Zoho’s latest extension of their AI capabilities is powered by an OpenAI integration, although they are working on an in-house version of their own which will emphasize privacy concerns.
HPE’s emphasis on AI going forward was good news for Canonical, which is already strong in the area.
HPE made several major announcements in their opening keynote, but the one that clearly excited CEO Antonio Neri the most was entering the Artificial Intelligence public cloud market.
While Deep Instinct’s new Stratosphere partner program was put in place last year, Ortbals’ task is to grow it by adding some more structure and bringing in top MSSP partners.
Project Harmony was the one new initiative specifically for partners announced at this year’s Dell Technologies World, within the context of a news-rich event which will create many other partner opportunities.
The new AI features are aimed at non-technical business users as well as technical ones, expanding the democratization of analytics to cover many more users.
Michael Dell thinks the commercial potential of Generative AI is greater than PCs and smartphones, although what the market seems to want from it, and what influencers think the market wants, are not the same thing.
ServiceNow will use NVIDIA AI Foundations cloud services and the NVIDIA AI Enterprise software platform to develop new workflows using custom large language models, which use a customer’s own data, and which is much more accurate than gleaning it from the public domain.
HPE has greatly broadened the open source tools for Ezmeral it provides customers and partners, which have largely come into the company through acquisitions.
Salesforce concluded a series of announcements over the last several days with two specifically around Generative AI, including Slack GPT, which will bring Generative AI to Slack, and an expansion of their existing partnership with Accenture which will result in an acceleration hub for generative AI.
The new Conga Revenue Lifecycle Cloud fundamentally reworks Conga’s solution portfolio by rearchitecting all their applications into microservices, while the expanded partnership with Accenture turns what had been reactive joint sales to customers into common sales and engineering activity where the two companies will collaborate much more extensively than in the past.
HP leader Enrique Lores and senior HP leaders used the HP Amplify opening keynote to lay out the company’s vision going forward and their strategy to get there.
Salesforce outlined their strategy around Generative AI at their TrailBlazer DX developer event, which includes new product and partnering and ecosystem strategy.
The major changes are to their AP Bill Automation solution and to automated usage billing for subscriptions.
The new integration of Lenovo ThinkSystem Ready Nodes in ThinkSystem Servers with WEKA Data Platform software provides a broad horizontal play.
The new program has been simplified, reducing the number of tiers, and while benefits for top tier partners have been increased, it is also now easier for new partners to enter the program
MLSE and AWS demonstrated the further extension of a partnership they announced last year, to provide new types of mixed and augmented reality capabilities around basketball and hockey, with further capabilities for these as well as the other sports that make up the MLSE empire on the way.
The new program is designed to enhance partner enablement as an increasingly broad partner ecosystem pursues IBM’s strategic focus on the hybrid cloud and AI.
ThoughtSpot also made a deeper commitment to the AWS platform with the hiring of Britny Holloway as Director of AWS Global Alliances, while Rajesh Dhiman is now Senior Director, Global Systems Integrators.
While the large majority of organizations in the survey agreed it was important for organizations to control their data to extract value from it, few of them did so, with only 3% reaching the desirable highest level of maturity.
