SAS COO Oliver Schanberger on how solution providers can identify customer challenges that can be solved through AI and analytics, and build confidence with quick wins.
Dell Technologies held the final one of their four Canadian events around the Internet of Things and Artificial Intelligence on Tuesday, emphasizing both the advantages and the challenges involved.
The new capability comes from Conga’s acquisition a year ago of Counselytics, and gives Conga’s software new machine learning capabilities. Their primary channel play is through Salesforce and their partners.
Automation Anywhere’s announcements this week include a new partnership with Toptal, which provides human talent, and which will see the companies add Digital Workers to that talent pool. It’s part of a plan to take RPA beyond IT and embed it more broadly and deeply in business processes.
Automation Anywhere CEO Mihir Shukla kicked off the company’s annual event in New York City by defining three themes they deem necessary for success going forward – and then briefly previewing how they intend to address each in their May software release.
Automation Anywhere launched their Bot Store a year ago, with all the bots being free. Now they are looking to expand both the number and the capabilities of the available bots, by allowing them to be sold.
Automation Anywhere’s software robotics will allow partners involved in business process automation to scale it up more rapidly and at lower cost.
Smart Layouts, which was shown at Summit last year as a Summit Sneak, was also announced to be in General Availabiilty.
Systems integrators Adastra, Lixar and Shalom, all of whom had a major presence at Microsoft’s recent forum around AI, talked with ChannelBuzz at the event about what they are doing to be successful in the space.
In addition to these new hyperconverged models produced with partners NVIDIA and Mellanox, Pure Storage announced FlashStack for AI, an AI-optimized version of their Cisco-focused converged offering.
Microsoft holds this annual event both to demonstrate Microsoft’s position on the cutting edge of new technology, and to inspire customers and prospects in attendance with examples of how Canadians have had strong results putting these concepts into practice.
This is the last big improvement to the Comm100 customer experience platform before a next-gen version is introduced in about four months.
ZeroStack plans to roll more services out in the year, indicating some likely possibilities, as part of their strategy of providing MSP partners with more services they can sell on the scale-out private cloud they enable customers to create.
Biotech startup Jungla is the first HPE customer to use the new Memory-Driven Computing Sandbox, to accelerate processing of individualized genomic testing data by more than 200 times compared with traditional hardware, taking the time needed to get results from around 250 days to as little as a day.
SAS has reacted to the huge changes in the market around artificial intelligence, by rethinking how they approach the market, and how they sell into it.
SAS Canada’s AI Executive event on Wednesday focused on how Canadian companies can best use AI to drive business outcomes. However, SAS also emphasized data that indicate that to date, that hasn’t been happening in Canada, which lags globally when it comes to adoption in production environments.
SAS provided their business audience with industry and academic perspectives on deriving value from AI, and then related it specifically to best practices that organizations can use to make it part of their business strategy.
Veritas Predictive Insights will be a core, free feature of their appliances, beginning initially with NetBackup Appliances and extending to Access and Flex appliances next year.
Maxta provided analytics previously, but it was limited to data on an individual cluster, MxIQ broadens this to add metrics from additional clusters and additional data, to provide a greater degree of visibility and insight.
The joint solution is targeted at larger customers, and will initially go to market through a select number of the two companies’ joint channel partners, before having its availability broadened out subsequently.
