expected financial results in its fiscal third quarter today, with enterprise spending on artificial intelligence playing an increasingly important role in cloud growth. Revenue rose 17%, to $61.86 billion, eclipsing analysts’ estimates by nearly $1 …
Oracle generative AI drumbeat continues with new customer experience features
Continuing its strategy of embellishing its enterprise applications incrementally with generative artificial intelligence capabilities, Oracle Corp. today announced new features in its Fusion Cloud Customer Experience application. They provide more precise responses to customer questions, improve sales force productivity and enable marketing organizations …
IBM misses on revenues but foresees rapid growth from HashiCorp purchase
As the first major information technology provider to report earnings in most quarters, IBM Corp. results are often seen as a bellwether for the industry’s health. However, securities analysts may need to go back to their spreadsheets following Big Blue’s announcement today …
State agency proves DevOps and mainframes can coexist
Mainframe computing and the modern agile development methodology called DevOps don’t need to be mutually exclusive. The Virginia Department of Motor Vehicles is showing why. The agency, which services 6.2 million licensed drivers and identification card holders and processed 16.8 million transactions …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …