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RKVST adds public attestation and multitenant support to digital supply chain service
RKVST Inc., a startup that provides a service for managing digital supply chains, has added a public attestation feature to its product as part of a broad set of updates that also includes support for multitenancy and verified domain names as well as batch transaction features. The updates were announced Jan. 18. The company, whose ...
Gartner halves forecast of IT spending growth to 2.4% in 2023
Gartner Inc. expects worldwide information technology spending to grow 2.4% in 2023, to $4.5 trillion, down from its previous forecast of 5.1% growth, according to a new report released today. However, the downward revision is more a function of the strong U.S. dollar and weakening demand for consumer devices than an indication that enterprise IT ...
SUPERCLOUD SPECIAL REPORT
Moving to the supercloud means rethinking data management
In becoming the largest privately held freight transportation company in North America, Estes Express Lines Inc. created a lot of data silos. Following years of acquisitions, diversification and geographic expansion, by 2021 the data fragmentation picture across the company was “pretty bad,” said Bob Cournoyer, senior director of data strategy, business intelligence and analytics. Core ...
Walmart to offer logistics services via Salesforce cloud
Continuing its 18-month-old drive to expand its business into technology services, Walmart Inc. today announced a partnership with Salesforce Inc. that will make Walmart’s Store Assist fulfillment-as-a-service and GoLocal deliver-as-a-service offerings available to Salesforce users. Both applications will be made available through the Salesforce AppExchange for fast deployment of services that enable “personalized and easy commerce ...
Progress Software acquires NoSQL data integration engine MarkLogic
Progress Software Inc. today announced a deal to acquire MarkLogic Inc., the maker of a NoSQL database management system that’s primarily used for enterprise data integration. The purchase price wasn’t initially disclosed, but press reports later set it at $355 million. Progress said the deal will give it a unified enterprise-grade semantic data platform for ...
IBM overhauls partner program with simpler model, more incentives
Continuing a nearly three-year campaign to shift sales responsibility for the bulk of its accounts from direct to indirect channels, IBM Corp. today announced an overhaul of its partner support program that increases partner access to its resources, incentives and support while simplifying the structure and metrics used to allocate those resources. IBM Partner Plus replaces ...
Machine learning takes on the all-too-human discipline of space planning
Chris Lord relates the story of a space planner at one higher educational institution who faced a conundrum: Plenty of square footage had been allocated for study space, but students were complaining that there weren’t enough places to sit. Both sides were right. The university had equipped the space with large trestle tables that seated ...
Zip brushes up user interface of its procurement platform
Procurement management software startup Zip today announced several new user interface features in its product. Zip, which is the business name of ZipHQ Inc., simplifies the procurement process by routing and tracking requests, asking conditional questions, and documenting the status of requests as they move through the approval process. The need for such functionality has ...
MariaDB stock drops in early trading following IPO
Following through on an announcement it made in February, database management system provider MariaDB plc went public today on the New York Stock Exchange through a merger with Angel Pond Holdings Corp. Ordinary shares and warrants began trading under the symbols “MRDB” and “MRDB WS,” respectively. The combined firms are an Irish public limited company ...
Startup says it can reliably detect AI-generated content
The media, academia and business worlds have been swooning over the sophistication of OpenAI LLC’s ChatGPT natural language generator, but content marketers have reasons for concern. That industry thrives on search engine optimization and is hypersensitive to intellectual property issues such as plagiarism, particularly since Google LLC has made it clear that it frowns on ...