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Oracle NetSuite gets auto-reconciliation capability
Oracle Corp. today said it has added account reconciliation and transaction matching capabilities to its NetSuite enterprise resource planning suite, addressing what it says is a major pain point for organizations closing their books. NetSuite Account Reconciliation can be used to standardize and automate the reconciliation process, produce more accurate financial statements and enable faster ...
Oracle Cloud to incorporate latest AMD EPYC processors
Oracle Corp. today announced plans to upgrade its Oracle Cloud Infrastructure E5 instances to use the latest generation of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. EPYC processors. The company will continue to offer the option of flexible instances that allow customers to allocate cores and memory as needed. The new EPYC processors provide about a 33% performance boost ...
Salesforce adds generative AI support across its application portfolio
Salesforce Inc. today is jumping aboard the generative artificial intelligence train with the addition of large language model support across its portfolio of applications. Generative AI can now be incorporated into the Einstein artificial intelligence platform, Salesforce Data Cloud, Tableau analytics, Flow process manager and MuleSoft integration toolset for queries, code generation and business process ...
Snowflake’s seventh industry cloud targets government and education
Snowflake Inc. today launched its seventh industry cloud, this one devoted to government and education. The cloud combines its data platform with software from its partners and industry-specific datasets. Snowflake said the cloud meets a wide variety of security and compliance standards around the globe and addresses the need for secure collaboration within and across government ...
Imply Data gives Apache Druid schema auto-discover capability
Startup Imply Data Inc., which is promoting the use of the open-source Apache Druid real-time analytical database, today announced the third milestone in Project Shapeshift, its campaign to build a comprehensive toolset for developers to use in building applications on top of Druid. Imply is a multicloud data platform for real-time data ingestion and visualization ...
VMware’s Cloud Foundation 5 hybrid cloud platform is now available
VMware Inc.’s Cloud Foundation 5.0 hybrid cloud platform is now available, touting improvements in scalability, security and deployment simplicity. The release, announced Thursday, includes the latest versions of the VMware vSphere hypervisor version 8.0 Update 1, vSAN storage virtualization layer 8.0 Update 1, NSX 4.1 for network and security virtualization and vRealize LifeCycle Manager 8.10 ...
Dell’s revenue plunge was expected. The question is when growth will return
Dell Technologies Inc.’s revenue plunged 20% in its fiscal first quarter, but the results today beat lowered analysts’ estimates on both sales and profits. Shares gained about 1.5% today on an early release of the earnings statement about noon PDT, but they fell almost 3% after-hours on disappointing guidance for the second quarter and full ...
Coalition of AI leaders sees ‘societal-scale risks’ from the technology’s misuse
A statement issued today and signed by more than 375 computer scientists, academics and business leaders warns of profound risks of artificial intelligence misuse and says the potential problems posed by the technology be given the same urgency as pandemics and nuclear war. “Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority ...
AI and automation headline Red Hat’s annual user fest
IBM Corp.’s Red Hat Inc. subsidiary today is kicking off its annual Red Hat Summit conference with the themes of “do more with less” and “scale for innovation” and a raft of enhancements to its core products that address both. It wouldn’t be 2023 if there weren’t an artificial intelligence angle, and Red Hat OpenShift ...
Red Hat turns its software supply chain practices into products
Red Hat Inc. is betting that software development organizations will be willing to pay for the lessons it has learned over 30 years of working with open-source software at a time when software supply-chain attacks are proliferating. At its annual Red Hat Summit conference today, the company is launching Trusted Software Supply Chain, an offering ...