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ML and BI Are Coming Together, Gartner Says

The convergence of machine learning and business intelligence is upon us, as BI tool makers increasingly are exposing ML capabilities to users, and users are performing ML activities in their BI tools. That’s according Read more…

AtScale Tackles Data Engineering with Virtualization Software

It’s often the prep work in analytics that kills you. Before any analysis can be run, engineers must assemble, transform, and standardize the data. In a world where data silos are proliferating in the cloud, on premise Read more…

GoodData Offers Free Embedded Analytics

If you’re in the market for an embedded analytics solution, you might want to check out the new “freemium” offering unveiled by GoodData today. GoodData is one of the leaders in embedded analytics, with over 100 Read more…

BigID Looks to Cement Position in Data Discovery

BigID today announced another $50 million round of financing, bringing its two-year funding total to an impressive $144 million. With that capital in hand and new data privacy regulations like CCPA in play, BigID is prep Read more…

Will Databricks Build the First Enterprise AI Platform?

Ali Ghodsi might have one of the best jobs in technology right now. As the CEO of Databricks, Ghodsi just completed an oversubscribed $400 million round of funding that gave the company a $6.2 billion valuation. Better s Read more…

4 Reasons Why It’s Critical to Integrate Front and Back-Office Data

For many businesses, despite best-in-class architecture, the front-end and back-end of their company exist as two functioning but separate parts of the whole enterprise. The front-end is where the customer interacts, but Read more…

Common Sense Makes Progress with Deep Learning

We've witnessed incredible progress in the capability of deep learning models to not only understand text, but to generate it too. While the generated text is grammatically sound, the actual meaning of the words leaves s Read more…

Hadoop Struggles and BI Deals: What’s Going On?

The news hasn't been good in the Hadoop world over the past two weeks, with MapR and Cloudera both revealing themselves to be in bad straits. Meanwhile, the market for BI tools suddenly surged, with Tableau, Looker, and Read more…

Acquisition Binge: Salesforce Buys Tableau

Analytics vendors continue to be prime acquisition targets for cloud companies with deep pockets. The latest example is the acquisition of self-service analytics platform specialist Tableau Software by enterprise clou Read more…

This Just In

New AI Usage Data Shows Who’s Using AI — and Uncovers a Population of ‘Super-Users’

Sep 8, 2023 |

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 8, 2023 — Salesforce recently released Generative AI Snapshot Research: The AI Divide, a survey of more than 4,000 people across the United States, UK, Australia, and India. Read more…

IBM and Salesforce Partner To Help Businesses Accelerate Adoption of Trustworthy AI

Aug 31, 2023 |

ARMONK, N.Y. and SAN FRANCISCOAug. 31, 2023 –IBM and Salesforce announced a collaboration to help businesses worldwide across industries accelerate their adoption of AI for CRM. Read more…

Salesforce Announces Speaker Lineup for Dreamforce 2023, Emphasizing AI’s Transformative Role

Aug 18, 2023 |

Aug. 18, 2023 — Salesforce this week announced initial speakers for Dreamforce 2023. Diving deep into AI and how it’s transforming the world around us, Dreamforce 2023 will bring together customers, partners, leaders and visionaries to talk about what the future of trusted AI looks like for businesses around the world. Read more…

Dentsu Helps Brands Create Generative AI-Powered Customer Experiences with Salesforce

Aug 7, 2023 |

Aug. 7, 2023 — Dentsu and Merkle, dentsu’s technology-enabled, data- driven customer experience management (CXM) company, today announced that they are collaborating with Salesforce to offer AI expertise to marketing and commerce leaders. Read more…

Salesforce Unveils AI-powered Commerce Cloud Enhancements

Jul 26, 2023 |

July, 26, 2023 — Salesforce announced several new innovations for Commerce Cloud that help customers integrate digital commerce experiences into sales, service, and marketing channels. With new capabilities like Pay Now, Snapchat for Commerce, Reorder Portal, and Order Support, companies can more efficiently create purchasing experiences anywhere and drive revenue with AI, data, and CRM. Read more…

Deloitte Collaborates with AT&T and Salesforce for ESG Data Collection Initiative

Jul 20, 2023 |

NEW YORK, July 20, 2023 — Deloitte announced a new connectivity-based approach to ESG data collection and sustainability management that brings together technology from AT&T and Salesforce to help organizations streamline their processes, enhance data integrity and accelerate the identification of sustainability improvement opportunities across their operations and extended enterprise. Read more…

Salesforce Announces Comprehensive AI Solution with Generative AI Capabilities and Enhanced Data Security

Jul 19, 2023 |

July 19, 2023 — Salesforce today announced general availability and pricing for Service GPT, Sales GPT, and the Einstein GPT Trust Layer, helping any organization drive productivity and personalize customer interactions with generative AI designed for enterprise security standards. Read more…

Salesforce Unveils ‘Data Beyond Borders 3.0’, Analyzing Cross-Border Data Transfers Among G20 Economies

Jul 6, 2023 |

July 6, 2023 — Salesforce has announced the release of Data Beyond Borders 3.0, its third report analyzing the G20 economies’ openness to cross-border data flows, and policy recommendations to further realize the benefits. Read more…

Salesforce to Expand Data Cloud Connectivity with New Connectors from CData

Jun 15, 2023 |

CHAPEL HILL, N.C., June 15, 2023 — CData Software, a leading provider of real-time data connectivity solutions, has announced that Salesforce Data Cloud customers will have access to select connectors from CData that can be leveraged to expand the Connectors Catalog and bring more data into Data Cloud from their SaaS, database and file-based sources. Read more…

Salesforce Announces AI Cloud

Jun 12, 2023 |

SAN FRANCISCO, June 12, 2023 — Salesforce today announced AI Cloud, the fastest and most trusted way for Salesforce customers to supercharge their customer experiences and company productivity with generative AI for the enterprise. Read more…

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