Enterprise Applications

IBM to buy Apptio for $4.6B to help companies optimize IT spend

The Apptio acquisition will help IBM compete with rival cloud services providers such as AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft and Oracle, which offer their own expense tracking tools.

AWS invests $100 million in new Generative AI Innovation Center

The new center, which will offer free workshops and training, is expected to help enterprises accelerate the development of generative AI-based applications while promoting AWS technology.

Informatica acquires Privitar to boost data access management

The acquisition will augment Informatica’s IDMC platform, which will combine Privitar’s data access management capabilities along with Informatica’s Claire AI engine to automate application of policy-based privacy and access control

NetSuite ERP gets account reconciliation feature from Oracle Fusion Cloud EPM

The new feature, which is expected to automate the reconciliation process for all balance sheet accounts and improve global auditability, was built on Oracle’s Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management.

How the modern CIO grapples with legacy IT

How the modern CIO grapples with legacy IT

Every IT leader wants to extract the maximum value from tech investments before retiring them, but that’s not always possible.

What is Salesforce AI Cloud: Should you subscribe?

Salesforce is stressing trust and security features as it unveils its new AI Cloud, but it's not very different from existing offerings, and analysts feel there could be few takers for the pricey AI cloud starter pack.

Salesforce’s Marketing GPT and Commerce GPT to help build personalized services

The new generative AI based services take advantage of the company’s Data Cloud and proprietary Einstein GPT, Salesforce said.

Salesforce CEO Benioff shakes up executive team with new hires

Six months after the company lost its co-CEO and announced it was laying off 10% of its global workforce, Salesforce’s top team is undergoing a major personnel change.

Merck Life Sciences banks on RPA to streamline regulatory compliance

Automated bots assisted in compliance, thereby enabling the company to increase revenue and save precious human hours, freeing up staff for higher-level tasks.

Zendesk to lay off another 8% of its staff, cites macroeconomic issues

The new tranche of layoffs comes just six months after the company let go of 300 staffers and hired a new CEO in order to navigate its operations through macroeconomic distress.