Count TransUnion among the rising tide of enterprises evolving their identities thanks to IT. “We are thinking like a software company and transforming ourselves like a software company,” says Venkat Achanta, chief technology, data, and analytics officer of the $4 billion credit bureau, which is recasting itself into a customer data services provider intent on…
As we near the halfway point of the year, organizations are under tremendous pressure to grow businesses across all industries. It’s no secret: bottom lines must rise and 2024 has been earmarked as a pivotal year to revert to growth mode. Many organizations will find an uphill battle here; the previous few years have taken…
CIOs rank AI as a top priority alongside cybersecurity for IT departments. However, barriers such as adoption speed and security concerns hinder rapid AI integration, according to a new survey. There is a promising surge in the use of AI technologies across various industries. Of the 750 CIOs around the world surveyed by Lenovo, 81%…
Oracle is adding more AI capabilities to its Fusion Cloud CX that provides software for sales, marketing, and service teams across an enterprise, the company announced on Thursday. The new capabilities, based on the company’s OCI Generative AI service, include generative AI-assisted answer generation, assisted scheduling for field service, opportunity quality scoring, and seller engagement…
With more than 1 billion users globally, LinkedIn is continuously bumping against the limits of what is technically feasible in the enterprise today. Few companies operate at the scale that LinkedIn does or have access to similar troves of data. For the business- and employment-focused social media platform, connecting qualified candidates with potential employers to…
In a move that significantly bolsters its position in the cloud services market, IBM has announced it is acquiring HashiCorp, a multicloud infrastructure automation company, for $6.4 billion. HashiCorp is known for its Terraform product, an infrastructure automation tool, which is considered an industry standard for infrastructure provisioning in hybrid and multicloud environments. In the…
Cloud cost management remains a critical CIO priority. With questions around ROI, increasing outlay, and corporate scrutiny on IT cost savings on the rise, CIOs must know not only what contributes to their organization’s overall cloud spend but also how to optimize it. And that’s all before considering the need to fuel new AI initiatives,…
The Federal Trade Commission has voted to prohibit for-profit US employers from enforcing noncompete clauses in employment agreements. The FTC decision is expected to have significant ramifications for the IT talent market. Experts believe that removing restrictive clauses could lead to a more competitive job market, enabling tech professionals to negotiate better conditions and to…
At Salesforce World Tour NYC today, Salesforce unveiled a new global ecosystem of technology and solution providers geared to help its customers leverage third-party data via secure, bidirectional zero-copy integrations with Salesforce Data Cloud. “The big thing we hear from many of our customers is, ‘I already have data in N number of XYZ data…
At its World Tour NYC today, Salesforce announced the general availability of Salesforce Einstein Copilot, its conversational AI assistant for CRM. The company first announced Einstein Copilot in September last year, and released Einstein 1 Studio in March as part of its bid to become the platform of choice for building AI assistants for business.…