Crushbank Insights uses Watson to glean emotion and sentiment analysis from help desk tickets, to provide information about how the tickets are being handled, for specific clients, and by individual engineers.
SAS partners played a bigger role than ever in the event this year, as SAS continues to move beyond its legacy direct sales days and invest more in its channel.
While Splunk Enterprise 8.0 delivers manageability at scale, Splunk Data Fabric Search provides the ability to search humungous data sets, including ones outside Splunk in stores like AWS and Hadoop. Data Steam Processor will also speed up analysis by doing it in a stream in motion, before it gets to a Splunk Index.
In addition to Mission Control, which integrates Splunk’s SIEM, UEBA and SOAR within a single pane of glass, the 6.4 release of the Phantom SOAR adds a mobile app and changes pricing to be by analyst rather than by event.
Splunk’s CEO talks about with ChannelBuzz about the company’s expansion strategy, where he sees the company going, and the limits to innovation.
All partners will see enhancements to the deal registration and CPQ systems, while Technology Alliance Partners get more perks and a clearer progression path.
Splunk CEO Doug Merritt updated the audience at the company’s .conf19 event on the company’s strategy, and unveiled some important new pricing changes that give customers a lot more choice.
Naveego also now uses machine learning to add the ability to profile data at the edge without having to transfer it.
The New Zealand based company has just launched a version of their new platform designed for MSP partners, with channel veterans Eric Martorano, who took over as CEO last fall, and Len DiCostanzo, who built the Autotask channel before the Datto merger, steering an aggressive channel re-orientation.
OpenText provided partners with a lot of guidance at Partner Summit in advance of their OpenText Enterprise World event in Toronto about how they can best leverage today’s opportunities. ChannelBuzz has the details.
The company has also announced Microsoft veteran Mark Wolfram, who will head up their channel initiatives, as vice president of business development and partnerships.
SAP announced 12 months of free access of SAP HANA cloud systems for partners who meet the training criteria at SAPPHIRE, and the system now goes live as SAP looks to it to help accelerate what they hope will be a massive expansion of HANA in the cloud.
Barracuda’s new scalable analytics capability was designed for the distributed enterprise, but can provide value in mid-market sized companies with several dozen locations.
Information Builder Summit this year did not see any splashy new technological announcements or partnerships, but there were some significant new items, with some still in tech preview.
The key theme stressed by Vella, in his first presentation at the company’s big customer event since replacing the founder and longtime CEO this year, is that Information Builders is committed to redesigning processes that allow for true scalability by ensuring data is trusted, so that tools will actually be used.
The SDK is part and parcel of AtScale’s move to a more agile quarterly release cycle. The platform also improves analytical query and security capabilities.
Canadian businesses recognize the value of data, but struggle with adequate protection measures.
The Lenovo event in Orlando highlighted an intelligent enterprise transformation theme with show floor demos around this integration for both travel planning and IoT Smart warehouse management. Lenovo expects to see partner pickup from smaller vertically-focused boutique firms as well as larger integrators.
Delta Synchronization – syncing only the parts of the document that have been changed – is an established practice elsewhere in IT, but is a first for No SQL.
The big items in this release are Splunk Connected Experiences and Splunk Business Flow, which contain some functionality that were first demoed last fall at Splunk’s big customer event.
