SAS’s 2024 Innovate event saw SAS deliver a wide variety of solution sets around AI, many of which are available now, with a few coming later this year.
The additions to SAS’s product lineup, which will be enhanced later this year, gives partners new opportunities to address issues customers have been encountering and put together new solution sets for them.
These tailored, lightweight AI models facilitate rapid deployment with low overhead, and are one of the more interesting solutions just announced by SAS.
Srinivas Mukkamala, Ivanti’s Chief Product Officer, provided a detailed layout of what is changing on the Ivanti product front and when it will be happening.
Respondents to a survey conducted by Ivanti found that work flexibility was popular, but also made them more likely to do things that increased risk, and made it a lot harder to get IT support or access to a manager.
Prophix One is the company’s next generation financial platform, which makes it much easier for CFOs to execute business plans and handle large data sets and complex planning with even more speed thanks to more Generative AI and Machine Learning.
Nominal is targeting the SMB and midmarket with an ERP replacement system that is launching today, and will eventually rely strongly on channel partners.
By Q2, new GenAI LLM models will be directly applied to HPE Aruba Networking Central’s AI Search feature, improving search performance and security.
GoTo has used AI for years, but added Generative AI capabilities this year, and is making some further enhancements in this area now.
A major add is Now Assist for ITOM AIOps, which enhances ServiceNow’s IT OM AIOps solution by using generative AI to speed up issue resolution.
The two new Accelerators cover the edge and networking, joining an existing one around AI, while the Activation Zones, which are different from, but highly complementary to the Accelerators, are around Networking, Intelligent Edge, and Manufacturing.
Both partnerships expand AI capabilities by combining VAST’s software with NVIDIA and Super Micro’s hardware, with more such partnerships on the way.
New products will enhance Check Point’s MSP in Canada, while the recently announced channel changes will put more dollars in partners’ pockets.
While Check Point has the reputation of being a high end product that serves the high end of the market, they also sell to SMBs as well, and even though the focus this year was on high end strategy, their SMB portfolio got its share of important announcements.
While Check Point’s original Harmony product came from a 2021 acquisition, the technology that specifically became Harmony SaaS came in a September 2023 acquisition, and is now formally available following its integration into the Check Point platform.
Gil Shwed emphasized that going forward, Check Point needs to be focused on its cloud-delivered platform together with an intensified AI strategy.
At HP’s Amplify Partner Conference, HP CEO Enrique Lores and Intel chief Pat Gelsinger made the case that the AI-enabled PC is a fundamental change that will restore value to the commodity endpoint.
Sage’s new product portfolio and strategy had attendees saying this was the most exciting transform in their memory.
Following up on last year’s partnership with Major League Baseball, Sage is announcing a different type of sports partnership, with Sportable, a global data collection and analytics platform, which is designed to bring deeper, AI-led insights to major sports.
The new strategic collaboration agreement with AWS to enable AI-powered solutions for SMBs includes a launch of Sage Earth on the AWS Marketplace will kick off in a few weeks in the UK and Ireland, but other geos, including North America, will have a bit of a wait – like 18 months.
